Not only that, he has Nebraska winning the conference. Nope, not happening. No west division team has won the conference championship game since going east and west.Well lettuce see, we got:
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Purdue
Illinois
Nebraska
Northwestern
I mean, Iowa won it with 7 wins so...Sure why not? How hard could it be?
No Ohio St is champ and in CFP...
Are you sure this isn't a @Hu War Yu jinx and he wrote it using his pen name?
As it should be!
I haven't minded the "rematches" between Bama and Georgia in the CFP as much as I did the 2011 BCS Bama/LSU game. What makes the last two much more palatable to me is the CFP requires both teams to beat an opponent outside their own conference in order to earn their way to the final instead of earning it via a vote. Winning via a vote is for politics not sports.
2011 was bullshit. Screw job for LSU who had a better record than Bama, a better resume than Bama, player one more game than Bama and beat Bama in Tuscaloosa, but Bama is the champs because they got an undeserved shot.
They're excellent actually. So, yes, this may be the explanation.
The conference?!?
I missed Ohio State in the playoffs. My bad
It is fascinating how it's panned out this way. Wisconsin won at least a share of the title from 2010-2012, and 2012 was the last time any current B10 west team won it. Meanwhile, 4 different East teams have won it in the decade since.
No they didn't. Iowa has gone twice and both times they had 10+ wins.I mean, Iowa won it with 7 wins so...
Basically saying the entire PAC and ACC are beneath them, and you could make the case that the SEC east was worse too, they are just hanging their hat on UGA at the moment.
I agree if that happened, we would get expansion. But, serious question regarding rematches ... it happens all the time in the NFL ... Buffalo and KC just played one of the best games in the history of the NFL, and it was a rematch. Tampa and LA was a rematch. SF v. LA will be the third time they have played this year.
They’re really not against rematches, just SEC rematches
Meh. I think a lot of people would be against rematches, regardless of conference. Comparing it to the NFL is not an apples to apples comparison and is pretty disingenuous.
As for the three SEC teams, I was thinking through this the other day and I couldn't come up with a 4th. UGA, Bama, and tOSU make sense. But you could see OU and Clemson taking steps back. Don't see anyone in the PAC ... it will take USC a few years, and Oregon has a new coach, is losing a lot and has UGA basically at home.
| 1. Alabama | +200 |
| 2. Georgia | +250 |
| 3. Ohio State | +600 |
| 4. Clemson | +1200 |
| 5. USC | +3000 |
| 6. Michigan | +3500 |
| 6. Oklahoma | +3500 |
| 6. Texas A&M | +3500 |
| 9. Florida | +5000 |
| 9. Oregon | +5000 |
the NFL you gotta go through more teams to win it all, that makes a rematch not as big a deal in my view (which is all i care about with regard to it being entertaining or not) Id rather have seen the SEC go against SEC in round 1 of the CFP rather than final. I would have watched that game and the final then, but as it was....fat ass nope. Again this is my opinion and what i find entertaining.
when 1/3 of all games in the playoffs are same conference rematches and its the final with only having to go through 2 teams its just not entertaining. Put it in the first round and id find it more entertaining, add more teams and games to have to go through and should they meet in the final then so be it even that would be more entertaining should they find a way to go through it all. I dont care what conference it is (yea the SEC has some SEC fatigue but that isnt a hate on the SEC just a fact of being boring)