Posted on 10/27/2014 10:50:57 AM PDT by Sybeck1
For the first time in the 145 years of college football, a 12-member playoff selection committee has set to convene. It will spend Monday and Tuesday in the arduous seven-stage process of tabulating its inaugural weekly top 25, and it will release that list on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. ET. That will begin a much-anticipated process of seven weekly meetings in Grapevine, Texas, near the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The meetings will run Monday-Tuesday into early December, then the final announcement of the playoff field will come on Sunday, Dec. 7. That announcement will name the four teams which will comprise the sport’s first-ever playoff. Two of those teams will meet in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on Jan. 1, 2015, while the other two will meet in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., later that day. One game will involve the Nos. 1 and 4 seeds as the committee deems, with the other game pitting No. 2 against No. 3. The winners will meet in the national championship game on Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, at the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium in Arlington, Texas. The committee also will determine the participants in the second tier of bowls — the Cotton, Fiesta, Peach and Orange — which also will hold semifinals in ensuing years on a rotating basis. The committee includes five standing athletics directors — chairman Jeff Long of Arkansas, Barry Alvarez of Wisconsin, Pat Haden of Southern California, Oliver Luck of West Virginia and Dan Radakovich of Clemson — who will recuse themselves from votes that concern their own teams. It also includes the prominent former coaches Tom Osborne and Tyrone Willingham, as well as the Stanford professor, former Stanford provost and U.S. secretary of state, Condoleeza Rice.
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Since there has always been a Top 25 poll the committee is going to waste a lot of time filling out those last spots. They need only to worry about getting the Top 4, the top non-Power 5 team, and to fill who will go to the major non-playoff bowls. There was a story about the AR AD watching tape of some nondescript Big 10 = 12 game to help him figure out who will fill in say 15 - 25.
Fantasy Championship 2.0.
Let me guess 3 SEC and a token 4th conference.
Until they have a real championship it is a complete joke.
At least now there will be something consequential to watch on Jan. 1. Still don’t like the Monday evening championship game.
I doubt there will be two SEC. If Alabama beats Miss State that gives them both one loss and Alabama will have to play Georgia in the SEC Championship game, assuming they beat Auburn. Assume Alabama wins out. Does Miss State and Auburn still get in the top four? I don’t think so.
No matter who the committee selects there will still be outrage and cries of, “Throw the committee down the tubes!” from other universities so that the ‘playoff system’ will still be a joke.
Just Ducks. That is all.
SEC was laughed at last year. And Michigan State was probably the best or 2nd best team. But we won’t know because the SEC hype prevented them getting the proper recognition.
If two SEC teams don’t get in it’s a complete joke.
Well there will always be people arguing that they belonged in the 4th seed, but that’s not that strong of an argument. Really as long as they get the top 2 it helps a lot.
Haha. Yeah right. Last year the two best teams weren’t even in the SEC. The SEC hype is proven wrong. Of course ESPN won’t admit it because they make money on the SEC with their partnership.
The two best teams weren’t in the SEC last year? I seem to remember Auburn about :30 seconds from winning the whole thing.
SEC hype is proven wrong, other than winning that 7 of the last 8 national championships thing.
Heck, I an alum of a Big Ten school and you can just flip on the TV and quickly understand that the SEC is a better conference than all others.
Better conference doesn’t not equal best team. Just look at last year. No one wants to see 2 teams play each other three times in one year.
Who won again? And what conference were they from?
Nate Silver did some analysis of where NFL talent is coming from. The dominance of the SEC states is starling. Only Ohio and California come close to matching the SEC states. The days of players like Namath and Montana coming out of Western PA are gone. The new PSU coach understands this so he is trying hard to get PSU name recognition south of the Mason-Dixon line.
Florida State was from the ACC. Are you actually trying to argue that there is a stronger conference than the SEC this season?
I am in your club, especially after watching the OSU - PSU groaner this past Saturday. Hint for the Playoff committee: add a play in game for the 4th and 5th place teams in the SEC West. The winner plays SEC West #1 while SEC West #'s 2 and 3 square off, then the ensuing winners playing in the championship game. Seriously, college football is cyclical. The Big 14, Pac 12, ACC, and Big 12 will eventually have their day in the sun.
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