Why shouldn't college football have a 32 team tournament?
December 19th, 2018 at 5:28 AM ^
Another unpopular opinion alert:
Bowl games aren't useless.
Anyone who has played football and loves it knows all to well how short the season is and how fast life flys by. Getting another game that is the culmination of your season is worth every penny to most of the players. Also it gives many players another chance to appeal there talents to the NFL or younger players to get a foot ahead of the competition next year. Saying bowl games are useless has to be one of the most fan entitled opinions I have ever seen and it's disgusting. Just do the math with how many choose to sit out to how many that don't.
December 19th, 2018 at 6:36 AM ^
No, they're not useless or meaningless. They certainly aren't exhibitions; the W/L and all statistics count toward season and career records.
December 19th, 2018 at 6:31 AM ^
Beyond the correct four chosen, certain games (GA-ALA, UM-OSU, OK-TX) were already de facto playoff games in sense, or at least play-in games for Michigan, Georgia and Oklahoma.
December 18th, 2018 at 7:45 PM ^
I'm good with the 8 team playoff but leading up to the playoff needs to change.
-Every conference needs to play the same number of games. Right now some play 8 and others play 9
-Big 10 needs to get rid of divisions and take the best 2 teams
-Notre Dame needs to join a conference
-Conference Champs should get an automatic bid, have 3 at large bids
December 18th, 2018 at 7:45 PM ^
I'm good with the 8 team playoff but leading up to the playoff needs to change.
-Every conference needs to play the same number of games. Right now some play 8 and others play 9
-Big 10 needs to get rid of divisions and take the best 2 teams
-Notre Dame needs to join a conference
-Conference Champs should get an automatic bid, have 3 at large bids
December 18th, 2018 at 7:45 PM ^
Why not make it 128??? Even more football!!!
Never mind that format would reduce the regular season to an exercise that eliminates 2 teams. Sorry UTEP and Connecticut. If only you had gone 2-10 instead of 1-11, you'd have a chance!
More seriously, I'm fine with as many as 16 - as that would guarantee inclusion of every conference champion. But nothing at all beyond that, please.
December 18th, 2018 at 7:46 PM ^
It makes the regular season meaningless. With 32 teams the Spartans would get in and they deserve nothing. Four teams is enough. The best two teams are Alabama and Clemson. For the most part they get it right.
December 18th, 2018 at 11:04 PM ^
I don't buy that an expanded playoff would make regular season games meaningless.
Say we modeled our playoffs on the FCS 24 team playoff with 8 teams getting a bye and the 9-16 seeds hosting the 1st round.
Under the current 4 team playoff structure if you lose a game and fall to 7-2, you know you are out of the playoff hunt and your last 3 games are meaningless outside of any rivalry. The next year the fans clamor for an easy out of conference schedule to make it easier to climb the arduous mountain of making a 4 team playoff.
In the FCS falling to 7-2 means that you need to win out and get help to get a 1st round bye...and another loss might mean you play on the road in the first round. Fans don't mind a tough out of conference game as it doesn't "half" end the season if you lose.
December 19th, 2018 at 3:20 AM ^
No team above a 4 seed has ever won it. So it seems to me that any more than four is just a waste.
December 18th, 2018 at 7:48 PM ^
How about a 120 team round robin? The kids go have classes on Mondays and Wednesdays, play games on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. So, 3 games a week, 119 games, like a 40 week season. Leaves plenty of time (12 weeks) for recruiting and fall camp.
December 18th, 2018 at 7:52 PM ^
What are we ranked right now? I want that many teams.
December 18th, 2018 at 7:54 PM ^
Because 18 and 19 year olds shouldn't be playing an 18 game season.
December 18th, 2018 at 9:04 PM ^
This is animal cruelty, alert peta
/s kind of
December 18th, 2018 at 8:01 PM ^
32 is too many but they should go to 16. They use the model at all other levels of college football and it works. 11 game regular season, for teams that don’t make the 16 then lesser bowl games for a good season. Only two teams in this scenario play 15 games which isn’t much more then some are playing now and most end up with 12 games
December 18th, 2018 at 8:07 PM ^
NCAA regular season football was the best thing in sports. All of the national championship playoff "fans" have ruined the importance of the regular season. Everyone is in the national championship the entire year. You lose and you're playing for your rivalries and bowl redemption. All of those years where OSU was undefeated about to go to the national championship and Michigan beat them? Yeah. That was football. You want playoffs go watch the NFL!
December 18th, 2018 at 8:14 PM ^
8 would be fine and would solve a lot of problems. Include all five P5 conference winners and 3 at-large.
December 18th, 2018 at 8:25 PM ^
Pitt finished this season ranked #32. I don't see any reason why a team that finished the season 7-6 should have a shot at the national championship.
You would also have to reduce the amount of games (to AD's that reads potential home games i.e. money making opportunities) so that the national champion isn't playing 18 games to win the championship (ridiculous what that would do to these guys bodies, especially if you are not going to pay them).
Also that would make up approximately a quarter of DI teams playing in a tournament for a championship
32 teams out of 130 eligible qualifiers = 24.6% of the
that would be a higher ratio than even the NCAAB tournament's field
64 teams out of 347 eligible qualifiers = 18.6%
8 to me seems like the correct number, anything over 16 seems unnecessary.
December 18th, 2018 at 8:32 PM ^
Most teams outside of the top 8-12 are not that good most years.
December 18th, 2018 at 8:43 PM ^
Remove 12th game and conference championships from schedule.
48 team playoff. Top 16 have first round bye.
December 18th, 2018 at 8:54 PM ^
Because #1 vs. #32 would be a horrible game and #2 vs. #31 would just as horrible, so forth and so on. Football teams out of the top10 are suspect and likley not competitive with the top 4-5 teams.
Expand to 8 and see how it goes. Kill the conference title games and replace with first round of the 8 team playoff ... like a play-in round to qualify for the "final four" during bowl season as currently constructed.
December 18th, 2018 at 9:13 PM ^
I listened to SECFans' argument for expansion to a six-team playoff and I'm not persuaded. They're concerned that the regular season will lose it's luster; I'm concerned that it already has. My view is that the current system causes "playoff" teams to avoid challenging regular season schedules.
Alabama was 2-0 against Sagarin's top 10 and 6-0 against Sagarin's top 30. Their biggest challenge was in the SEC Championship Game vs #3 Georgia on December 2; they won 35-28. I would agree they belong in the playoff. However . . .
Clemson was 0-0 against Sagarin's top 10 and 3-0 against Sagarin's top 30. Their biggest challenge was at #19 Texas A&M on September 9; they won 28-26.
Notre Dame was 1-0 against Sagarin's top 10 and 2-0 against Sagarin's top 30. Their biggest challenge was home to #5 Michigan on September 2; they won 24-17.
Oklahoma was 0-0 against Sagarin's top 10 and 2-1 against Sagarin's top 30. Their biggest challenge was at #12 West Virginia on November 24; they won 59-56.
Arguably 75% of the "playoff" teams qualified by scheduling 10 cupcakes. And there was precious little consequential football following Week #2. In that context, their won-loss records are no more impressive than Central Florida's. The problem is not how many teams are in the playoff, but which teams.
December 18th, 2018 at 11:17 PM ^
Because the playoffs don't mean anything aside from forcing certain matchups. Because these are amateurs, most of whom - even on playoff teams (and the more teams the higher percentage) - will never play organized football after school, and you're asking to add 4 more games of physical wear on them on top of what's already a 13 game season (w/ bowl). and all for selfishness. One of the responsibilities of the school is to do what's right for the boys. They may want deeper playoffs, but that's a lot easier to say ahead of the wear and injury than after.
Because our entertainment is not worth the cost on these boys. Arguments otherwise tend to be from short-sighted selfish idiots who don't understand that they're going to get less quality the further this sport gets from amateur college athletics and closer to minor league football.
December 19th, 2018 at 12:31 AM ^
Took 140 years to get to 4 teams. Slow that roll just a tad.
December 19th, 2018 at 10:11 AM ^
Because its a horrible idea that would ruin the best regular season in sports. Awful, terrible idea