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2021 CFB Playoff Discussion

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LordJeffBuck said:
I still can't understand why people want an expanded playoff when we have such difficulty coming up with four decent teams.
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The business guys who run it want to make more money (and they will). To do this, they incite the dumbass masses and play on their desire for things to be "fair" and the everyone get's to participate mindset so prevalent today.

So it's really just the sports example of what is happening every day in the real world.
 
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According to FanDuel Sportsbook, Georgia has opened as a 2.5-point favorite against the Crimson Tide for the College Football Playoff National Championship Game on Jan. 10 in Indianapolis. The O/U is 52½.
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
I still can't understand why people want an expanded playoff when we have such difficulty coming up with four decent teams.
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I just had a crazy idea. What if you played all of the bowls just like it was pre bcs.
Then pick a 4 team playoff on Jan 2.
You would effectively have something where every conference champion and most of the top 10-15 teams really have a shot.
Imagine if Utah played ttun in the rose bowl with a real shot of getting in saying those early losses are ok. Or Baylor getting a swing at Bama. Cincinnati and ttun getting exposed before they took a slot. OSU, notre dama and Georgia with chances to make a statement with at large bids to a big bowl.
Almost no one in the top 15 would opt out. It’s the only way to expand access to the playoffs without killing the bowl system more. You don’t have a hard stop at 8 or 10 or 12, it’s more fluid. You get a better idea of conference strengths to help remove bias.
Damn that would be fun.
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
I just had a crazy idea. What if you played all of the bowls just like it was pre bcs.
Then pick a 4 team playoff on Jan 2.
You would effectively have something where every conference champion and most of the top 10-15 teams really have a shot.
Imagine if Utah played ttun in the rose bowl with a real shot of getting in saying those early losses are ok. Or Baylor getting a swing at Bama. Cincinnati and ttun getting exposed before they took a slot. OSU, notre dama and Georgia with chances to make a statement with at large bids to a big bowl.
Almost no one in the top 15 would opt out. It’s the only way to expand access to the playoffs without killing the bowl system more. You don’t have a hard stop at 8 or 10 or 12, it’s more fluid. You get a better idea of conference strengths to help remove bias.
Damn that would be fun.
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I believe that you have something very worthwhile here! :beer:
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
I just had a crazy idea. What if you played all of the bowls just like it was pre bcs.
Then pick a 4 team playoff on Jan 2.
You would effectively have something where every conference champion and most of the top 10-15 teams really have a shot.
Imagine if Utah played ttun in the rose bowl with a real shot of getting in saying those early losses are ok. Or Baylor getting a swing at Bama. Cincinnati and ttun getting exposed before they took a slot. OSU, notre dama and Georgia with chances to make a statement with at large bids to a big bowl.
Almost no one in the top 15 would opt out. It’s the only way to expand access to the playoffs without killing the bowl system more. You don’t have a hard stop at 8 or 10 or 12, it’s more fluid. You get a better idea of conference strengths to help remove bias.
Damn that would be fun.
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It would be better than what is about to happen to college football and the bowl games. The Rose Bowl would piss and moan about not being on NY day. Oh well, then go the way of the dinosaur.
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
I just had a crazy idea. What if you played all of the bowls just like it was pre bcs.
Then pick a 4 team playoff on Jan 2.
You would effectively have something where every conference champion and most of the top 10-15 teams really have a shot.
Imagine if Utah played ttun in the rose bowl with a real shot of getting in saying those early losses are ok. Or Baylor getting a swing at Bama. Cincinnati and ttun getting exposed before they took a slot. OSU, notre dama and Georgia with chances to make a statement with at large bids to a big bowl.
Almost no one in the top 15 would opt out. It’s the only way to expand access to the playoffs without killing the bowl system more. You don’t have a hard stop at 8 or 10 or 12, it’s more fluid. You get a better idea of conference strengths to help remove bias.
Damn that would be fun.
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I've been thinking along those lines. Have six major new years bowls (like today). But, they each have to pick from the top 12 teams as ranked by the AP (get rid of the playoff committee/conference affiliations). Main difference from your proposal is that I would prefer only the top two teams that emerge from the bowls advance to a single post-bowl championship game. Also, only winners of bowl games would be eligible to advance to the championship game - no 1-2 rematch games. Nothing like this will ever happen though - too much television money in an expanded playoff.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
I originally wasn't going to care, but I think I want this UGA team to win just as a reward for taking care of business on Friday night.
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Thanks, ORD. Didn't think about that. I will now be rooting slightly for Georgia, rather than for a catastrophic, once-in-a-millennia space event that restarts life as we know it on the planet.
 
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LovelandBuckeye said:
It would be better than what is about to happen to college football and the bowl games. The Rose Bowl would piss and moan about not being on NY day. Oh well, then go the way of the dinosaur.
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I think in his scenario the Rose Bowl would still be Jan 1st. He said pick the 4 teams after the Bowls, just like they do now with picking the final 4 the day after all the conference championship games.It actually sounds like a good, logical idea which means it will never happen.
 
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