Curious how the CFP would handle this

OregonDucks said:
The BYE accompanied by asinine seeding is a bad thing. It is flawed
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The entirety of bowl season is a bye for most of the teams involved.

There's usually a lot more days from their last game to their bowl game.

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osubuckeye89 said:
He's cooking up some more fine mental gymnastics for us
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Cool, can't wait to see more excuses and what ifs....going to be a great time. Maybe I'll make some burritos for lunch.
 
Would the AP crown* a team that has its only loss in the Natty to a three-loss 12-seed which it had beat twice that same season?
 
cwerph said:
Yes, I am quoting my own tweet. I think I might have found someone's twitter account.

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He is a homer and idiot. Oregon played the best team in the country, not the 2nd best

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WhosYourDawggy said:
I love that idea, and my guess is that happens in 2026. The Bowl contracts are signed through then. The Rose Bowl insisting on starting on time even though the Peach Bowl was not over won them no friends. ESPN is going to tell them to fuck off in 2026.
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Should have told them to pound sand 30 years ago.
 
1. Take away top 4 conference champions getting an automatic bye (Oregon still gets #1)
This solves some of the issues but not all of them. They can possibly re-seed in the 2nd round but how? They base the reseeding off one round instead of the entire season? I guess but also seems flawed.

Ohio St after to losing to scUM, they were at their low point and Penn St, who they beat, got to the CCG. So the seeding wasn’t flawed from that aspect, it was more so the Zona St and Boise seeds. A lot of people were also saying Tennessee didn’t look that good (really due to Ohio St) so what does reseeding really do? Again it’s based off one game.
We will eventually see a 16 team bracket and there will be no byes. That will also solve the excuses, “long time not playing was a disadvantage” argument.

The bottomline Oregon got some extremely lucky breaks in Autzen and barely won by 1 point. Ohio St showed the teams really weren’t that close. It didn’t matter, Oregon would have shown their true colors eventually, whether it was Ohio St or another team. Oregon got a month to prepare for this team and they got outplayed and out coached.

Even when we do all this reseeding, no byes automatic bye to conf champions and eventually no byes at all…there will be teams that luck out with opponents. It just seemed very flawed this year.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
The problem with the AQ conference bye is when you have shitty teams. If the ACC/B12 conference champs are good, then I don't mind the AQ byes. Conference champions should be rewarded. Being in a conference should be rewarded - wink, wink.

The line you heard people say is that the AQ byes were brought up in a time when the P5 conferences were considered more equal. I think it is too early to say that is not still true. SEC teams laid eggs, and Indiana gets beat by ASU and BYU, IMO. It may be too soon to simply throw that out, as it really devalues the conference championship games. If you play in one and win it, but have to play 2 weeks later while a team that wasn't in their conference championship game not only gets championship week off, but also a bye, that's unfair as shit.

Take a no. 4 ND who gets 5 weeks off ... no way that should happen.
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The ACC and B12 (and BSU) champs were "good" teams this year. Just not as good as Texas, PSU, ND and OSU. No shame in that, but that's why we get OSU as the 8 seed, when they were ranked 6th (which is a fair ranking IMO). I think the top 5 conference champions should get an AQ, just not an auto bye to the QF's.

Also, the dumb conferences are so big, it's so unbalanced. And I'd be okay if they did away with the CCG (which I know won't happen because of $$$).
 
Shanemansj13 said:
1. Take away top 4 conference champions getting an automatic bye (Oregon still gets #1)
This solves some of the issues but not all of them. They can possibly re-seed in the 2nd round but how? They base the reseeding off one round instead of the entire season? I guess but also seems flawed.

Ohio St after to losing to scUM, they were at their low point and Penn St, who they beat, got to the CCG. So the seeding wasn’t flawed from that aspect, it was more so the Zona St and Boise seeds. A lot of people were also saying Tennessee didn’t look that good (really due to Ohio St) so what does reseeding really do? Again it’s based off one game.
We will eventually see a 16 team bracket and there will be no byes. That will also solve the excuses, “long time not playing was a disadvantage” argument.

The bottomline Oregon got some extremely lucky breaks in Autzen and barely won by 1 point. Ohio St showed the teams really weren’t that close. It didn’t matter, Oregon would have shown their true colors eventually, whether it was Ohio St or another team. Oregon got a month to prepare for this team and they got outplayed and out coached.

Even when we do all this reseeding, no byes automatic bye to conf champions and eventually no byes at all…there will be teams that luck out with opponents. It just seemed very flawed this year.
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The 2nd round hypothetically looks a lot better this year if you just seeded the top 4 into BYEs and then the others accordingly

5. Notre Dame vs 12. Clemson
6. Ohio State vs 11. Arizona State
7. Tennessee vs 10. SMU
8. Indiana vs 9. Boise State.

2nd round

1. Oregon vs Indiana/Boise (The #1 seed gets by far the easiest game here)
2. Georgia vs 7 Tennessee
3. Texas vs 6. Ohio State
4. Penn State vs 5. Notre Dame.
 
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