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re: Travis Gregory Stano says SEC should get 3 playoff teams
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:14 am to Riseupfromtherubble
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:14 am to Riseupfromtherubble
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Need an 8 team playoff. This scenario will have to happen a few times with only one sec team getting in and that will lead to an 8 team playoff
We don't need an 8 team playoff just like we didn't need a 4 team playoff. We need conferences to function and if you can't win your conference, then you have no business winning the national championship.
When has the #8 team ever been considered the best team in the country? What we are doing is devaluing the drama of the regular season and are making it an "any given Saturday" type of thing, which is colossally stupid.
You should have to win your conference and then be considered one of the top 2 (or now, 4) teams to be able to play for a NATIONAL championship. We have the conferences set up. If we keep expanding the playoff, it makes the regular season less important and it makes conference championships less important, and that will be the ruin of college football.
But, sure, just try to get Alabama into a playoff in the hope that you can get on a run and win another bogus title when you couldn't win your conference championship that year. Makes sense.
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Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:20 am to AlaTiger
I would disagree. The point is to have the two best teams play no matter what conference they come from. In 2011, the SEC had the two best teams, and IMO, in 2012 the SEC had at LEAST 2 of the top 3 or 4 teams. Those years, if there had been a playoff, then two SEC teams should have gone.
In 2012, an argument COULD have been made that the SEC had three of the top 4 teams in the country with Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
I DO agree that we don't need an 8 team playoff, though.
In 2012, an argument COULD have been made that the SEC had three of the top 4 teams in the country with Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
I DO agree that we don't need an 8 team playoff, though.
This post was edited on 9/10/14 at 10:22 am
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:35 am to AlaTiger
So if undefeated LSU lost in overtime to undefeated Georgia in the SECCG, you would be ok with 2 loss Oklahoma, 2 loss Oregon, and Florida state making it in?
What about that scenario?
Should these team be rewarded just because they happened to be the best team in a terrible conference? It's a ludicrous argument. In no other sport do you have to win your conference to make a playoff
What about that scenario?
Should these team be rewarded just because they happened to be the best team in a terrible conference? It's a ludicrous argument. In no other sport do you have to win your conference to make a playoff
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