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re: CFB is broken
Posted on 10/26/25 at 5:28 pm to Buckeye06
Posted on 10/26/25 at 5:28 pm to Buckeye06
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Our teams would beat your teams without any evidence to prove it.
The only real evidence we have each season pre-playoffs is non-conference games.
The 18 team B1G has a final record of 5-7 vs P4+Notre Dame. 12 out of 18 schools participating. Notably Indiana does not play a P4 school.
The 16 team SEC has a record of 10-4 with 4 games remaining. 16 of 16 schools participating. 2 schools with multiple games.
The B1G needs to force every team to play P4 non-conference. B12 and ACC too. Everyone would know more if this happened. Strength of schedule metrics would be more accurate
Or how about a B1G vs SEC week in September?
We would do it but there’s zero chance the B1G says yes and has their season ruined 2 weeks in
This post was edited on 10/26/25 at 5:31 pm
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Posted on 10/26/25 at 5:30 pm to SECCaptain
Indiana isn’t the problem. That’s been a decent schedule. The big10 overall though doesn’t play enough good games. It’s just a watered down league.
Posted on 10/26/25 at 5:30 pm to Raoul_Duke
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by Raoul_Duke
‘“Your” team is 0-4 all time vs OSU. And you lost last year to the Trojans
Posted on 10/26/25 at 5:32 pm to AUTiger789
If anything the teams are more balanced look at Arkansas they are very close to only being a 1 loss team
State I could say the same for them
Who wants to play Vandy now?
State I could say the same for them
Who wants to play Vandy now?
Posted on 10/26/25 at 5:32 pm to Nasty_Canasta
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You’re high as frick if you think this is the best the SEC has ever been
Okay. Name a better SEC in terms of end of OCT rankings top to bottom.
Not arguing, I'd be interested to learn the answer.
Seems pretty deep, even with 16 teams.
Posted on 10/26/25 at 5:35 pm to Nasty_Canasta
Okay? But we aren’t bitches who hide from the competition and play boring cupcake games all fall. I’d rather do that and lose than be stuck living in the rust belt
Also, nobody plays in or even cares about non-playoff bowl games anymore. They don’t matter and shouldn’t even be played. They’re basically practice scrimmages for the freshmen to entertain children like yourself
Also, nobody plays in or even cares about non-playoff bowl games anymore. They don’t matter and shouldn’t even be played. They’re basically practice scrimmages for the freshmen to entertain children like yourself
This post was edited on 10/26/25 at 5:45 pm
Posted on 10/26/25 at 5:43 pm to Nitro Express
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My conference sucks and it doesn't matter
I dont have a conference. I'm a fan of one single team, not an entire conference. This discussion always devolves into debating how a hypothetical game between Iowa or Minnesota vs Kentucky or Florida would go, as if that has any impact on how my team would do against Bama or Georgia.
Posted on 10/26/25 at 7:53 pm to AUTiger789
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Vandy gave Virginia Tech their most lopsided loss of the season to date.
Using this to justify a team in the top 10 is all I needed to hear to know the rest would be terrible
Posted on 10/26/25 at 10:31 pm to Raoul_Duke
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Okay? But we aren’t bitches who hide from the competition and play boring cupcake games all fall. I’d rather do that and lose than be stuck living in the rust belt
Samford is gonna be a real barn burner
Posted on 10/26/25 at 10:32 pm to anc
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We've got college kids driving around campuses in $100k+ cars and not going to class and Indiana's schedule strength is ruining the sport?
Very common and stupid opinion that the labor finally getting a small piece of the pie is the problem.
Posted on 10/26/25 at 10:36 pm to AUTiger789
You people are morons. Indiana would beat most of the SEC 
Posted on 10/27/25 at 10:55 am to Raoul_Duke
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We would do it but there’s zero chance the B1G says yes and has their season ruined 2 weeks in
I mean OSU can only do their part. They scheduled Texs/Bama/UGA home and home in the next 5 years.
Somehow, OSU is getting crap about their schedule even though they had the #1 preseason team from the SEC as their opening game
Posted on 10/27/25 at 2:21 pm to WilliamTaylor21
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You people are morons. Indiana would beat most of the SEC
They would trounce LSU, sure. But not any of the real teams.
They wouldn't beat a single Top 20 SEC team, and would lose to most of the others.
This post was edited on 10/27/25 at 2:22 pm
Posted on 10/27/25 at 2:24 pm to AUTiger789
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I guarantee you the pay gap is smaller this season than it was pre-NIL.
And? Do you think it is going to make a huge difference? The richer schools will still pay players a lot more than the have nots. And they will pay bench warmers more than Indiana will to start. And what do you think will happen if a cap is put on the amounts? The same thing that happened before it was legal to pay players. Teams will go over the cap by paying under the table.Posted on 10/27/25 at 2:29 pm to DawgsLife
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And they will pay bench warmers more than Indiana will to start
Indiana just coughed up 13 million a year for Cignetti. Mark Cuban has some of the deepest pockets in America. They can pay their players at IU now that its legitimate
Posted on 10/27/25 at 2:31 pm to Che Boludo
The SEC in 2008-2014 was way better than this. What are you… 8 years old?
Posted on 10/27/25 at 2:44 pm to Raoul_Duke
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Raoul_Duke
Rust belt lol. That’s hilarious. They don’t even call it that up there anymore. This ain’t 1990 grandpa
Posted on 10/27/25 at 2:59 pm to AUTiger789
The playoff isn’t broken, the calibration is.
College football used to reward proof; now it rewards perception. We’ve built a system where the same five brands play different schedules, in different realities, and somehow get judged on the same scale. The playoff committee doesn’t pick the best teams anymore, they pick the best storylines.
If we actually want balance, we don’t need twelve playoff spots. We need twelve comparable paths. Give everyone nine conference games (ACC), one Power opponent, and no FCS cupcakes after Halloween. Make the schedule mean something again.
Right now, the system doesn’t reward who’s best, it rewards who’s least questioned. Fix that, and the sport starts to feel honest again.
College football used to reward proof; now it rewards perception. We’ve built a system where the same five brands play different schedules, in different realities, and somehow get judged on the same scale. The playoff committee doesn’t pick the best teams anymore, they pick the best storylines.
If we actually want balance, we don’t need twelve playoff spots. We need twelve comparable paths. Give everyone nine conference games (ACC), one Power opponent, and no FCS cupcakes after Halloween. Make the schedule mean something again.
Right now, the system doesn’t reward who’s best, it rewards who’s least questioned. Fix that, and the sport starts to feel honest again.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 3:03 pm to MaroonedLogic
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Give everyone nine conference games (ACC), one Power opponent
Big ten has been playing 9 for years. But fans bitch and complain about the extra game being Purdue or Northwestern or Rutgers. But they don’t look at the other end of that being some other teams have to play OSU, Oregon, Indiana, Michigan or Washington now on the flip side. The SEC still has the most depth of the conferences but the middle isn’t as dominant as it was a few years back. The portal has completely changed everything
This post was edited on 10/27/25 at 3:03 pm
Posted on 10/27/25 at 3:08 pm to Buckeye06
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Using this to justify a team in the top 10 is all I needed to hear to know the rest would be terrible
You specifically asked who Vandy had played and I answered. Half your league refuses to even play OOC power 4 opponents so I’m not sure why you think you’ve got any right to criticize those who do.
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