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2014 College Football Playoff Open Thread

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Telekinesis said:
Something tells me that FSU will be a lot more fired up for this one, but something also tells me it won't matter if Oregon can get a few stops.
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I'll be shocked if FSU holds them under 40. Meanwhile, I don't think FSU is capable of scoring that many by their own doing like they could last year, but Oregon is plenty capable of giving up that many points to anybody.
 
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woofermazing said:
Four is plenty. Eight will just diminish the regular season and conference championship matchups even more. The top 8 this year is loaded with potential rematches. The whole point of a committee was to avoid that.
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They sure tried awful hard to get that Bama - Miss St. rematch though.
Wish there weren't rematches, but seems the committee isn't afraid of repeating the farce of 2011.
 
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Jake said:
Would 4 feel "right" if the Buckeyes were 5th?

I would prefer a larger field. Not as large as other levels of college football because the bowls aren't going away, but 8 teams has been my preference. All this season did was confirm that opinion because all one-loss teams from the major conferences would've been included. Likely line up would've been:

Alabama-Sparty
Oregon-Miss State
FSU-TCU
Ohio State-Baylor
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I'd still be ok with 4. Just because I would feel they made the wrong choice in not picking Ohio State wouldn't necessarily mean that I'd want more teams in just to benefit the Buckeyes....I think the selection process sucks - they had a near-perfect system to pick the correct teams with the BCS formulas that combined statistical analysis via computer and human interpretation and instead they went fully into the human interpretation realm. That's where I have a problem with the system. Not with the number of teams but with how the teams are selected.
 
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The BCS gave us LSU-Bama so I don't trust that either.
I'd be ecstatic with 4 if it's limited to selecting from only the 10 conference champions.
If expanding to 8 with 5 guaranteed conference champions is the compromise necessary for that to happen, and it would appear to be right now, then so be it.

Any combination of Oregon, Bama, FSU, Ohio State, and Baylor would've been acceptable imo. So they got it right in the end... but I suspect given the chance, Miss St. would've been their 4th choice.

The other outstanding issue with this system is the game sites. OK, Delany cracked on bowls and left this conference as the only one w/o a semifinal in the region. But whoever is running the overall playoff has also made it abundantly clear that the "neutral" Final will not be held above the Missouri Compromise.
 
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kujirakira said:
The BCS gave us LSU-Bama so I don't trust that either.
I'd be ecstatic with 4 if it's limited to selecting from only the 10 conference champions.
If expanding to 8 with 5 guaranteed conference champions is the compromise necessary for that to happen, and it would appear to be right now, then so be it.

Any combination of Oregon, Bama, FSU, Ohio State, and Baylor would've been acceptable imo. So they got it right in the end... but I suspect given the chance, Miss St. would've been their 4th choice.

The other outstanding issue with this system is the game sites. OK, Delany cracked on bowls and left this conference as the only one w/o a semifinal in the region. But whoever is running the overall playoff has also made it abundantly clear that the "neutral" Final will not be held above the Missouri Compromise.
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Bama doesn't get there if Okie State doesn't choke against a mediocre Iowa State team though. Granted Oregon and Stanford got screwed, but that was a weird year with Arky/Boise/Okie State and Houston being top 10 teams at different times.

The BCS would work - at least it would take a lot of the guesswork out of it. FWIW, the computers mostly have Ohio State 4th now, which I think is fair. The human elements would have to be evened out a bit but I think it could be feasible. I don't think I like the behind closed doors element of this selection process.
 
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LostLassie said:
^This X Infinity.

I will never feel OK with an elite little group making this decision in secret.

It's not nuclear war, for cryin' out loud. It's college ball. How about some freakin' transparency?
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College basketball has been doing it behind closed doors for years so I don't see it as a big deal.

It's a marked improvement over polls of coaches (often filled out by interns) and jackass sports writers.
 
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I love how all the media types are blasting the fact that the polls leading up to the final one "didn't mean anything, if they were just going to change them at the last minute"

They don't like that their status quo got challenged, IE how can you move teams around so dramatically at the end of the season without a loss. They can't comprehend that their antiquated, and arguably more biased way of doing things is wrong.

First year is always rough and I applaud TCU's coach for taking the high road and saying lets go through this cycle again before doing anything drastic.
 
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