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re: Sour Grapes Thread - This was the worst college football season I can remember
Posted on 1/21/25 at 10:34 am to theCAW
Posted on 1/21/25 at 10:34 am to theCAW
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No team with 3+ losses in the regular season should ever make the playoffs.
It’s going to happen.
Hell.
Imagine a team drops 2 OOC games, but goes 6-2 in conference play and makes the title game through tiebreakers and then wins.
Now you've got a 4 loss team in the playoffs.
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Posted on 1/21/25 at 10:38 am to StansberryRules
What were the TV ratings for the championship game? It is my understanding that the post season TV audience has not been good across the board.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 11:07 am to AHM21
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The playoff was entertaining for the most part even with all the blowouts. However the season needs to be two weeks shorter. The NFL will continue to dominate the headlines if it continues to compete with the NFL playoffs.
I just don't understand people complaining about season lasting longer and wanting less football. If your team was in it you wouldn't be complaining.
Who fricking cares about whether the NCAA is competing with the NFL for headlines and TV ratings?
Posted on 1/21/25 at 11:09 am to StansberryRules
quote:Can't disagree. Our season was horrific but that aside, it just seemed like from a tv spectator standpoint, It wasn't until the end of the season that games got really interesting. I guess by adding the 2 interlopers, there were more SEC games televised but it just seems like there were several just not interesting games (blow outs) each week. The playoffs made the bowl games not interesting (there were several goods ones around the new year) and the 12 team playoff was to me, a disaster in seeding. I still wactch but I used to plan my days around it. Now, if I happen to be in front of a tv I'll watch but not go out of my way. Oh, and screw the portal and NIL.
Sour Grapes Thread - This was the worst college football season I can remember
Posted on 1/21/25 at 11:10 am to Diamondawg
This was easily the most interesting College football season in a long time. No team was safe, there were a number of crazy upsets, and teams had to show up every week or kick rocks.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 11:14 am to AwgustaDawg
Texas/Ohio State did well but it was on a Friday night. The Thursday night slot for Penn State/Notre Dame impacted the rating, although it wasn’t bad.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 11:15 am to Quicksilver
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No team was safe
I would argue in a way teams are safer than they have ever been.
Every major conference team gets 2 free losses now.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 11:19 am to StansberryRules
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I would argue in a way teams are safer than they have ever been.
What I mean is there was a ton more parity this year. Anyone who bet that Vandy would upset Bama preseason would be a rich person right now.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 11:26 am to Quicksilver
Upsets may be more numerous, but less impactful.
The Vandy loss would have been a season killer in any other season in college football and as it turns out it wouldn't have mattered had Alabama also not lost another upset at Oklahoma. It took 2 horrible losses to knock em out and even then they were an SMU win away from sneaking in anyway.
If you look historically the national champion almost never has a bad loss, because a bad loss automatically eliminated you from contention.
As the playoff has gotten bigger, you can easily take a terrible loss (both ND and Ohio State had them) and possibly two.
So yeah, MORE upsets but the IMPACT of them reduced.
The Vandy loss would have been a season killer in any other season in college football and as it turns out it wouldn't have mattered had Alabama also not lost another upset at Oklahoma. It took 2 horrible losses to knock em out and even then they were an SMU win away from sneaking in anyway.
If you look historically the national champion almost never has a bad loss, because a bad loss automatically eliminated you from contention.
As the playoff has gotten bigger, you can easily take a terrible loss (both ND and Ohio State had them) and possibly two.
So yeah, MORE upsets but the IMPACT of them reduced.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 11:29 am to StansberryRules
The upset to Vandy literally kept them out of the playoffs.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 12:27 pm to Monsusta
And this is what lifeless, barely-pubescent highschool kids with no friends do all day, get on a forum and talk to men because he's bored with video games and no girls like him or give him the time of day.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 12:57 pm to Darindawg
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And this is what lifeless, barely-pubescent highschool kids with no friends do all day, get on a forum and talk to men because he's bored with video games and no girls like him or give him the time of day.
... and here you are posting?
Posted on 1/21/25 at 3:37 pm to Darindawg
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The Suckeyes were overrated and only in the game because they were able to shell out more money than anybody else in the Little 10 and STILL couldn't take down Michigan.
Is it possible to be overrated if you win it all? Lmao they’d kick your arse same as they did us.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 3:42 pm to Quicksilver
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This was easily the most interesting College football season in a long time
Interesting does not necessarily equal GOOD, especially in the context of athletic competition.
An episode of Jeopardy! (not athletic, but still) where the contestants get 90% of the board wrong would be "interesting" but hardly "good".
Posted on 1/21/25 at 3:51 pm to StansberryRules
I disagree. The regular season was one of the more interesting I can remember. With the expanded playoffs, more game in the final weeks of the season mattered and lead to more chaos, which is always intriguing.
The playoff seeding needs to be adjusted badly, removing the byes from conference titles, and using final CFP ranking to seed the playoffs with ranks 1-4 getting the byes.
The playoff seeding needs to be adjusted badly, removing the byes from conference titles, and using final CFP ranking to seed the playoffs with ranks 1-4 getting the byes.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 4:15 pm to MSU44
Huh?...you are taking up for an admitted highschooler obnoxious Texas fan that called fans of your school and every other SEC school fat slobs? Are you Monsuta's alter or what?
Posted on 1/21/25 at 4:16 pm to Volatile
Like they did Michigan? 
Posted on 1/21/25 at 4:20 pm to TideCPA
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People are realizing that the only kind of "cinderella story" you'll ever see in these playoffs is a team with top 5 talent who happened to drop a couple games and thus got seeded a little lower than others.
You mean like Alabama?
Posted on 1/21/25 at 5:11 pm to AwgustaDawg
quote:That's in part due to the decision to make the playoffs all ESPN which means only diehard CFB/sports in general fans watched. They could have increased the viewership numbers putting them on ABC instead.
What were the TV ratings for the championship game? It is my understanding that the post season TV audience has not been good across the board.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 5:19 pm to bamameister
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Maybe we should value the 12 BEST teams.
This is so fricking stupid, yet I read it all the time.
No one knows who the best teams are until all the games have been played. If they did, they could just go back to awarding the champions at the end of the regular season, before the bowl games.
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