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re: Question re: 12-team play-off next season

Posted on 1/3/24 at 9:52 pm to
Posted by MurphyGator
Member since Jul 2021
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Posted on 1/3/24 at 9:52 pm to
Will strength of schedule be taken into consideration for making the 12 team playoff?
Posted by ht1950
Member since Dec 2023
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Posted on 1/3/24 at 10:34 pm to
The one thing I think should NOT be done is to give one G5 team a spot in the 12-team playoff. What happened to Liberty is going to be the rule, not the exception.

Just go ahead and give the G5 its own playoff and use all those minor bowls (or most of them) to stage it.

No reason to keep a deserving P5 team out of the playoff for some politically-correct notionn.
Posted by AwgustaDawg
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Posted on 1/4/24 at 6:42 am to
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Will strength of schedule be taken into consideration for making the 12 team playoff?



Is there a meaningful way to do so? I don't think there is a meaningful or credible way to do so. It is easier to win any conference than it is the SEC. The SEC will become even more difficult to win when its the 2 best teams and not the division winners (hasn't happened in the west but the east has been won several times by the 3rd or 4th best team in the conference).

The "end" game is a league of about 36-60 programs comprised of 4 conferences who play everyone in their conference and the 4 winners and probably some wild card teams play in the playoffs. The fact is abundantly clear that Iowa and Mississippi State are not playing the same game as Michigan and Alabama. It is not great but its where the game is headed. Out of 136 or so bowl eligible teams only about 30 are actually playing the same game. Its the same as the NFL...most of the NFL is not interested in winning, they are interested in being in the NFL. The NBA, MLB, and I assume NHL are the same way...the top 6 of the SEC and Big 10 next year along with ND and probably Clemson and FSU are playing the same game...everybody is playing a variation of that game.
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