Real college football playoff on tonight...
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Moose Stuff
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I’m gonna watch the hell out of that.
frogetaboutit
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What is it like 30 teams make DII & DIII playoffs? No compelling reason why playoffs can’t be expanded to 6 or 8.
SuperTFrog
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frogetaboutit
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Haha! Sorry...
satis1103
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But there's also no reason bowls can't be incorporated into the playoff structure.
I go back and forth on this. On one hand, I think that every conference's best team should have a chance to win a national title. On the other hand, I think the odds of the 6th or 7th ranked team (or "best" team, whatever you want to call it) reeling off three straight playoff wins is extremely remote, so in a lot of cases the quarterfinal games might not be all that compelling. Maybe we're just in a time where Alabama's dominance kind of skews things a bit, I don't know. But it's hard to compare to DII and DIII (or basketball) because the logistics of staging a game with 80,000+ people vs one with 10,000+ people isn't comparable. I just think the solution to going to eight teams isn't quite as simple as it sounds and at the end of the day in most cases you'd probably be adding another round of games but getting the same result in the end.
UCF [hundinnen ] about not being part of the playoff but are they better off not having to play the best 4 teams and saying we could've or would've beaten them and hanging a National Championship banner in their stadium......or actually playing the games and in all likelihood getting their butts kicked.
HFrog1999
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Only that it makes the bowls less interesting
I really don’t care about the “playoffs”
I like good Bowl games
Eight
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the one thing i disagree w is lack of washington
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Ghost of Tobys Business College
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I know right? These crummy little teams that don't play anybody. Just because they go undefeated doesn't mean they are good enough to play and beat a team from a big boy conference.
I mean, did we learn nothing from that time that an undefeated MWC team went to the Rose Bowl and got destroyed by Wisconsin?
Ok, but do you really think Washington could beat more than a couple of these teams? And I’m sorry, UCF is an easy out in Round 1. This bracket basically throws a lifeline to two Big 10 schools and another SEC school. Is that really what everyone wants? Or does everyone just want to complain about something?
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Ghost of Tobys Business College
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So, hypothetical situation. The P5 conference champions are all undefeated as is Notre Dame. 4-team playoff... who gets left out? You really gonna say that an undefeated team rank #6 has little to no chance of winning the whole thing? What are you basing the merit of each team... SOS? Human decided rankings?
The problem with any sort of ranking system is that there's only so much extrapolation you can really take from numbers. Why? Because not enough the teams that are in direct competition for playoff spots play each other. Maybe the SEC is way better than all the others... in which case the argument is made that Georgia would likely beat everybody else and possibly even beat Bama in a rematch. In the Undefeated 6 scenario, Georgia could make a real case for the #7 spot.
But maybe the SEC isn't as great as everybody makes it out to be. How would we really know? The SEC largely plays... other SEC teams. That's how conferences work. We only know how good these teams are against their own conferences (with the occasional premier matchup in non-con early on).
So, who is to say that a Big12 champ with the same record as the Big10 champ is actually more worthy of a playoff spot?
Nope. If you win your P5 conference, you should get the opportunity to compete for the National Championship. Period. And if you aren't in a P5 but go undefeated, maybe you should get a shot. Why not? How does that actually hurt anything? It just gives another opportunity for some really interesting games.
Eight
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i would rather the national title be decided by a team's performance during the season than the opinion of a group which is how college football at this level has done it for over a century
do I think they would win it? most likely not, but if performance during the regular season matters the most then let the games play out
Chongo94
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What’s the harm in letting them play to find out?
FrogLifeYo
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You looked at the list of bowl games this year and thought they seemed interesting?...IMHO there’s Not a single one that would be any less interesting if a playoff system was in place. Our bowl game against Cal would meen exactly the same to both teams as it does today. An 8 team would effect really only those 8 teams and their fans
YA
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The only harm is they might beat Ohio state. Oh and wex would argue with an orgasm so don’t engage a troll.
Moose Stuff
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Weber St appears to have their own version of the Frog Horn.
