GAME CFP R1: 9 Tennessee @ 8 tOSU • 7c • ABC

[Bring Back The Oilers]

You and I disagree on this wiz. Yes, they turn into clunkers or as you say "garbage games". No doubt they were. My answer is so what. The entire season is filled with "garbage games" so let's start there. I watched Notre Dame (Nothern Illinois), Penn State (Ohio State), Texas (Georgia twice), and Ohio State (Michigan) throw in "garbage games". The first one listed was considered a "garbage game" before the kick off. NIU just turned it into a bullet we could shoot at Notre Dame the rest of the year.

And if we are truly concerned about garbage games, let's remove them from OOC schedules FIRST! There are many more there than there are in the playoffs.

And the four team playoffs have had garbage games: Clemson 38 Ohio State 0.

The BCS two-game system wasn't immune either: USC 55 Oklahoma 19.

No system will ever prevent blowouts.

 

[Deep Creek]

And the four team playoffs have had garbage games: Clemson 38 Ohio State 0.

The BCS two-game system wasn't immune either: USC 55 Oklahoma 19.

No system will ever prevent blowouts.

100%. If a team decides to throw one of season's clunkers in a playoff game, so be it. All of them have a few during the year.

 

[osubuckeye89]

And the four team playoffs have had garbage games: Clemson 38 Ohio State 0.

The BCS two-game system wasn't immune either: USC 55 Oklahoma 19.

No system will ever prevent blowouts.

Oregon 59 FSU 20
Ohio State 42 Oregon 20
Clemson 37 Oklahoma 17
Alabama 38 Michigan State 0
Alabama 24 Washington 7
Clemson 31 Ohio State 0
Alabama 24 Clemson 6
Clemson 30 Notre Dame 3
Alabama 45 Oklahoma 34
Clemson 44 Alabama 16
LSU 63 Oklahoma 28
LSU 42 Clemson 25
Alabama 31 Notre Dame 14
Ohio State 49 Clemson 28
Alabama 52 Ohio State 24
Alabama 27 Cincinnati 6
Georgia 34 Michigan 11
Georgia 33 Alabama 18
Georgia 65 TCU 7
Michigan 34 Washington 13

20 of the 30 4 team playoff games were decided by 10+ points.

 

[Bring Back The Oilers]

Oregon 59 FSU 20
Ohio State 42 Oregon 20
Clemson 37 Oklahoma 17
Alabama 38 Michigan State 0
Alabama 24 Washington 7
Clemson 31 Ohio State 0
Alabama 24 Clemson 6
Clemson 30 Notre Dame 3
Alabama 45 Oklahoma 34
Clemson 44 Alabama 16
LSU 63 Oklahoma 28
LSU 42 Clemson 25
Alabama 31 Notre Dame 14
Ohio State 49 Clemson 28
Alabama 52 Ohio State 24
Alabama 27 Cincinnati 6
Georgia 34 Michigan 11
Georgia 33 Alabama 18
Georgia 65 TCU 7
Michigan 34 Washington 13

20 of the 30 4 team playoff games were decided by 10+ points.

NFL wasn't immune either.

Go through a whole season to get a Super Bowl decided by 30.

 

[osubuckeye89]

NFL wasn't immune either.

Go through a whole season to get a Super Bowl decided by 30.

The only changes we might get are reseeding, but even then that would not have mattered this year (only matters when there are upsets)

They won’t get rid of the auto byes because they still want conference title games to “really matter”

 

[Tharvot]

They should do what the NFL does and re-seed after the first round.



2nd round matchups would be
Oregon - Az St
Georgia - Boise
Texas - Ohio St
Penn St - Notre Dame

By virtue of being the top ranked teams and conference champs, Oregon and Georgia should have the easier 2nd round games on paper.

 

[Across The Field]

The only changes we might get are reseeding, but even then that would not have mattered this year (only matters when there are upsets)

They won’t get rid of the auto byes because they still want conference title games to “really matter”

I'd bet by the end of the decade, conference titles games are gone.

 

[michaeljordan_fan]

They should do what the NFL does and re-seed after the first round.

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2nd round matchups would be
Oregon - Az St
Georgia - Boise
Texas - Ohio St
Penn St - Notre Dame

By virtue of being the top ranked teams and conference champs, Oregon and Georgia should have the easier 2nd round games on paper.

Thats not how the nfl does it. All the home teans won, nothing would change

 

[osubuckeye89]

I'd bet by the end of the decade, conference titles games are gone.

Too much money involved I doubt it.

 

[fishinabarrel]

Thats not how the nfl does it. All the home teans won, nothing would change

Yeah. The NFL does re-seed but with the way the first round played out Oregon is facing the lowest seed left technically.

It is no different with the NFL giving higher seeds to division champs even though they might not always be the strongest teams. Like GB and Washington as of right now would be seeded lower than the Falcons even though most would consider them to be the better teams

The problem most seem to have is how the seeding works

 

[Tharvot]

Thats not how the nfl does it. All the home teans won, nothing would change

In the NFL, only the 1-seeds (formerly the top 2 seeds) of each conference get first round byes and the 2nd round is reshuffled according to seed.

CFB is different since there are no overarching groupings between conferences and all teams (except ND) play the vast majority of their games within their own conferences. Only things we can order by are the final CFP polls and conference champs. IMO presetting the bracket and granting all conference champs first round byes was a mistake (i assume they did this to give conference champs the same scheduling the old bowl schedule would have given). Doubt they change, but the top 4 ranks should have gotten byes and home field in the 1st round should have been decided by conf champ status then rank if neither team was a conf champ. That would have allowed for better reseeding in round 2.

 

[Tharvot]

Yeah. The NFL does re-seed but with the way the first round played out Oregon is facing the lowest seed left technically.

It is no different with the NFL giving higher seeds to division champs even though they might not always be the strongest teams. Like GB and Washington as of right now would be seeded lower than the Falcons even though most would consider them to be the better teams

The problem most seem to have is how the seeding works

I think the biggest mistake was giving automatic byes to the conf champs. Automatic bids rather than byes make more sense to me.

 

[Brutus]