College Football Playoff Appreciation Thread
January 2nd, 2015 at 3:35 AM ^
but I think it needs expanded a little more.
January 2nd, 2015 at 3:41 AM ^
Eight would be the right amount. It gets all the P5 conference champions in and leaves room for 2 at-larges plus the top non-P5 team for political correctness purposes.
January 2nd, 2015 at 3:49 AM ^
but won't the kids on the winning teams near the end get dumber from missing classes?
/s
January 2nd, 2015 at 3:53 AM ^
They didn't come to play school.
January 2nd, 2015 at 12:09 PM ^
"Classes? What classes?" -every Ohio State player
January 2nd, 2015 at 4:00 AM ^
January 2nd, 2015 at 9:56 AM ^
You mean the Big Ten East runner-up, don't you?
January 2nd, 2015 at 4:11 AM ^
I have been suggesting eight teams for years now. At the very least, there should be six, with a special "play in" round after the last week of the season, matching 3-6 and 4-5. Then every one could rest and they could do exactly what they are doing now in January with the losers filling out one of the other four of the "New Year's Six" bowls.
January 2nd, 2015 at 8:53 AM ^
Number 8 MSU beat #6 Baylor. Shouldn't MSU have had a shot at the playoffs? And if MSU should be in so too should have #7 MIss St., but #12 Georgia Tech thrashed Miss St., so maybe the brackets should include at least down to 12.
January 2nd, 2015 at 8:16 AM ^
I think there will be quite a bit of fan fatigue from them having to pay for and travel to up to 3 playoff games.
January 2nd, 2015 at 8:54 AM ^
or any complaint about lower level football having a playoff? Not a good argument to be making IMO.
January 2nd, 2015 at 9:40 AM ^
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January 2nd, 2015 at 9:41 AM ^
Early round NCAA games are played in stadia that are 1/4 the size of football stadia. And they are regularly half empty.
It is a concern. Big schools like us, OSU, Texas, Alabama will have enough alumni to fill three high-priced games. But not all schools.
That's why the first round should be played on campus :)
January 2nd, 2015 at 9:57 AM ^
January 2nd, 2015 at 4:50 PM ^
I would pay to see a football play off game before I would pay for an early round weekend basketball ticket.
January 2nd, 2015 at 9:45 AM ^
Moving them to home sites for quarters and semis would solve that problem, but thats a tough battle to fight with bowl execs fixing to lose a lot of money from a decision like that.
I still think 6 is right. Usually when you get down to the 7-10 range, you're looking at 2-3 loss teams who have probably lose to at least 1 or 2 of the guys who are playoff locks
January 2nd, 2015 at 10:41 AM ^
First round could be a home game.
January 2nd, 2015 at 8:48 AM ^
Better idea. 16 teams, that allows for two teams per Power 5 because everybody can have a bad game and then six at large to ensure fair representation from the smaller conferences. Plus four play-in games, one for each quadrant of the bracket. Total 20 teams.
And that, my friend, is the least you can do for political correctness.
January 2nd, 2015 at 3:59 AM ^
January 2nd, 2015 at 4:06 AM ^
That Sparty/Baylor game could have easily went Baylor's way with a couple different plays.
January 2nd, 2015 at 9:58 AM ^
. . . and 100% less stupidity on 4th down.
January 2nd, 2015 at 10:20 AM ^
The Big Ten could have been making excuses for years, but instead just as the rest of the nation was forced to be beat down and even have books written about how GREAT the SEC is. Well maybe they are, but this year and based on the bowl games.
It is the PAC 12 WEST MEETS BIG TEN EAST.
I am good with the entire playoff system and to think that the SEC wanted the system so they could have 2 Teams in the playoffs for a NC and now are shut out.
Go Big....................
January 2nd, 2015 at 11:47 AM ^
All in the 4th quarter
- Missed FG
- Pick-6 called back by block in the back that had no effect on the return
- 1st and goal called back by offensive facemask, FG blocked
Getting points off any of those three drives still results in a Baylor win
January 2nd, 2015 at 12:04 PM ^
Baylor's defense was putrid. I'm glad they didn't get into the final four.
January 2nd, 2015 at 7:46 AM ^
Actually its a result of it being TCU and not Texas or Oklahoma. If that were Texas at 12-1 everyone knows OSU would have been out of the playoff.
January 2nd, 2015 at 9:42 AM ^
January 2nd, 2015 at 11:50 AM ^
No chance in hell does a #3 OU or Texas enter the final week, beat Iowa State 55-3, and then find themself at #6 the following. It just would not happen.
January 2nd, 2015 at 4:09 AM ^
with some pro style teams, spread teams, and the Georgia Tech triple option would be interesting.
January 2nd, 2015 at 10:00 AM ^
That's what I love most about college football . . . those Stanford - Oregon type matchups. You don't get that in the group-think NFL.
January 2nd, 2015 at 11:07 AM ^
One thing that might possibly get overlooked in the national summary of these bowls, and I sincerely hope it does not, was fun it actually was to see a triple option team just take it to someone for an entire game, especially a team that for much of the year, people were putting in their personal Top 4.
January 2nd, 2015 at 4:44 AM ^
It's better than the BCS, but better than an Ohio State vs. Oregon Rose Bowl on January 1st (Rose will be on the 31st next year)? I'm not so sure. With traditional bowl tie-ins, the Rose, Orange, Sugar and Cotton were all championships that meant as much or more than the Dr. Pepper vagina trophy.
January 2nd, 2015 at 6:46 AM ^
Blah - get off my lawn!
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January 2nd, 2015 at 11:54 AM ^
They're all meaningless games which no one outside of the participating fanbases will remember in two weeks unless it's one of the few great bowl games that inevitably happen.
I still do not understand why FBS football has to be feelingsball.
"But they will be sad if they don't get to play in a bowl game!"
Tough shit. Look at literally every other sport in college athletics including FCS, D-II, and D-III football. Make the tournament if you want to keep playing, otherwise you're done. No one gives a crap about CMU playing Western Kentucky. I doubt most of their fanbases even watched that game
January 2nd, 2015 at 1:19 PM ^
When else do you get to see teams from completely different areas of the country play against one another? How often would Oregon play Ohio State or Wisconsin play TCU or Michigan play Texas?
It's something completely unique to the FBS. Basketball has March Madness, FBS has the bowl season.
January 2nd, 2015 at 7:14 AM ^
January 2nd, 2015 at 7:57 AM ^
OK, I'm glad to hear they're keeping it on New Year's Day, but it's still been stripped of most of its meaning. Like the guy above said, playing an Orange Bowl in an empty stadium was sad. In years when the big game's are on New Year's Eve, we could see a similar site in Pasadena. I honestly can't think of anything more depressing than Michigan playing a meaningless consolation game in a half-empty Rose Bowl.
January 2nd, 2015 at 8:18 AM ^
Neither Baylor nor Michigan State seemed to think that their game yesterday was a meaningless consolation game. You'd seem to be tilting at windmills.
January 2nd, 2015 at 9:39 AM ^
I'm not sure what game you watched, but Baylor might have played for four quarters if they gave a shit. That "big game's" apostrophe is killing me.
January 2nd, 2015 at 4:59 PM ^
is exactly as good as it sounds.
January 2nd, 2015 at 5:08 AM ^
January 2nd, 2015 at 8:15 AM ^
Huh?
In it's very first year, the playoff has proved how flawed the NCG selection has been. Alabama and FSU were not the two best teams in the country, and yet last year they would have been promoted into the title game.
Needless to say, Bama would have destroyed FSU (who were the biggest pretender team to go 29-0... I know, that sounds weird). Once Bama won another NCG, the SEC chant would have just gotten louder.
No more self fulfilling prophecies. The SEC must win on the field, the same as any conference. An 8 team playoff would eliminate even more bias.
I cannot fathom how a sane person could see the results of yesterday and think that the playoff should go away.
January 2nd, 2015 at 9:31 AM ^
I love the playoff. I think it will be toughest on the SEC which will be great for college football. My wife is from Alabama. I can't wait for the day I can travel down there and don't need to listen to ignorant SEC fans talking about the vaunted SEC speed and great defenses.
January 2nd, 2015 at 10:03 AM ^
That day is right now.
January 2nd, 2015 at 1:58 PM ^
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January 2nd, 2015 at 10:57 AM ^
So how can you say leaving them out isn't a massive injustice?
January 2nd, 2015 at 7:07 AM ^
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