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re: Saban on the future of CFB scheduling
Posted on 11/17/16 at 7:38 am to Camel Menthol
Posted on 11/17/16 at 7:38 am to Camel Menthol
The games in Dallas and Atlanta are nice every so often but i agree with this.
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Posted on 11/17/16 at 7:40 am to Gary Busey
Didn't yall do a trip to Hawaii too?
Also UGA has done some cool H and H as well. ASU, CU, Clemson, and ND for next year.
Also UGA has done some cool H and H as well. ASU, CU, Clemson, and ND for next year.
Posted on 11/17/16 at 7:45 am to Triple Daves
That would cause an absolute clusterfrick for the playoffs. The way CFB does the post season is extremely GOB and doing this you would have 8 two loss teams from 5 different conferences that would have a legitimate argument to be included. So what you would have to do is make it to where the conference champ and maybe runner up only made it into the playoffs. So you would have to increase the size of the tournament or reduce the conferences.
Posted on 11/17/16 at 8:08 am to JamalSanders
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That would cause an absolute clusterfrick for the playoffs. The way CFB does the post season is extremely GOB and doing this you would have 8 two loss teams from 5 different conferences that would have a legitimate argument to be included. So what you would have to do is make it to where the conference champ and maybe runner up only made it into the playoffs. So you would have to increase the size of the tournament or reduce the conferences.
The flip side is that things like advanced stats would be much more targeted due to smaller pool of teams and more cross pollination.
Either way, my perfect world is 9 SEC games, 2 P5 OOC games and 1 throw away.
Posted on 11/17/16 at 9:05 am to Triple Daves
If we turn CFB into a mini-NFL, like so many seem to want, are we going to a draft out of high school?
Will we let schools trade players?
Will we let schools trade players?
Posted on 11/17/16 at 12:18 pm to Boomer00
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tOSU, Oklahoma and ND always have the best OOC schedules. Very few teams schedule teams like they do.
Oklahoma most of the time...ND usually plays a good schedule but since they're not in a conference, I don't see how you can tell their OOC games...tOSU only occasionally; this year yes but its been several years since they've played a challenging OOC schedule...
Posted on 11/17/16 at 12:43 pm to CrimsonCrusade
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And you shouldn't be able to win a championship at 9-7, like the Giants team he's referencing. Makes the regular season worthless.
I agree. I love coach Saban but the 4 team playoff is already having a detrimental effect on the regular season and it would only get worse with more teams with more losses being allowed in.
Posted on 11/17/16 at 12:45 pm to Othello
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4 team playoff is already having a detrimental effect on the regular season and it would only get worse with more teams with more losses being allowed in.
Yea - I think you can bulk up schedules and still leave a playoff at 6-8 teams.
Posted on 11/17/16 at 1:04 pm to Triple Daves
9 sec games. 2 power 5. 1 cupcake for homecoming
Posted on 11/17/16 at 1:10 pm to roguetiger15
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9 sec games. 2 power 5. 1 cupcake for homecoming
Would be great.....and not THAT big a change from how it is now.
Replace Southern Miss and South Alabama with Arizona and Rutgers.
Replace Kent State and Chattanooga with Virginia and Boston College.
And, now it is difficult to schedule those games. However, in an era where it is mandated and EVERYONE has to do it, it shouldn't be that difficult.
9 SEC Games + 1 Top 25-30 level P5 team + 1 other P5 teams + 1 1AA/Sun Belt/etc team (those may all be the same thing if this happens)
This post was edited on 11/17/16 at 1:11 pm
Posted on 11/17/16 at 1:13 pm to Triple Daves
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New York Giants won the Super Bowl a few years ago and lost six games
Comparing to the atrocity of pro sports regular seasons isn't a good selling point Nicky.
The season is infinitely more impassioned when the margin of error is razor thin.
Posted on 11/17/16 at 1:17 pm to Swoopin
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Comparing to the atrocity of pro sports regular seasons isn't a good selling point Nicky.
Yea, that was a terrible analogy
Posted on 11/17/16 at 1:22 pm to Triple Daves
Saban is worried about balancing out schedules on a national level, yet we can't even figure out how to balance it in his own conference.
Posted on 11/17/16 at 1:24 pm to wahoocs
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Saban is worried about balancing out schedules on a national level, yet we can't even figure out how to balance it in his own conference.
He wants that too with 9 games.
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