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re: Everyone who thinks 2 SEC teams have a shot at getting to the playoff is wrong
Posted on 10/21/14 at 9:40 pm to cokebottleag
Posted on 10/21/14 at 9:40 pm to cokebottleag
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the point of the playoff committee is to select the most politically kosher teams for the playoff, not the best 4.
depends on how you define "politically kosher"
college football is about money.
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Posted on 10/21/14 at 10:41 pm to LSU GrandDad
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depends on how you define "politically kosher"
college football is about money.
At some point CFB just needs to die. I love CFB, but it needs to die and start a minor league. Pay players from day 1. If they're dumb, no more faking that they're student athletes. Kick players and coaches up and down from the NFL to the minor league. Just be done with it.
This post was edited on 10/21/14 at 10:43 pm
Posted on 10/22/14 at 8:34 am to cokebottleag
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There are never going to be 2 SEC teams in a 4 team playoff.
Dude, there could be 3. This year.
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:28 am to SystemsGo
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Dude, there could be 3. This year.
Will not happen, did you not read any of the points made in this thread?
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:33 am to SystemsGo
There won't be 2 unless there's a collapse in every conference everywhere else plus ND has to lose again and FSU has to suspend JW and then how do you get 3 in from the SEC anyways?
This post was edited on 10/22/14 at 10:35 am
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:34 am to Cheese Grits
I hope you've bookmarked this thread.
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:38 am to cokebottleag
quote:I think the entire playoff thing is a farce. It will not solve anything; it will create more and newer controversies. And it will, for a time, serve to neuter the SEC powers.
the point of the playoff committee is to select the most politically kosher teams for the playoff, not the best 4. There will be an SEC team in there, but never more than 1. Otherwise why not leave it to the AP poll? Because the polls have shown the powers-that-be that they cannot be trusted to ignore on field results and select non-SEC teams because they are historically prominent.
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:53 am to cokebottleag
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I hope you've bookmarked this thread.
I did, I hope you bookmarked this one LINK
Sheep never see the end
Posted on 10/22/14 at 11:18 am to Cheese Grits
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Starting with Baylor? The king of weak scheduling?
Seriously, ACC and SEC have so many cross conference games every year on their schedules. B12, B1G, and PAC do not.
Starting with everybody? I'm not some gump who thinks everything my school does is right simply because it's being done by my school. I hate that Baylor plays and takes crap for a super weak nonconference.
You don't seem to be evaulating my position. I think the ACC/SEC/B10 justification for 8 conference is super weak, but it's still irrelevant. I want all 5 conferences to play by the same rules, and I want those rules to be 9 conf (10 if im being totally honest) and 2 nonconference games against power conferences. for everyone.
Posted on 10/22/14 at 1:46 pm to Cheese Grits
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First of all, the Staples article goes through the mindset and the process behind what the media did in their mock...not the actual committee.
Actually, the real committee did the same and got the same results. Did you read the different media besides Staples?
WTF? That was my original point, that just like the media, the committee also took a non-champion over a conference champion. In fact, they didn't get exactly the same results; the committee seeded the four teams differently. That indicates that no, they did not have the same mindset as the media.
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Sure, the Big 12 had a championship game, but Texas didn't play in it, so the Big 12 championship game was irrelevant as far as Texas being chosen.
Correct, Texas can draw eyeballs like few teams can. it is why they are a brand and Baylor, TCU, and Texas Tech are not.
So can Penn State, especially in the big northeastern media markets. And the committee left out B1G champion Penn State in favor of a non-champion.
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It was all about strength of schedule and quality of wins.
I see you already drank the Kool Aid
And I see you're still wearing your tin foil hat.
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Alabama 2008
vs #9 Clemson (Chick-fil-A College Kickoff)
Stopped reading right there. The fact that Clemson was ranked #9 PRESEASON has nothing...zilch...nada...zero...to do with Alabama's strength of schedule. Period. If you can't understand that, there's just no helping you. If West Virginia wins out and wins the Big 12, you sure as hell aren't going to want the committee to evaluate our win on them based on their preseason ranking, are you?
The bottom line is that Clemson turned out to be a very mediocre football team at best, and that win did little if anything to help our case. quote:
As for why Texas?
Top 10 most watched regular season games in 2008
#1 12/06/2008 #2 Florida vs #1 Alabama SEC Championship 15.0 Million
#2 11/01/2008 #1 Texas vs #7 Texas Tech ESPN on ABC 12.2 Million
#10 10/11/2008 #5 Texas vs #1 Oklahoma ESPN on ABC 7.7 Million
Yeah, and of course it had nothing to do with the fact that Texas was ranked #3 with a 10 point win over the #1 ranked Big 12 champion, did it?
Put the shoe on the other foot. If we're sitting there at #3 with a 10 point win over an undefeated #1 ranked Miss. State, but they get to Atlanta, win the SEC, and get in the playoff while we get left out, you'll be screaming bloody murder, won't you? As will the rest of us, and rightfully so.
That's why Texas got in.
I don't have much use for conspiracy theories. You usually have to set aside known facts to make them fit your agenda.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 2:39 pm to Cheese Grits
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Will not happen, did you not read any of the points made in this thread?
The points were terrible.
Posted on 5/24/18 at 12:14 pm to Pettifogger
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Another problem would be a potential rematch. If UGA is in, who wants to see them play a small market team they already beat? MSU is certainly deserving, but it's tougher.
But what about UGA and Auburn/Alabama? The rematch is there if it is Auburn, but that's not as difficult with a few games separation, especially if AU-UGA was a great game. But I have to think the Committee would find having both UGA and Alabama/Auburn in the playoff to be very attractive, when compared with Baylor or someone similar.
Very solid
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