CFP is now as big of a joke as the BCS was

coit said:
Could you lay out your logic on that?

Bama's two toughest games preseason were looking to be FSU and LSU. Both teams were in total turmoil, and both coaches gone before the end of the season. Those victories aren't that impressive. I don't see USC as being any better on paper, but OSU can certainly make the case.

The biggest irony to me is that a team that went 2-1 against playoff teams is not in the playoff.
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Assuming you are talking about Auburn, they actually went 2-2 against playoff teams (Wins: Bama,UGA, Loss: Clemson,UGA), but still impressive nonetheless. As far as body of work, both USC and OSU had very big losses but then again, so did UGA against Awbern. I dunno, seems like a lot of things balancing out here so maybe they shouldve gone with OSU with the conference championship as the tie break? I agree that Bama got there on reputation alone, not based upon anyone impressive they beat.
 
southendzoneBEE said:
You guys also have to consider how many games are being played. You would have to cut down every teams regular season games down to make room for an eight team playoff
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Not if you go with 8 conferences of 12 teams, play a round-robin + one OOC game. 8 conference winners go to playoff.
 
TampaBayJacket said:
Assuming you are talking about Auburn, they actually went 2-2 against playoff teams (Wins: Bama,UGA, Loss: Clemson,UGA), but still impressive nonetheless. As far as body of work, both USC and OSU had very big losses but then again, so did UGA against Awbern. I dunno, seems like a lot of things balancing out here so maybe they shouldve gone with OSU with the conference championship as the tie break? I agree that Bama got there on reputation alone, not based upon anyone impressive they beat.
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Yeah I meant to say 2-1 over 4 weeks.
 
This whole thing isn't about "being fair", "qualifications", "finding the best team", or any other BS that gets thrown out there. It's about stirring controversy to generate revenue. If this became a conference champion playoff like it should, college football would be way more boring.
 
fishinjacket said:
UCF, anyone?
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What about them? 2 cancelled games. One win over a power 5 team, Maryland, which was 4-8. They're fortunate to go to a big bowl. In the old bowl system, they'd have been playing some pre-Christmas bowl at noon. The only way a non P5 is ever going to the playoff is by scheduling all of their non-conference games against upper tier P5 teams and winning convincingly.
 
smokey_wasp said:
What about them? 2 cancelled games. One win over a power 5 team, Maryland, which was 4-8. They're fortunate to go to a big bowl. In the old bowl system, they'd have been playing some pre-Christmas bowl at noon. The only way a non P5 is ever going to the playoff is by scheduling all of their non-conference games against upper tier P5 teams and winning convincingly.
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I know they made up one cancelled game (Memphis, I think is the game they rescheduled). I was hoping to see an undefeated non-P5 school get a shot vs. a big name w/ no quality wins.
 
smokey_wasp said:
What about them? 2 cancelled games. One win over a power 5 team, Maryland, which was 4-8. They're fortunate to go to a big bowl. In the old bowl system, they'd have been playing some pre-Christmas bowl at noon. The only way a non P5 is ever going to the playoff is by scheduling all of their non-conference games against upper tier P5 teams and winning convincingly.
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In other words, there is no way a non-P5 is going to the playoffs because big P5 programs are not going to schedule a non-P5 team that could potentially upset them.
 
aeromech said:
In other words, there is no way a non-P5 is going to the playoffs because big P5 programs are not going to schedule a non-P5 team that could potentially upset them.
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Correct. And I'm fine with that. I get the argument that UCF did all it could (aside from playing us...) but there's no way the committee is going to take away a spot from a team that could legitimately win the title just so we can see UCF get demolished by Clemson. I don't think this is a good reason to expand the playoffs, either. Even if you expand it to 16, does anyone really believe the likes of UCF would be able to run the table against 4 blue blood programs? Even in basketball, mid majors can generally only hope for a deep tourney run. I'd be okay with a G5 national championship game if anyone wanted to go that route. Call it "the best of the rest".
 
G776T said:
Ohio state should have scheduled Akron rather than Oklahoma.
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This is actually a kind of important question. If that switch would of put Ohio St in the playoffs, then we won't see any regular season games between those kinds of teams anymore.
 
aeromech said:
In other words, there is no way a non-P5 is going to the playoffs because big P5 programs are not going to schedule a non-P5 team that could potentially upset them.
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They let Washington play last year, basically the same thing
 
GTLiebs said:
This is actually a kind of important question. If that switch would of put Ohio St in the playoffs, then we won't see any regular season games between those kinds of teams anymore.
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Ohio State and Alabama used the same out-of-conference scheduling strategy this year: One marquis match-up and 3 cupcakes, with the marquis match-up coming early in the season (Can't really blame Bama for FSU sucking this year). That is the tried and true formula for success. Ohio State would have gotten in over Alabama even with their loss to Oklahoma if they hadn't inexplicably lost to Iowa in a blowout. A loss to an eventual playoff team early in the season looks better than a late-season loss to Auburn. It was the Iowa game that killed Ohio State, not the Oklahoma game.
 
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