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re: 12 Team Playoff With Last Years Teams
Posted on 9/3/22 at 6:50 am to tmjones2
Posted on 9/3/22 at 6:50 am to tmjones2
I can see where Bama , OSU, and now UGA fans would feel that way.. but I argue it makes the regular season more important…. Imagine the egg bowl this year with 9-2 ole miss playing 9-2 Miss ( hypothetically, lol) with an at large spot on the table.
The expanded playoff, now gives 9% of FBS a chance the playoff…. The next lowest of any sport in the world.. is 18% in college baseball and basketball…. The expanded playoff make college football more exciting.
The expanded playoff, now gives 9% of FBS a chance the playoff…. The next lowest of any sport in the world.. is 18% in college baseball and basketball…. The expanded playoff make college football more exciting.
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Posted on 9/3/22 at 8:21 am to dawgfan24348
So the two teams that got trucked in the 4 team playoff gets byes for a 12 team playoff? Yeah. This makes everything much better. 
Posted on 9/3/22 at 8:24 am to dawgfan24348
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I’m sure it was naive to think Bama would lose to the Aggies but it happened. Point is upsets happen and the chances of said upsets increase when you play more games and have those games be on the road
So now the idea is not to get the best teams, but to get more upsets?
Posted on 9/3/22 at 8:38 am to DawgsLife
12 team playoff is absurd. Bama is the only 3 or 4 seed to ever even win a playoff game. Most first round games aren't even close. There's absolutely no reason for more than 4.
Posted on 9/3/22 at 8:42 am to dawgfan24348
I'm not someone against expansion, since my team is the type of team that will benefit from it.
But let's look at this bracket. One entire pod is B-10 rematches. First, you get a rematch of Ohio State vs Mich St. Michigan State lost by 7 TDs, yes 7, to Ohio State just a few weeks earlier. Not a rematch that we need to decide who the better team is. So, Ohio State obviously wins a game they will be favored in by about 35 points. Yawn.
Then, Ohio State rematches Michigan. Michigan already beat Ohio State by over 2 TDs. I don't think it's really fair to force them to do it again. They already won that game. So, are we now saying that game doesn't matter? Or that it only matters in that Michigan now gets a bye week. Whoopty.
Then the Alabama pod. You have Ole Miss playing Oklahoma State. That's probably a pretty even match up. So, that's scary. Ole Miss already played Alabama. They forgot to plug in their microwave and got blasted. They were down 35-0 when Saban started letting off the gas.
Georgia/Pitt would be a massive blowout. Like pulling starters in the 2nd quarter type blowout to keep from getting injured ahead of a massive quarterfinal matchup with.....Baylor? Yeah, Georgia's winning that one by 4+ TDs too. So we're up to 4 blowouts and likely 3 rematches already, without touching the 4th pod.
The 4th pod. YIKES! ND, Cincinnati, and Utah. Wow. Talk about a basket of deplorables. None of them belonged in the conversation last year. Cincinnati already beat ND (4th potential rematch), that's what got them their spot last year. An early season close victory over another team that had no business being in the conversation.
I don't know. I was all for this expansion, but this bracket does not help make the case. It's actually a disaster of a bracket.
But let's look at this bracket. One entire pod is B-10 rematches. First, you get a rematch of Ohio State vs Mich St. Michigan State lost by 7 TDs, yes 7, to Ohio State just a few weeks earlier. Not a rematch that we need to decide who the better team is. So, Ohio State obviously wins a game they will be favored in by about 35 points. Yawn.
Then, Ohio State rematches Michigan. Michigan already beat Ohio State by over 2 TDs. I don't think it's really fair to force them to do it again. They already won that game. So, are we now saying that game doesn't matter? Or that it only matters in that Michigan now gets a bye week. Whoopty.
Then the Alabama pod. You have Ole Miss playing Oklahoma State. That's probably a pretty even match up. So, that's scary. Ole Miss already played Alabama. They forgot to plug in their microwave and got blasted. They were down 35-0 when Saban started letting off the gas.
Georgia/Pitt would be a massive blowout. Like pulling starters in the 2nd quarter type blowout to keep from getting injured ahead of a massive quarterfinal matchup with.....Baylor? Yeah, Georgia's winning that one by 4+ TDs too. So we're up to 4 blowouts and likely 3 rematches already, without touching the 4th pod.
The 4th pod. YIKES! ND, Cincinnati, and Utah. Wow. Talk about a basket of deplorables. None of them belonged in the conversation last year. Cincinnati already beat ND (4th potential rematch), that's what got them their spot last year. An early season close victory over another team that had no business being in the conversation.
I don't know. I was all for this expansion, but this bracket does not help make the case. It's actually a disaster of a bracket.
Posted on 9/3/22 at 8:47 am to Ironlung
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12 team playoff is absurd. Bama is the only 3 or 4 seed to ever even win a playoff game. Most first round games aren't even close. There's absolutely no reason for more than 4.
Well, that's not true. Georgia did it in 2017 as the #3 seed and then won it all last season as the #3 seed.
I do agree that 4 team playoff is the way to go, though.
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Wow. Point out facts and down votes come.
So, let's go further. Ohio State won the very first playoff as the #4 seed. Clemson was the #3 seed in 2019 and won their semifinal game and Ohio State won their semifinal game in 2020.
So, Georgia (twice) Clemson and Ohio State (Twice) all won a playoff game while being a #3 or #4 seed.
This post was edited on 9/3/22 at 8:57 am
Posted on 9/3/22 at 8:51 am to Hogfan13
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I don't know. I was all for this expansion, but this bracket does not help make the case. It's actually a disaster of a bracket.
Agree 100%, yet somebody earlier in this thread was amazed at how great the brackets looked.
Posted on 9/3/22 at 9:08 am to Ironlung
What the heck are you talking about??
The 4 seed has won the Title twice, OSU in ‘14 and Bama in ‘17. UGA was a 3 seed last year and a 3 seed in ‘17. LSU in 20 and Bama in 21 are the only #1s to win it all…. In the Clemson and Bama back and forth titles the 2 seed beat the 1 every time..
The 4 seed has won the Title twice, OSU in ‘14 and Bama in ‘17. UGA was a 3 seed last year and a 3 seed in ‘17. LSU in 20 and Bama in 21 are the only #1s to win it all…. In the Clemson and Bama back and forth titles the 2 seed beat the 1 every time..
Posted on 9/3/22 at 9:42 am to dawgfan24348
Championship game would be awful
Posted on 9/3/22 at 10:04 am to Hogfan13
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I don't know. I was all for this expansion, but this bracket does not help make the case. It's actually a disaster of a bracket.
The bracket is poor but easily solvable. Swap OSU and Old Miss seeds. Do the same with UGA and Notre Dame. It eliminates nearly all of those rematches.
You instead have Ole Miss- Mich State, Ohio St- Oklahoma St, Notre Dame-Pitt, UGA-Utah.
Then you’d have (likely) Bama-OSU, Ole Miss-Michigan, ND-Baylor, and UGA-Cincy.
Not spectacular, but a far better sight than the “rematch bracket” scenario the original set up.
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