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re: 12 Team Playoff
Posted on 6/10/21 at 10:42 pm to SECFan413
Posted on 6/10/21 at 10:42 pm to SECFan413
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Since 1992, only one bowl game has truly mattered.
What does mattered mean? As far as I’m concerned any game the fans and players care about matters, and prior to the playoff, fans and players definitely cared about bowl games. Did you not care about the Iron Bowl when neither team was a national championship contender?
If your opinion is that only games that determine the national champion matter, then 95+% of games don’t matter regardless of the system.
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It’s a lazy argument to suggest that the playoff has killed the other bowls.
For close to 100 years no one quit on their team before a bowl game. About 3 years into the playoff system it became the norm.
That seems like a pretty big coincidence.
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Posted on 6/10/21 at 10:45 pm to TomRollTideRitter
12-Team Playoff Proposed by College Football Playoff Working Group (SI)
Is Bigger Playoff Field Better? (BOL)
Kirk Herbstreit in support of 12-team playoff proposal (247)
Is Bigger Playoff Field Better? (BOL)
Kirk Herbstreit in support of 12-team playoff proposal (247)
This post was edited on 6/11/21 at 7:50 am
Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:25 am to TomRollTideRitter
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What does mattered mean? As far as I’m concerned any game the fans and players care about matters, and prior to the playoff, fans and players definitely cared about bowl games. Did you not care about the Iron Bowl when neither team was a national championship contender?
If your opinion is that only games that determine the national champion matter, then 95+% of games don’t matter regardless of the system.
That’s literally the argument folks make for why people have lost interest in bowls. Not sure what you’re point is.
Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:51 am to TomRollTideRitter
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For close to 100 years no one quit on their team before a bowl game. About 3 years into the playoff system it became the norm.
That seems like a pretty big coincidence.
Yep. That's why I wouldn't have a problem with just scrapping all of it. But like I said before, I'm not sure there's any path back at this point. I just hate that a system has been created where kids at a program like UNC sit out of the fricking Orange Bowl even though it was the first major bowl game they had been to in 70 years.
This post was edited on 6/11/21 at 7:52 am
Posted on 6/11/21 at 8:14 am to TomRollTideRitter
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For close to 100 years no one quit on their team before a bowl game. About 3 years into the playoff system it became the norm.
That seems like a pretty big coincidence.
It is a coincidence. It just so happens that it took this long for players to realize that it's smarter to sit out once they had their draft placement sown up. Stop playing games, start practicing for the combine. Limit the risk of injury prior to getting a life changing payday.
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