Posted on 12/09/2017 8:18:24 PM PST by blam
The College Football Playoff field is set and there was one controversial decision — the committee took Alabama over Ohio State.
While our projection had Alabama in as the fourth team rather easily, many felt that Ohio State had he stronger resume based on bigger wins and the sometimes important conference championship. Playoff committee chairman Kirby Hocutt made it sound like the decision wasn't that hard, calling the Buckeyes' 31-point loss to unranked Iowa "damaging" and noting that the committee felt Alabama was "clearly the No. 4 team in the country.".
The decision was also controversial because it means this year's playoff will have no teams from the Big Ten and the Pac-12. Instead, it will have two teams from the SEC, including one team that did not reach their conference championship game.
Of course, all of that would easily be fixed if the NCAA would just move to the one thing most fans want — an 8-team playoff.
Here is what the 8-team playoff would look like this season based on the final rankings. The champions of the Power 5 conferences received automatic bids, and then we gave the final three spots to the highest ranked team from a Group of 5 conferences and two at-large teams.
8-team College Football Playoff ESPN; Business Insider
An 8-team playoff solves two of the biggest gripes against the current system: 1) winning a Power 5 conference would mean something more than just a tiebreaker between otherwise even teams; and 2) it would give a team like undefeated UCF a chance to prove they can play with the big schools.
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Am I really supposed to believe this will stop at 8 teams?
We Clemson fans don’t have a problem with it.
I propose 5+1.
5 Conference Champions.
Play In between the best Power 5 at-large vs the best non-Power 5 team.
Top two seeds get a bye.
So you’d have: Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State, Oklahoma, USC, and the winner of Alabama-UCF.
I like the idea of a bye so it provides incentive for teams to win even if winning their conference is a foregone conclusion.
Why is there a college football champion?
Drop that. “Problem” solved.
What I also like is now a team that doesn’t play in a Conference Championship game, has to play an extra game to make the tournament.
I would prefer to see a system where we have 16 conferences each with 12-14 teams in two divisions per conference. The 16 champs then fight it out. Four extra games (at most) for only two teams.
Teams play to many games now? Cut out one preseason game, or shorten the conference season by one game.
no, then there will be arguments about the last 3 spots
If you made conference champs automatically qualify, in essence that makes it at least a 10-Team playoff, with the conference championship games essentially a playoff.
Probably not. FCS started with 4 teams also. It now has 24.
There is no need for expansion.
Ohio State had two losses, Alabama one.
Ohio State is out.
Simple, just and the reality.
SEC Rules!!
Big10 Stinks!
Exactly. I do not see a down side to increasing the importance of winning a conference title.
The system described would have at least (16 x 12) = 192 teams eligible to be the National champion
16.
That UCF team is better than #8. I bet under the old BCS system they’d be ranked several spots higher.
>>Ohio State had two losses, Alabama one.
UCF had ZERO! Why aren’t they in?
My system would too, with a minimum of games. The best Non-Power 5 team automatically qualifies, although I would stipulate they would have to be ranked in the top 16, or else it would be the two best Power 5 at-large teams playing each other in the Play-In.
Minimum playoff will be 16 teams. I think this is the last year for this political ruination of the college championship. We dont need men to tell us who they THINK is champion and pee on the rest of the teams. We can tell who the best team is by the score of the final game. Can you imagine the excitement as the playoffs move through these dead television week ends.? We need to demand an end to the oligarchy. It will make alot more money for the schools.
“if you can’t win your conference you do not belong in the playoffs.”
What famous coach said that? Nick Saban. But it wasn’t this season.
FYI, there are no preseason games in college football.
The system I described would require some major realignments (which would make it an impossibility).
Oops. You are right. I meant non-conference games. Sorry.
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