Posted on 11/11/2015 6:48:30 AM PST by C19fan
Top 10:
1: Clemson
2: 'Bama
3: THE Ohio State University
4: Notre Dame
5: Iowa
6: Baylor
7: Stanford
8: Oklahoma State
9: LSU
10: Utah
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Simply the best! Ever!
That game was a lot of fun, for the first several seconds of play, IIRC.
In the same vein, lets take a wild scenario in the Big Ten. If Ohio State beats MSU, Michigan wins next 2 AND beats Ohio State they go to the Big 10 Championship game. And if there they beat Iowa then now what are you going to do? Put a two loss team (granted one a last second fluke play) in the final 4? OR put NO big ten team in the final 4 at all?
Support Marxism.
Watch college football.
Hawkeyes are paper tigers. Coach Ferentz has been mediocre for years, and hasn’t suddenly gotten better. This Iowa season may end up being vacated by the NCAA. You heard it here first.
Also, some of the Bowl games as presently constituted would become meaningless, unless they were willing to change their game dates to host the first round.
NO way they could get everyone to agree to all of this first time out, so they went with the 4 team playoff...and hope that chaos ensues, and the demand for an 8 team format is so great they can force the needed changes to accommodate it..
“It needs to be an 8 team playoff;”
I would make it a 16 team, 4 round playoff like Div 1AA instead of just 4 or 8. I would give the power 5 conference champs automatic bids (SEC, BIG 10, BIG 12, ACC and PAC 12) and have 11 at large bids.
After the 16 teams are selected, they would be seeded 1-16 and all playoff games would be played at the home of the higher seeded team with the exception of the National Championship game, which would be played on a neutral field.
The top two seeds would have home field advantage until the title game. If one or both were to get upset at home prior to the semi-final round (3rd round), then the next higher seed in their side of the bracket would get the home field advantage till the title game.
I would start the playoff on the first Saturday in December. Then play the next round the following week to determine the 4 national semi final teams. After a bye week, the two national semi final games would be played with the 2 winners advancing to the title game to be played on a Monday night after New Years.
I would limit the number of regular season games to 11 with a 12th game only for conference title games. Also, major bowl games could still be played with the slots filled from the playoff losers.
This would ensure the championship would be determined on the field from as large a championship pool as possible. It would also allow top teams with one or even two losses to make the playoffs.
The SEC is challenging I agree but no more so than other conferences. Just as an example, one of the teams I follow is WVU in their last 3 games they faced the 1st, 2nd and 3rd rated offenses in the country, in Baylor, TCU and Texas Tech. This has to be some kind of record. This excludes their 2 prior games with OU and OSU, both very solid top 15 teams. The SEC does not have a monopoly on competition.
Because of the pink visiting team locker rooms? Black athletes complaining? It’s hurtful?
Another point...the best judge of talent is how many players get drafted by the NFL...and the SEC us way ahead of any other conference. That means that the overall level of play is higher in the SEC..especially the West.
That's why, with all due respect, your comment about WVU facing the top 3 offenses doesn't hold water. The big 12 backloaded their schedule. For the first half of the season, Baylor, and TCU didn't play a team with a winning record, they played bad teams, so how much offense they managed is meaningless.. It's called SOS..strength of schedule..you can't evaluate a team if they haven't played anybody.
But that's the beauty of college football..they decide it on the field..
But the two biggest mysteries this season, which I can not understand at all..how the heck did Ole Miss beat Bama, and above all, how the hell did Texas beat Oklahoma. If the Sooners had won that game, they'd be ranked in the top four right now..and if they run the table, they'd be the #1 seed in the playoffs.
But the current four team set-up will NEVER work because there will always be several other teams who can make a LEGITIMATE case that they should be included (like both Baylor and Oklahoma State can make this year).
LET’S GO HAWKS!
My Dad used to say that Notre Dame could put 11 paraplegic nuns on the field and some asshat would rank them in the top 10.
Good to see OK State moving up.
It is all about the money. Right now, the NCAA and the major conferences receive billions from the bowl games and don’t want to lose that money.
If the TV networks would offer more money to the NCAA for the TV rights to a 16 team national championship playoff than what the bowls currently pay, the NCAA would totally abandon the bowl system for a 16 team playoff and only use the bowls for post season exhibition type games for the playoff losers and those who didn’t make the playoffs.
Now they have Alabama and ND over several teams that are undefeated.
You’ve looked at Baylor’s and Iowa’s schedules to date right...?
The Bears play numbers 12, 8, and 15 in the next three weeks, two of them on the road...win out, and they will be in...
Amazing that people on Free Republic would support a government f’ing football team.... please before you start... If they pay for themselves and don’t cost tax payers anything then you are only arguing about the process and not the morality.
I guess if you thought that government healthcare paid for it’s self you would be fine with that too...
In the immortal words of Denethor... “Go now and die in what way seems best for you”
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