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re: An 8 Team Playoff Would Be Great For A&M
Posted on 12/29/16 at 11:05 am to cardboardboxer
Posted on 12/29/16 at 11:05 am to cardboardboxer
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Give me a "ruined" college football any day where we have a shot over what college football currently is where we only have a shot if OU, Texas and LSU are all down at the same time. I am sick of waiting for those stars to align, I would rather burn it down Trump voter style and have a sport I can care about more because my team (and every non-blue blood like my team) has a shot.
So what does this have to do with a playoff? You're tired of losing so you want to pick up the board game and throw the pieces everywhere?
The cupcake games are also a separate problem and one that expanding the playoff doesn't fix.
There's a reason college football has the highest attendance of any sport. If we turn it into the typical "we just need to win more than we lose" type sport, the game will die. If I wanted to watch a Cinderella team or "best team at the end of the season," I'd watch literally every other sport.
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Posted on 12/29/16 at 11:40 am to Projectpat
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So what does this have to do with a playoff? You're tired of losing so you want to pick up the board game and throw the pieces everywhere?
It is not just A&M. Lots of non Bluebloods would have a chance. The game would be more interesting if teams like Boise would have been given a real shot when they were riding high.
I am someone who thinks college football is worse when only the blue bloods are good.
The average high attendance has little to do with blue bloods having a moat around them because most programs aren't blue bloods.
College basketball has a much more fun postseason- more fun than anything in sports. The only problem is it's basketball not football.
Posted on 12/29/16 at 12:57 pm to Projectpat
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There's a reason college football has the highest attendance of any sport. If we turn it into the typical "we just need to win more than we lose" type sport, the game will die.
I think the reason college football has the highest attendance of any sport is because it's the most entertaining sport, period. No American sports league approaches the NFL in popularity, despite having 12 playoff slots for a 32 team league. And expanding to 8 wouldn't lead to "we just need to win more than we lose". The #8 seed this year would have Wiscy at 10-3.
This post was edited on 12/29/16 at 1:06 pm
Posted on 12/29/16 at 1:34 pm to Projectpat
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You're tired of losing so you want to pick up the board game and throw the pieces everywhere?
frick yes. Duh.
Here's the funny thing about championships: after a certain while, folks don't care too much about the circumstances surrounding them. Just that you got it done. It used to be a meme about the Spurs' first championship having an "asterisk." Hear anyone say it now? Nope. They say Pop has won 5 rings. IDGAF if TAMU sneaks into the playoff as a 4 loss squad if they pull off a miracle and win it all.
This post was edited on 12/29/16 at 5:16 pm
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