2024 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

[buckeyemania11]

Georgia has a cake walk too. They get ND/INDIANA and then either Boise Ped State or SMU

 

[BB73]

Get that Tennessee game thread ready. Going about as expected.

Can’t wait for James Franklin to lose the first home playoff game in this era. Sorry but it is/was always going to be written this way. Destiny for that loser.

Done

 

[BigWoof31]

Georgia has a cake walk too. They get ND/INDIANA and then either Boise Ped State or SMU

ND runs the same offense at Georgia Tech just with widely better athletes and players. Dawgs gotta be ready

 

[Gizmo]

Well color me surprised that they kept SMU in over Bama

 

[buckeyemania11]

I guess we have to give the committee credit for not being comically SEC biased. They coulda put Bama in and then gave Tennessee the home game

 

[Bucklion]

Texas has to be satisfied with that path

Ya think? 2 teams that belong nowhere near a real playoff

 

[BB73]

They wanted to give Texas the #5 spot, so they kept them above ND, I’m fine with that.

They used the same logic to keep Penn St ahead of ND, preventing the tOSU-Pedster head-to-head from mattering..

They then applied the same “don’t penalize the CCG loser” logic to leave SMU above Bama. That I was very happy with, and it was the biggest question they had to answer.

Lots of folks will bitch, I’m fine with what they did, and we don’t need to go to 16 Teams.

 

[buckeyemania11]

These clowns trying to make Vandy and a mediocre LSU out to be real tough games

 

[BB73]

So I’ve got :

01 Oregon
02 Georgia
03 Boise St
04 Arizona St (don’t think they’ll jump Boise)

05 Texas hosting
12 Clemson (lowest of 5 highest conf champs)

06 Penn St hosting
11 Bama or SMU (name vs deserving)

07 Notre Dame hosting (think with NIU loss they stay behind CCG losers)
10 Indiana

08 Ohio St hosting
09 Tennessee

#1 then plays 8-9 winner
#4 then plays 5-12 winner

#2 then plays 7-10 winner
#3 then plays 6-11 winner

So here’s what I had last night. Does it look familiar?

 

[Bucklion]

Well color me surprised that they kept SMU in over Bama

It’s the long game for both ESPN and the committee. Now for the next 25 years, when a questionable team like 9-3 Texas A&M or the year the SEC gets 7 teams in, they can say “but in 2024 the B1G got more teams than the SEC and Alabama got left out! And that was the very first year!”

 

[Bucklion]

So here’s what I had last night. Does it look familiar?

What can people say, when you’ve been watching this sport for over 100 years, you tend to start seeing trends I guess

 

[dragurd]

They wanted to give Texas the #5 spot, so they kept them above ND, I’m fine with that.

They used the same logic to keep Penn St ahead of ND, preventing the tOSU-Pedster head-to-head from mattering..

They then applied the same “don’t penalize the CCG loser” logic to leave SMU above Bama. That I was very happy with, and it was the biggest question they had to answer.

Lots of folks will bitch, I’m fine with what they did, and we don’t need to go to 16 Teams.

I may not agree with the 12 team but I am happy they finally kicked Bama out. If this is how it goes every year quibble with the last team or two and some seeding it's going well

 

[Bucklion]

Now it’s Saban on whoring for Alabama

 

[buckeyemania11]

It’s the long game for both ESPN and the committee. Now for the next 25 years, when a questionable team like 9-3 Texas A&M or the year the SEC gets 7 teams in, they can say “but in 2024 the B1G got more teams than the SEC and Alabama got left out! And that was the very first year!”

Pocketing it for a year where they can slip a 4 loss SEC team in who beat nobody but all 4 losses were to top 25 teams.

 

[BuckTwenty]

Nick Saban is BUTT HURT. Whine, whine, whine.