So the new 4 team playoff didn't eliminate all controversy.
January 14th, 2015 at 11:29 PM ^
January 15th, 2015 at 12:11 AM ^
...wait
January 15th, 2015 at 12:34 PM ^
Rankings are just statistics. Just ask Devin Funchess.
January 15th, 2015 at 7:17 AM ^
Five P5 conference champions and 3 at-large. Boom, Bob's your uncle.
January 15th, 2015 at 9:05 AM ^
Who's going to attend all these games? Nobody is going to be able to take the time and pay the $$$ to go to all of these games. (8 game playoff your suggesting??) And that is a lot of games for college kids to play.
January 15th, 2015 at 9:17 AM ^
8 TEAM playoff = 4 GAMES
No, the real reason they're not going to an 8 team playoff is that it would overly compromise the bowl system and the current institution would not stand for all the lost revenue, especially if they implemented such that the first round were on the campuses of the more highly ranked teams.
January 15th, 2015 at 9:24 AM ^
Four first round games
Two second round games
One Championship
January 15th, 2015 at 9:40 AM ^
Right, so incrementally four more games from the status quo.
January 15th, 2015 at 10:09 AM ^
It would only be two more games because teams 5-8 are already playing in a bowl game. So, 4 games added to the playoff format, but two of those games are already being played outside the playoff format.
January 15th, 2015 at 9:31 AM ^
Well, if they went to 8, they could have the first round of games in the home stadiums of the higher ranked team. A playoff game in December in the 'Shoe or the Big House? Sign me up. And you could easily eliminate a terrible non-con game at the beginning of the season to make room for an additional game at the end.
January 15th, 2015 at 2:16 PM ^
The 117 teams that don't make the playoffs might not be happy with that.
January 15th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^
4 teams will have Zero extra games. 2 teams will have 1 extra game. and 2 teams will have 2 extra games. this is not a whole lot of extra games or a whole lot of time that the players will miss playing school.
And who would go? I think you would need to have first round games in non traditional bowl areas. (I would prefer a late regular season game as the first round on campus) but even if you had round 1 prior to xmas in Seattle, St Louis, Detroit, NY for instance... that would sell, then you can move south to tradition bowl places. and only have 3 games left to sell.
These are not insurmountable problems.
January 15th, 2015 at 10:30 AM ^
Division2 plays playoffs from the end of November through to the end of December..
http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/football/d2
January 15th, 2015 at 10:01 AM ^
a shot to be national champs. Brian demonstrated that in a post a couple years back advocating for his own 6 team playoff formula. That's the great thing about college football--if you lose two games in regular season you are done, in terms of winning the national title. And that is actually right and fair IMO, which is why the regular season is the best in sports. That is why the champ can lay legitimate claim to being the best team, not just the best team at the end of the season.
January 15th, 2015 at 12:01 PM ^
January 15th, 2015 at 12:54 PM ^
January 15th, 2015 at 1:00 PM ^
No, the system explicitly left Baylor out for scheduling cupcakes.
January 18th, 2015 at 9:54 AM ^
does one single thing for scheduling policy.
January 15th, 2015 at 10:40 AM ^
January 15th, 2015 at 10:50 AM ^
I don't want the two SEC teams (and there would be 2 every year) getting the first round byes (which you know they would). Make all the teams play the same amount of games.
January 15th, 2015 at 12:35 PM ^
Bob is not my Uncle, damnit, he is my cousin.
January 14th, 2015 at 11:30 PM ^
Who cares about the poll? If you ain't first, you're last!
January 14th, 2015 at 11:36 PM ^
Hell, maizenblue92, I was high when I said that! That makes no sense at all! "First or last"! I mean, you could be second, third, fourth--hell, you could even be fifth!
January 14th, 2015 at 11:42 PM ^
+1 to you.
January 15th, 2015 at 12:11 AM ^
The final AP poll is just that - a poll. It doesn't mean that TCU is necessarily the third best team. TCU doesn't even get a bronze medal for being third in the poll.
January 14th, 2015 at 11:30 PM ^
All contoversy will be eliminated next January.
Harbaugh!
January 14th, 2015 at 11:32 PM ^
January 14th, 2015 at 11:37 PM ^
...and then OSU won it. Rather convincingly too.
If anyone didn't belong, it was FSU. But in another year, Bama would have smoked FSU, and the rebel flag would have been flying high for another year.
If your argument is that they should open it to 8 teams, I can kind of see your point. I'm pretty okay with either 4,6, or 8, but definitely no more.
If your argument is that OSU didn't deserve to be there, which is what it seems to be, as you mentioned twice that TCU got bumped for OSU, then I'm gonna have to call bullshit.
January 15th, 2015 at 12:20 AM ^
January 15th, 2015 at 9:34 AM ^
The point is that TCU, who was playing just as well at the end of the year, never got a chance to prove it. For all we know, TCU could have playing Bama and Oregon just as well.
As much as I hate it, OSU played like national champs when they needed to and there is no arguing that given the situation, they deserve it. Buy much like the BCS, we are left wondering, "What if..."
January 15th, 2015 at 9:42 AM ^
Ugh. I hate this argument. The playoff is not perfect. But it is absolutely an improvement on what came before it.
If this was last year we would have had an Alabama/FSU championship game. Utterly ridiculous in light of what happened in the playoffs.
No matter how many teams are in the playoffs, there will always be a team complaining about being left out. Better it be the 5th, 7th, or 9th ranked team than the 3rd ranked team.
And if TCU wanted to be in the championship, they should have beaten Baylor or played some better teams as part of their out of conference schedule. They looked great against Ole Miss, but before that they gave up 61(!) points to Baylor, and squeaked by West Virginia and Kansas of all teams. There's a reason they were ranked 6th coming into the playoffs -- they weren't even the first team out.
January 15th, 2015 at 9:46 AM ^
I can't argue with that. I don't feel passionately one way or the other, but I see both sides. It's very subjective, and ultimately I can live with that human element of the current system over the BCS.
January 14th, 2015 at 11:47 PM ^
And didn't have the strongest claim to winning its conference. If there's a team to complain it's Baylor. TCU won one less game than OSU before the playoff. That one game was against a good WIsconsin team. It mattered.
January 15th, 2015 at 12:17 AM ^
January 15th, 2015 at 7:45 AM ^
/That guy.
January 15th, 2015 at 1:29 AM ^
Or it's like the College Football Playoff Committee and the AP Poll are two different things.
January 14th, 2015 at 11:33 PM ^
Alabama, FSU and Baylor all lost...TCU won, OSU won and Oregon went 1-1 with a loss to the #1 team in the country.
That is literally how the polls have worked since they were invented...
You're reaching, reaching HARD.
January 14th, 2015 at 11:34 PM ^
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January 15th, 2015 at 12:43 AM ^
January 14th, 2015 at 11:35 PM ^
January 14th, 2015 at 11:37 PM ^
January 14th, 2015 at 11:40 PM ^
Before I was born, you could have made a strong case that I was a girl. But then I was born, and I'm a guy. So...
I'm not sure what exactly I mean by that anecdote, but it is about as cohesive as your argument.
January 14th, 2015 at 11:58 PM ^
You had a sex change in the womb?
January 15th, 2015 at 12:44 AM ^
January 14th, 2015 at 11:48 PM ^
regarding which one loss Big XII team should have been selected for the playoff. The idea that the playoff settles things on the field would ring very hollow if you were to take TCU over Baylor.
January 14th, 2015 at 11:37 PM ^
I don't give a shit about the 2014 season anymore. On to Harbaugh year 1.
January 14th, 2015 at 11:37 PM ^
Jesus, man.
A 65-team NCAA tournament doesn't eliminate controversy either.
January 14th, 2015 at 11:39 PM ^