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Posted on 1/4/21 at 4:48 pm to FaCubeItches
Posted on 1/4/21 at 4:48 pm to FaCubeItches
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What year was the best team left out?
By having a "selection" rather than a clearly delineated qualification, there is no way to ever guarantee that the best team, or even any of the four best, gets in. If they want to have a serious playoff, then all of college football needs to be reorganized: for a four team playoff, all D1 programs go into four conferences, and the 4 champs play; or do it with 8 teams and 8 conferences. Win and you're in. No selections; no could'a, would'a, should'a; no "my one loss is better than your one loss"; no nothing.
So you cant give me an example of when the best 2 teams are not in the playoff.
Lol
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Posted on 1/4/21 at 5:41 pm to meansonny
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What year was the best team left out?
By having a "selection" rather than a clearly delineated qualification, there is no way to ever guarantee that the best team, or even any of the four best, gets in. If they want to have a serious playoff, then all of college football needs to be reorganized: for a four team playoff, all D1 programs go into four conferences, and the 4 champs play; or do it with 8 teams and 8 conferences. Win and you're in. No selections; no could'a, would'a, should'a; no "my one loss is better than your one loss"; no nothing.
So you cant give me an example of when the best 2 teams are not in the playoff.
Lol
This. Football is a lot different from basketball. In basketball, underdawgs loaded with experienced Seniors can potentially upset young highly recruited teams like Kentucky but in football players can't jump to the pros until after their Sophomore season which means that the age/maturity of players for top contenders like Alabama isn't that much different from teams like the Cincinnati team we played in the Peach Bowl.
As such in football, the best team is almost certainly among the 4 teams selected by the playoff committee and really the best team was usually one of the 2 teams determined by the previous BCS format.
In other words, what I am saying is that a team like 9-0 Cincinnati has roughly zero chance of beating a team like Alabama even if they played them 20 times.
Posted on 1/5/21 at 5:11 pm to meansonny
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So you cant give me an example of when the best 2 teams are not in the playoff.
And you can't give me one example of when the two best teams were, because there is no guarantee that the teams selected for the playoff were any of the best teams, let alone the four best. There have always been arguments that this school should have gotten in and that one shouldn't have
Any playoff system will be imperfect, but the current college football one is really bad. The NFL, NHL, NBA, and MLB do a better job of ensuring that the best team(s) get in, though again, each has its own flaws, either with byes for some teams, weak division champions, etc.
If you're happy with things the way they are, so be it. However, the current system was an unnecessary fix to an unnecessary fix to a non-existent problem, and it will be fixed again within a couple of years. And then fixed again after that, and so forth and so on.
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