Posted on 12/08/2024 10:17:05 AM PST by C19fan
After four-plus months of on-field results and politicking by coaches, athletic directors and fans, the College Football Playoff selection committee announced Sunday the 12-team field.
The biggest question coming into Sunday was who would earn the final at-large spot between Alabama and SMU.
The committee put SMU (11-2) in the field one night after it lost 34-31 to Clemson on the last-second field goal in the ACC championship game. Alabama (9-3) is out after not making its conference title game.
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Top four conference champions with byes:
1: Oregon
2: Georgia
3: Boise State
4: Arizona State
First round games with better ranked team hosting:
Clemson @ Texas
SMU @ Penn State
Indiana @ Notre Dame
Tennessee @ THE Ohio State University
Indiana @ Notre Dame is a w8n/win for me, with game taking place 5 minutes from home.
Tennessee and Indiana are toast
Georgia didn’t make the cut after beating THE University of Texas twice? Or did that somehow work against them? 🙂
I guess it guarantees an Indiana team for the next round. But if it were split up, it might mean no teams, one team, or even two teams.
What am I even thinking? Of course Georgia is in! They’re in the top four!
If you want a sleeper team, go with Arizona State, they looked really good yesterday, and Cam Skattebo is fun to watch.
“After four-plus months of on-field results and politicking by coaches, athletic directors and fans, the College Football Playoff selection committee announced Sunday the 12-team field.”
It’s not a championship if a committee, influenced by politicking decides who is allowed to participate.
I don’t know what it is, but it’s not a championship.
College Football is now just minor league pro-ball. Only the rare few percentage of these players will know where the university library is or the school’s alma mater.
When you are talking 130+ teams in Division I, I don’t know of a better way to do it. It certainly is better than what we had before. And if you lose 2-3 games, you really don’t have anything to complain about if you don’t get in.
It’s flawed with fan support and tv revenue
Abolishing conference championships would help
But you’re back to the revenue those bring
I worked it out where you could have 11 Divisions consisting each of 10-12 teams, based more or less on geograhical location and traditional rivalries.
Each Division would be split into two-levels, with one team from the lower level playing in the upper-level, based on a playoff game from the previous season, so that you allow the smaller schools a chance.
Every team plays the other in their division, which avoids a situation where a team potentially avoids playing the tougher teams, which is a big problem with the current system.
So with 11 divisions, you take the 11 division winners, and put them in the Round of 16.
Then you take the 11 second place teams, and have them play each other to round out the other 5 teams.
You would have to have a play-in game between the two lowest-seeded second place teams, to get to the 5 First Round Games.
Typical. They punish teams severely for their losses but don’t reward them very much for their quality wins. Teams that have no quality wins - no wins against ranked opponents - like Indiana and SMU get in.
Every AD should take note of this and drop all of their tough out of conference games. Just feats on cupcakes and get easy wins. That’s what the committee values.
Let me tell you, with all the verve and vigor that college football demands, we find ourselves in a momentous era—a *Golden Age*, if you will. The rankings, the brackets, the drama—all of it, perfectly aligned to showcase the best of the best. And now, with the 12-team playoff system, the sport has reached an apex of fairness, opportunity, and excitement, providing every deserving team a shot at glory.
Enter the era of Name, Image, and Likeness—a seismic shift that allows these young athletes to reap the rewards of their talents and charisma off the field, while still thrilling us with their grit and determination on it.
Tradition meets innovation, competition meets capitalism, and the result is nothing short of magnificent. Truly, we are witnessing the evolution of a sport that remains as captivating as ever. This, my friends, is college football in all its glory!
>> It’s not a championship if a committee, influenced by politicking decides who is allowed to participate
“To break the tie, let’s count the number of players who knelt during the Star Spangled Banner...”
Read that 3 times and still can’t tell if it’s serious, or sarcasm! 🤣
Agreed. Overall I thought it was about right. Give some of these other schools to show if they can play with the big boys.
He reminded me of Charlie Tolar, way back 1959-60 for the George Blanda led Houston Oilers in the long pre-merger AFL. Tolar spent his offseasons capping oil well fires, I suppose for Red Adair. Curt Gowdy couldn’t stop mentioning that.
-and Cam Skattebo is fun to watch.-
He looked like a bowling ball yesterday. Amazing.
Penn State fans relieved they are playing SMU instead of Alabama, S. Car., Ol Miss, or Miami.
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