Yes, it does. But it much more measurably improves the odds that the Alabamas and Ohio States ultimately win. That's my point.
Whether the G5s odds are .5% or 1%....they aren't going to be winning.
Did we act like whiny sore winner [hundinnen ] after winning the Rose Bowl like UCF fans have been doing?
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Yes, it does. But it much more measurably improves the odds that the Alabamas and Ohio States ultimately win. That's my point.
Whether the G5s odds are .5% or 1%....they aren't going to be winning.
Zubaz
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There's literally no reason to believe this is true. None.
Frog-in-law1995
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At whose expense?
Everyone else's
Frog-in-law1995
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Well I’ve already mathematically proven that wrong.
Because the odds of one team increases from .5% to 1%? The odds of every other team in the field winning drops when the elite teams are assured of a spot.
Frog-in-law1995
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Yes.
Elite teams are already assured a spot. Going to 8 means less-than-elite teams now have a chance
YA
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But in his world, that is unacceptable!! Smash the little schools so his favorite team, Ohio State can rule the world.
RollToad
Baylor is Trash.
Even though they technically have a chance, they actually don’t. Somehow.
Frog-in-law1995
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I’m bored with this. Wex, just sit there wrongly in your wrongness and be wrong.
Pharm Frog
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Nice! Figured this was coming after the “at who’s expense” bait was on the line.
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Uncle_Frog
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I would be willing to bet significant money that either 2004 Utah, 2006 Boise State, 2008 Utah (beat Bama btw), 2009 Boise State, 2009 TCU, 2010 TCU, 2015 Houston, or 2017 UCF would have been able to win it all.
That's 8 teams that would have had a legit shot in the last 14 years so I'm certain you would see more than one in your lifetime.
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The Frog to be Named Later
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Left off 2014 TCU. Probably the best odds of any of them. Lightning in a bottle that year.
TCURiggs
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We were in the Big XII that year, and I think he was referring to G5 teams. Having said that, if there were an 8-team playoff that year we certainly had a good chance to win it all.
First of all, I disagree with you but there's no way to prove it so let's just agree to disagree. Winning three games is WAY harder than winning one.
Secondly though, since the conference realignment in 2012, IMO there is a substantially greater difference between the haves (P5s) and the have-nots (G5s) than prior. I can't really put my finger on exactly why (other than the breakdown of the Mountain West, which was far and away the best "non P5" conference, but there is such a significant divide now it seems. Maybe as a TCU fan seeing it from the other side just makes it seem wider now, I don't know, but I don't think this UCF team compares at all to those TCU and Boise teams of 2008-2010. Houston 2015? Meh, they weren't going to run through two more games against Clemson and Bama.
The new AAC is better top-to-bottom than the MWC ever was. The highs may not be quite as high but are very comparable (TCU/ Utah vs. UCF/ USF/ Good Memphis or Houston) and there is a much more tolerable middle (Air Force? SDSU? vs. Average Memphis/ Average Houston/ Navy clownball).
