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2017 CFB Bowl Games Open Thread

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Steve19 said:
After all, the NCAA is a paragon of virtues.
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Right up there with the Boy Scouts and Catholic Church.

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Comparing Basketball to football is really dumb.

Basketball is a totally different game all together, there some rules that make it that a much less talented team can beat a superior talented team on any given night. (The 3 point line being the big one)

Football not so much. There's not really any great talent equalizers in this game.

I'll say that FCS D2 and D3 have bigger playoffs.......however in most given years only 3/4 teams really have a legit shot to actually win it......and a lot of the games until the later rounds end up in blowouts. Going to a bigger playoff is basically throwing a bone to the lesser teams and saying "well youve got no shot but here is a shot anyways"
 
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Hypothetical 8 team playoff this year would have been. If they took the P5 champs and then the 3 highest rated teams as at large bids (with the at large receiving the 3 lowest seeds)

1. Clemson vs 8. Auburn (with 3 losses)
2. Oklahoma vs 7. Wisconsin
3. Georgia vs 6. Alabama
4. Ohio State vs 5. USC

I guess it would be great if you're a "the more football the better" kind of person. But in this given year it would have been just a hodgepodge of average teams (at least compared to prior year CFP champs) fighting for the right to call themselves champion.

UCF still gets "boned" unless you threw a stipulation in that the top G5 team gets one of the 3 at large bids.....however as i've mentioned before, the top G5 team varies in quality from year to year. 2014 for Example a 2 loss Boise STate team was the "top" G5 squad......1 of those losses was a 14 point loss to Air Force. Does anyone really want that kind of team to have a serious shot at the national title?
 
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CFPBuckeye said:
Of course it seems that way. But my question is...

Last year when Ohio State made the playoff, would you rather have seen them decline the opportunity since they didn’t win their division?

College basketball has teams win all the time that didn’t win their division/conference. Most sports are that way. Wild cards win the Super Bowl and World Series. Over half of the NBA teams make the playoffs, all with a chance to be called champions.
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When less than 4% of the teams playing the sport get to play in the tournament, as is the case in college football, every attempt should be made to apply objective criteria. Instead, all 4 spots are chosen subjectively.

The other sports you mention have between 10-20% of their teams participating in the tourney, but most of them get there by objective criteria. Only college basketball subjectively selects at-large teams, but only conference champions get automatic bids.

A committee doesn't go into a room and pick teams to participate in NBA, NFL, NHL, or MLB playoffs. The criteria by which teams qualify is objective, and everyone can see it.
 
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