TomRollTideRitter

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So the Big Ten really should have changed the name to Big 11 when PSU joined since they had the name Big Ten for such a short period of time. But they didn't.

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People had been calling it the Big Ten for almost all of the 1900s though.

I didn’t realize that wasn’t its official name until 1987 though. That’s an interesting fact.

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The sec and acc were the only smart conferences not using the number of teams in their name

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Does anyone know why the others don’t change the number? I get it with the Big Ten. It’s had that name for most of its over 100 year existence and has strong brand recognition.

The Big 12 hasn’t had 12 teams for most of its existence and the conference brand has a lot of negative associations - no defense conference and all its best teams left.

The PAC12 had 12 teams for barely a decade, and its results during that period were bad. It also seems like they could easily just brand it as the PAC.

I do think every team in playoff contention should have to play on conference championship week, but I wouldn’t tie it to conferences and wouldn’t allow rematches.

Oregon-Utah
Ole Miss-USC
Texas A&M-Vanderbilt
Oklahoma-Miami
Notre Dame-Texas

My fear with this would be that it would become a de facto 16 team playoff whereas I’d want to it to be treated as just an extra resume point.

USC for example wouldn’t deserve to get into a 12 team field even if they beat Ole Miss.

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Aside from the extra practices, which some coaches now say aren't as value-added in the present day because they would rather be shoring up their roster with who's coming back, hitting the portal, what's out there, etc., is it bad to decline?

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I think it speaks volumes about the current state of college football if developing players isn’t important to the coaches.

It’s bad from a culture/morality standpoint. Would you teach your kids that when faced with adversity they should just quit?

From a strategic standpoint, I don’t see how playing in a bowl would be harmful for a program.

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Does more teams declining lead to change for the better?

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I’m not sure what that change would be. I don’t think more playoff expansion is better especially with how terrible the playoff calendar is. This season has pretty clear more deserving 2 team or 4 team setups.

I’ve never been able to understand why bowl games are meaningless, but no one says this about NCAA tournament games where neither team has a realistic shot at a national title. If it’s all about national championships, most games are worthless period.

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but G5 clowns cried " muh we can never make the top 2 or top 4 so we must have autobids" f all those schools. should be top 12 teams using old BCS formula.

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If we aren’t going to let any G5 teams in, why do we need 12 teams at all?

UGA vs Indiana in the BCS or Indiana vs Texas Tech and UGA vs Ohio State in a 4 team playoff would both be a better setup.

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Ah how cute. Bama fans think if they don’t back into another playoff the SEC is cancelling the SEC title game after multiple previous teams have been screwed by it. But now that Bama couldn’t even have the decency to keep the game respectable, the game should be eliminated if they don’t make the playoffs.

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Bump.

If you think about it from a business perspective, who gets in is much easier to predict.

If it was truly about “best teams” or whatever. They’d have stat nerds and analysts on the committee, but they have athletic directors who are there because they know how to negotiate with TV executives.

It’s fair to argue that Bama shouldn’t be in, but McElroy was pretty adamant SMU should stay over Bama last year, so I think it’s just his consistent opinion - not a homer take.

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B10 is not as strong as folks make it out to be. If Indiana had our schedule, not sure Cignetti would have won 10 games.

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I agree, but Indiana is far more used to losing to MAC schools than beating Ohio State.

Ohio State has almost twice as many 5 stars as Indiana has 4 stars. Indiana is historically the worst power conference program.

I think what Cignetti has done at Indiana might be the most impressive coaching accomplishment in CFB history.

They are 72nd and dead last in the B1G in team talent this year on 247.

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Then Coke entered with these rival commercials like the LSU fan walking against a crowd of Bama fans holding a coke and then they have a Ohio St Mich, and USC ND one trying to cover all geographic areas of the US.

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Something about these doesn’t work for me. The LSU-Bama one looks like an NFL scene with the demographics of the fans, the way they are dressed, and the truck rolling right up to the stadium with just a parking lot backdrop.

Fansville seems like they at least consulted some actual CFB fans.

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You want to stay in one time zone the whole time ideally. They're doing their pre-World Cup camp in Irvine

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Fair enough, but I’m worried about road crowds in California (not so much Seattle).

I also just find it a bummer as a fan. All west coast would have been one thing, but repeating stadiums as the host in a country our size seems lame.