SEC College Football Playoff - No Thanks
I for one will not be willing to dedicate any of my time to watching the CFP Championship game this year. Don't want to hear the S - E - C chants, and could care less who wins the game. Is anyone else with me?
They need to fix the playoffs immediately. IF the CFP Championship game gets poor ratings this year, it might help convince the commitee that they need to change it.
I don't care to see two teams from the same conference ever again. Just take the Power 5 conference winners, one Group of Five qualifier, and let them square off in a six team playoff. It keeps the conference championships an important piece of the season.
January 2nd, 2018 at 7:57 AM ^
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:22 AM ^
UCF may have something to say about that.
January 2nd, 2018 at 11:32 AM ^
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:06 AM ^
I agree 6 would be fine with top 2 receiving byes.
At most 8.
16 is too many.
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:39 AM ^
I don't like the 6 w/ 2 byes. The bye is such a huge advantage, and I sure as hell wouldn't want a committe deciding whether Oklahoma or Georgia should receive it. It would be the next big thing everyone bitched and complained about. 8 is the number.
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:03 AM ^
And forcing to take a conference champion over a team that is higher ranked completely destroys any concept of the national championship having anything to do with who is best.
If the best 4 teams are in the B1G then I want the best 4 teams to be there. If they aren't, then I don't. If the B1G doesnt deserve to have a team there because they aren't one of the best 4 teams, then they shouldn't be there.
This whole "every conference should have a team" crap is the most "participation trophy" bullshit that I've ever heard when it comes to College Football.
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:58 AM ^
January 2nd, 2018 at 7:30 AM ^
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January 2nd, 2018 at 7:54 AM ^
that he dumped UG for UM's tire fire of garbage?
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:30 AM ^
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January 2nd, 2018 at 7:48 AM ^
January 2nd, 2018 at 7:58 AM ^
Mostly because I don't want Alabama to win, again.
However, does a Georgia win mean that Otis Reese decommits from Michigan?
So, while I would like to say I "couldn't" care less... that would be a lie.
I can find out who won without watching.
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:37 AM ^
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:02 AM ^
But if you're using the early signing period as your evidence why didn't he sign his NLI with uga on the 20th?
January 2nd, 2018 at 7:50 AM ^
Untill every P5 conference fixes the imbalance of schedules and divisions you will always have this debate with a 4 team playoff. An 8 team playoff would help and you would only be adding 1 week to the season. Have a bye week after the conference championships and then start the playoffs.
If they are going to keep it at 4 teams, then the NCAA has to step in and mandate 9 conference game schedules and eliminate 1AA games on the schedule. I also think the NCAA needs to eliminate divisions in conferences to help with the imbalance of schedules. That way the 2 top teams are guaranteed to play in their own conference championships.
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:01 AM ^
I can't stand the B1G being split into two divisions, mainly because that means we have to play fucking Rutgers and Maryland every year while not seeing some teams from the west for several years at a time.
I'd be fine with a 9 game conference schedule and getting rid of the conference championship game (we won A LOT of shared B1G titles). Give every team a protected rivalry game or two each season and just mix the rest of the season up.
8 team playoff. One team from each P5 conference (champion or not) and 3 at-large teams.
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:01 AM ^
The conference is extremely top-heavy and largely down, but the two best teams in CFB are in the SEC. It sucks that it's two SEC teams, and I'm confident that viewership of the game will be down. But if the goal of the playoff is for the best teams to play in the championship game, then it has succeeded.
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:01 AM ^
We all complained about the BCS system not getting it right and not always taking the two best teams in the country. Now the two best teams in the country are squaring off and you're still upset?
Sure it'd be great to see a different conference get a shot, but Clemson and Oklahoma had their chance on the field. They failed. So you get Georgia and Alabama. It's not like the committee didn't give other conferences a chance.
Besides, anyone other than OSU in the title game is fine by me. I just want a good game.
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:40 AM ^
Everything was fine until 1997. Up until then, Michigan played for the Big 10 Championship and a chance to face off against the Pac 10 champion in the Rose Bowl.
Unfortunately, pride got the best of most of us when the Coaches Poll voted Nebraska #1 and the AP Poll voted Michigan #1. That was when a lot of people's opinion about having a playoff began to change. The trouble is, the real problem was the polls... and since we continue to use polls to decide things today it will continue to be a problem.
January 2nd, 2018 at 11:22 AM ^
So what happens in the year that Michigan and OSU end up as #1 and #2 again, and Michigan loses another close heartbreaker in 2OT by 3 points? But other than that, they blew everyone else out of the water on their schedule? Are you going to be singing the same tune then if, say, an unconvincing 2 to 3 loss PAC-12 champion gets in over a 1-loss Michigan that looked the part in every game but just lost a really close, competitive game to the #1 team in America? I guarantee you'd be up in arms about how it's not fair and there should be reserved "at large" bids.
Come on, man. I know you don't like the all-SEC title game, and part of me doesn't blame you. But don't blame the committee. Blame Clemson and Oklahoma for not getting the job done last night. Blame OSU for getting curb-stomped by an awful Iowa team, or Wisconsin for not being good enough in their conference title game. Blame the PAC-12 for being a mediocre conference this year. Alabama showed why it deserved to be in last night, as they were finally healthy and mandhandled a Clemson team that beat up on everyone not named Syracuse this year. Minus one slip-up at Auburn, Georgia has looked the part all year and has dominated everyone.
If you don't like it then don't watch, but let's not pretend like Georgia and Alabama don't deserve to be there.
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:09 AM ^
SEC Invitiational. But these are the 2 best SEC teams in the country. Hate that we are now faced with yet another SEC National Title game once again. Happened in the BCS era(LSU vs Alabama 2011) and now with Georgia and Alabama.
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:37 AM ^
Idk. It sucks but they're the two best teams. Alabama and LSU were the two best teams in 2011 as well.
With how much the conference is on the rise, I think there will come a time shortly when the two best teams are both in the B1G. Wouldn't be surprised at all to see two B1G teams in the playoff sometime in the next 2-3 years.
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:12 AM ^
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:12 AM ^
Come on, the B1G going 7-1 in bowls doesn't mean anything. The B1G benefited from the same system we complained about for several years when the conference was abysmal in bowl play.
By being excluded from the CFP, all of the B1G teams got shifted down a level and drew easier competition. Meanwhile, the SEC, having gotten two into the CFP, saw the rest of their teams all shifted up a level or two and had to play a tougher lineup. Of course, they still went 4-2 and placed two teams in the Nat'l Title Game.
Complain if you want ( I can't imagine anyone here is happy with it), but the CFP put the two best teams in the championship game.
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:22 AM ^
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:26 AM ^
Choosing not to watch two great teams play football because you think some other team deserved to be in the playoff is just plain stupid.
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:38 AM ^
game into yet another 4 hour session given that both teams primarliy run the football. I won't spend 4 hours watching live but am curious if they manage to do this as I suspect. We have reached the point of oversaturation with commercials imo.
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:39 AM ^
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:10 AM ^
that national title game will be pushing four hours not even counting the pre-game bs.
No way that game kicks off at 8:00 as their promoting.
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:49 AM ^
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:50 AM ^
It could be my misunderstanding, but wasn't part of the point of the CFP to avoid this sort of scenario whenever possible, where only one conference would end up being represented in the Championship Game? I mean, it was probably going to happen at some point anyway, but we are not that far removed from the last all-SEC Championship game, I believe.
I might tune into parts of it if it gets interesting, but otherwise I don't know that I can stomach it.
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:10 AM ^
No, the point of the CFP was that it was frequently difficult to distinguish who the #2-3-4 teams were, although usually just 2-3.
USC had their chance and they got blown out my ND. OSU had their chance and they got blown out by IOWA. OK and Clemson had their chances and they both just lost.
The two best teams are going to play in the NCG. As boring as it might be that it is yet again Alabama in an all-sec game, at least it was earned by merit.
Nothing would guarantee my lack of interest in the CFP/NCG quite like it having nothing to do with merit.
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:28 AM ^
They lost their last game and didn't even qualify for their own conf. championship game.
January 2nd, 2018 at 11:34 AM ^
They won every other game, looked good enough doing so, and didn't lose by 30 to iowa.
I'm not sure what conference championships have to do with anything. It's just another game. Before the CFP it had virtually nothing to do with the BCS other than it's affect ony your record and SOS, now all of a sudden it's supposed to be a play-in? No.
January 2nd, 2018 at 11:58 AM ^
season game to Auburn by double digits and still made the playoffs. I believe UCF with their undefeated record had just as much right to the #4 spot as bama.
It's too bad we won't get the chance to see what UCF might have been able to do with a shot against bama or uga after what they did to Auburn yesterday.
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:57 AM ^
The two best teams in college football are playing each other. Anyone who thinks OSU could hang with these two after their middling performance against us, their ass whipping by iowa, and their loss to OK (who just lost to georgia) is on crack.
However, no, I probably won't watch it. Alabama v Clemson was boring as shit and I can't imagine that the game against georgia is going to be anything spectacular.
Plus I just don't care which of these two teams wins. At this point it pretty much doesn't affect me or my fandom in one way or another.
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:59 AM ^
I won't waste my time watching one team that we know does things shady (Saban's grey shirts, medicals, and payments (remember the assistnat that was fired for violations a couple years back?)) and another team that we strongly suspect of making large purchases. It doesn't help that it's all SEC, which I don't care about. I might watch some of it, but I really don't care to listen to ESPN telling me how good the SEC is...
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:00 AM ^
If Oklahoma was in it I would watch. They are the only team I wanted to win. Why watch a game where i wont like the outcome , regardless of who wins it .
January 2nd, 2018 at 11:11 AM ^
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:09 AM ^
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:11 AM ^
Why? Are you suggesting the point isnt' to have the two best teams play each other?
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:17 AM ^
I do agree with this, business is good but this might help the Commitee increase the 4 team invitational.
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:57 AM ^
You think people in New York or California care about the difference between UGA, Clemson, or Oklahoma? If this was a rematch, maybe, but it's not.
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:15 AM ^
bitter much? I for one do not care who plays or wins the game but I bet it will be fun to watch. Just a game folks.
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:23 AM ^
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January 2nd, 2018 at 9:31 AM ^
A bit torn on this one, honestly. As much as I hate the SEC slob knobbing that will of course occur during this broadcast (and I know this is wishful thinking but it's happened at least once before in 2006) when Michigan and OSU were most likely both in the top 4.
If this had been 2006 there would've been outrage that UM & OSU weren't in the CFP had that been in place at that time. Sucks now, but honestly if the two best teams in the country are from the same conference - then I'm OK with it. Of course, this is certainly skewed a bit by the SEC bias that's seemingly present in today's CF world.
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:31 AM ^