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re: The Big 10 Has Been Inquiring About the CFP Selection Format
Posted on 1/7/19 at 10:20 am to Bolivar Shagnasty
Posted on 1/7/19 at 10:20 am to Bolivar Shagnasty
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I think the committee has done a good job, but when people are involved there will always be questions about objectivity.
No, that is wrong. two teams from the same conference do not belong in a 4 team playoff. The regular season is, admittedly, a playoff in and of itself. If Alabama didn't earn the right to play Georgia in the SECCG in 2017, they shouldn't have made the playoffs.
At some point, results on the field need to matter. You can't non objectively say that one team deserves to get in over another if they haven't squared off 1 on 1. Conference championships have to matter.
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Posted on 1/7/19 at 10:28 am to VermilionTiger
I keep saying it over and over... there is a reason we don’t have these same arguments with the nfl. They know what needs to be done to get in. Anytime people pick teams, it will be wrong.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 10:34 am to VermilionTiger
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two teams from the same conference do not belong in a 4 team playoff.
If Bama had beaten LSU in OT in the 2011 regular season, LSU wouldn’t have deserved to make the 4 team playoff?
Posted on 1/7/19 at 10:36 am to VermilionTiger
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At some point, results on the field need to matter. You can't non objectively say that one team deserves to get in over another if they haven't squared off 1 on 1. Conference championships have to matter.
Your argument is reading "Only certain results on the field need to matter." You want to take one or two games and say those are the ones that matter. To hell with the entire rest of the season -- if you don't beat Team A or play in Game B, all the other data points are meaningless. Trying to couch it in broad terms sounds reasonable until your qualifying conditions undermine that.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 10:37 am to VermilionTiger
You can make the argument the SEC championship means more and is tougher to win than the playoff.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 10:44 am to VermilionTiger
I bet anyone $10, that if Alabama lost to Vandy by four touchdowns they would still put them in the playoffs
Posted on 1/7/19 at 11:36 am to VermilionTiger
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At some point, results on the field need to matter.
Results on the field do matter...that's why Ohio State got left out this year...they loss to a 6-7 Purdue team by 29 points. Last year, Ohio State lost a non-competitive game to Oklahoma and got blew out by a mediocre Iowa team. If you award spots only to conference champs, then results on the field don't matter and the regular season means less. It wouldn't have mattered that Purdue spanked Ohio State; they would've gotten a pass for that game...
Also, you could get situations where teams with 3+ losses get in...Washington was PAC-12 champ and had 3 losses. Had Northwestern pulled the upset, they'd have been a 4 loss B1G champ; losing to Akron at home wouldn't have mattered at all...
Posted on 1/7/19 at 1:12 pm to VermilionTiger
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two teams from the same conference do not belong in a 4 team playoff.
That’s only if your goal isn’t getting the four best teams. And if you’re not interested in the four best teams, just rename it to the Snowflake Invitational.
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