12 Team Playoff System Is Coming

I’d love to see the dawgs kicking some arse in the big house or the shoe.

Also, hate the move.

Josh pate on Twitter made good points on this basically ruining the do or die games for the top teams. Michigan vs OSU last year doesn't really mean anything under this format. Alabama could have lost to use in the SECCG and they would still get in.

Greed is ruining everything we love about CFB and making it one giant, souless product. frick your regional matchups and conferences, frick your rivalries, and frick important regular season games.

Is fricking socialism for the shitty teams of the world.

It'll be interesting to see SEC or other conferences do as a response as it relates to Conf Championships...

Thirty years ago only a handful of games were televised. Now every game is in TV. It’s been a slow descent ever since TV started paying absurd amounts of money to show every games. That led to giant coaching salaries, which led to free agency for layers, which led to legally paying players.

College football is turning into a minor league farm system for the NFL. Accept it for what it is.

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Do you say that about the NFL, College basketball, NBA, or anything with a playoff system

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I absolutely do. Which is one reason I don't watch any of those. Way too many teams make the playoffs and it becomes less special. The thing that make stuff valuable are scarcity and demand. The demand will be there, but not the scarcity.

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Do you say that about the NFL, College basketball, NBA, or anything with a playoff system

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It definitely ruined NASCAR

Post by Hawgfan13 on the Rant:

But let's look at this bracket. One entire pod is B-10 rematches. First, you get a rematch of Ohio State vs Mich St. Michigan State lost by 7 TDs, yes 7, to Ohio State just a few weeks earlier. Not a rematch that we need to decide who the better team is. So, Ohio State obviously wins a game they will be favored in by about 35 points. Yawn.

Then, Ohio State rematches Michigan. Michigan already beat Ohio State by over 2 TDs. I don't think it's really fair to force them to do it again. They already won that game. So, are we now saying that game doesn't matter? Or that it only matters in that Michigan now gets a bye week. Whoopty.

Then the Alabama pod. You have Ole Miss playing Oklahoma State. That's probably a pretty even match up. So, that's scary. Ole Miss already played Alabama. They forgot to plug in their microwave and got blasted. They were down 35-0 when Saban started letting off the gas.

Georgia/Pitt would be a massive blowout. Like pulling starters in the 2nd quarter type blowout to keep from getting injured ahead of a massive quarterfinal matchup with.....Baylor? Yeah, Georgia's winning that one by 4+ TDs too. So we're up to 4 blowouts and likely 3 rematches already, without touching the 4th pod.

The 4th pod. YIKES! ND, Cincinnati, and Utah. Wow. Talk about a basket of deplorables. None of them belonged in the conversation last year. Cincinnati already beat ND (4th potential rematch), that's what got them their spot last year. An early season close victory over another team that had no business being in the conversation.

I don't know. I was all for this expansion, but this bracket does not help make the case. It's actually a disaster of a bracket.

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You act as if upsets never happen which they do,

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Yes they do...but is the point to find the best team, or to crate a possible upset? There are approx. 130 Div. 1 teams and maybe about 2-3 major upsets a year.

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Expansion also allows all P5 champs in if we have the scenario of a bunch of 11-1 champs.

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Yeah. That means PAC 12 and BIG 12 teams make it. Do you really think allowing those subpar teams in make the playoffs better? I mean we trashed Michigan, and you want to allow teams that were far worse in? Do you really think those games would be interesting?

You want to see two teams that played to a 52-7 finish play again?

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a bunch of 11-1 champs.

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This has never happened. Ever. Not during the BCS or Playoff era.

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All you’re doing is holding onto some outdated belief system, there’s a reason why everyone other sport has an actual playoff it’s because it works.

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Not really. They do it because of more money. Not because it makes for more interesting games. You want change for the sake of change. When they go to a 12 team playoff system it will totally kill the bowls. Matchups will be worse and games, as a whole, will be less interesting until (wait for it) we get it down to the last 4 or so games. OSU vs. Michigan State II? No thank you. UGA vs. Pitt? No thank you.

Look at the bracket that would have been lasts eason. We were the #3 team in the nation going into post season, yet lower ranked teams would get a by week in the first round because they won a weak conference. Michigan (who we thrashed) would get a bye, and we would have to play an extra game in which we could suffer key injuries. No thank you.

the rematch aspect could be a huge problem. or maybe it doesnt happen as often as we think, who knows? if it does happen, it fricking sucks.

michigan beat ohio state...complete bullshite to make them have to do it again. cincinnati won @ notre dame. complete bullshite to give them another shot.

series could be tied 1-1 and the 2nd one is the only one that matters.