Posted on 12/31/2014 3:57:28 PM PST by bestintxas
The team TCU played today beat the best in the SEC?? Gained over 400 yards against the best scoring defense in SEC?
Allowed only 3 points even after coughing up 4 turnovers?
What a joke the SEC is.
TCU lost as a visitor in overtime to the #5 ranked team in the country.
Looks like politics is taking over in the sporting world as there is no way TCU should not be in the championship hunt.
Southern Methodist didn’t get in?
Four conferences of sixteen teams. Each conference championship game is the first round. The four winners advance. Great Idea.
“If TCU had beaten Baylor they’d be the number 1 team in the country. “
And if a frog has wings it wouldn’t bump its butt when it jumped. Hellooooo Captain Obvious
Your first paragraph is the long version of what I’ve been posting on a couple of sports boards. My posts have been that it’s about $$$$ and eyeballs. Of course, eyeballs = $$$ so I’m saying the same thing twice for emphasis. TPTB showed the failing of the system with that next to last week rating that had TCU @ 3d and TCU won the next week, yet dropped out of the playoffs.
It’s unfortunate that your second paragraph even has to be written but I don’t disagree with any of it. The TeaSips at UT have queered the whole deal, turning everything they touch into liquid manure.
ESPN’s checkbook has ruined college football. It will take a few more years for the crash of major college athletics to become evident to all. But it has already happened.
Don’t get ESPN. Missing all the bowl games on ESPN and cable/satellite. Don’t care much. No big deal in this household now. Saw several truly great football games this year on over-the-air TV. All is well.
Seems like you should be enjoying the win and looking forward to 9 offensive starters returning next year, come becoming a playoff committee truther.
Ah, yet another one who does not understand Alabama football, the state of Alabama football.
Sat, Oct 11 Baylor L 61-58
The best in the SEC? I don’t think so as Ole Miss is not Alabama, and TCU is not Ohio State. So you beat the 3rd best in the SEC West.
16 team playoff starting 2nd week in December culminating 1st week of January means basically filling the 3 semi-dead weeks we have now from army/navy (basically the only games that week are conference championships and A/N) till the new year. 16 teams allows for every Div I conference champion + a few additional and only adds 4 games at most (then only to the 2 in the championship) - which can be compensated for by limiting the number of pre-conference games at the beginning of the season - or just make more revenue - which is what the really want. Makes it more like basketball with a chance for cinderellas and upsets. Gives you a much better chance of getting a true championship without grumbling and ... makes winning the conference more important and therefore every game during the season becomes more important.
Let’s get rid of the playoffs and go back to the old way in which coaches, sports writers, mathematical modelers, etc. chose the national champion. Let the various bowls continue their own unique traditions instead of acting as mere playoffs. And let’s end the college football season on New Years Day.
I know, I’m in the minority, but that’s the way I feel.
Ole Miss is not Alabama...and...TCU shines, compared to Ohio State.
Looking forward to the ‘Bama vs Ohio State, um...., play off.
Roll Tide.
I think the better solution is to get it down to four mega-conferences, each with divisions of 7 or 9 teams, so that each team plays an even number of road and home games within the division. I would even redo the divisions each season to try to get each division as evenly weighed as possible in terms of difficulty.
Assume, say the new SEC expands to 21 teams to accommodate teams in the Big 12. You could take the 3 division winners, plus the best second place team, and play the conference semifinal games at the home stadium of the higher seeded team, followed by the usual conference championship game.
Of course one of the consequences is that pretty much the teams outside of the big Four, like the MAC, etc. would basically join the FCS, and leave about 80-90 teams in the FBS, divided between four conferences (SEC, Big Ten, Pac 12, ACC)
I’m an Ohio State fan and have said for many years that there should be a 16 team playoff just like D2 and D3 football. Shorten the regular season. Only one week to prepare for the playoff teams. Southern teams have to come north if they are a lower seed. First two rounds, higher seed is home team. Then normal bowl games become semi-finals like this year and then two weeks to prepare for finals. It is the only major sport in America where teams do not have to go through a playoff gauntlet to be called a champion. The SEC teams are always at an advantage because they play no one outside of their conference and never come north. At one point, both Ole Miss and Miss. State were in the top four - solely because they are in the SEC. A six week layoff to prepare for one game is not the way to determine a champion in any sport. That’s why it’s not done in any other sport. Match ups are huge as are long layoffs. TCU fans are understandably upset just as I would be if an early season loss with a new QB would have kept the Buckeyes out.
Oh I forgot they can run a NIT version in parallel for those who are from 17-32 so 25% of the college teams are in some sort of hunt. (I think there are about 120 Div I teams right?)
I’m fine with that - but your going to have some problems with older conferences with less weight not wanting to commit - so you’ll either need to rename the new conferences and just have 4 regions/quarters to make the divisions or you’ll need to accept the conferences as they are in Div I and allow each conf champion as they do in basketball....I think that’s easier to do.
I agree Yale/Harvard/Brown isn’t likely to win but their conference is Div I last I checked and they should get an entry ticket if they win the conference (which isn’t likely to go away).
Navy and Notre Dame are independents - how do you deal with them? Does Notre Dame never get consideration just due to not being in a conference? Do Navy and Notre Dames championships prior as independents no longer count since they weren’t in a conference?
They would join the ACC, most likely.
The Tide should roll for sure.
Thank you! I’ve been saying that for some time and few agree with that.
The TCU propaganda is silly. They still claim they are better than Baylor, except they LOST to Baylor. In the Texas Tech blowout, it came out that TCU was given all the playcalling signs by the recently fired Tech defensive coordinator.
They say that isn’t cheating, but why didn’t they just poison the Tech salad bar instead. TCU isn’t all that.
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