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2014 Preseason and Regular Season Polls

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TampaBuckeyes said:
If head-to-head match-ups decide who is the better team, does that mean that WVU is better than Baylor? Does it mean that LSU is better than Wisky? Does it mean that Ole Piss is better than Bama, VaTech is better than OSU???? I think all of those are a huge no. Some times a team doesn't show up to play, and sometimes a bad team gives is everything that have (last two cases). Sometimes one team is winning by a lot and then takes the foot off the gas and the other catches up, and before the better team gets going again, it's too late to stop the momentum (first two cases). In all of the cases the better team lost. How did Baylor get to be 21 pts behind with 11 to play if they were the better team? They won once TCU went into prevent/ drain the clock mode. FSU came back from a least 2 games this year when a team went into prevent defense too early. I would call the other team, the better team in those games.
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But if you have 2 teams with the same record, and many common opponents that they've both defeated, head-to-head does seem a rather obvious and fair tiebreaker.
It's also the case in the other 4 conferences, that head-to-head definitively puts one team above the other in pecking order.

AuTX beat me to it...
 
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I personally believe we deserve to be in over TCU or Baylor if we win, except for two (unlikely) scenarios:

1) Cardale gets hurt near the end of the game and we still end up winning (hurt as in will miss the playoffs)

2) we win in spite of Cardale. He throws 2 ints, no tds, and they just happen to have 4 fumbles.
 
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woofermazing said:
I was just thinking, the FBS went from having one post-season game to potentially three in a very short period of time. How many player families are going to be able to travel to all of these games? That's not going to be cheap.
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Not just players' families but students and the majority of alumni bases.

Yep. It's too bad that something which made so much common sense like.....oh, I don't know.......first round home field games was not considered. Oh wait, hoke you, Jim Delany.
 
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woofermazing said:
I was just thinking, the FBS went from having one post-season game to potentially three in a very short period of time. How many player families are going to be able to travel to all of these games? That's not going to be cheap.
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FCS, II, and III divisions have been doing up to four post-season games (16-team playoffs) for decades with little/no dropoff in attendance.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
FCS, II, and III divisions have been doing up to four post-season games (16-team playoffs) for decades with little/no dropoff in attendance.
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I mean... is that not ignoring scale and pricing, though?

Couldn't you get tickets to all of a single FCS team's playoff games for two people for roughly the price of a single bowl ticket?

Not to mention the difference in stadium. You could fit all of the FCS preliminary round attendees combined into 2 "BCS" bowls.
 
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SloopyHangOn said:
I mean... is that not ignoring scale and pricing, though?

Couldn't you get tickets to all of a single FCS team's playoff games for two people for roughly the price of a single bowl ticket?

Not to mention the difference in stadium. You could fit all of the FCS preliminary round attendees combined into 2 "BCS" bowls.
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The fan bases of teams that qualify for the new FBS playoffs absolutely dwarf those of the FCS teams. Teams like Ohio State, Oregon, etc., would have zero problems filling the venue for any and all playoff games, regardless of location...
 
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SloopyHangOn said:
Bucky. After Saturday there will only be 7 planets, because we're going to destroy Uranus.
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The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the sec sec sec.
 
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woofermazing said:
Yea, but aren't they hosted by the higher seed until the championship game?
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And? I'd imagine that if the playoffs were expanded to 8 or 16 teams, that the first round or two would be done in the same way. Heck, even with the current 4-team setup the team making to championship game will play two non-home games as it is...
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
The fan bases of teams that qualify for the new FBS playoffs absolutely dwarf those of the FCS teams. Teams like Ohio State, Oregon, etc., would have
zero problems filling the venue for any and all playoff games, regardless of location...
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And TCU? Baylor?
There's plenty of P5 schools that don't have the brand, state-wide following, and enormous alumni base of Ohio State.

MililaniBuckeye said:
And? I'd imagine that if the playoffs were expanded to 8 or 16 teams, that the first round or two would be done in the same way. Heck, even with the current 4-team setup the team making to championship game will play two non-home games as it is...
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It takes exactly 6 games to add QFs. Do you think it was a mistake that they just happened to add the Peach and Cotton bowls... expanding the BCS' 4 bowls to 6 with the first playoff? The pieces are already in place. The only question is whether the SFs continue to rotate, or they lock the Rose and Sugar in as SFs and the rest as QFs.
 
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