Playoffs?!!

Well I am an Indiana fan now since I hate both ND and U(sic)GA.

Indiana is the ultimate small fry (figuratively speaking, I know they have 40k students), too.

They need to ask Dennis Quaid to be on their sideline. I saw that movie (Breaking Away) in the EE auditorium about 1980, remember liking it, have not seen a minute of it since.
 
This is an OK set of 12 I guess given the way the season played out; however, I still think it's mind-numbingly stupid that you can lose your conference and win the National Championship.

Make conference title games *part of the process* with fewer CFP slots and this all sorts itself out beautifully.
 
Flywheel said:
This is an OK set of 12 I guess given the way the season played out; however, I still think it's mind-numbingly stupid that you can lose your conference and win the National Championship.

Make conference title games *part of the process* with fewer CFP slots and this all sorts itself out beautifully.
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Does that limit the number of teams per conference to two?
 
Flywheel said:
This is an OK set of 12 I guess given the way the season played out; however, I still think it's mind-numbingly stupid that you can lose your conference and win the National Championship.

Make conference title games *part of the process* with fewer CFP slots and this all sorts itself out beautifully.
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I liked 6.. power 5 winners and one at large

Top two get byes
 
andrew said:
Does that limit the number of teams per conference to two?
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4 slots, conference champs only. Conferences would optimize around 4 or 5 power groups to give teams the best chance at getting in. The Big 12 and PAC 12 would be reborn so that OU/Texas can send 1 and USC/Oregon can send 1 most years.
 
Flywheel said:
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4 slots, conference champs only. Conferences would optimize around 4 or 5 power groups to give teams the best chance at getting in. The Big 12 and PAC 12 would be reborn so that OU/Texas can send 1 and USC/Oregon can send 1 most years.
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I don't hate it but then out of conference games truly mean nothing, which kind of sucks.

I guess in theory they still count for seeding but with just four teams seeding is really more matchup luck than anything.
 
SEC guy brought up this morning that bama should be in over SMU. I told him "then Bama shouldn't lose to Vandy".
 
Flywheel said:
This is an OK set of 12 I guess given the way the season played out; however, I still think it's mind-numbingly stupid that you can lose your conference and win the National Championship.

Make conference title games *part of the process* with fewer CFP slots and this all sorts itself out beautifully.
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Hell, we've had a team not even make it to their championship game make the playoff and win it, and we could have that this year as well.
 
Of course Ugag gets an insanely easy path. Basically beat ND and Penn State and they're in. I think both of those teams can beat them, but they both seem to blow their loads in big games.

How does #1 seed Oregon get so screwed draw wise? Sheeesh.
 
andrew said:
I don't hate it but then out of conference games truly mean nothing, which kind of sucks.

I guess in theory they still count for seeding but with just four teams seeding is really more matchup luck than anything.
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Out of conference games would be the driving force for which 4 champs get in.
 
Flywheel said:
Out of conference games would be the driving force for which 4 champs get in.
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I don't think that will be meaningful. With a universally agreed upon "Power Four" conferences and a playoff system that consists of four conference champions, there will be little to no chance of a G5 conference champion ever getting in regardless of OOC schedule.

The body of work for P4 teams will just always be way better than that of a G5 team, regardless of OOC schedule. There's a reason G5 conference champs had to be guaranteed a single slot in the current twelve team playoff.
 
andrew said:
I don't think that will be meaningful. With a universally agreed upon "Power Four" conferences and a playoff system that consists of four conference champions, there will be little to no chance of a G5 conference champion ever getting in regardless of OOC schedule.

The body of work for P4 teams will just always be way better than that of a G5 team, regardless of OOC schedule. There's a reason G5 conference champs had to be guaranteed a single slot in the current twelve team playoff.
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Yea, the reason being $$$. Use the old BCS computer formula to sort out who the top 4 conference champs are, regardless of conference. You watch how fast Texas bolts for the MAC.
 
Flywheel said:
Yea, the reason being $$$. Use the old BCS computer formula to sort out who the top 4 conference champs are, regardless of conference. You watch how fast Texas bolts for the MAC.
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No G5 team is cracking the top four of the BCS.

Although maybe they could rank above the ACC champ, but that's only because the ACC champ lost so many games this year -- which is exactly why they would schedule patsies OOC so they don't have losses tanking their BCS rating.

 
Flywheel said:
This is an OK set of 12 I guess given the way the season played out; however, I still think it's mind-numbingly stupid that you can lose your conference and win the National Championship.

Make conference title games *part of the process* with fewer CFP slots and this all sorts itself out beautifully.
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I used to feel the same, but with how big conferences have gotten, you’ve got some teams missing the cream of the conference on their to the championship game. I’ve made my peace with the new system knowing conf champs only would penalize those teams who are a game behind on a much more difficult path.
 
andrew said:
No G5 team is cracking the top four of the BCS.

Although maybe they could rank above the ACC champ, but that's only because the ACC champ lost so many games this year -- which is exactly why they would schedule patsies OOC so they don't have losses tanking their BCS rating.

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I just don't see how Texas stays that high. Texas a not beaten any good team except A&M who is pretty mediocre at 8-4.
 
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