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Like the government, playoff selections need to be decentralized
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:48 pm
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:48 pm
Let each conference, through various tiebreakers, rank their own teams 1- whatever. The committee, or a predetermined process, would take x amount of teams from each conference by order of finish and seed them. Notre Dame can join a conference or watch from home. They can’t survive alone. All politics is local and this current process is definitely too political.
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:02 pm to Bamafig
And the way to do this is to have basketball challenge style interconference play between each of the conferences and then based on the final standings allocated playoff spots per conference, then the conferences are ranked based on traditional standings. Once teams are selected can be seeded however they like.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:03 pm to ukraine_rebel
yes. better for the fans too. But everyone will be in a hurry and scramble to schedule teams like Wisconsin, Minnesota, Rutgers, etc.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 12:47 pm to Richleau
Just like in basketball, the conference heads would have to get together and sort it out, being as fair as possible. Point to consider though, if you do it this way, then your W/L would be meaningless as your playoff hope would hinge solely on your conference games, but they would matter in determining how many spots your conference gets.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 1:19 pm to Bamafig
The only way to be fair is have everybody set up identically in conf. size, schedule format, tie-breakers, etc.
That way nobody can complain about bias.
That way nobody can complain about bias.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:55 pm to Bamafig
its exactly like our government already
special interests gumming up the works, some conferences (states) get more representation than others
some shadowy group makes all the decisions behind the scenes, and puts some spokesperson at the podium to announce things for the masses to focus their ire on
special interests gumming up the works, some conferences (states) get more representation than others
some shadowy group makes all the decisions behind the scenes, and puts some spokesperson at the podium to announce things for the masses to focus their ire on
Posted on 11/20/25 at 3:32 pm to Bamafig
What do you do if the number 8 team in conference A could beat the living dog shite out of team number 1 in conference B?
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