Posted on 12/02/2018 5:02:01 PM PST by C19fan
Why the College Football Playoff selection committee got it wrong Pat Forde,Yahoo Sports 5 hours ago
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In the end, a committee of the establishment, by the establishment and for the establishment arrived at the safe and predictable decision establishmentarians tend to make. Alabama, Clemson and Notre Dame were easy calls. Then it got hard. And when it got hard, the College Football Playoff selection committee chose 12-1 Oklahoma for its fourth and final spot, over 11-2 Georgia. It was the far less controversial choice, for the following reasons: * It allowed a third Power Five conference room at the feed trough, as opposed to keeping the majority of the five out.
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I’ve got no beef. Either Oklahoma or Ohio State is fine with me. But I don’t think anyone is going to beat Alabama.
“Our service academies may win every year.”
Only in years where they don’t get caught cheating.
The ‘who cares’ poster is a frequent, if unfortunate, sight on the internet.
The ‘who cares’ poster fancies himself too smart, too aloof, too cerebral for the mundane and trivial (as he views them). ‘Who cares’ is the rhetorical preemptive putdown of anyone else taking an interest.
‘Who cares’ is a readily-identifiable attempt to conjure self-esteem from a widely-read article about a widely-viewed event eg a football game.
The ‘who cares’ poster wants us to think that he is above such lowbrow subjects but cannot resist commenting on same thus nullifying his air of superior disdain.
Wholesale conference realignments... what, eight conferences of 12 teams, each having two divisions and playing a conference championship game?
Notre Dame gets leaned on big time that they're not in charge, and they can join the (future, reformed) B!G conference where they belong, or just drop football and concentrate on turning out conservative female SC justices.
Bowl games are the first round of the playoffs, etc.
BTW, with 12 team conferences, many of those rivalries can be preserved in the non-conference part of the schedule, which would allow for three outside of conference games.
UCF says hello ;-) And they won their conference.
Just seems a bit sad to click on a thread you don’t care about, and then actually go to the trouble of responding that you... don’t care. Perhaps you could use a hobby of some sort to productively fill your time.
Do you care?
It’s a simple question.
It should be Alabama,Clemson,Georgia,Norte Dame.If the committee had a sense of humor put in UCF instead of Georgia after all they are unbeaten.
Anybody who wants to play college football goes to school for no more than 5 years and graduates. THEN they're eligible to play while they're in grad/law/med school.
"Five years to play four." /preposterous sarcasm :)
Hugh ?
I believe since they joined the ACC in most sports, NDU plays five ACC schools annually. To join would mean ending the two longest running intersectional rivalries USC and Navy. That is never going to happen, at least from thecNDU side. With the expansion of the ACC, NDU could play in NYC, Boston, Pittsburgh, Miami, but they would ave to surrender their Big Ten connections and their Stanford rivalry. This cuts out a great many alums, real and subway. So I do not see them fully joining the ACC.
I agree 100% that Clemson can’t be blamed for the ACC being down.
The SEC on the other hand needs to get some heat for their scheduling. There are not many teams scheduling one FCS team and two or three Group of five patsies that should be given a top 25 ranking after losing 4 games. Just SEC teams get that advantage.
Northwestern played 9 conference games + Notre Dame, Duke, and Akron. 8-4 was pretty darn good.
I think Georgia is easily one of the four best teams in the country right now. I also don’t think they belong in the playoffs. Their loss to LSU continued a pattern that they’ve followed for almost 40 years since their last national title ... they are a solid program that somehow manages to lose at least one game every year to a team they should beat.
It’s apparently a YUGE issue.
Globally important.
Drumpf’s fault.....
Even Alabama payed The Citadel. Not exactly an FCS powerhouse.
If the bama qb hadn’t been gimpy all game it wouldn’t have been close. I don’t know why the coach waited. OU earned it fair and square.
Please don’t call me “Shirley”...
Georgia lost all credibiliy with that STUPID fake punt call. Idiots!
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