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re: Why is winning your conference such a big deal?
Posted on 11/27/16 at 4:13 pm to SprintFun
Posted on 11/27/16 at 4:13 pm to SprintFun
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What is the rationalization for this? FBS College Football seems to be the only sport where people have this requirement.
I don't think it should be a requirement. However, it's also the only sport, apparently, where a team can win their conference/division and not go to the playoffs in favor of another team from their conference/division.
That part is also odd.
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Posted on 11/27/16 at 4:15 pm to SprintFun
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Why is winning your conference such a big deal?
Chances are you didn't start this thread in 2014.
Posted on 11/27/16 at 4:18 pm to The Boat
quote:
2014
This isn't 2014.
Posted on 11/27/16 at 4:20 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
Posted on 11/27/16 at 4:23 pm to The Boat
Posted on 11/27/16 at 5:33 pm to SprintFun
Because that's the way leagues work
Posted on 11/27/16 at 10:06 pm to SprintFun
I think the biggest reason is its naturally really difficult to wrap one's head around a team being the best team in the country when they weren't even the best team in their conference
Posted on 11/27/16 at 10:11 pm to JPLSU1981
A team could be 8-4 vs a team that's 11-1 and the 8-4 team is the conference winner.
Posted on 11/27/16 at 10:12 pm to SprintFun
It's not to most folks, now losing Penn St???
Now there's the problem
Now there's the problem
Posted on 11/27/16 at 11:49 pm to JPLSU1981
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I think the biggest reason is its naturally really difficult to wrap one's head around a team being the best team in the country when they weren't even the best team in their conference
Interesting. So, there's never been an upset where the better team lost? Let's just crown Pitt and USC.
Posted on 11/28/16 at 12:06 am to chalmetteowl
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no one even thinks twice when a 9-7 wild card makes the NFL playoffs
yet let a 1 loss conference non-champion in the conversation for the CFP and everyone gnashes their teeth.
should have thought about that when you lost though
That's because there are more playoff spots than conferences but before the NFL expanded the playoffs only conference / division champs made the playoffs. Same in the NBA NHL and MLB
Posted on 11/28/16 at 12:09 am to VABuckeye
When did Pitt and USC join the Big Ten and finish ahead of Ohio State for a division title? 
Posted on 11/28/16 at 4:09 am to The Quiet One
quote:So close to getting it....
When did Pitt and USC join the Big Ten and finish ahead of Ohio State for a division title?
Posted on 11/28/16 at 6:20 am to ballscaster
Yet so far away. 
Posted on 11/28/16 at 6:26 am to Brettesaurus Rex
No, the rules don't change every year...
The rules for CFB only change when a blue blood needs them to change.
That's when we change the rules...
The rules for CFB only change when a blue blood needs them to change.
That's when we change the rules...
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