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2021 CFB Playoff Discussion

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ORD_Buckeye said:
UGA loses to GaTech and Bama
B1G East champ loses to Wiscy
Okie beats Okie Lite then loses B12 championship game.
Juggalos drop their last two
Domers drop their last game.

Everyone has two losses, and there's only one thing the committeespn can do:

  1. Bama
  2. Georgia
  3. Ole Miss
  4. Notre Dame
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Bama would have one loss in that scenario...
 
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Just thinkin'... Sports TV needs product; wants more playoff games. Why when there's ton of shitty bowl games to cover? Because those bowls feature teams no one follows - like MAC teams, Mountain West teams, teams from states where the cow/pig/sheep population is bigger than the human population, or those bowl games bring you teams with a big fan base but whose best players don't want to take a chance on injury (thinking Georgia v Cincinnati last year).

In the meantime, Sawingbricks and Kelly want ND to be the only team that doesn't have to win a CCG to get into the CFPs. No one wants to be on record as pissed off at the way ND gets to be so special. So do the conferences and committee meet and hold ND's feet to the fire by making sure they don't get into the playoffs forcing ND to join the ACC as a full-time member? Or do they expand the playoffs which all but gives ND a permanent spot in the playoffs and keeps the stars of second and third-place teams playing 'cause it's a chance to win the whole enchilada?

Personally, the day the BIG ok's expanded playoffs is the day I stop following college football. Regular season games will get cut, CCGs probably get cut, the last week of November and the first half of December becomes a tournament. And no where do the players have a voice in any of this.
 
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cincibuck said:
Personally, the day the BIG ok's expanded playoffs is the day I stop following college football. Regular season games will get cut, CCGs probably get cut, the last week of November and the first half of December becomes a tournament. And no where do the players have a voice in any of this.
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You better start planning out your Saturdays without football because expansion is coming (unfortunately).
 
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cincibuck said:
Personally, the day the BIG ok's expanded playoffs is the day I stop following college football. Regular season games will get cut, CCGs probably get cut, the last week of November and the first half of December becomes a tournament. And no where do the players have a voice in any of this.
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While I'm not surprised most of this rant centers around your NoD fetish, this last sentence is incredibly trite. No one ever follows through.

Expansion is absolutely coming. Yes it sucks, there's no denying that. In a perfect world it would happen after E-SEC-PN's financial interest in the sport wasn't directly tied to a certain conference. But as we've seen for a long time now, very rarely do the threats of "not watching it again if 'x' happens" ever truly get followed.
 
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Mike80 said:
While I'm not surprised most of this rant centers around your NoD fetish, this last sentence is incredibly trite. No one ever follows through.

Expansion is absolutely coming. Yes it sucks, there's no denying that. In a perfect world it would happen after E-SEC-PN's financial interest in the sport wasn't directly tied to a certain conference. But as we've seen for a long time now, very rarely do the threats of "not watching it again if 'x' happens" ever truly get followed.
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I would respond but I quit following all sports and message boards (once they came into existence) when they implemented the designated hitter rule.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
You better start planning out your Saturdays without football because expansion is coming (unfortunately).
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You may well be right. Giving up Buckeye football may be something I can't do. It's so connected to family, friends, and my college years that the roots are too deep. But much of that association is also connected to the family of midwest public colleges called the Big Ten. Expansion seems to be taking dead aim at conferences, rivalries, and history to provide us with a "true" national champion from a group of semi-professional teams loosely connected to colleges.
 
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Mike80 said:
While I'm not surprised most of this rant centers around your NoD fetish, this last sentence is incredibly trite. No one ever follows through.

Expansion is absolutely coming. Yes it sucks, there's no denying that. In a perfect world it would happen after E-SEC-PN's financial interest in the sport wasn't directly tied to a certain conference. But as we've seen for a long time now, very rarely do the threats of "not watching it again if 'x' happens" ever truly get followed.
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ND fetish may be right, but answer me this: can Ohio State, Michigan, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas, USC, Oregon, or even Clemson, get into the playoffs without playing and winning a CCG? Can any other team take their TV/bowl money without sharing with the rest of their conference?

None of this gets much air time and yet I have a hard time believing that conference members view those facts favorably.
 
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