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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Alabama is clearly a great team. But, I’m glad I’m not a season ticket holder. 7 home games, 4 are conference games + citadel, Arkansas state and Louisiana Lafayette.
We’ll see. Notre Dame is a better school.
True. They deserved to lose. ALmost as if they agreed to have a good game but Bama wins barely. Hoping both teams would get in. They should have just let Georgia win then they both would be in it. Which is another type of bullshit but more reasonable than letting Georgia lose and still get in.
That’s the point I’m making. Everyone is attacking the 4 game championship, claiming it is not based on realities, and want to go to an 8 game championship.
I say the biggest problem there is then WHO goes, and with the conferences all messed up over the years, they need to be fixed first.
Or, if alumni don’t want to go there, stop bittching about the committee and the top 4, and forget about an 8 game championship.
At least Notre Dame had the courage to SCHEDULE Michigan, Stanford, Virginia Tech, Syracuse, Northwestern, Florida State, and Southern Cal, all very good programs. It is not Notre Dame’s fault that some of those schools had lackluster seasons. And there are still great athletes on most of those, too. At least they didn’t schedule the Citadel, or Georgia Southern, or Wofford. We all know who did.
That’s why it’s wrong to bash UCF in that they need to go out there and play more power 5 teams when first of all ,Power 5 teams don’t want to schedule good G5 schools for fear of losing to them. But Clemson just because they are in a Power 5 conference even if it’s weak one in a particular year can just win them all and be deem as playing a great conference
The appropriate teams are playing and there was no way to go wrong with the 4th pick. O.U., OSt, Ga. even Central Florida would have been reasonable choices.
There is nothing sacred about a “conference”, or being in one. Often it means limiting your schedule to two other great teams and a whole bunch of mediocre ones. In a normal year, Notre Dame’s schedule this year would have been the strongest in the country. Even with some of its opponents having a down year, the Irish still played four top 25 schools, plus Southern Cal in the coliseum, NEVER an easy task. And some of your conference championship games were pretty meaningless.
I thought it was an interesting article, although I disagreed with it. I am a college football fan, and I’m interested in who makes the playoffs.
So yes, I care.
You see, I have a life outside of politics.
Or Stanford, or Notre Dame.
It must really suck to be a Notre Dame hater. Sorry you can’t live up to their standards.
College Football is way more entertaining than the NFL.
The playoffs and trying to crown a National Champion is beyond scientific certainty.
Just let it be as pure speculation.
Maybe at this point it should be a NFL type of system. The bowls are a dinosaur.
Like last time they played, by one point in a hurricane strength storm in their own stadium? Uh huh. Go Irish!
But college football playoffs are awful.
Alabama will destroy Oklahoma. And I'd really like both Clemson and Notre Dame to lose. There is nothing less entertaining than ACC football. I won't watch either game.
I'm left to cheer for a giant sinkhole to open under the field at Jerry World and swallow up both Notre Dame and Clemson. Then Alabama will be declared the champion. And wouldn't that be appropriate? ESPN has basically been proclaiming it since last year.
Seems like you don’t know a lot about the bowl games. The Rose bowl is contractually tied to the Big 10 and Pac 12. The Sugar bowl is contractually tied to the SEC and Big 12. It has nothing to do with the committee.
And if the fake punt play worked, then everyone would be singing their praise. It was a calculated gamble.
It was dumb all around.
Ok, so Georgia scores, odds are Bama still has plenty of time left on the clock.
Georgia still had time outs left, the best odds were to pin Bama back deep and hope for a three and out.
I think what happened was a couple of Georgia punts went into the end zone and Smart had no confidence in his punter.
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