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re: Playoff expansion, good , bad, indifferent
Posted on 1/4/16 at 9:40 am to 3rddownonthe8
Posted on 1/4/16 at 9:40 am to 3rddownonthe8
I'm against it
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Posted on 1/4/16 at 9:42 am to KaiserSoze99
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We like to put it indifferent.
me too but it's because I've got a big long middle finger shaped just like a ball ping hammer. 
Posted on 1/4/16 at 9:45 am to 3rddownonthe8
The regular season should be the playoffs. Bring back the BCS.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 9:57 am to 3rddownonthe8
Bad, very bad.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:00 am to 3rddownonthe8
I always felt for the most part that the BCS got it right
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:01 am to Jon Ham
Don't think the current system that leaves out a power 5 champion can continue. I'd be OK with 6 with a play in game for the lowest rank champion and an at large team.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:02 am to 3rddownonthe8
I say we reverse conference expansion and add two teams to the playoffs.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:05 am to FairhopeTider
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Who didn't earn it this year?
The four who made it were fine.
The point is blue bloods like Alabama will always get the benefit of doubt based on reputation. Expanding the field will reveal if their inclusion on a year-to-year basis is justified.
Letting the process play out on the field is the American way.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:08 am to 3rddownonthe8
Only change they should make is going to 6 teams. Give 1 & 2 a bye. It preserves the college game with "every game matters" and gives them all a reason to play for # 1 or 2.
Personally, I don't think anyone finishing 7 or lower doesn't deserve a chance to play for the tittle.
Personally, I don't think anyone finishing 7 or lower doesn't deserve a chance to play for the tittle.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:16 am to Mizz-SEC
quote:Clemson is fresh blood.
Eight would be the ideal number. It would allow some fresh blood into the process. Traditional powers always get the benefit of the doubt and waved through. Let them earn it for a change.
Who didn't earn it this year?
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:19 am to RT1941
Every team that didn't make it has only themselves to blame.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:20 am to 3rddownonthe8
If you expand to 8 teams, you have several 2 loss teams in there every year. It cheapens the regular season immensely. Expanding it is a terrible idea.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:20 am to 3rddownonthe8
My only real problem with the playoff is how they packaged it as being for the fans. The fans were way down the list of the people they tried to appease with this system, otherwise they'd have ditched the bowl tie-ins and made ticket prices much more reasonable. Add to it the 2 semifinal games being on NYE this year, and it's plainly clear this was just another money grab by the bowl games and the NCAA.
I think the committee did an outstanding job this year with their top 4. I guess they did last year, though Ohio State jumping to #4 was predictable given their brand and the eyes they'd bring to the table over TCU and Baylor. Hard to disagree with them being top 4 since they won it all though.
I think the committee did an outstanding job this year with their top 4. I guess they did last year, though Ohio State jumping to #4 was predictable given their brand and the eyes they'd bring to the table over TCU and Baylor. Hard to disagree with them being top 4 since they won it all though.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:25 am to IAmReality
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Every team that didn't make it has only themselves to blame.
If a "blueblood" is kicking arse, then they deserve to be there just like a non-blueblood >>> Clemson.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:27 am to thelawnwranglers
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Bowl Season is a joke
If you aren't one of the 4 who cares
I wonder how TV ratings are doing.
They do very well ratings wise and profit enough to keep making more bowls. Just because you don't like/understand college football enough to watch the bowls doesn't make them unpopular or a bad idea. They give minor teams a chance to take home a trophy and be winners on national television. The players care about them quite a bit.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:30 am to The Spleen
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My only real problem with the playoff is how they packaged it as being for the fans. The fans were way down the list of the people they tried to appease with this system, otherwise they'd have ditched the bowl tie-ins and made ticket prices much more reasonable. Add to it the 2 semifinal games being on NYE this year, and it's plainly clear this was just another money grab by the bowl games and the NCAA.
Yep. If this were for the fans, either the games wouldn't be on NYE or face value for the National Championship Game wouldn't be $650. It is shameful that a College Football Playoff game started while a majority of the country was still at work.
I still can't get over the decision to have games on New Year's Eve. What an awful decision that was made only to cater to a few gray haired bowl reps.
This post was edited on 1/4/16 at 10:32 am
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:34 am to FairhopeTider
I mean student tickets are $550. For students. Such a sham.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:39 am to The Spleen
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I mean student tickets are $550. For students. Such a sham.
Wow. I didn't even know that. Is College Basketball this bad with regards to the Final Four?
If we are going to cater to the Rose and Sugar Bowls and schedule everything around them, then just go ahead and make them the permanent semi-final games and have the championship rotate among the other bowl games. At least with that, the process is concrete and the games at least take place on the best possible day.
Its still funny to me that the Rose/Sugar will let the NFL have Jan 1. when its a Sunday but they stand behind "Tradition" when people want them to take a backseat to the Playoff.
This post was edited on 1/4/16 at 10:46 am
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:43 am to GIbson05
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Top 4 would have been the same this year.
Getting there would not have been as convoluted as the "committee" makes it out to be. They contradict themselves over and over throughout the process.
This post was edited on 1/4/16 at 10:52 am
Posted on 1/4/16 at 10:46 am to 3rddownonthe8
I think a good compromise is a 6 team playoff with the top two teams given byes.
First round:
3rd vs 6th
4th vs 5th
Second round:
Winner of 3rd vs 6th vs 1st
Winner of 4th vs 5th vs 2nd
Third round:
Championship game
That or go to 8 and reduce the regular season to 10 games.
First round:
3rd vs 6th
4th vs 5th
Second round:
Winner of 3rd vs 6th vs 1st
Winner of 4th vs 5th vs 2nd
Third round:
Championship game
That or go to 8 and reduce the regular season to 10 games.
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