Posted on 01/12/2015 9:32:02 PM PST by mmichaels1970
Ohio State won as the #4 seed in a four-team playoff. Who's to say that the #5 team wouldn't have beaten them?
And that, folks, is the flaw in any college football playoff system. No matter how hard you try, you're never going to cover all the bases in a sport like football where it is impossible to compare teams across conferences because the season has so few games.
O-H because I-O too - a LOT!
A, Oh, ah way to go...
Another excellent player coached by Ted Ginn Sr and from the Glenville HS team. It's a small public high school in one of the most challenged neighborhoods of Cleveland's east side....there's the legacy!
WHAT?!? Who could really hate some beaver?
Except maybe the Robertson's if they're messing with their duck hunting.
OH MY!!!
There ... I fixed it.
I may be a Michigander, which seems by it’s spelling to be from the duck family, bit I firmly support any Big Ten team to beat any other team. Go Bucks!! (A buckeye is no longer a worthless nut from Ohio.......at least for a few more months).
Hey, no shame for the Ducks. Over 300 teams play at the Division I level and the Ducks were right there at the end, which is something those other 300 teams can’t say. They just got beat by a team that picked up steam in the late season and came on like a freight train. So, respect your opponent, and be friends after the game.
Without the playoffs, I doubt either the Ducks or the Bucks would have been in the pollsters ‘national championship’.
This also argues for opening that playoff to 8 teams.
My personal preference would be that the 8 teams be the top 8 football conference champions. That way, the playoffs to those top 8 teams would be their league play and playoff game.
This will restore the value of conference play; it will resolve the issue of letting more than one team from the same conference into the tournament, and it will open up the lesser bowls to deciding who should be the final poll top 25 teams.
I think that will happen in the next few years. The five major conference champions plus three at-large teams. Go Buckeyes!
Hey, just because we have beaten you 11 times straight doesn’t mean you have to hate.
Go Ducks
HOKIES!!!!
America is too big to have only 5 football conferences.
Consider that the major conferences are slowly expanding into 16-team mega-conferences. That means those 5 conferences will eventually cover 80 of the 107* Division 1-A (FBS) teams anyway.
Add a sixth and some 90% of FBS teams would be in a mega-conference.
* That may be an outdated stat, but it's got to at least be close.
Yes. Ted Ginn Sr. is one of those remarkable coaches who has made great sacrifices for his kids. Discipline and early morning practices is the norm for him. His program has also produced his son, Ted Ginn Jr. and Heisman winner Troy Smith. I heard a great radio interview with him after the Big 10 championship game. The host was interviewing Cardale when he mentioned that “Coach” was there with him and had been visiting with him all day. He put Ginn on the phone and he sounded like a father in speaking about Cardale - classy man.
I'm always cyber screaming (and being put down for it here) about how much better it would be to go back to neighborhood schools and holding those neighborhoods accountable. Anybody disagrees with me again, I'm saying two words "Ted Ginn".
Even here in Cleveland, you don't hear much about the Glenville story. It just doesn't fit the narrative of all the current, and so very wrong, public school initiatives.
I looked it up. It’s 128 teams with one scheduled to go FBS next year for 129.
5 Conferences: SEC, ACC, Big10, Big12, Pac10 account for 65, I think when you add Notre Dame as an independent
SEC 14
Big 10 14
ACC 14
Big 12 = 10
Pac 12 = 12
ND = 1
Just include all 129 and their conferences WHEN their conference is entirely 1A FBS.
Of course they said that about the 1968 national champion Buckeyes. Rex Kern and all of the super sophs were all but guaranteed two more undefeated seasons and championships because of the returning talent. Did not happen thanks to TSUN in 1969 then Jim Plunkett and Stanford the following year. That said : OH !
Ross County ping?
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