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How are the opponents in the SEC conference championship game picked with the POD system?
Posted on 7/23/21 at 12:55 pm
Posted on 7/23/21 at 12:55 pm
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 12:56 pm to TheAstroTiger
Top two records, I would guess.
If they do this right, the pods will be pretty even in terms of competition.
If they do this right, the pods will be pretty even in terms of competition.
Posted on 7/23/21 at 12:58 pm to TheAstroTiger
Pods pair up on a rotating basis?
Year 1, the East is 1 & 2 and the West is 3 & 4.
Year 2, it's 1-3 and 2-4.
Year 3, it's 1-4 and 2-3.
Year 1, the East is 1 & 2 and the West is 3 & 4.
Year 2, it's 1-3 and 2-4.
Year 3, it's 1-4 and 2-3.
Posted on 7/23/21 at 12:59 pm to Bestbank Tiger
That's the system I like better than what SECN has proposed.
Posted on 7/23/21 at 1:01 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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Pods pair up on a rotating basis?
Year 1, the East is 1 & 2 and the West is 3 & 4.
Year 2, it's 1-3 and 2-4.
Year 3, it's 1-4 and 2-3.
You're saying that you would pick the team with the best record per POD pair? That would actually make a lot of sense so I don't expect it.
Posted on 7/23/21 at 1:04 pm to TheAstroTiger
The winner of each pod should be seeded 1-4 and play in a semifinal (1 v 4, 2 v 3) to get to the SEC championship.
Posted on 7/23/21 at 1:06 pm to TheAstroTiger
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You're saying that you would pick the team with the best record per POD pair? That would actually make a lot of sense so I don't expect it.
Right, too much sense. Even the tie-breaker between 2 teams is broken by head-to-head. It does get a little trickier if 3 or more are tied with round robin wins against each, but that’s always messy in any system.
Posted on 7/23/21 at 1:09 pm to DRock88
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The winner of each pod should be seeded 1-4 and play in a semifinal (1 v 4, 2 v 3) to get to the SEC championship.
That plus a 12 game playoff would be absolutely bananas.
Posted on 7/23/21 at 1:25 pm to TheAstroTiger
It would have to go to semi-finals. There is no other way to figure an actual conference champion. Pod format gives you too many chances to get the same record for multiple teams. Also, you couldn't pair pods together and say that the best team from these 2 pods.....
Posted on 7/23/21 at 3:02 pm to jlovel7
quote:would only increase to 8 teams.
That plus a 12 game playoff would be absolutely bananas.
12 reg season games
2 games to decide conference champ
3 playoff games
17 games at most for the 2 best teams.
Posted on 7/23/21 at 3:04 pm to Eat Your Crow
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Top two records, I would guess.
I can easily see 3 teams with the same record and if no head to head, or if they all went 1-1 against each other… then what.
Bama by default???
Posted on 7/23/21 at 3:26 pm to memphis tiger
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I can easily see 3 teams with the same record and if no head to head, or if they all went 1-1 against each other… then what.
Bama by default???
Winning % of the other opponents you defeated, the 2 teams who beat the overall better schedule go to Atlanta.
I think there is some Tie breaker now that is similar to that, i.e. winning % of Eastern Division Opponents.
Posted on 7/23/21 at 3:52 pm to TheAstroTiger
You could keep it at 8 conference games and add a semifinal for the 4 pod winners. Or have all the non-pod winners play a 9th game against each other
Posted on 7/23/21 at 4:56 pm to Yeti_Chaser
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You could keep it at 8 conference games and add a semifinal for the 4 pod winners. Or have all the non-pod winners play a 9th game against each other
Sorry but that sounds like a logistics nightmare to plan for athletic departments and tv rights.
Posted on 7/23/21 at 5:41 pm to DRock88
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The winner of each pod should be seeded 1-4 and play in a semifinal (1 v 4, 2 v 3) to get to the SEC championship.
You could do those in place of the 12th game. Every school can line up a rent a win for week 12, and the 4 that lose out can play each other. If they still get the pay day, I doubt they'd care.
Posted on 7/23/21 at 8:36 pm to DocBugbear
quote:Of course, the other option is to declare "SEC Pod Champs" and leave it at that. Who's the best would be decided in the national playoffs. Does Alabama care that LSU won the SEC in 2011, or Georgia in 2017?quote:
The winner of each pod should be seeded 1-4 and play in a semifinal (1 v 4, 2 v 3) to get to the SEC championship.
You could do those in place of the 12th game. Every school can line up a rent a win for week 12, and the 4 that lose out can play each other. If they still get the pay day, I doubt they'd care.
Posted on 7/24/21 at 7:28 am to TheAstroTiger
They haven’t yet figured out how to favor bama.
Posted on 7/24/21 at 8:08 am to Bestbank Tiger
When we went through the "pod" format discussions last time expansion came up, this is the format that made the most sense with rotating two pod pairings for 7 games then add one team each from the other pods to get to 9 conference games. That keeps the rotation where you end up with a home and away game for every team in the conference during a four year period. It is also more fair than the current setup where one conference can be stronger than the other for years, this changes it up every season.
Posted on 7/24/21 at 8:18 am to TheAstroTiger
Terrible idea, polls suck, that’s why we have a playoff
This post was edited on 7/24/21 at 8:19 am
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