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re: The Big 10 Has Been Inquiring About the CFP Selection Format
Posted on 1/7/19 at 11:36 am to VermilionTiger
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...
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Posted on 1/7/19 at 11:44 am to OldPete
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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...
Had tOSU only lost by a few points such as a TD or less, I still think they get because the young Purdue fan that die of Cancer that lifted the team in that win makes me think the CFP throws the Buckeyes a mulligan. But the loss was so huge it just couldn't be overlooked.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 12:41 pm to OldPete
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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...
Precisely.
Four P5 conferences had teams with 3 or more losses playing in their title games:
PAC - Washington (3) and Utah (3)
ACC - Pitt (5)
Big 12 - Texas (3)
Big 10 - Northwestern (4)
With only the SEC assured of their champ having 0 (Alabama) or 1 (Georgia), the other conferences, with a few upsets, could have sent an absolute shitshow to the CFP. Think on this possible bracket:
Alabama vs Northwestern
Texas vs Utah
You think the semifinals are bad NOW?
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