Curious how the CFP would handle this

WhosYourDawggy said:
But, ASU played no. 3 Texas as close as you can, and in most years, the ACC champ will be a better team than we saw this year, and it won't be the P5 team getting the bye.

ASU's game may make them slow down on the whole "get rid of CC byes" thing.
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They might backtrack a bit on the G5 if anything (not allow them to get a BYE)
 
OregonDucks said:
If I am reading posts correctly, it makes it sound as though the regular season of CFB doesn't really matter anymore. Just find a way into the playoffs and win 4 games, that's all the season has boiled down to
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Yes and no. The regular season matters to the extent that it sets you up for the College Football Playoff, which is the way that all college football teams, including Oregon, agreed was the way they wanted to crown their champion. You did all you could in the regular season, got a bye and a preferable game against the no. 6 ranked team. It just so happens that they are peaking at the right time and kicked your ass.

FWIW, that is all the regular season has been since 1998 when they started the BCS. Nothing has changed in this regard ... the national champ has been decided by a post-season tournament. The only change has been going from 2 teams to 4 to 12. Over time, that will inure to your benefit more often than not as you will get into the CFP when you would often be cock blocked by tOSU, UM, or in the past PAC teams.
 
Didn't Oregon play in the B1G championship game? In Indianapolis? That's in Indiana, right? Oregon had to travel... and won that game. So, the Buckeyes traveled to Pasadena. That's in California, right? Seems tit for tit to me. The only difference is Oregon LOST.

Even your coach, the one you said was the greatest, said, "I didn't get our team prepared." Sounds like a coaching problem to me. Not a seeding problem, not a committee problem, not a rust problem... a coaching problem.
 
OregonDucks said:
If the posters here have their way and Herbstreit/ESPN have their way, then that's college football in 2025 and beyond, wins don't matter, just get into the playoffs and start your season then
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You keep stating the obvious. It's been this way since 1998. Get in the top 2/4/12 and then win the playoffs.
 
OregonDucks said:
Pasadena wasn't a problem, but it certainly isn't this huge site advantage people are making it out to be as Ohio State has played in the Rose Bowl for about 100 years, it's part of the PAC/B1G history. And playing at Pasadena fails in comparison of advantages of Texas getting to play in Dallas or UGA in Atlanta
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Do you mean "pales" in comparison?
 
Collegefbfan said:
Didn't Oregon play in the B1G championship game? In Indianapolis? That's in Indiana, right? Oregon had to travel... and won that game. So, the Buckeyes traveled to Pasadena. That's in California, right? Seems tit for tit to me. The only difference is Oregon LOST.

Even your coach, the one you said was the greatest, said, "I didn't get our team prepared." Sounds like a coaching problem to me. Not a seeding problem, not a committee problem, not a rust problem... a coaching problem.
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This one was definitely a coaching problem. Oregon was clearly hilariously unprepared. They were game planning like Ohio State was going to do the same game plan they did against Michigan.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
This one was definitely a coaching problem. Oregon was clearly hilariously unprepared. They were game planning like Ohio State was going to do the same game plan they did against Michigan.
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Oregon was over confident. They claim they sat Stewart because of a nagging back injury and didn't want to make it worse, but he was fully suited up and dancing on the sidelines while the WR wearing number 1 was puking during a timeout. What were they saving Stewart for, the next round? He put up great numbers in the first matchup with tOSU but benched for being hurt, but well enough to be out there dancing like a fruit?

Nah, Lanning was probably talking all month about how "we beat em once, lets just do it again" and they were over confident.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
But that is on a little shakier grounds with how well ASU played, right? And, in most years, that 4th spot will be Clemson/FSU/Maimi and not SMU/BSU. In my opinion, they should just let it play out.

Oregon got screwed by the fact that tOSU lost to UM, not because ASU and BSU got auto-byes. Teams that get in and win their Conference Championships should get a bye.

You could also argue that the problem is that rust is worse than rest.

But, UGA absolutely needed the rest, no matter that we might be rusty.

I hope they don't make a change next year ... let things percolate a bit. Change in 2026.
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Sure, ASU played good against Texas. But the only reason OSU was the 8 seed was because of the AQ bye.

And yeah, OSU was the 8 seed in part because they lost to Michigan, but even had they beaten Michigan, PSU or ND would have been the 8 seed. So you still have the problem of the 8 seed being much better than the 3 and 4 seeds.
 
fordman84 said:
Oregon was over confident. They claim they sat Stewart because of a nagging back injury and didn't want to make it worse, but he was fully suited up and dancing on the sidelines while the WR wearing number 1 was puking during a timeout. What were they saving Stewart for, the next round? He put up great numbers in the first matchup with tOSU but benched for being hurt, but well enough to be out there dancing like a fruit?

Nah, Lanning was probably talking all month about how "we beat em once, lets just do it again" and they were over confident.
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Their defense looked all out of whack from the start, it legit seemed like they were caught off guard by us going to Smith early and often. That's criminal level incompetence.
 
Oregon lost. And lost badly. You play the game for a reason. Whoever has the most points at the end wins the game and that is pretty much all there is to it.

There is always next year
 
IF your team is REALLY as good as you all think, then Just WIN your games and VOILA... there's NO problemo! :rolleyes2:

:pop2::martini:
 
CorpRebel said:
IF your team is REALLY as good as you all think, then Just WIN your games and VOILA... there's NO problemo! :rolleyes2:

:pop2::martini:
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If your team is REALLY that good then don't have -23 rushing yards as a team for the entire game.
 
OregonDucks said:
The College Football Playoff expanded this year to 12 teams. Did the equate, or did the college football world, take into account for if you have a situation where a team only has one loss, that coming in the playoffs but a 2 loss team wins the national championship or if the two teams in the national championship game lost to that undefeated team?

For example, Oregon entered the playoffs as the #1 team and undefeated. The Ducks beat Ohio State and Penn State, two playoff teams and two teams in the playoffs. The Ducks won the B1G which both Ohio State and Penn State are apart of. Oregon only suffered one loss, which came in the playoffs. They only got one game in the playoffs to play while the other two got an extra game.

What if Ohio State and Penn State played in the national championship game? Where does that put Oregon? A possible debate for a share of the national championship? I mean the Ducks beat both of them and potentially will have less losses than the winner. Penn State is 0-1 vs the Ducks and Ohio State would be 1-1. Seems this is a plausible scenario the CFB world forgot to iron out when they put together the bracket. Major flaw in their playoff ranking and bracket. Another reason the system needs a complete overhaul and revamp for next year and year's moving forward. We can't have this mistake happening again and we can't punish the #1 team in the country for going undefeated and winning their conference championship. No other sport have I seen such an asinine playoff ranking setup.
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OregonDucks said:
The BYE accompanied by asinine seeding is a bad thing. It is flawed
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OregonDucks said:
ASU and BSU should have never had a BYE regardless. That is part of reason this set up is so flawed the. Ridiculous those teams got BYE's over someone like Ohio State or Notre Dame
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Yep, the auto byes have to go. They totally fucked up the seeding.
 
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