RunningJacket

What do you guys want to replace the committee with? Biased polls? The only thing that works and is used in every sport in the world are automatic qualifiers so every team knows in August what they need to do. This sport will get there within a decade. It wasn’t long ago folks like you guys were against the BCS 1 vs. 2. Thankfully the non- expanders are losing the battle.

Whoever wins the Super Bowl. That’s why we have a playoffs.

Anyone below age 25 today can’t grasp the actual stupidity of the first 100 years of the sport of college football. That is why I say all Natties before the playoffs will have asterisks by them soon because when you google the National Champion in 1954 and 3 teams pop up it’s hilarious.

We all know the playoffs will go to 24. The only fight will be the auto bids. It will probably be based on percentages so if a conference both have 18 teams they’ll have the same number of auto bids. The public will not tolerate favoritism in auto bids. I expect my conference, the ACC, will get raided when the buy out drops based on the Clemson/FSU lawsuit settlement. That means the SEC and BIG could grab another 3-4 teams each which will lead to 3-4 divisions per conference.

This is garbage. College football has always been about cheating. You guys who have benefitted from paying players and not worrying about school for your players are so funny whining now about schools that can now do what you’ve been doing for decades.

Sorry, but your little kingdom of the same teams being protected by the NCAA is over. I just hope all those who claim they will stop watching will when the playoffs expand and other teams emerge who buy more players than your team does.

College football is finally coming into the modern age. In another decade the following will occur:

1- Bowls will no longer exist - thankfully

2- Playoffs will be at either 24 teams or 32 - thankfully

3 - All teams will now have meaningful games in late October and November - thankfully

4 - No teams will be eliminated from post season play after week 2 - thankfully

5 - the sport will have a more fans than ever because every team will have a path to the post season - thankfully

6 - the SEC will still be whining because they will no longer control who has a chance in the playoffs- thankfully

Chalamette,
There aren’t as many because the powers who run the sport have turned it into a regional sport by roadblocks for everyone except the big boys of the past. You have to step away from your bubble and look at the entire landscape. How do you expect college football to grow in the west or northeast when every rule or enforcement is at the benefit of the south? If Arizona State had a true viable path to a playoff system they would recruit better, have more money donated, and a bigger fanbase. Look at Indiana or Vandy as recent examples. There stadiums were empty 3 years ago now packed houses. My team, GT, has had for the first time in a decade several sellouts this season because fans were excited. But instead, the SEC types will bash any school like ASU who may be 9-3 and say they don’t deserve a chance but a 9-3 Ole Miss does. The southeast is a saturated market. The sport needs to grow to other regions to stay viable. Having a UGA, Bama, Ohio St, ND Final Four every year will lead to college football decaying.

The polls should no longer be used because they are just opinion and not fact. These same polls we are suppose to be accurate also had FSU, Clemson, Texas, and LSU in the top 10 to start and we all saw how inaccurate they were. Give each conference 3-4 auto bids so every fan in America has hope into November and December.

The greedy ones are those who have fought at every step to keep this sport illegit. For decades we heard from the greedy ones that the bowls must be protected. What they really meant was they wanted to keep their free vacations and access to admissions for family members. Then they fought the BCS because because they knew the second the public tasted #1 vs. #2 they would really how stupid the bowl system was and that it was all lies. Then they tried to hold the line at 4. Now the greedy ones are still fighting to keep others from benefitting. The definition of greed.

Those of you who continue to fight against expansion are just brain washed into believing in the tooth fairy aka the polls. The polls had Clemson, LSU, and FSU highly ranked earlier in the year and yet yo7 believe we should use polls to determine playoff slots. It’s all a joke and you guys are being played as suckers.

The only reason the sport operated like it did was because the powers of the sport wanted it that way and they were all in collusion with the bowl committees to keep their gravy train rolling. There are books written about how bowl invites were handed out under the table in October and then magically a bowl committee members daughter got accepted into a Michigan or ND. We were scammed for 100 years and many of you are too obtuse to even acknowledge it because your teams benefitted from it.

Thankfully, money is now what took the power away from the fat hogs who were slopping at the trough and made this sport a joke (seriously having sports editors picking National Champs and we wonder why it became a regionalized sport). And everyone spends money not just the top 15 football schools. They now realize they can fill playoff stadiums with Arizona State fans just as easily as Bama fans.

I believe you. But I just don’t understand why fans can’t see reality. Playoffs are awesome for any school not named Bama, UGA, or Ohio State. How long would this sport stay viable if we stayed at a 4 team playoff and 7 out of 10 years those were 3 of the 4?

An expanded playoff now gives hope to every fanbase for those years they go 10-2 or 9-3. That is how you keep a sport going and increase fanbases. Sure, the southeast fanbases are already essentially maxed out, but there are millions of fans out there who would love to see their schools get an invite.

I agree that the regular season will be watered down but so what. That didn’t stop fans from spending hundreds on Texas-Ohio St or Georgia-Alabama. Now if fans stopped spending then it may be an issue but the dominant teams fanbases have proven to be total suckers for spending their money.

How come it is mainly SEC fans who just love to whine about a playoff system. It’s not going back to the “old” days and it shouldn’t. Your conference just completely shat on your theory of a “regular season” having meaning when your teams just played 7 scrimmage games.

And I especially love how you guys love to use the polls as a measuring stick for anything. No one knows who the #1 team in this sport is today let alone who is number 5, 12, or 16. The playoffs will reveal all this and you guys just can’t handle the truth because you live your entire football life in hypotheticals and not reality. Yes, the playoffs are going to expand and they will keep expanding because that is what the public wants. The public is tired of a rigged system. I totally understand you guys like a rigged polling system so you can feel good about your team having a #11 by their name when we all know they will lose in the end. And so far in a playoff system magically the SEC hasn’t won squat. It’s almost as if the polls aren’t reality. You SEC guys can beg the committee to get 5 teams in but outside of UGA none of them have a chance because they are all flawed and having a ranked number by your team doesn’t change that. Deep down you all know it.

Here’s the difference in those 2 players - work ethic. I use to love Doncic until he stopped progressing as an incredibly talented player. It looks like the trade woke him up but the great players don’t need to be woken up. Joker simply keeps to himself and gets better every year. Sure, Doncic is playing this year in pissed off mode but I’ll be curious to see how long it lasts until he slides back to relying on talent alone.