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re: This is why I hate a Committee making the decisions
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:41 am to BHMKyle
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:41 am to BHMKyle
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There needs to be an 8-team Playoff.... The 5 Conference Champs should get in automatically.
no.
Before it was..."We need a playoff!"
I can't think of a single year in which people felt like the #6,7,or 8 ranked team would have a legit shot at winning the Championship. You could maybe make an argument for a #5 team one year. In more years than not the top 4 teams are the only teams that have a shot, and in some years the top 3 could be argued. Remember blowouts like:
Oregon 59 FSU 20
Clemson 37 Oklahoma 17
Alabama 38 Michigan State 0
Clemson 31 Ohio St. 0
Alabama 24 Washington 7
Clemson 30 ND 3
Go to an 8 team playoff and you will have a lot more of those. In five years over half of the first round playoff games have been total snoozers. Add another round or two and it gets worse, not better.
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Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:51 am to DawgsLife
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Before it was..."We need a playoff!"
I can't think of a single year in which people felt like the #6,7,or 8 ranked team would have a legit shot at winning the Championship.
Exactly true. And by adding teams all you are doing is pushing that debate further down the line.
Look at 2017. #8,9,10,11 were 10-2. #7 was 10-3. UCF was undefeated at 12.
In 2016, #8,9,10,11,12,13 were 9-3/10-3. Who gets in?
In 2015, 8-11 were 10-2/11-2.
At some point, there has to be a cutoff. In my opinion, it is easier to decide who is #4, than who is #8. Usually only a couple of teams have a top 4 resume. Expand it to 8 and now you've got 5 separate debates for who is the 8th best team, and even more weight carried by "brand" and "eye test"
Posted on 11/6/19 at 10:05 am to DawgsLife
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Oregon 59 FSU 20
Clemson 37 Oklahoma 17
Alabama 38 Michigan State 0
Clemson 31 Ohio St. 0
Alabama 24 Washington 7
Clemson 30 ND 3
The only "good" first round games have been Alabama vs Ohio State in 2014 and Georgia vs Oklahoma in 2017. Alabama vs Oklahoma in 2018 wasn't a blowout though.
Posted on 11/6/19 at 10:22 am to DawgsLife
quote:Eveything you just posted shows exactly why they need more teams
I can't think of a single year in which people felt like the #6,7,or 8 ranked team would have a legit shot at winning the Championship. You could maybe make an argument for a #5 team one year. In more years than not the top 4 teams are the only teams that have a shot, and in some years the top 3 could be argued. Remember blowouts like:
Oregon 59 FSU 20
Clemson 37 Oklahoma 17
Alabama 38 Michigan State 0
Clemson 31 Ohio St. 0
Alabama 24 Washington 7
Clemson 30 ND 3
Oregon 59 FSU 20- TCU, who was left out the playoffs, blew the fricking doors off of Ole Miss in the bowl game, the team that beat Bama....
Clemson 37 Oklahoma 17-Ohio st, the defending champs with only one loss, clearly were better than Mich St
Alabama 38 Michigan State 0-Ohio st, the defending champs with only one loss, clearly were better than Mich St
Clemson 31 Ohio St. 0-Maybe Penn state, the actual big 10 champs who beat OSU, should have had an opportunity
Alabama 24 Washington 7
Clemson 30 ND 3-Ohio State would have blown the doors off ND as well
Posted on 11/6/19 at 5:52 pm to DawgsLife
The system is rigged and not fair if a team like Cut can go undefeated and never has a chance to see if they are the best team. 2 years ago when they went undefeated but we'll never know in this system because they was never given the chance to strap it up and go head to head. We do know that they beat, a team that beat the 2 teams that played for the championship. So anything is possible.
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