Posted on 12/03/2017 9:35:22 AM PST by blam
This announcement is being made from a TV broadcast. This is from the National Football Selection Committee.
Alabama has been chosen as the 4th team to participate in the 2017 college football playoff.
More to follow as soon as it hits the press.
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Strongly agree that eight teams would be a better format and allow for more conferences to participate. I was hoping to see Clemson take on Wisconsin or Ohio State. Had Alabama not gotten in, Alabama vs. Wisconsin was my hope for a dream game.
Three rounds. Eight teams. The current system doesn't go deep enough into the available best teams, as last year's picks and this year's show.
That is an excellent outline.
No. My key word is subjective. When a sport does not have specific criteria for championship eligibility, that’s a bad thing. No other major sport, college or pro, has this problem. College football is the major team sport equivalent of gymnastics and figure skating and other sports that rely on “judges scoring”.
In both the AP and College Football coaches’ poll, Alabama ranks ahead of OSU ... JUST BARELY in both polls:
http://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings
Clemson, I suspect, would have been a 4 or 5 point favorite versus OSU and will be something close to even money v. Alabama; and maybe even a slight underdog if Alabama can get healthier.
I don’t quarrel with the committee’s conclusion that Alabama has a better shot at winning the national championship than Ohio State. Mad respect for Alabama.
I just don’t think that this is the right metric or methodology, and I think it all does great violence to the conference structure. I value conferences highly and I think University Presidents and boards of trustees should make those conferences paramount.
So here’s how it should work.
The Play-In Game takes place, two weeks from the Conference Championship Games, to be played at the home stadium of the higher seed.
UCF would travel to Tuscaloosa to play Alabama. In a way this is justice, because Alabama didn’t have to play a Conference Championship game, so at least it forces them to play that additional game, just to get into the tournament.
Then after that Play-In, the seeds are determined.
Based on getting blow out in the playofff, not really.
The poll based system is a fraud.
In the past 50 years, only about half the time has the champion been the best team. If that.
Go to a conference champion system with no wild card teams. Maybe people like me will start watching again.
The TV ratings haven’t nearly as good as they could have been so you think they would be interested in change.
Which means nothing in a game where your top performers are mostly juniors and seniors, and turnover in those ranks is 50%+.
Or even 6 teams, with the top 2 getting a bye week.
With an eight team playoff, you wouldn’t need a play-in. With eight teams it’d be reasonable to set aside a slot for a top non-Power 5 team. It’d also help if the best non-Power 5 teams at least scheduled a mid-level team from a Power 5 conference.
5 Conference Champions + an at-large determined by a play-in between the two best at-large teams. I think that would solve everything, and keep the number of games at a minimum.
Did you forget that Auburn beat two Number 1 teams in a row and those two teams are now ranked above them?
Alabama vs. Ohio State; I would of just put UCF at #4 and say come at me.
Just heard Saban say that Alabama will be mostly healthy....most or all of the injured defensive (line-backers) players will back...Hootie Jones and Hamilton will still be out though.
I was just pointing out Alabama’s recent wins and losses to Clemson.
We need to get this based on merit, and not on the choices of some Star Chamber deliberations. The margin of error is too large for anyone to take a 4 team playoff seriously. [Clearly demonstrated by how far Auburn slid in just one game...] A better solution in the current year would be for neither OSU nor Alabama to participate. Both have embarrassing losses in their seasons, and there is no good argument for one over the other. Obviously we need 4 teams and can't do that. In an eight team field, such a glaring deficiency would be less of a problem since both teams would go.
No, nor did I forget they lost two games before that.
And Alabama beat FSU, who beat Syracuse, who beat Clemson.
That was something. I was expecting Auburn to win yesterday.
They’re never going to get it. When their championship game gets relegated to a minor network when the rest of the country begins tuning out, maybe then they’ll notice.
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