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re: Deregulation of conference championship games expected to pass
Posted on 5/11/15 at 11:43 am to bamawriter
Posted on 5/11/15 at 11:43 am to bamawriter
Bama didn't win their division. They didn't deserve a shot in Atl, either.
This post was edited on 5/11/15 at 11:45 am
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Posted on 5/11/15 at 11:47 am to bamawriter
Y3s, could have been a rematch in Atlanta instead with the winner taking on Oklahoma State.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 11:48 am to scrooster
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Amen
Posted on 5/11/15 at 11:51 am to GeauxToBed
Playing a conference team once a decade is a broken system scheduling wise.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 11:52 am to bamawriter
Both Bama and LSU deserved to play for the championship that year. Bama did not deserve to play for the sec. The system got it right in 2011.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 11:53 am to nebraskafaninwi
I like it
Posted on 5/11/15 at 11:54 am to nebraskafaninwi
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Playing a conference team once a decade is a broken system scheduling wise.
I'm fine with doing away with permanent cross-division rivals.
Keep the schedule at 8 games, play everyone every few years and don't fix what ain't broke.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 11:57 am to nebraskafaninwi
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This will help avoid boring games of a "divisional winner" that is a weaker team than the second place team because the second team had a harder schedule and thus missed out on wining the division because "the champ" had an easier schedule.
Welp, that's all she wrote for Missouri then.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 11:57 am to nebraskafaninwi
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Once the deregulation passes, conferences can decide on how to determine who plays in the conference title games.
This could be a Major problem.
The Conferences could decide whoever they want to play. It will still create controversy with teams 2-5 on who is the true #2.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 11:58 am to Buckeye06
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The biggest difference to me, and one that I haven't seen much talked about, is why wouldn't current conferences get rid of teams now, and go back to 10 teams. The B1G could technically get rid of 4 teams, go to a rotating 10 team schedule (9 conference games), and then pick a champion in whatever way deemed necessary.
This opens up an entire can of worms
Not happening. The TV money is too good with more teams. The less teams there are the less lucrative those contracts become.
This post was edited on 5/11/15 at 1:04 pm
Posted on 5/11/15 at 12:04 pm to RECConspiracy
Yep...that is why it will go to 4 team pods. Top 2 teams play for the title and then playoff appearance, potentially.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 12:08 pm to RECConspiracy
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Not happening. The TV money is too good with more teams. The less thams there are the less lucrative those contracts become.
You are the second person to say that, and I absolutely agree money is important. However, if money was the only real consideration why don't the B1G/SEC expand tomorrow to each bring in another state or two each? They both have the $ and clout to do it successfully. There are obviously other considerations.
I will tell you this: the ONLY reason the B1G expanded to 12 teams, at the time, was for a title game so they could get a team into the conversation for national titles. It is also the reason why the Ohio State/Michigan game got moved back a week (the B1G season always used to end before thanksgiving and it was bad for their perception/chances to be in the spotlight)
If the B1G never had to get a twelfth member for a title game, they wouldn't have.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 12:09 pm to nebraskafaninwi
Give Birmingham more reason to suck on Bama's trunk?
Nah, I'll pass
Nah, I'll pass
Posted on 5/11/15 at 12:14 pm to Buckeye06
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why don't the B1G/SEC expand tomorrow to each bring in another state or two each?
Because there are no good options. The weakest conferences financially (the ACC and the Big 12) both have really strong GORs protecting them. If the B1G challenges these GORs it might invalidate the GORs the B1G also uses which would decrease media payouts due to uncertainty.
The only major conference without a GOR is the SEC, which is why maybe the B1G has been rumored to be sniffing around Mizzou recently. Problem is the SEC Network is going to make more for Mizzou long-term.
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If the B1G never had to get a twelfth member for a title game, they wouldn't have.
Then why did they expand to 14? They didn't need to do that for a title game.
Its the same answer for why they won't drop back down to a lower number: money. The B1G targeted two programs with minimal legal encumbrances who added to the population base for 13 and 14. That is the new reality of college football.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 12:18 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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Better fix would be 9 league games and all OOC's should be against the Big 5 conferences. IMO
100% agree
Posted on 5/11/15 at 12:25 pm to nebraskafaninwi
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Yep...that is why it will go to 4 team pods. Top 2 teams play for the title and then playoff appearance, potentially.
So, what happens if the SEC has 4 pods, and 3 of them have undefeated teams? Or, if 1 pod has an undefeated team and two others have 1 loss teams which both lost to the undefeated pod "winner"?
If you're going to have 4 pods, you have a "playoff" with the 4 pod winners to determine the conference champ. Otherwise, it's pointless to have pods in the first place.
This post was edited on 5/11/15 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 5/11/15 at 12:44 pm to YankeeHandle
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I wish they would just move Mizzou to the West so all you fricktards would stop bitching.
Not a put down, but they should be in the West anyway.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 12:47 pm to RB10
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It's time to man up and go to a 9 game conference schedule with 1 permanent and 2 rotating cross-divisional opponents.
Will never happen. No one other than Bama supports injecting the inequity of home/away balance issues into the schedule. Plus, big programs such as LSU, Bama (it is likely their support is because they think costing the other programs a home game every two years creates a competitive advantage given their revenue advantage), Auburn, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee aren't going to give up a home date on the schedule so they can play an extra conference road game.
This post was edited on 5/11/15 at 12:52 pm
Posted on 5/11/15 at 1:07 pm to Serraneaux
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Serraneaux
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But, LSU would complain about a possible rematch.
You sure have a lot of mouth on you, being a fan of a team that hasn't been relevant in long over a decade
Posted on 5/11/15 at 1:18 pm to RB10
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So, what happens if the SEC has 4 pods, and 3 of them have undefeated teams?
Pod A plays Pod B this year and Pod C plays Pod D. Thus, you can only have one undefeated team for the A vs B and c vs D.
Simply put, the pod system is a way to ensure that every single school gets to play every other school twice every four years -- once at home and once on the road.
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