Crowknowsbest

So far, his NIL/portal strategy seems pretty prudent. I do think we’ll become more transfer friendly over time, but so far the priority has been retention, for good reason.

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The only explanation that I can think of for going to the larger playoff format is to placate those funding the athletes.

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I think this is correct. It’s an empty way for college to show their boosters some level of ROI. Emphasis on empty.

There are successful people out there annually giving seven figures to sustain the rosters of football teams that will be lucky to go 7-5. Texas has a $50M, 8-4ish football team. Colleges are desperate to keep those donations going, even if they’d all be better off by letting booster fatigue set in and restore some sanity to the marketplace.

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Insignificant bowl games do not matter to players.

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They weren’t insignificant and did matter to players before playoffs existed.

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Also now teams can schedule other good teams and still get in the playoffs, giving us more good football to watch.

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The 12-team “era” would indicate that the opposite is true. Maybe this is true for Georgia and Ohio State, but it is almost certainly not true for most of the top 25.

I’ll grant TCU 2014 as a particularly strong 5/6, but that outlier isn’t convincing enough to me to say that the system really needed overhauling.

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But you think someone or some group of people can decide among 130+ teams who should be deserving? I bet you are also the first person to criticize the selection committee too.

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Can you provide any examples where the #5 ranked team in the BCS or 4-team playoff era had a great argument to be ranked #2?

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Because championships were only part of college football. College football is about regionality, its about beating your rival, its about the pageantry of a blustery fall Saturday morning, its was so much more than ratings and playoffs. If you like pro sports where the only thing that matters is playoff seeding then thats fine, go watch the NFL. Thats not what college football is about and a lot of people have either forgotten that or never got to experience it in the first place so they dont know what they are giving up.

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Quoting for emphasis. I grew up cheering for some pretty average Georgia teams and got addicted anyway because of things that have nothing to do with winning the national championship.

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So you think a #4 ranked team out of 130+ teams is undeserving of making the post season? In what universe are you talking about? That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

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I do not think they are as deserving as the #2 team.

The #4 team is usually perfectly deserving of playing for its conference championship and a major bowl, which both seemed to matter quite a lot before the playoff became everything anyone talked about.

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I mean would you rather watch 9-3 Mizzou go the CFP or the Music City Bowl?

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Who gives a shite either way (other than Missouri fans)?

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Lol. I guess it would take 4 losses to keep those teams out of an expanded playoff.

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At least 4, maybe 5

We all eagerly await the day that the #23 seed upsets the #10, at which point America will get the pleasure of watching #23 lose by 30 on the road at #2 as a 3+ TD underdog.

This will all be worth it.

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I guarantee you the ratings for these playoff games are great and they’re highly competitive.

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That seems like a great trade-off for butchering the drama of top 10 matchups throughout the season.