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CFB is broken
Posted on 10/26/25 at 1:55 pm
Posted on 10/26/25 at 1:55 pm
Everyone is gushing over Indiana, and the Hoosiers are #2 in the AP poll.
They’ve only beaten one team in the Top 28 of the AP poll if you continue down into those receiving votes…
And the team they beat?… that team has not defeated a single team in the AP Top 36, which is the full number of teams receiving a single vote to be in the poll.
How has schedule strength become so lopsided? I feel like it didn’t used to be this bad, and it’s ruining the sport, IMO.
They’ve only beaten one team in the Top 28 of the AP poll if you continue down into those receiving votes…
And the team they beat?… that team has not defeated a single team in the AP Top 36, which is the full number of teams receiving a single vote to be in the poll.
How has schedule strength become so lopsided? I feel like it didn’t used to be this bad, and it’s ruining the sport, IMO.
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Posted on 10/26/25 at 1:57 pm to AUTiger789
Ruining the sport? Really?
We've got college kids driving around campuses in $100k+ cars and not going to class and Indiana's schedule strength is ruining the sport?
We can discuss Indiana's lopsided schedule, but it's not the biggest issue in college football right now. Far from it.
We've got college kids driving around campuses in $100k+ cars and not going to class and Indiana's schedule strength is ruining the sport?
We can discuss Indiana's lopsided schedule, but it's not the biggest issue in college football right now. Far from it.
This post was edited on 10/26/25 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 10/26/25 at 1:59 pm to AUTiger789
You realize there's a 12 team playoff now? These rankings dont matter, it will all get sorted out in the playoffs. This isnt the bcs era where we were all fighting over two spots.
Posted on 10/26/25 at 1:59 pm to AUTiger789
It is pretty ridiculous. We go weeks at a time between ranked matchups in other conferences.
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:01 pm to AUTiger789
Close games and parity aside, the product has become dogsh!t..if not for heavy betting action to sides, totals, AND PROPS..largely a struggle to watch..
However, last year's expanded Playoffs enjoyable, even with some Home Game Blowouts, and am looking forward to this year's Playoffs.
However, last year's expanded Playoffs enjoyable, even with some Home Game Blowouts, and am looking forward to this year's Playoffs.
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:01 pm to anc
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We've got college kids driving around campuses in $100k+ cars
As long as every team has that going on, then it doesn’t cause disparity.
Our entire playoff was a joke last year because we let Indiana, SMU, etc in because for some reason the CFB world wants to pretend that playing Wake Forest and Boston College is no different than playing Tennessee and LSU.
This post was edited on 10/26/25 at 2:04 pm
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:02 pm to BuckeyeGoon
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These rankings dont matter, it will all get sorted out in the playoffs.
Like last season?
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:03 pm to AUTiger789
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I feel like it didn’t used to be this bad, and it’s ruining the sport, IMO.
...and you think crying about it to a bunch of old, fat, bald men on the internet will accomplish anything?
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:05 pm to AUTiger789
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Everyone is gushing over Indiana, and the Hoosiers are #2 in the AP poll.
They’ve only beaten one team in the Top 28 of the AP poll if you continue down into those receiving votes…
And the team they beat?… that team has not defeated a single team in the AP Top 36, which is the full number of teams receiving a single vote to be in the poll.
How has schedule strength become so lopsided? I feel like it didn’t used to be this bad, and it’s ruining the sport, IMO.
FEI won't be updated with this weeks games until tomorrow night most likely, but as of last week Indiana has played the 14th toughest schedule.
It must be Ohio St you are thinking about, they have played the 50th most difficult schedule.
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:05 pm to AUTiger789
Yeah last season is a great example, if the sec teams were so great why didnt any of them beat the big ten teams or notre dame? It should have been easy since the big ten is so bad.
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:06 pm to AUTiger789
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Like last season?
what exactly were you aiming for here
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:09 pm to AUTiger789
An issue that is new with these super large conferences is that , by scheduling quirks, a team can end up feasting on the bottom feeders.
I suggested before and I think it makes sense, that the B1G, and other conferences, need to split into 2 leagues, an upper and lower, division.
That way , we can get tOSU v.Oregon, USC, Indiana, etc.
Instead we get to see the good teams just coast through the Rutgers of the world.
And these divisions are adjusted every season.
I suggested before and I think it makes sense, that the B1G, and other conferences, need to split into 2 leagues, an upper and lower, division.
That way , we can get tOSU v.Oregon, USC, Indiana, etc.
Instead we get to see the good teams just coast through the Rutgers of the world.
And these divisions are adjusted every season.
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:10 pm to TheRoarRestoredInBR
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Close games and parity aside, the product has become dogsh!t..if not for heavy betting action to sides, totals, AND PROPS..largely a struggle to watch..
However, last year's expanded Playoffs enjoyable, even with some Home Game Blowouts, and am looking forward to this year's Playoffs.
The new playoffs is what sucks. Bunch of teams who didn't belong there to start with.
Ohio St lost 2 games during the season, including losing to Michigan in their last game of the season(making Michigan bowl eligible). They do not play in the Big10 Championship game, but then they still go on with a somewhat easy playoff schedule and become National Champs.
BCS was much better. If this was the BCS right now, Alabama isn't even really in the National Championship discussion because we lost to Florida St. We're on the outside looking in, no control over our destiny. We need other teams to lose, every game matters. I'm invested in every Ohio St game, every Indiana game, every A&M game. Now I give no shits.
Right now Alabama can still afford another loss, maybe even 2 if the 2nd is somehow in the SECCG and still make it to the playoffs and have a chance at the NC as long as they get hot and healed at the right time. That's actually kind of terrible.
They've killed what was the best regular season in all of sports.
This post was edited on 10/26/25 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:10 pm to AUTiger789
The root of the problem is this…
Because of expansion, the SEC and the BIG 10 have ruined the other leagues… the ACC and the Big 12 are largely garbage.
Meanwhile the media props up the SEC and Big 10 as if we are equals which is simply not true. We expanded with quality (Texas, Oklahoma, A&M) and they expanded with quantity (Rutgers, Maryland, UCLA, etc).
The Big 10 has 3-4 quality programs in most years: Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State… and then usually some other program would jump up and have a good year… usually Wisconsin, Michigan State, or Iowa.
But now because they have 18 freaking teams, those few programs with actual talent play each other less often, and these lesser teams like Indiana run roughshod over a God-awful group of teams, and they get treated like they accomplished something.
Indiana will somehow escape playing Ohio State and Michigan in the regular season. How is that any different than going undefeated in the ACC?
Because of expansion, the SEC and the BIG 10 have ruined the other leagues… the ACC and the Big 12 are largely garbage.
Meanwhile the media props up the SEC and Big 10 as if we are equals which is simply not true. We expanded with quality (Texas, Oklahoma, A&M) and they expanded with quantity (Rutgers, Maryland, UCLA, etc).
The Big 10 has 3-4 quality programs in most years: Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State… and then usually some other program would jump up and have a good year… usually Wisconsin, Michigan State, or Iowa.
But now because they have 18 freaking teams, those few programs with actual talent play each other less often, and these lesser teams like Indiana run roughshod over a God-awful group of teams, and they get treated like they accomplished something.
Indiana will somehow escape playing Ohio State and Michigan in the regular season. How is that any different than going undefeated in the ACC?
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:16 pm to 3down10
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FEI won't be updated with this weeks games until tomorrow night most likely, but as of last week Indiana has played the 14th toughest schedule.
Old Dominion
Kennesaw State
Indiana State
Illinois (5-3)
Iowa (6-2)
Oregon (7-1)
Michigan State (3-5)
UCLA (3-5)
If that’s rated the 14th toughest schedule in America, FEI needs to revamp their formula. Good thing they finish with Maryland (4-3), Penn State (3-4), Wisconsin (2-6), and Purdue (2-6). Maybe we’ll finally see what they are made of.
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:17 pm to tBrand
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what exactly were you aiming for here
The playoffs were garbage last season.. particularly round 1.
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:17 pm to 3down10
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but then they still go on with a somewhat easy playoff schedule
That included two sec teams
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:20 pm to AUTiger789
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Old Dominion
Kennesaw State
Indiana State
Illinois (5-3)
Iowa (6-2)
Oregon (7-1)
Michigan State (3-5)
UCLA (3-5)
If that’s rated the 14th toughest schedule in America, FEI needs to revamp their formula. Good thing they finish with Maryland (4-3), Penn State (3-4), Wisconsin (2-6), and Purdue (2-6). Maybe we’ll finally see what they are made of.
Or maybe you need to look at the schedule of other teams because 14th is in comparison to other teams.
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:20 pm to AUTiger789
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AUTiger789
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If that’s rated the 14th toughest schedule in America, FEI needs to revamp their formula.
There it is.
Posted on 10/26/25 at 2:21 pm to BuckeyeGoon
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That included two sec teams
Tennessee and Texas.
2 other teams that shouldn't have been there.
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