JohnC,
Thanks for responding. It is growing increasingly evident that the CFP is ruining college football. Alabama has a great football team even without TT — and I “hate” Alabama and the whole SEC. It should not be the case that one close loss against another top 5 team ends their season — no playoff and no playing for the conference championship.
But more to the point, the playoff is the ruin of conferences more generally. And if I were the conference commissioners of the Big10 and Pac12, I would be talking very seriously about going back to the old Rose Bowl arrangement to pit the two conference champions, and to heck with the CFP. More specifically, I would invite into the Big10 these teams: either Miami or FL (not both), GA Tech, Pitt and one other eastern large market team (Boston College?); and into the PAC12 I would invite: Texas, A&M, Baylor, and Houston. The two conferences would then command >40 of the top 50 metropolitan markets in the country — not just for football of course but across the board. What markets would the SEC have? OKC?
I guess my point is that this CFP nonsense can go on only so long before common sense prevails. ESPN makes an obscene amount of money off of their relationship with the SEC and so of course they over-hype the SEC. Why does everyone else put up with this foolishness, which isn’t even good for the SEC?????
The CFP would work perfectly fine if it expanded to 8 teams and had specified criteria for qualification. Any sport that uses an “eye-test” as qualification is a corrupt sport. No different from figure skating. Normally I wouldn’t care, but for the most part these are taxpayer funded institutions and I don’t like the idea of potential revenue being dictated by an “eye test”.
Yep.
The committee being in absolute love with Auburn is case in point. Auburn is going to have 4 losses soon and they probably won’t fall out of the top 15... since they beat Oregon the first week of the season in the final seconds a game that they trailed the whole time. It’s the committee’s circular logic way of keeping their top teams near the top. Georgia has far and away the most horrific loss of any top 10 team and they have never been penalized for it. Not to mention they struggle to move the ball, had a hard time putting a 1 dimension Auburn away, at home, and seem to be regressing offensively.
Wrcase, this so much. Figure skating hahahaha.
“The CFP would work perfectly fine if it expanded to 8 teams and had specified criteria for qualification. Any sport that uses an “eye-test” as qualification is a corrupt sport. No different from figure skating. Normally I wouldn’t care, but for the most part these are taxpayer funded institutions and I don’t like the idea of potential revenue being dictated by an “eye test”.”