Posted on 12/03/2023 5:20:01 AM PST by C19fan
The Nightmare in Grapevine is upon us.
What is often a formality — making four obvious choices for the four-team College Football Playoff — is anything but for the committee this year.
The 13-member group, huddled in a hotel in Grapevine, Texas, will have to make the most consequential and controversial decision in its 10-year existence — and in the final season before the playoff expands to 12 teams. Their decision will be revealed at noon Sunday on ESPN.
Big Ten champion Michigan (13-0) and Pac-12 champion Washington (13-0) are assumed to be safely in. They’ll almost assuredly be the No. 1 and 2 seeds, respectively.
After that, there are three teams for two spots and there is no obvious answer.
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Assuming that conference championship games mean something the only 2 that had the best teams in game were the PAC and SEC, the winners of those games need to be in. Top 10 teams played, the other conferences had “also rans”.
That said GA should play TX and Ohio State play Ole Miss on New Years.
The 1st year, Ohio State was #4 with a 3rd Sting QB and won it all.
RTR
1 through 4 get byes. 5 vs 12, 6 vs. 11, 7 vs 10 and 8 vs 9 in first round.
I agree. Would the Committee really want to put a toothless fsu in the playoff now that their QB broke his leg? Also, fsu played a particularly weak schedule with their biggest win being over #13 LSU.
Its true that Alabama barely escaped and extremely mediocre Auburn team.
Then again Washington had six one score wins several of them against mediocre opponents.
Texas also had multiple one score wins against mediocre opponents.
If undefeated is all that matters, why isn’t Liberty in the playoff? Strength of schedule and quality wins have to matter.
I can’t stand FSU but to keep an undefeated ACC champion out of the playoff would be a travesty.
The easiest way to reduce some of the contention around the four-team playoff format is to introduce a simple rule: Any team that loses its conference championship game is ineligible for the playoff. In effect, the conference championship game becomes a “preliminary round” among the playoff contenders.
SEC deserves to be left out this year.
7-9 versus other P5 teams.
FSU beat LSU and Florida from the SEC
Texas went to Tuscaloosa and beat ‘Bama by 10.
SEC playing only 8 conference games when everybody else plays 9 should weigh into the equation. By rights 1/2 their teams should have another conference loss.
UGA best win this year was mediocre Missouri.
Every year should be weighed on its own merits. TCU was in the championship game last year. This year they are not going to a bowl game.
They should. In a REAL playoff for a REAL national championship, ALL conference champs would get an automatic bid (just like the NCAA basketball tournament). If we have to go to 16 teams, so be it, but all conference champs should be in. If a team like Liberty is not at an elite level (and for the record I think they probably are not), we would find out soon enough — on the field instead of in a hotel conference room. That’s the way is should be.
Consider this - there is only one sports competition in the entire world where there are teams who are eliminated from championship contention even before the season starts. Even winning every game on their schedule would not allow certain teams to be champions. That sport is the BCS division of NCAA football.
Spare me the crap about bad conferences and the like. It is about finding the best TEAM. The best team could be a member of the worst conference. The winner of the best conference is not necessarily the best team either. To those who say that a minor conference team could never win, I suppose UNLV never won any basketball national championships back in the 80s? I suppose Gonzaga does not deserve to get a shot now? Butler never made it to the title game?
Let’s quit the crap - either give everyone a shot at winning it on the field or break up the BCS division into the teams we want to give a chance to and those who are just there as schedule fillers and patsies for the big boys. Quit pretending that Liberty and Michigan are in the same division unless we want to actually make that true.
Better check your data. Oklahoma was not “mediocre”, and ended a solid 12 on Strength of Record. That said, Alabama does rate 4 and Texas 5. https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi/_/view/resume
When will the Final CFP results be announced today?
It’s really not that difficult.
An unbeaten Power 5 team is in, that’s Michigan, Washington and Florida State.
As for the fourth team, it’s Alabama, Texas or Georgia.
Georgia is eliminated by virtue of not winning their Conference.
And Texas beat Alabama. So it’s Texas.
Texas beat Alabama. So it’s Texas.
Texas University LOST to Oklahoma State, they should be sitting outside looking in.
TU lost to Oklahoma.
With the regular season finished, Texas can now be considered an SEC team. They lost to OU on the final drive and had close games only when the QB was out or just returned. They finished strong. They look more worthy than Oklahoma did in years they were the #4 CFP team.
Texas lost to Oklahoma.
It’s a no-brainer that Texas should be in.
Besides, if they don’t for Texas, they’ll never get out of Grapevine alive. ;)
As an SEC homer, I agree. It wasn’t as good as year. When Missouri wins 10 games, you know the SEC had a down year.
They should have had the option of having one or two play-in games if necessary, like this year. Conference championship should have been considered CFP preliminaries, with losers eliminated. The future 12-team format is too many games, and reduces the interest/value/need of conference championships.
I always felt that a six-team playoff was the perfect size.
Top Two teams get byes, while the other four play in the First Round.
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