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82 bowl bids available, only 77 teams remaining. Let's try a new one-time playoff system.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 7:57 am
Posted on 8/12/20 at 7:57 am
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Brett McMurphy
@Brett_McMurphy
Fun times for the bowls: 41 bowls & 82 bowl bids will be available but only 77 teams currently scheduled to play FBS this fall.
Also, one industry source questions if there can still be a @CFBPlayoff: "Hard to have a national championship without a bunch of teams"
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I'm starting to lean towards inviting the remaining Group of 5 teams into this thing and having some sort of expanded championship series with a wildcard play-in, like March Madness.
Giving those teams a chance to compete would be fun, even if it ended quickly, and it would be amazing if a cinderella G5 team made a deep run.
This would be a great (one-off) time to try out a new playoff system, especially if this season is going to be filled with asterisks anyway.
This post was edited on 8/12/20 at 9:28 am
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Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:08 am to paperwasp
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Fun times for the bowls: 41 bowls & 82 bowl bids will be available but only 77 teams currently scheduled to play FBS this fall.
Some teams can double up!
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Also, one industry source questions if there can still be a @CFBPlayoff: "Hard to have a national championship without a bunch of teams"
Nah... assuming things stay as they are, it isn't the fault of the SEC, ACC and Big 12 that the Pac 12 and B1G aren't playing football. Just go with the champs of those 3 and one at large from either one of those 3 conferences or a Group of 5 team.
This post was edited on 8/12/20 at 8:11 am
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:09 am to paperwasp
could you imagine two 0-10 teams (cough...Arky) playing for the ultimate toilet bowl sponsored by Lysol
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:11 am to paperwasp
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"Hard to have a national championship without a bunch of teams"
Well, if this was a few decades ago they would have just declared Notre Dame national champs, even if they refused to play football.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:12 am to paperwasp
It’ll be a better playoff without a pity pick of a team from the Lame 10 or LAC-12.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:19 am to skrayper
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Well, if this was a few decades ago they would have just declared Notre Dame national champs, even if they refused to play football.
RUDY!! RUDY!!
This post was edited on 8/12/20 at 8:21 am
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:20 am to paperwasp
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Hard to have a national championship without a bunch of teams"
lol, you mean "without one team"
OSU is the only team that would even be close to making the playoff, something tells me 4 teams out of the SEC/Big12/ACC+ND can fill out a 4 team playoff just fine.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:23 am to paperwasp
I'm sure whatever team wins will have an * next to this year's national title when it's listed.
I'm also sure the team and fans won't care.
I'm also sure the team and fans won't care.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:25 am to paperwasp
My guess is many of the bowls will cancel this year anyway. Just have the NY6 and maybe a few of the more popular bowls, like the Citrus. No need to have any of the bowls held out West except for the Fiesta and Rose. Who knows, Cali may not allow the Rose to be played anyway.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:26 am to DawgCountry
DawgCountry,
You don't even know that Arkansas is going 0-10 before you judge. Also, why bring up Arkansas in every single post.
You don't even know that Arkansas is going 0-10 before you judge. Also, why bring up Arkansas in every single post.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:27 am to Tigerpaul1969
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Who knows, Cali may not allow the Rose to be played anyway.
I thought they had already cancelled it. Or is that just the parade?
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:27 am to KateHogFan
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You don't even know that Arkansas is going 0-10 before you judge.
We have a pretty good idea, though.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:29 am to Tigerpaul1969
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Who knows, Cali may not allow the Rose to be played anyway.
Good point.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:31 am to KateHogFan
I mean it’s a reasonable assumption. I also don’t even think I’ve mentioned Arky on this site. Calm your hog tits
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:35 am to paperwasp
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Fun times for the bowls: 41 bowls & 82 bowl bids will be available but only 77 teams currently scheduled to play FBS this fall.
It'll be like the Louisiana high school playoffs nowadays where you have a 1 win team making it into the post season
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:47 am to paperwasp
If it ends up just being two conferences, say SEC vs ACC, the two conference champions can play in the title game like it's the Super Bowl. You can then also have roughly about 8 meaningful inter-conference post-season bowls as filler.
If you have 3 (or more) conferences, the playoffs can go on as usual, and a shortened bowl list as filler for the leftover teams.
If you have 3 (or more) conferences, the playoffs can go on as usual, and a shortened bowl list as filler for the leftover teams.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 8:59 am to paperwasp
Like bowl games will be played
Posted on 8/12/20 at 9:07 am to LSUFreek
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If you have 3 (or more) conferences, the playoffs can go on as usual, and a shortened bowl list as filler for the leftover teams.
I'm starting to lean towards inviting the remaining Group of 5 teams into this thing and having some sort of expanded championship series with a wildcard play-in, like March Madness.
Giving those teams a chance to compete would be fun, even if it ended quickly, and it would be amazing if a cinderella G5 team made a deep run.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 9:19 am to paperwasp
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wildcard play-in, like March Madness.
Yep, that would be fun! And would give meaning to those games that would otherwise be filler bowls.
But for this year only. Any other year, it's just a tournament style expanded playoff many have argued for that would ultimately make "big" regular season games practically meaningless, as both "great teams" already know they are playoff-bound.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 9:19 am to paperwasp
We going bowling!
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