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Only a 2-team race for the Natty
Posted on 8/9/22 at 8:44 am
Posted on 8/9/22 at 8:44 am
Bama and Ohio State. This is a sad but great conversation about the state of affairs in CFB.
Great conversation with McElroy &Culelic with Finebaum
Great conversation with McElroy &Culelic with Finebaum
Posted on 8/9/22 at 8:54 am to TailbackU
Will expanding the playoff create parity? How does college football get back to the 2000-2010 where you had 8 different winners with only LSU and Florida repeating?
Posted on 8/9/22 at 9:00 am to Oilfieldbiology
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Will expanding the playoff create parity?
Nope as all it will do is give the few elite programs a definite mulligan maybe 2 if it ends up 12 or 16 teams.
If UGA would have won the SECCG I believe Alabama would have stayed home. In any expansion including 8 UA would have went.
These soon to be super conferences will make it even harder where the elite will remain at the top.
This post was edited on 8/9/22 at 9:01 am
Posted on 8/9/22 at 9:00 am to Oilfieldbiology
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How does college football get back to the 2000-2010 where you had 8 different winners with only LSU and Florida repeating?
Unless you get rid of or regulate NIL, it can't. The teams might change over time though.
Posted on 8/9/22 at 9:09 am to armtackledawg
This has little to do with NIL. Consolidation of power has been going on for at least 15 years. NIL and liberal transfer policies might exacerbate it.
Posted on 8/9/22 at 9:24 am to Oilfieldbiology
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Will expanding the playoff create parity? How does college football get back to the 2000-2010 where you had 8 different winners with only LSU and Florida repeating?
No, the best recruiters, coaches and programs will continue to be just that. Its always been that way in college football. The time frame you mention above, honestly there were some powers that were down during this time frame. USC was the only constant 11-12 win team and that was only for about 5 years. Everybody else, including Florida was 12-1 then 9-5, then back to 12-1 then back to 8 wins.
Posted on 8/9/22 at 9:38 am to TailbackU
I’d add Clemson to that mix.
Posted on 8/9/22 at 9:42 am to Oilfieldbiology
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Will expanding the playoff create parity?
Ohio State winning is parity. Those clowns beat their chest but they have one title in 20 years.
An expanded playoff does give more teams a mulligan but it also gives more teams a chance to pull off an upset. At the end of the day, these are kids. There could be a day where they don't have it.
Posted on 8/9/22 at 9:46 am to Oilfieldbiology
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Will expanding the playoff create parity?
In the short term, no. But I would argue in the long term the answer is yes.
Posted on 8/9/22 at 9:46 am to BrotherDawg84
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You forgot Auburn.
1983
Posted on 8/9/22 at 9:55 am to TailbackU
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Only a 2-team race for the Natty
by the mid-way point of the season, how many teams truly have a shot to win the natty in any given random year? It's cerrtainly less than 5. And this is going back decades.
The reason people keep putting out these articles is simply because alabama is the one constant and that's boring as hell for everyone besides bama fans. In the 90s you could throw a dart at a calendar and in that year drawn at random you could probably rely on UF/FSU/Nebraska/Miami being a titel favorite by the halfway point. Those teams won 7 national titles that decade but no one ever mentions lack of parity then.
Look at the next decade 2000-2009. UF won 2 titles. LSu won 2 titles. USC and OU were in the top 4 or 5 seemingly every year. OSU won a title and played in 2 more. NObody coplaind about lack of parity.
The main issue now is that unlike the above when you had the same 4-5 teams over a decade that all had a shot with MAYBE a random outsider (like colorado/washington/penn state/michigan/tennessee in the 90s for instance) getting hot briefly, nowadasy you pretty much have one single team that is going to more oftne than not play for the title eveyr year, with another (osu) right there a step behind them. I don't think people's main issue is "lack of parity", I think it's the lack of parity within that lack of parity if that makes sense ha. It's fine if you only have a small handful of teams with a legit title shot, but at least switch out who those teams are every once in a while. Seeing bama in the playoffs eveyr year is just a bore.
Posted on 8/9/22 at 10:04 am to TailbackU
Unsure what they said, but a bit silly to dismiss the defending national champions.
Posted on 8/9/22 at 10:07 am to Hback
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With Uiagalelei?
They managed to win 10 with him last year. I don’t see anyone in that conference with the talent to stand up to an experienced Clemson team.
Posted on 8/9/22 at 10:30 am to WG_Dawg
Great point.
As a matter of fact, there have only been 43 different national champions since 1869 (see below), and only 22 different ones since 1970 !!!
There have only been 33 different ones since 1930.
(These stats are including some years where multiple champions were named.)
Washington
USC
BYU
Texas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Colorado
LSU
Michigan
Ohio State
Notre Dame
Penn State
Pittsburgh
Tennessee
albanama
Auburn
Georgia
Florida
Florida State
Miami
Clemson
Army
Georgia Tech
Syracuse
Michigan State
Arkansas
Iowa
Ole Miss
Minnesota
Maryland
UCLA
Texas A&M
TCU
Stanford
Illinois
Yale
Cornell
Princeton
Harvard
Chicago
Lafayette
Penn
Rutgers
As a matter of fact, there have only been 43 different national champions since 1869 (see below), and only 22 different ones since 1970 !!!
There have only been 33 different ones since 1930.
(These stats are including some years where multiple champions were named.)
Washington
USC
BYU
Texas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Colorado
LSU
Michigan
Ohio State
Notre Dame
Penn State
Pittsburgh
Tennessee
albanama
Auburn
Georgia
Florida
Florida State
Miami
Clemson
Army
Georgia Tech
Syracuse
Michigan State
Arkansas
Iowa
Ole Miss
Minnesota
Maryland
UCLA
Texas A&M
TCU
Stanford
Illinois
Yale
Cornell
Princeton
Harvard
Chicago
Lafayette
Penn
Rutgers
Posted on 8/9/22 at 10:31 am to djsdawg
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Unsure what they said, but a bit silly to dismiss the defending national champions.
If you click on the link it’ll take you right there. Yea Internet.
Posted on 8/9/22 at 10:36 am to TailbackU
clemson has one down year (still wins 10 games) and people already writing them off.
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