RunningJacket

Yet another thread y someone who makes an observation on something he knows nothing about because he’s not interested in the sport. MLB is bringing in big bucks way more than other sports which is why their players have the biggest contracts.

Op probably also thinks college football is dieing because he doesn’t follow it as closely or his team is losing a few more games.

Did you not just watch the #10 seed run thru higher seeds and get within a couple of plays of winning the Natty? I guess you didn’t watch.

It’s a total myth that there is a big difference between #1 and #10. A total myth. The playoff data is proving that but so many of you go by “beliefs” and “opinion” instead of looking at the history of the playoff.

Ohio St was ranked #1 all darn season and got bounced early by the #10 seed.

Many of you just get over the invited era where your teams had a free invite to the Natty or Semis. Now you have to earn your way through you act as if the world is over. All your teams have to do is win games in December.

You can absolutely draw a line for college and take 3 teams from each conference and let the conference decide which teams go. Why are we still relying on polls in 2026. Duke won the ACC last year and didn’t get in because of an opinion poll when they won a major conference fair and square?

No one is forcing teams to sign these conference affiliation contracts.

I see the day coming when that is what happens. Once each conference is given a set number of teams then they can figure it out and polls will finally be relegated to the archives of perverted history.

I absolutely would not spend big bucks for a regular season game and would absolutely save money for the playoffs. That’s what I would do, but we all know you SEC types will go to every game no matter the cost or if the game really doesn’t matter. The sport is healthy and won’t die because people are stupid when it comes to spending money,

My Braves game example was a purely entertainment waste of money that I chose to spend for a 4 hour experience with family. But going in I knew it was a meaningless regular season game and I sure was trying to claim that the loser of that game should have no chance at a World Series title.

That’s what you guys are missing - losses shouldn’t kill your season. And has been pointed out teams that start about ranked could lose 3 out of 4 big game ps and still get in the playoff. That’s an issue witht the selection process and easily fixed. Simply don’t take as many teams from some conferences, Simply take the top 2 from each conference. Of course, then you guys would scream that then 2nd Sunbelt team doesn’t deserve it over the 5th SEC team, With 130 D1 teams there is no way to play similar schedules.

You hit the nail,on the head. But too many SEC fans got spoiled with auto bids to a 2 team BCS or 4 teamer. And most of them used the “SEC” chant to dic!ride Bama or UGA while their crappy team played in the Weedeater bowl. It’s just weird. I’m a GT guy and was darn happy Indiana beat Miami because I don’t root for a conference, I root for my team.

Can’t wait to see the future carjacking videos. Hospitals usually have really good cameras.

Why should a loss keep a team from the playoffs, No other sport operates that way. Why are you D1 football fans so worried about teams with losses making a playoff?

My only guess is because you watched the corrupt past where we were all force fed propaganda by the bowl cartels and your brain simply accept the better system.

Here’s is what you need to understand - the regular season is simply a time to get better before the playoffs - just like every other sport. The regular season is not life and death because hero’s and champions are made in the playoffs.

Did someone seriously say “even our bottom teams can beat our top teams” to somehow pretend the conference that hasn’t sniffed a Natty game in 3 years is still strong? Did you not see a low level ACC team beat Bama LAST season? Did you not see the ACC win more playoff games and bowl games than the SEC last season?

You guys are living in the past and everyone is laughing at your tired excuses. Iron sharpening iron? The SEC got smoked in both the playoffs and bowls. Indiana drubbed you. Miami drubbed you.

2 of your 3 playoff wins were against each other with the other being Tulane. You beat ZERO P4 teams in the playoffs after having the most bids. You should be embarrassed.

I can’t believe y’all are whining about 1 more conference game. It’s just to funny. Yeah, I’m sure that extra tough game against another mediocre team will destroy your chance to not get to a Natty.

Miami losing a few games isn’t a reason they should have been left just. No other sport demands teams go undefeated to be in a playoff. College football is the only sport that has completely disparate schedules and then wanted to anoint 1, 2, or 4 teams as the best. It was pure lunacy. How do we know undefeated BYU and UCF weren’t the best team those years? But because we have 130 teams with different schedules it made that crowning system a scam.

An expanded playoff has already proven that the media anointed, BCS, and 4 team systems were a joke. A #10 team just ran thru to the Natty game because they played a hard schedule and lost some games doesn’t mean they weren’t worthy. And the playoff and bowl records show the ACC had some tough teams even though they get no credit here because all you guys care about are rankings as your god. FSU, who sucked, beat Bama so that’s all you need to know about preseason polls.

I believe the SEC will once again have a lot of teams ranked in the preseason, They’ll play each other and count every loss as a “ranked” loss so they stay ranked. And they’ll get 4-5 teams in the playoff. Then when the rankings can’t protect them they’ll lose to better teams that y’all think are weak. The SEC top team the past two years beat a mid level ACC by 2 and 7 the past 2 years. That should tell you something way more than preseason rankings.

You guys are just not correct. How many times have we had teams go undefeated and they either didn’t get invited or were completely left out? It’s happened a lot. Just because it didn’t happen to your team or your conference doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened.

And this all goes back to your dependence in polls. At some point you guys need to step back and realize you have been manipulated by the polls your entire lives. Miami is a perfect example. All you guys see is a team who lost some games and had a number 10 stuck on them. When the reality is you had a team that built itself up all season and at the end were a play or two away from being the National Champ. Losses or rankings shouldn’t matter. You don’t see rankings for any other sport that completely eliminate teams n the first quarter of a season. Basketball and baseball rankings are worthless because teams with a pulse will get in. The same is now going to happen in football and the polls will once again shown to be worthless. Ohio St was ranked #1 the entire season and they got bounced because polls are dumb and wrong.

Eventually, each conference will be given X number of slots each and they will decide who their reps are and polls won’t mean a thing.