CFP Selection Show Open Thread.

Submitted by M-Dog on

 

Noon on ESPN.

This should be interesting.

UPDATE:  Well, that WAS interesting.

 

 

 

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Killer Khakis

December 3rd, 2017 at 1:28 PM ^

Go back to the BCS era: play 11 regular season games, have your conference winners play in a big BCS bowl game (have 4 BCS games so you can have all P5 conference winnners going and 3 wild card teams in a BCS bowl), and have these games between Christmas and New Years. The winners go the BCS games will go to a 4 team playoff, and that's how the playoff should be done. You still finish playing 15 games if you are the champs and the bowl games get their endorsments still, plus it solves isues about winning your confrence and honesty if you don't win your conference or aren't one of 3 wildcard teams selected your resume and work isn't that good and you won't have a shot to compete in the playoff.  

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SD Larry

December 3rd, 2017 at 1:29 PM ^

if they play each other.  Even though I have good Holiday Bowl tix lined up if Michigan comes to San Diego, I am totally fine if we go to Outback Bowl  Better match up for us and its much more important Michigan sends it seniors out with a win than I get to see them in San Diego,  While I think we would wallop AZ, 50 -50 on Stanford if Bryce Love is healthy.  He is a tremendous back and I would not be surprised to see him win the Heisman next year if he stays healthy.

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Sten Carlson

December 3rd, 2017 at 1:31 PM ^

As much as I don’t like the system as it is currently, I think the Committee upheld their charge of “identifying the 4 best teams” and having a “clean sheet of paper” each week. It’s hard to swallow the two SEC teams, but I honestly cannot find a team out there that I feel is better than Alabama. I get that Bama played a suspecte schedule, and split their “tough games.” But, they didn’t lose by 31 to an unrakened 7-5 team that also lost to Purdue at home. Remember, Wisconsin throttled Iowa as well. It’s never perfect, but (again, as much as I dislike the system) it does seem to me that the committee takes their charge seriously. I’d like to see an 8 team playoff made up of ONLY conference champs, but then the way they have the divisions made up within the conferences is severely flawed. If they were to go back to all playing all and crowning an outright conference champ (based on tiebreakers if needed) it’s hard to says team is conference champ when they often haven’t played another top team and/or played the same team twice and split.

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ppToilet

December 3rd, 2017 at 3:17 PM ^

First off, there was no way that I thought OSU deserved the 4th spot. They screwed themselves last year by: 1. Whining that they should go to the playoff over PSU, a team that beat them AND won the B1G championship, and 2. Completely laying an egg against Clemson. By helping set the precedent that the B1G champion doesn't get to go, it played against them this year.

Now, as for Alabama, I don't think they should have gotten the spot either. They struggled at the end of the season against Miss. St. and lost to Auburn. Honestly, Auburn is a better team (when healthy) and not only beat Alabama but crushed Georgia once too. It's an absurd system that Auburn beats 2 out of the 4 "playoff" teams but isn't in the mix. And, I'd even say USC has a beef. They didn't even make the top six.

As I hate to complain without offering a solution, I think expanding the playoffs makes sense. However, I would make the conference championships as part of the playoff process.

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Sharuck

December 3rd, 2017 at 1:31 PM ^

OSU fan here. In past years, 5-6 teams deserved to be in, with only 4 slots. This year, only 3 teams deserved in. I was hoping OSU would be the fourth, but think Bama had the better team. No argument from me.

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Khaleke The Freak

December 3rd, 2017 at 1:34 PM ^

I guess I was right, no two loss Big10 team was making the playoffs. Way to lay that Iowa egg suckeyes...

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old98blue

December 3rd, 2017 at 1:42 PM ^

I'm tired of listening to Herbie tell anyone who will listen how tough it is to go to Iowa and win  I don't recall him saying that last year when he lost by 1 not 31

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old98blue

December 3rd, 2017 at 1:49 PM ^

Not that the coaches poll carries any weight but how do they pick the coaches that get a vote? Meyer has one Dantonio has one Franklin has one Herman has one Saban has one Harbaugh doesn't . Just curious

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tlo2485

December 3rd, 2017 at 2:18 PM ^

There are a lot of rumors swirling on other sites that the Outback settled on UM before the playoffs were announced based on what their choices would be, to get an early start. If OSU was picked, Sparty would have gone to Citrus and they'd choose between UM and NW. If OSU wasn't picked, they would choose between Sparty, UM, or NW. They decided in either situation they'd rather have Michigan. If this is true, Sparty drops to Holiday. This is also being reported by San Diego/Stanford/Arizona sites. They are anticipating MSU.

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SD Larry

December 3rd, 2017 at 2:47 PM ^

and despite fact I should have have good tix for family if Michigan in Holiday Bowl.   Sparty deserves nothing better after a 48-3 beat down by OSU.  While were at it, here's to hoping we win the turnover battle 5-0 at East Lansing next year cuz if we did, we would win by 40.  

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I Love Lamp

December 3rd, 2017 at 2:35 PM ^

Over the Sugar Bowl selection, and honestly they had a legit beef. But it would be funny as hell to see them selected again in the lesser bowl. Face it, you just aren’t us. #disrespekt!

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Solecismic

December 3rd, 2017 at 2:52 PM ^

The problem is the four-team system, not the OSU/Alabama decision (it would have ruffled lots of feathers either way). This compromise playoff system is pretty much the worst of both worlds. As a Big Ten fan, there's only so much enjoyment I can take out of pissed-off Ohio State fans. Yes, there's some. I'll enjoy that today. But what I hate is seeing that a Big Ten team that played five Big Ten road games, losing one badly, missing out on the playoff versus a school that played four non-conference home games, battling Mercer Bears at home instead of what could have been a road game at Missouri, for example. A team, like Iowa, that top teams handle, but sometimes don't. I hope the system goes away because I like nine conference games and I like that Michigan is willing to play Notre Dame every year and I like that the Big Ten discourages FCS opponents (not only in November, but all season long).

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