Posted on 12/31/2014 3:57:28 PM PST by bestintxas
The team TCU played today beat the best in the SEC?? Gained over 400 yards against the best scoring defense in SEC?
Allowed only 3 points even after coughing up 4 turnovers?
What a joke the SEC is.
TCU lost as a visitor in overtime to the #5 ranked team in the country.
Looks like politics is taking over in the sporting world as there is no way TCU should not be in the championship hunt.
Get used to hearing that from SEC fans. I tried to point out Oklahoma’s win against Alabama last year to an SEC cult member, and he said it didn’t count because the Chamiomship wasn’t on the line.
The easiest solution, absorb the Big 12 teams into the other Four Power Conferences.
Texas, TCU, Texas Tech and Baylor will go to the SEC and create a new division along with A&M and Arkansas.
Oklahoma and OSU join the Pac 12.
The rest join the Big Ten, or maybe West Virginia joins the ACC.
Now, each conference can set up a structure where they can have a semi-final round, and the usual conference championship.
In essence, there’s your 16-team playoff system.
My point was that TCU badly beating Mississippi doesn’t make any of the points you seemed to be making. It means NOTHING.
IF you understood Alabama football you would know that once Bama lost the Auburn game, the rest was just fussin’ around.
The number of playoff teams could vary each year up to 8
This year six teams would have qualified
Ncaa playoffs instead of BCS? Lol! Goodbye old boss hello new boss. I love how they are calling this system “playoffs.”
“There is nothing riding on these games with the exception of the playoff series”
Try telling that to all those young men who go to the bowl games.
Really not a bright comment at all.
Baylor should have been ranked #1, and TCU #2.
The whole system is a sham
The playoffs should be eight or ten teams (in the latter case, top 2 get byes).
However, to preserve the fiction of studentness, this expansion would require giving up one or possibly two regular season games. When I went to college, the NCAA limit was ten games. It was “temporarily” raised to 11 in 1969 so the student protesters “would have something else to do” (God’s honest truth). That’s how Colgate happened to play Navy in 1969 (you could look it up).
Now, my little old school plays 12 like it was nothing, and starts in August to make it work. And, the AD says if they had to cut back to 11, the college would collapse through loss of revenue.
A ten-team playoff means a ten-game season, or games in the second semester. A ten game season means no new climbing walls and hot tubs on campus. And THAT means the whole $250 000 BA degree scam starts to collapse.
Not gonna happen. Wouldn’t be prudent.
“Get used to hearing that from SEC fans. I tried to point out Oklahoma’s win against Alabama last year to an SEC cult member, and he said it didn’t count because the Chamiomship wasn’t on the line.”
I agree totally. SEC fans have become blind to the world.
“My point was that TCU badly beating Mississippi doesn’t make any of the points you seemed to be making. It means NOTHING.”
Read my post 31
The fundamental problem with your analysis is that it rests on an assumption that the college football playoff is about matching up the best football teams. It’s not. It’s about money and lots of it. The four teams that can generate the most money are the ones that they want. TCU still has trouble filling up their teeny stadium in Ft. Worth, so they are always going to be suspect until they build a big honking stadium and fill it with rabid fans and big suites full of high rolling alums. Football is big business and TCU is still viewed as a Mom and Pop operation.
The second problem is that the Big 12 shot itself in the foot. With no Championship Game since Texas ran off all the teams, the conference tried to get cute with a co-champion in hopes of getting two teams into the playoffs. No one was going to sign up to put a co-champion into the first playoff. The Big 12 is one bad move away from becoming history. The same problem doomed the Southwest Conference and may doom the Big 12 as well.
The TCU football team certainly deserved to be in the playoff, but that didn’t count for much.
“When I went to college, the NCAA limit was ten games. It was “temporarily” raised to 11 in 1969 “
We went to school at the same time.
I recall fondly how Ohio State ranked #1 in all polls was going to be unanimous national champs in 1969 after only playing 9 games. Unfortunately for them, their last game was against Michigan, who beat them 24-12.
“The fundamental problem with your analysis is that it rests on an assumption that the college football playoff is about matching up the best football teams. It’s not. It’s about money and lots of it. The four teams that can generate the most money are the ones that they want.”
Bingo, you won. My analysis was directed to identifying exactly what you said: it is political to make money, not finding the best football team.
Silly excuse. One thing is for sure, they’re actually going to have to work for it this year. No gimme games like the previous 3.
The Horny Toads won. Did not even know there was a game. Woke up this morning to -18 temperatures. Went to wash clothes, the washing machine discharge water tube frozen, spent a good part of the morning putting a heat tape on the pvc pipe in the basement. Mopped up the floor. Had to go outside and place a exterior 2 X4 sheet of plywood alongside the wall, than pile snow against the area.
It is great the Horny Toads beat the Ole Miss Rebs, probably took some of the stuffing out of Ole Miss whom thinks it is a southern powerhouse team.
They have 40 post season bowl games. They just don’t need 80 teams going to bowl games. Replace some of those bowls with playoff games.
If TCU had beaten Baylor they'd be the number 1 team in the country.
Have to agree. They are national championship calibre. I watched the game against Old Miss and it was no where near as close as the score.
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