This still makes the regular season more interesting. Too easy to check out of a season if you get one or two losses on your schedule. This also disincentivizes manufacturing wins as a form of risk aversion.
I'm losing interest instead of gaining it at this point with CFB.
Alabama throttled Kansas State in the Sugar Bowl. That's the KSU that beat TCU in the conf champ game. Our players were literally eating wings at half time. Any of the 4 top SEC schools would have crushed TCU. Again, look at how they beat UM ... they couldn't have been luckier.
The logic here is sound. The SEC has stated they are fine with 4. That doesn't make sense financially ... expansion will happen. So, with 4, they are all at-large spots. If you go to 8, with a 6+2 - that's 6 AQs, 2 at-large, that means there are fewer at-large slots. The SEC said they would not agree to fewer at-large slots. They said they would be glad to go to 12 with 6 AQs because the at-large spots were more numerous, not fewer. Look, Sankey's job is to look after the SEC and he was doing that.
TCU also beat them in the regular season.
hey fukko, we also beat kansas st... 6 years in a row
Cincy didn't win one. TCU wouldn't have if they'd of played tOSU instead of Michigan. TCU matched up much better against Michigan's offense much better than they would have against tOSU's offense...at least IMHO.
Well people are risk averse to it. There less risk so you don’t have to beat up on FCS scrubs ( nobody wants to pay to watch that either).
Or maybe Michigan wasn't that good? TCU won games like the Michigan game all season. They didn't beat anyone very bad....sans Oklahoma and Iowa State. Looks to me like Michigan was very similar to the rest of TCU's opponents.
No one is thinking or saying that. What they/we are saying is that "some" will go to other schools. It's already happening. At the end of this recruiting cycle, you will see, I believe, that the top 3 schools will be the ones that are normally there. But you will see (1) that the top recruiting points will be lower overall, and (2) some schools sneaking into the top 10 that haven't been there in a while.
I am not saying UM was great, but they did beat a good tOSU team. But look at what had to happen for TCU to barely beat UM.
This is one of those threads where we are getting way away from the original discission. Here is how my posting started:
But did it? I would contend that all we have to do is go back to last year - Bama or UTjr would have been a better team than TCU. In a 12 team playoff, no way TCU wins 4 in a row. You guys would have been in the CFP in 2018 when we beat you guys in the SECCG. Wouldn't you have liked that opportunity? That's what it's about ... giving more access, even if the same 4-6 teams will win most of them, with that 4-6 cycling in and out.
Seeing how the CFP hasn't expanded, I agree with you. It's NIL for now. I do think that once 12 teams get in every year that will continue to spread the talent some. I think the best thing for CFB is to see about 15 - 20 teams that over a decade can get close to or win the NC. Nothing I would rather see than UGA three-peat and then win a bunch like Satan did at Bama. But, I think the portal, NIL, and the expanded CFP will mean we can be at the top for a while, but that a lot of other teams will be there competing. That would be better for CFB.
FSU will be a good example this year. Their best players are all transfers. Same with USC for the most part.