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CFB playoffs and brackets
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:26 am
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:26 am
Will it be as big of a thing for football in December, as it's been for basketball in March? It seems like everybody and their mom fills out a bracket these days.
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Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:26 am to Faurot fodder
Crazy upsets in football playoff won’t happen as often probably
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:27 am to Jrv2damac
Filling out the perfect bracket won't be a 1 in a trillion chance, that's fo sho.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:34 am to Jrv2damac
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Crazy upsets in football playoff won’t happen as often
You can find five jokers who can ball. If one of those guys is elite, you have a puncher's chance on a given night. If two are elite, you can make a run.
Football needs a total of about 35 players and coaches to compete at a high level.
The odds of a 16-seed Sam Houston State beating Georgia or Alabama (or Kentucky, for that matter) are extremely remote, if not statistically impossible.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:47 am to paperwasp
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You can find five jokers who can ball. If one of those guys is elite, you have a puncher's chance on a given night. If two are elite, you can make a run.
Football needs a total of about 35 players and coaches to compete at a high level.
The odds of a 16-seed Sam Houston State beating Georgia or Alabama (or Kentucky, for that matter) are extremely remote, if not statistically impossible.
This pretty much nails it.
Upsets in the football playoff won't even feel like huge upsets. Last year, UGA as a 6 seed might have won the playoff... but would UGA beating Michigan really feel like much of an upset?
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:51 am to DawginSC
The media drives the upset narrative so people will watch. Upsets don't exist on the level that people believe they do. If a team beats another team it was not expected to beat, it still happens for a real reason, not some magical reason.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:54 am to paperwasp
With March madness, loads of people that have zero interest in college basketball during the regular season fill out brackets left and right, creating an industry in and of itself. I guess my question is: Do we see the same thing with CFP?
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:58 am to Faurot fodder
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Do we see the same thing with CFP?
No. I’ve filled out maybe two NFL playoff brackets in my lifetime and you always have to include a tiebreaker like Super Bowl points because there is always a tie. If you have more than 30 people, you might need multiple tie breakers.
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