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re: Expanded Playoffs At A Cost Of 11 Game Season?
Posted on 1/13/20 at 1:03 pm to PeeJayScammedGT
Posted on 1/13/20 at 1:03 pm to PeeJayScammedGT
Or just go to an 8 team playoff. Have the power 5 conference championships be automatic bids and top four seeds get home field advantage in the first round. Keeps the conference title games important and gives three at large teams to get in
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Posted on 1/13/20 at 1:12 pm to dawgfan24348
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Or just go to an 8 team playoff. Have the power 5 conference championships be automatic bids and top four seeds get home field advantage in the first round. Keeps the conference title games important and gives three at large teams to get in
Nope
Won't work
P5 Teams will water down the regular season sked and schedule extra cupcakes, that's why you can't guarantee all P5 Conference Champs a slot, take the Top4 and then you'll have all 5 major conferences trying make sure their Conf is one of the Top4
8 real games plus 4 cupcakes does nothing for the Regular Season and those fans that pay tons for season Tix and other fees associated with Season Tix
You gotta protect the value of the Regular Season
Posted on 1/13/20 at 1:18 pm to PeeJayScammedGT
Far be it from me to agree with the Tech grad, but this is what I've been preaching for a while. 5 conference auto-qualifier will mean very lackluster playoff games and also ensure that at some point, some team that really doesn't belong ends up in a title game. The reason CFB has been so interesting for so long is how much regular season games mean. Expanding to 8 pretty much ensures that a good team with a bad loss doesn't care anymore, and really doesn't even have to do much to get their SOS high enough to "edge out" some of the other contenders.
If we're expanding at all, 6 is the only realistic number that still ensures reasonably high quality playoff matches with "mostly" deserving teams... and even that is likely grabbing 2 teams that were "close but not quite at that level" 9 out of 10 years. But it does at least reward the consensus #1 and #2 teams with a bye, so still pushes teams to win every game and schedule accordingly.
If we're expanding at all, 6 is the only realistic number that still ensures reasonably high quality playoff matches with "mostly" deserving teams... and even that is likely grabbing 2 teams that were "close but not quite at that level" 9 out of 10 years. But it does at least reward the consensus #1 and #2 teams with a bye, so still pushes teams to win every game and schedule accordingly.
Posted on 1/13/20 at 1:20 pm to southernboisb
This year is the best argument against expanded playoffs.
Posted on 1/13/20 at 1:38 pm to fibonaccisquared
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Far be it from me to agree with the Tech grad
What's the big deal?
We're always right
OTOH we Techsters don't emphasize CFB as much as I would like, nor do many of GT folks understand how Big Time college Sports can ADD to the University environment
Instead a lot of the geek-nerd-social misfits have an Anti-Major Sports attitude, and IMO that's the #1 reason that GT doesn't win more
If the Alums would embrace Major Sports in this Era of Major Sports GT would win on a higher level going forward
When CFB was segregated GT Alums & Fans embraced the hell out of being a big time CFB Program
Posted on 1/13/20 at 1:39 pm to southernboisb
Did we really need to see LSU beat Baylor by 60? Cuz that would’ve been a hypothetical quarterfinal game
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