Posted on 12/04/2024 3:52:04 AM PST by C19fan
1: Oregon
2: Texas
3: Penn State
4: Notre Dame
5: Georgia
6: THE Ohio State
7: Tennessee
8: SMU
9: Indiana
10: Boise State
11: Alabama
12: THE U
13: Ole Miss
14: South Carolina
15: Arizona State
16: Iowa State
17: Clemson
18: BYU
19: Missouri
20: UNLV
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The biggest news is Alabama in while THE U is out.
The biggest potential question is if Clemson beats SMU in the ACC Championship. Would SMU get at at-large spot or would fall behind Alabama. Given past history, Alabama is getting in.
I hereby gift that 12th spot to SMU.
We don’t deserve to be in.
And I’m not just a rabid fan, I’m an Alumni.
Roll Tide.
RLTW.
The U doesn’t play defense. It’s like watching a team from the old AFL.
All this playoff system has done is add more conflict. The old 4 team CFP or maybe even the BCS would create less conflict.
I’m still confused which teams play which teams and how conference championships come into play.
Power 5 teams who win their conference title get an automatic bid. Top 4 rated teams get a bye in week one.
The Big 12 sucks- the two teams vying for the conference title are Arizona State (#15) and Iowa State (#16). Whoever wins that game will take over as the 12th seed.
I think Iowa State is going to win.
It means nothing until after the championships.
Go Oregon
If you don’t win your league you have nothing to complain about. It should be a championship of champions.
That’s why they play the game on the field.
Go Ducks
I never liked playoffs to begin with, but if we had to have them, eight teams was the right number. This was before the Big XX and the SEC sold out entirely to television money and turned themselves into television marketing consortiums. They are no longer real conferences and are too big to determine a legitimate conference champion: play a round robin in the regular season and the team with the best record is the champion. But now the bloated pseudo-conferences need a playoff to pick a “champion,” and that has now set up a clamor that a loss in a league championship game should not be not be held against a team by the tournament selection committee.
Nonsense. If winning a conference championship game works in a team’s favor, losing one should cut the other way. All games count. If the Big XX and SEC have overexpanded in pursuit of television markets, let the chips fall where they may. The point of the exercise is not to ensure that every SEC team with a winning record is in the tournament.
As college football used to exist not long ago, an eight team tournament would have done the job: five automatic bids for the major conferences; three at large bids for the best of the rest (minor conferences and independents); no more than one team per conference. Win your league or stay home. If your conference is too big to choose a legitimate champion in regular season play, it’s on you. Downsize.
Just pointing out that most everyone sees PSU losing to Oregon as a foregone conclusion. People may be surprised.
Any given (game) day.
Will be a great game. To beat OSU, MI, and PSU in your first year and the Big 10 Championship will be monumental. Everyone said we cannot match-up with B10 football.
I was at the Rose Bowl in the PSU section last time we played you. Great fans and my son got his doctorate at PSU?
Go Ducks
The quickest way to get rid of the CCG’s (and they NEED to go) is to declare that the loser is eliminated from the tourney.
Thank you!
I agree, but the CCGs today are the fig leaf that allows the Big XX and the SEC to pretend that they are still conferences. The alums and the other fans are drunk on nostalgia and tradition, and television viewship is probably dependent on a regional rooting interest, which is based on the idea that the Big XX and SEC are meaningful entities. Conference expansion has destroyed the tradition of round robin play, which is what natural conference rivalries were all about, and the CCGs have devalued it further. Now the playoffs are devaluing the CCGs.
Will S&MU give us a safe word? Why do I get the image of S&MU in leather uniforms like the “Average Joe’s” team from the movie “Dodgeball?”
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