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re: G5 Go out and start your own playoff Championship, Kannel and Brando heads blowing up

Posted on 1/3/18 at 8:13 pm to
Posted by TeLeFaWx
Dallas, TX
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 1/3/18 at 8:13 pm to
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Fodder? More like Clemson plays a scrappy UCF team in a game it would never have to play otherwise in the current 4 team format. It's literally just adding games for the sake of adding games. Which is fine if your only goal is to make money, but it's going to have some serious consequences on the back end.


The goal in this system is to make every single game matter. Every bowl game. Every out of conference game. Real tangible value to playoff standing and how difficult your draw will be if you're good enough to make it.
Posted by tylerdurden24
Member since Sep 2009
46691 posts
Posted on 1/3/18 at 8:49 pm to
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Every bowl game.


This has never been the goal. The only time every bowl ever mattered was when there wer only 6 or 7 of them and they had conference affiliations that pitted the #1 team versus #8 so everyone was forced to guess at the end as to who was the best.

Ever since the bowls expanded to the 40 something they have now, the goal of bowl games has been to produce ad revenue for ESPN and the schools. Period. Those game don't matter and never will matter because they're branding exercises and glorified scrimmages.

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Every out of conference game

These already matter, fairly heavily actually. Oklahoma beating Ohio State was the entire reason they were allowed to gloss over a homes loss to Iowa State. Clemson beating Auburn and South Carolina was the whole reason the Syracuse loss was more or less wiped from the record books so far as the media seemed concerned. Then there was UGA beating Notre Dame which was almost single handedly the reason we were ranked #1 for the time that we were.

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Real tangible value to playoff standing and how difficult your draw will be if you're good enough to make it.


There will never not be controversy over the last slot in any playoff. 4 teams, 8 teams, 12 teams. That last slot is going to be bickered over every single year when you have 120+ other teams trying to get in.

If you're trying to avoid controversy with an expanded playoff then you're running a fool's errand.

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