SEC College Football Playoff - No Thanks

I'd like to see an 8-team playoff.  Keep the P5 champs, the best of the G5 (UCF certainly deserved it this year), and choose two at-large teams from wherever.  The best four (as determined by committee, or whatever) get home field for the first round.  I'd love to see an SEC team have to play in AA, or Cbus, or Madison in January!

These 2 teams are most likely the best 2 teams in CFB. I know it’s annoying and now trendy to hate the SEC, but if they have the 2 best teams they should be playing for the championship. I don’t care and may not watch much either, but if other teams and conferences don’t like it, beat them.

Also, conference pride is stupid.

Also, the main reason I won’t watch much will have nothing to do with the teams. I’m finding it harder and harder to tolerate the 175 commercial breaks even for Michigan games let alone a game with teams I don’t even care about.

The 2 best teams all year have clearly been Alabama and Georgia. They deserve to be the final 2 regardless of what conference they are from.

Georgia and Bama have been the best two teams all season. Both scheduled (usually in the case of FSU) tough non conference games. A quirk of scheduling allowed it to happen.

 

Just because Mississippi State fans think they're good because they're in the same conference as Bama doesn't mean the game won't be phenomenal. 

Look, I'm not happy about it.  You're not happy about it.  None of us are happy about it.

But those two teams earned their way in via a playoff.  It could not be more fair.

They deserve to be there.

So I'll watch and see who deserves to win the final game.

I don't always like who is in the Super Bowl, but I still watch it.

 

Bama will probably bama the game out and win another bama title. Bama boring.

is that OSU was excluded. Anything that is bad for them makes me feel happy inside

Best 4 teams were in it.  Best 2 teams won last night.  

My suggestion is take the 5 conference champs after agreeing that everyone plays the same amount of conference games.  Seed them after Championship Games 1-5.  #4 and #5 then play the following week or so at #4's home field for the right to get into the CFP.  Continue as we have for the past few years as this 4 team deal is pretty good.  As for the group of 5... your schedule is not good enough.  Work on getting into the Big 12.  ND, BYU and the rest of you independents... Join a conference.  This is all some sort of economic socialism and there is no place for independence if you want a seat at the table with all of the goodies on it.

Hey Group of 5... there is no reason you couldn't copy this same model.  People will watch.  I promise. 

There will still be bowl games.  There will still be regular season powder puffs and most importantly there will still be games like M vs ND and Bama vs FSU because ultimately you need to win you conference to get into the playoff.  Cross sectional games will only steel your spine for your real test that lie ahed of you during your regular season.

 

You are welcome CFP.  Take it and run with it.  

Not watching. Too boring.

Maybe poor ratings outside the south will get them to consider expanding, but as it stands the contracts run through 2025 so unless something seismic happens between now and then I don't expect much change.

Otis Reese will be watching

The two best teams are SEC teams. It’s what it is. I’ll watch, but I’ll not be surprised if the ratings for the game are low.

I will not be watching.

I am still throwing up from our performance against SC.

this is not a reason to change it. no one outside of the BIG thought OSU or USC deserved to be in. CFP got it right. I don't like the outcome either but I bet you'd love it if it were UM and Wisconsin. I'll still watch it and I don't think ratings will be impacted. it'd be worse ratings if a group of 5 team ever makes it.

Two great teams will be playing. Yes, they're in the SEC. So what. They won the games that mattered and deserve to be there. I will be watching. 

Auburn beat both Alabama and Georgia.  This isn't a national championship game, but rather a game to see who is the 2nd best team in the SEC after Auburn. 

Clemson was a wasted spot. ACC football is hot garbage, and they got handled by Syracuse. No way they should have been ranked #1, no way they were ever going toe to toe with Bama last night. There are only 4 football power conferences, ACC is not one.

I may watch some of the game because I love football, but it’s a crying shame that there are two teams from one conference in the game. Even though those teams deserve the spots, it’s hard to justify not giving a chance to UCF, OSU, Wisconsin, Auburn, etc.

The 4 spots just aren’t going to work when you have 5 major conferences. Conference championships obviously mean NOTHING to the committee. The committee suffers from recency bias to the extreme, which is why it won’t kill Michigan’s chances for a playoff spot in 2018 if we lose to ND. A loss should be a loss, but that’s not how it works in the committee decisions. Bama getting manhandled by Auburn doesn’t “hurt” as much as Wisconsin losing to osu in the B1G championship game. That’s messed up.

I think a simple fix without over complicating matters to make everyone feel included would be to expand to 8 teams. Yes, #9 will whine, but in reality, every single year by the time the playoffs come around the 8-12 ranked teams have at least 1, but more often 2 losses. They will be lucky and grateful to be included for a shot to win it. The expansion to 8 would have given UCF and Wisconsin a shot

Oh just shut the fuck up OP. It’s the two best teams playing each other. It’s been decided on the field. The system got it right, again. Just because you’re delicate doesn’t mean they need to blowup the whole thing. Sure there are always going to be arguments about conference champs but there will be problems with that too when a 7-4 Big 12 champ K-State gets into that playoff.

It’s the title game. I will certainly spectate it.