Posted on 11/26/2022 8:13:43 PM PST by NeverCheney
For some, the new year is a time for resolutions, celebration and family. For most, it is a time for College Football Playoffs. Four teams will compete for the College Football Playoff National Championship, but how are these teams decided? Find out how the College Football Playoffs work below.
How are Teams Selected for the College Football Playoffs?
Who Decides the College Football Playoff Rankings?
The College Football Playoffs (CFP) are decided upon by a 13-member selection committee, known as the CFP Selection Committee. This committee is a combination of coaches, former players, athletic directors, college administrators, and journalists. The committee is responsible for determining the top four teams that will make up the CFP. The top four teams will be placed into Playoff Semifinal bowl games and the winners of those games will face each other in the CFP National Championship game. The CFP Selection Committee is also responsible for creating the ranking of the top 25 teams each week. The top 25 team rankings are released each week over a six-week period throughout the season. The final selection of these rankings and determination of who will be in the CFP takes place on what’s known as Selection Weekend.
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TCU too.
Conference championships game ahead.
Looking like:
TCU
UGA
USC
Michigan
Michigan was impressive in the second half today.
TCU has flirted with losses but pulled it out. I’d want them if I were one of the other three.
Ohio State might be in there as well if TCU loses its championship game for the conference.
Alabama would be next up after today but I don’t think that many cards will fall into place.
I’m an Auburn fan and we need a new coach.
Voting for a champion is soooo stupid.
Trying to figure out a way Penn State wangles itself into one of the New Years Six bowls at 10-2 but #3 in the Big Ten East. LSU, Clemson, Oregon all lost today so Penn State should be at least #8 in the CFP rankings by Monday.
GA, MI, TCU, USC, OH ST, and sadly AL are the top 6, if things remain consistent.
As long as Alabama is not in there again, I’ll watch.
It’s fake. Positions are decided by a vote. The old bowl system was much better than this meaningless “championship”. This was a pet project of Obama.
Michigan
Ohio State
Georgia
USC
TCU has business in the playoffs.
No business.... whomever they play they will get crushed by 30.
Amen, brother! Preach on! I am in the minority, but I want to go back to the bowl system in which each bowl had its own tradition and pageantry and was not merely a playoff. Then let the various rating services contend as to who wins the "national championship."
Top 16 teams, 1 v 8, 2 v 7, 3 v 6, 4 v 5, 9 v 16, 10 v 15, 11 v 14 and 12 v 13. Or do a random draw. If number one draws number 2, tough teats, if 2 draws 16 so be it. It would be exciting in a way never seen before. Vote on Twitter for the matchips...have some fun.
Strange...I always thought the Bowl games provided no reasonable basis for deciding whom is the best team at the end of the season.
Picking the 4 “highest considered” teams and having a playoff is far better imo. There will always be an argument about an outlier being left out but if they’re not considered #1/2/3 then it’ll only be an argument if a #4 wins the playoff - and would probably need to happen a few times, which it hasn’t (to my understanding).
I’m far more in favor of seeing the top teams battle it out.
Agree. No reason to place a 2 loss team in the playoffs.
Sure there is...
$$$$$
You mean the old system where the writers and coaches decided who was the championship. No need to actually play the games, just let the “experts” decide? Jeeze, this almost sounds like a liberal idea!
Indeed, that is what I am proposing. For one thing, college football, having phased in playoffs, is getting too much like pro sports.
For another, the writers and coaches are sometimes better choosers than computers. In 2003, USC was at #3 in the nation, and it had won its conference championship with only one loss, to Cal, which won in triple overtime. Oklahoma, which I believe was at #4, lost its final game and its conference championship when it was blown out by Kansas State. Yet the computers jumped Oklahoma over USC because the Okies supposedly had a more rigorous "strength of schedule" according to a computer model.
Meanwhile, the coaches--or was it the writers? voted USC #1. The trojans went on the beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl and claim the National Championship while the Okies were blown out in the BCS Bowl, or whatever it's called.
Here are some more liberal ideas that I am passionate about:
Would the same apply to college basketball, baseball, soccer & hockey, each of which have championship games? Whats the point of playing if you can't determine the best team?
Here are some more liberal ideas that I am passionate about: No college football after New Years Day. No professional baseball after Halloween. And most definitely, no ice hockey after the summer solstice.
That works for me but I would be even stricter
No baseball after mid-October or before April 1st
No pro football after Mid January
No pro hockey after mid-May.
The difference is the bowl games and the tradition, splendor and pomp of each bowl that those other sports don't have. Division 3 college football (including my Occidental College Tigers before they dropped football) also has playoffs but few if any bowls.
Oh I forgot. Alabama and any other team that brings TV viewers will be considered even if they have multiple losses.
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