Posted on 01/02/2018 3:48:16 AM PST by C19fan
The chant boomed out early in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, and then again late, and a third time even later for good measure. And although it’s enough to trigger a collective gag reflex in 39 states plus several U.S. territories, it’s a fact-based champion’s chant. “S-E-C! S-E-C!” the Alabama fans thundered, when the final score of the Rose Bowl was announced and league brethren Georgia had advanced to the College Football Playoff title game.
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When the committee leaves out the best conference Big10 and leaves out the only undefeated team in the nation so they can have two sec teams in it... What do you expect.
It’s just like how Hillary beat Bernie.
They need to go to an eight team playoff.
Remember that E$PN is paying the $EC $2.25 Billion over 10-years for their broadcasting rights. Is anyone really surprised at this outcome? Two $EC teams for the national title?
Make the Conference Championship Game winners automatically qualify, and there’s your ten-team playoff right there. Then add one more game between the two best at-large teams, and there you have it.
Give the top two seeds a first-round bye. Have the First Round games the week before New Years’, with the other three conference champions, plus the winner of the At-Large Game, from the week before that.
I would stipulate that if a Non Power Five conference team is in the Top 16, they automatically qualify for the At-Large game, which gives a team like UCF a chance.
I’m happy to have SEC x2 since it means one D*bo Swinney won’t be doing the “aw shucks, it’s really just about me” routine for the next week, and can just fade away until next season.
I use the “*” in his name to stay legal, he has his name trademarked. Look it up.
FYI, Nick Saban, Kirby Smart, or even Vince Lombardi don’t have their names trademarked.
This is exactly why no team that couldn’t win its own conference should be in the playoff. There is simply no way in a four team playoff to balance strength of schedule over the regular season. This year, for example, the Big Ten was arguably the strongest conference. The bowl results certainly suggest that. Yes, Alabama and Georgia are both good teams, but they played through what was, this year, a lesser league, and their regular season records and lofty poll rankings reflect that. What is needed is an eight team playoff, with NO conference also-rans. Champions only.
GO Securities and Exchange Commission GO!!
That what those in the southeastern conference say!
2 years ago, UCF was 0-12. Last year the ‘committee’ leap frogged Ohio over its conference champion. This year, Iowa State beat Ohio by more than 30 points and the Bucks ended up with what, 3 losses?
We can play these stupid games all day long. Until they have at least an 8 team playoff with focus on conference champions, you will still be drinking your beer because it will never go empty for all of the stupid equivalency tears you will continue to display.
ITS A FRIGGING GAME! FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!
Whoops forgot, you already are. But then again, your liberal inner self is starting to show, just like your slip.
It's not about who the best might be. It's about who delivers the largest TV audience. With ESPN cutting the checks, they get the final say over who's in and who isn't.
Undefeated Central Florida us the national champion
Another season where the playoffs & championship can be safely written off.
I did not watch either game. No interest. I loved this bowl season but by last night had had enough.
The better story is that the Big10 is back, 7-1 in its games. The two surprises in this narrative are Northwestern and Michigan State, the former perennially competitive notwithstanding its many competitive hurdles and the latter a perennial conference contender even though MSU has not historically been a football school. Its coach, Dantonio, is that good and looks to be around for awhile. This bowl season helps to cement these two teams.
Ohio State under Meyer is unbelievable, but as important are great programs at Wisconsin and Penn State. Penn State is back with great performances and top 10 recruiting classes. (By the way, will the NCAA ever give an accounting of the $60 M-I-L-L-I-O-N extorted from the taxpayers of that great state???) Michigan is back, as well, notwithstanding Harbaugh’s problems at the quarterback position. That program is a force going forward, too. Even the bottom teams are putting much more money into their programs and getting better, and the new economics are such that these universities will continue to invest. The Big10, in short, is competitive to an extent not seen in 25 years; and it’s bigger and spanning a much larger stretch of the US.
The four-team playoff looks rigged and works poorly, always putting the Big10 (usually OSU) at the center of a controversy that will play out the same every year without fail. In last night’s games the only metro areas with any stake in the outcome were the 9th-largest Atlanta and the 41st-largest OKC. We keep hearing and reading from the ESPN guys and gals that SEC fans, teams, poop, etc is so much better than the rest of the country. Whether that is true or not, the rest of the country is stepping up in ways that the SEC is not; and outside of AL and GA the SEC looked horrid in these bowls.
Last night’s games are simply one example — just mapping those four schools should have been enough for the selection committee to see the problem. Who outside of a small, mostly small-market area of the country would have any incentive to tune in for those games?
One poster’s remark about ESPN getting $2.3 billion from the SEC is spot on. The conflict of interest is stunning.
Meanwhile, the Big10 has put together a very, very powerful conference covering a huge portion of the country’s population centers. The Big10 should join with the Pac12 to focus on conference championships and standings. Tell the NCAA that conference comes first, and that the navel-gazing selection committee can make their jobs and the process straightforward by taking the conference champions or not; but if not, there will be repercussions short and long term.
Whether there are four teams or eight teams or 250 teams in a football playoff, the root cause of rot in college football is the hyper corrupt and dysfunctional NCAA and its butt boys at ESPN. The Big10/Pac12 university presidents and athletic directors need to get off of their keesters and wield some of the great power that they have been amassing through their recent restructurings.
For now that is.
With all the recent layoffs and other problems troubling ESPN, for how long it will continue to dominate.
The only alternative would be do what they do for March Madness, a bracket system.
Who cares about the ESPN Fake Championship.
Lot of whining going on in here...
The SEC is so terrible this year that they only have two teams in the National Championship Game.
My surprise was Clemson only being able to put up 6 points on Alabama’s badly depleted defense. Bama had a lot of injuries to their LBs this year. But, the DL played very well, especially the big #9 dude. Bama’s O played just well enough. GA and Bama should be decent.
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