Posted on 12/01/2019 4:19:50 AM PST by C19fan
If you're going to let a 7-5 team compete for the national championship then how is this an improvement on the old way of determining a national champion? At least the college bowl games actually meant something under the old system.
Maybe Bama just needs to stop playing teams named “Tigers”
All three of Bama’s losses this calendar year: The Clemson Tigers, The LSU Tigers, and the Auburn Tigers.
You could make a qualification that for a conference champion to be automatic, they have to be above a certain ranking. Basically, a conference champion, not ranked in the Top 20 would not get in and would be replaced by an at-large team.
Top four teams doesn’t mean that the teams winning their conference are automatically in. Winning your conference should be the trump card when considering two semi-equal teams for a playoff spot. First trump card should be head to head, if they had played during the season. Second trump card is did they win their conference or not? Wisconsin having five losses would not be in the mix because there would be many teams with a much better won-loss record.
Every other sport lets teams with unimpressive records in the playoffs if they qualify. That’s because every other sport uses specific criteria for qualification. If a middle of the road team gets in they shrug their shoulders and let it play out. College football has to get over their obsession with “are they the best teams?” and just have an 8 game playoff and whoever wins it, wins it.
Debatable. Who gets in if Clemson lose?
Your probably going to say that Clemson cannot lose.
Alberta’s Child wrote: “If you’re going to let a 7-5 team compete for the national championship then how is this an improvement on the old way of determining a national champion? At least the college bowl games actually meant something under the old system.”
Because even if a 7-5 team gets in, it still allows for a national champion to be determined on the field.
My preferred system would be based upon four power conferences. The conference championship games would be the round of eight. Winners advance to what we now call the CFP. A 7-5 team could get into the round of eight. If they win, then the only fair thing would be to allow them to advance. After all, to win their conference championship they would have had to beat a team with probably better record.
As long as we have five power conferences then, my preferred system would be to take the four best rated (don’t really care which poll) for the championship series. Yes, you must win the conference championship to be considered but it’s very doubtful a 7-5 team would pass that test.
Utah getting in would be interesting if nothing else.
Another classic:
SEC Shorts - Alabama learns he’s been kicked out of the Playoff Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js9kBy8F7rg
The assumption is that they would have replaced Georgia, if they lost to LSU in the SECCG.
I dunno... Lifting your leg like a dog in the end zone is right up there.
Your post is very interesting to me, a Memphis Tiger alum. It has been floated that my Tigers might face Bama in the Cotton Bowl.
We’ve got (almost) nothing to lose - If Bama beats us, so what? If we beat Bama, BIG DEAL. If they kill us, it would be bad, though...
GO TIGERS!!!!!
I’m hearing the Gators may play Memphis in the Cotton Bowl.
And no, I have not forgotten 1988!!!!
Either way, the Tigers will get some well-deserved recognition. Coach Norvell has really turned our program around.
In addition to 1988 and the Gators, the upset we remember is beating Payton Manning and the Vols in 1996...
The best part? Our guys are getting good enough that if we beat a big team it might not be considered “an upset”. We’ve actually got a real team now.
Good luck going bowling! (Unless you play us...)
Outside of Georgia Southern, that was the worst loss I remember.
We had beaten LSU the week before, and were unbeaten, after that game, they pretty much tanked the rest of the season.
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