Posted on 12/02/2014 4:10:37 PM PST by re_nortex
The CFB rankings are out and TCU is #3. Surprising. They jumped Florida State. Alabama remains #1, then Oregon followed by TCU and FSU.
Go Frogs!
Wasn't that the same Florida team that BLEW Georgia off of the field just a few weeks earlier? Or are you implying that Florida actually fields an intramural girls team to compete in the SEC? So FSU shuts Florida down and it is a, 'low showing'? I guess that you can phrase it anyway that you want to...
The Big 12 conference powers-that-be are so chicken-ess. They announce on Monday that if Baylor and TCU end up with the same record, they’ll be “co-champions.” When everyone - at least everyone in a real conference - knows that when there’s a 2-way tie and a head-to-head result to look to, the outcome on the field determines the champion. All of this was to make sure that the selection committee doesn’t lose face - and, at the same time, exclude the Big 12 - if they want to take TCU instead of Baylor. This system is no better than what existed last year.
Let me throw this out there...The committee really loves Oregon...it may be their mission at this time to eliminate any teams that could beat Oregon and diminish Marizona’s Heisman award...
Get rid of this selection committee altogether and include conference champs and the 8 highest rated AP teams that are not conference champions. Done.
Oregon loses to Arizona for the 2nd time this season on Saturday. My inner Joe Namath tells me so!
Would not be surprised...Some teams just have another team’s number...
A veering way off topic on a tagent with the mention of Broadway Joe and into a ditch, how about Rex Ryan's postgame conference last night? I think of the explosive Dennis Green's famous "they are who we thought they!" rant after his Cards lost to the Bears. This was the opposite. He was a very somber man.
Rex is done, his GM sabotaged him from day one. But I think Rex got the last laugh last night. The GM forced him to start Geno Smith over Mike Vick so he could further evaluate Smith. What there is left to evaluate I have no idea. So Rex starts Geno but only calls 13 pass plays the entire game. I think that was Rex sticking his finger in the GM’s eye.
I actually prefer the 4 team playoff versus eight. It makes the entire season important for every team. Every weekend this fall has been packed with do or die games. Seasons are constantly on the line. With 8 teams, The importance of most regular-season games would be much less because two or three losses wouldn’t affect qualification for the postseason.
I can’t think of a year ever where there were more than two or maybe three teams with a legitimate argument to be national champion, even before the BCS. Most years maybe two teams have a legitimate argument. The four team playoff has maintained the value of the full season and will finally sort out the best team. The BCS still left out some teams who had a legitimate argument to be number one or two. No fifth-ranked team has ever been in the same league as the top one or two.
That said, this committee voting is goofy and I need to go back to the computer is ranking like the BCS had. This week two-week process as the potential to ruin what should be a good thing.
And for all the thrills of March Madness, which I follow avidly, I have no clue at all about what teams are doing well in college hoops. The regular season is largely irrelevant, at least to me. And I don't even start to pay attention until the terms are winnowed down to the Sweet 16.
I agree with your evaluation. Four teams is just fine. Every game has been compelling this year for the potential contenders.
“First and foremost, should be a team’s won/loss record, followed by strength of schedule”
Marshall anyone? Oh, that’s right they were undefeated. Up until...Western Kentucky lit them up for 67 points. Or was it 68? If they had played an actual decent team that day that team would have scored 100.
I’m fine with it.
BTW. I’m a huge Bama fan. If they don’t beat Missouri then they don’t deserve a playoff spot. Things generally work out. Shoot. One bad game by Missouri(Indiana) and they’d be right in the thick of the playoff. But that’s what’s so tough about College Football as opposed to the NFL. 9-6 gets you in the playoffs in NFL. 8-3 gets you nothing in College. And that’s the way it should be. And that’s why I love College ball. Every game counts.
Of course hopefully if Ohio State and Florida State both lose, that would get both Baylor and TCU in, I would love that.
How funny it would be if the first Championship game would be TCU and Baylor in Dallas.
I agree. Who really cares about college basketball until the tournament?
Oregon had two non-scholarship players starting on the offensive line in the first game with Arizona.
Oregon will beat Arizona by at least three touchdowns this week.
Have you thought seriously about how the teams and fans would handle a sixteen team playoff? Two weeks from the first game, you’ll know who is playing who and where. You can make arrangements. But what happens then?
You won’t know who is playing who or where or when until the games are played. Then, you’ve got to make arrangements to move teams to the new locations. The fans can’t make reservations either until the games are played.
Same thing next weekend. The logistics are horrendous.
I know you think every team should have a chance but practically the conference champions not from the big five have very little chance of winning even their first game. BTW, two of three giant killers no longer play in those minor conferences having moved on to the big five.
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