Playoffs need to extend to at least 8 teams

I tend to look at this from more of a rivalry angle. That's good for CFB and $$.

Get rid of the playoffs. Top 20 teams who don't quite make the playoffs just don't give a shit. Instead of letting the NCAA assholes pick the games, there should be public challenges for an extra bowl game. The top 20 ranked get to challenge one of the others until the games are set. This would make the entire process more interesting...and players more likely to stay vested in the score.
 
Controversial opinion: the playoffs need to be disbanded and we need to go back to the BCS.
 
I think this playoff season was a good argument against an 8 team playoff. Every game in the playoffs wasn't close this year. Do we need to add in more teams that were beaten by teams that one of the playoff teams already easily defeated early in the season?
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
I am not sure what you mean. I am capable of looking at schedules, and there isn't a team worth a hoot that is "loading up" on cupcakes. It's quite the opposite. All the good teams are loading up on each other. You can do the research. For my team, we start the season playing Clemson next year. While we are doing that, you will start with San Jose State. Who's loading up on cupcakes?

In the next decade or so we play series against Clemson (5 times, I believe), tOSU, Texas, FSU, Oregon, Oklahoma, UCLA, and we play GaTech every year.

We go 4 straight years of Tech each year with Texas/FSU, Texas/Clemson, Clemson/tOSU, tOSU/Oklahoma. When you come close to that, then you can talk about SEC teams loading up on cupcakes.

Seriously, your narrative is old and stale ... get up to date with current events.
Click to expand...
Damn good OOC schedule...especially if you avoid cupcakes with the other two open spots as Ga Tech is a constant. Who are the other two?

Now, if you are going to use the above listed as example of your Bulldogs creating a good OOC schedule, then those teams listed also deserve the same credit. No?
 
Deep Creek said:
Damn good OOC schedule...especially if you avoid cupcakes with the other two open spots as Ga Tech is a constant. Who are the other two?

Now, if you are going to use the above listed as example of your Bulldogs creating a good OOC schedule, then those teams listed also deserve the same credit. No?
Click to expand...
Of course they do, I never said no one else was doing. To the contrary, I stated in my post that the good teams are loading up on OOC. I am not UGA is the only one doing it. What I was responding to was the old narrative that the SEC teams play way more cupcakes.

In the years where we play Tech and another good team, I am sure we will play some cupcakes. All teams play cupcakes. As I pointed out to the person to who I was responding, USC has San Jose State and Rice, along with ND. Forgive me for not being impressed with that OOC.

Crappy OOC games aren't scheduled that far in advance as they don't have to be. In the next few years, before we hit the 3 P5 games per years stretch we have UAB (won their conference), Charleston Southern / Samford, Kent State / UT Martin, UAB / Tennessee Tech, UMass / Austin Peay, Charlotte / Western Kentucky.
 
Thiefery said:
Bring back the Formula!!

Machines>>Humans
Click to expand...
Illustrious Potentate said:
I like having 4 teams, but I definitely think the BCS should choose the 4 teams.
Click to expand...

I don't know about other years, but the puters picked the same 4 teams for the 2020 season.
The AP and coaches polls also would have had the same 4 teams.

College Football Ranking Composite

www.masseyratings.com
www.collegefootballpoll.com

College Football Poll.com

College football rankings and accurate weekly picks. Exclusive content, features, and analysis.
www.collegefootballpoll.com www.collegefootballpoll.com
fansided.com

College football rankings 2020: Week 17 AP Top 25 projections – Alabama survives, Notre Dame chokes

The final college football rankings of the regular season will see Alabama as the unanimous No. 1 in the AP Top 25 but Notre Dame takes a minor fall.
fansided.com fansided.com

NCAA College Football Coaches Poll | USA Today Sports

The US LBM Football Coaches Poll, published by USA TODAY Sports, is conducted weekly throughout the NCAA college football season. See the latest Top 25 rankings from the game’s best head coaches.
www.usatoday.com
 
Red_Alert said:
I don't know about other years, but the puters picked the same 4 teams for the 2020 season.
The AP and coaches polls also would have had the same 4 teams.

College Football Ranking Composite

www.masseyratings.com
www.collegefootballpoll.com

College Football Poll.com

College football rankings and accurate weekly picks. Exclusive content, features, and analysis.
www.collegefootballpoll.com www.collegefootballpoll.com
fansided.com

College football rankings 2020: Week 17 AP Top 25 projections – Alabama survives, Notre Dame chokes

The final college football rankings of the regular season will see Alabama as the unanimous No. 1 in the AP Top 25 but Notre Dame takes a minor fall.
fansided.com fansided.com

NCAA College Football Coaches Poll | USA Today Sports

The US LBM Football Coaches Poll, published by USA TODAY Sports, is conducted weekly throughout the NCAA college football season. See the latest Top 25 rankings from the game’s best head coaches.
www.usatoday.com
Click to expand...
The choices were obvious this year.

Would the computers have picked OSU over Baylor or TCU in 2014?
OSU over Penn State in 2016?
Bama over OSU or UCF in 2017?

I think the committee has gotten it right most of the time, but humans have biases that computers don't.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
The choices were obvious this year.

Would the computers have picked OSU over Baylor or TCU in 2014?
OSU over Penn State in 2016?
Bama over OSU or UCF in 2017?

I think the committee has gotten it right most of the time, but humans have biases that computers don't.
Click to expand...

I do not know.

I imagine that info is available somewhere on the interwebs.
 
We Are Decent said:
You actually can. It's called having neutral games with the same bowl games being presented.

boohoo.
Click to expand...
Umm literally makes no sense. Kind of a self defeating argument when you use a model that “works” but has made lessened tv ratings and attendance and you think that is an argument to expand it to 8 just so some team that doesn’t bring revenue to the playoff to be a sacrificial lamb? There is a reason March Madness and their pod system works and a reason the FCS system doesn’t make any money.
 
wazzu31 said:
Umm literally makes no sense
Click to expand...
How does it "literally" make no sense?
wazzu31 said:
Kind of a self defeating argument when you use a model that “works” but has made lessened tv ratings and attendance
Click to expand...
What model are you even talking about? I-AA? Don't tell you actually think that should be compared to I-A? And to indicate there'd be less attendance for Top 15 matches in iconic stadiums filled with over 100,000 capacity is just dumb folly.
wazzu31 said:
a reason the FCS system doesn’t make any money.
Click to expand...
Where is the ground of reasoning to suggest this won't make the I-A schools or I-A in general any money? I-AA and below are more school region centered, rather than the nationwide fanbases the I-A schools produce.
 
We Are Decent said:
How does it "literally" make no sense?

What model are you even talking about? I-AA? Don't tell you actually think that should be compared to I-A? And to indicate there'd be less attendance for Top 15 matches in iconic stadiums filled with over 100,000 capacity is just dumb folly.

Where is the ground of reasoning to suggest this won't make the I-A schools or I-A in general any money? I-AA and below are more school region centered, rather than the nationwide fanbases the I-A schools produce.
Click to expand...
Because your statement contradicts each other. You want to fill neutral site 100,000 seat stadiums? That isn’t possible since there isn’t any (maybe 1 or 2) bowl games that have 100k seating. So you may think my statement is “folly” but it factually accurate.

Sorry about the 1-AA, I hate the FCS name but again you can’t use that, because they aren’t neutral games until the championship. And proved in my first point, people don’t travel for the playoffs currently if it is at the Rose Bowl or Fiesta Bowl isn’t the first game if it is Clemson, Florida State or Alabama. And using the bowl system as you laid out is not using the FCS model so again, you contradict yourself.

It will generate more money because more games equals more money.
 
Nope

Instead the NFL, NBA, MLB and CBB should all cut back to 2 or 4 playoff teams. They should all also have absolutely no criteria or rules for how those teams get into the playoffs but instead employ 10-12 random people to pick the playoff teams based solely on who they think looks better . Those 10-12 people must be as vague as possible when asked how they reached their conclusion AND every year those 10-12 people must focus on an arbitrary element they didn't use the year before to help pick said teams

Then and only then will all other sports have a more exciting postseason than CFB
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
The choices were obvious this year.

Would the computers have picked OSU over Baylor or TCU in 2014?
OSU over Penn State in 2016?
Bama over OSU or UCF in 2017?

I think the committee has gotten it right most of the time, but humans have biases that computers don't.
Click to expand...
The committee hasn't gotten in wrong. Baylor, TCU or Penn State is moot because they weren't going to win it so they are eye candy at best. I think the coaches and AP poll having built-in bias negates what you think you're getting out of the computer and some of those computer polls are crap because there are so many variables that can't be programed.

It's fine the way it is. People are just bitching because they either want an easier path for their team or they want the G5 schools to have a shot regardless of the outcome. Neither is a compelling argument.
 
I see no reason to expand the playoffs until teams can show they wont be completely boat raced by the top contenders. Seems absolutley pointless to allow more teams to be completely blown off the field.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top