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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

If the cheaters hadn't scheduled Oklahoma, and played Ann Arbor High School, instead (let's assume they beat the high school kids), they'd have 2 losses.
Would they get a playoff spot?
I'm certainly not saying that Texas and the cheaters belong in the playoff. More that there needs to be some adjustments to the process to motivate teams to play cool OOC opponents. I don't have a solution.
 
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If the cheaters hadn't scheduled Oklahoma, and played Ann Arbor High School, instead (let's assume they beat the high school kids), they'd have 2 losses.
Would they get a playoff spot?
I'm certainly not saying that Texas and the cheaters belong in the playoff. More that there needs to be some adjustments to the process to motivate teams to play cool OOC opponents. I don't have a solution.
yeah. I'm not putting in a 10-2 Michigan or Texas (assuming they avoid us for SW Texas State College) based on not looking good in most of their other games.
Probably need to bring in some kind of unbiased computer model that gives points for games based on your opponents and their opponents, etc. BCS style, but only use it to compare "like teams". BYU is in regardless of what they do in this model, I'm sure.
 
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Or even simpler: Wait until the end of the season then for every win, you get 1 point for every win your opponent had. For every loss, you lose 1 point for every loss your opponent had.
Here's some unscientific results from the teams "on the bubble". I did take off wins from games against FCS schools, because fuck that noise, schedule real teams. This gave a couple schools some additional good math.
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Sark is right that there’s very little to gain for playing a tough ooc schedule and a lot to lose.
If OSU played directional Midwest school instead of Texas, they’d still be #1.
If Texas played directional Texas school instead of OSU, they’re likely in the playoff (having beaten OK).
 
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Sark is right that there’s very little to gain for playing a tough ooc schedule and a lot to lose.
If OSU played directional Midwest school instead of Texas, they’d still be #1.
If Texas played directional Texas school instead of OSU, they’re likely in the playoff (having beaten OK).

Next step in the evolution of this thing is you put the top tier ~30 some odd teams in a league and they play each other for 12 weeks.. Get rid of the OOC stuff against non big boy teams.
 
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you can't schedule knowing how good a team will be, or will not be, that year.
yes you can, to an extent. The point is to incentivize teams to schedule the "good" OOC games, which is what scUM and Texas are crying about. "If we hadn't scheduled OSU/OK we'd be in".... Reward them for playing more good teams, and punish them for losing the bad games. Texas, in my example, loses 0 points for having played us, while scUM only takes a 2 point hit for having a loss to OK. I'm not saying it's a perfect solution, but it's something! Using my example above, if we've got those teams fighting for the final 2 spots, BYU clearly had the "best" results (Strength of Schedule, if you will) followed by scUM (who benefits from having not played any FCS), then Miami. So, I'd ignore the 3 loss team and make BYU and Miami those last 2 teams making the cut.
 
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Next step in the evolution of this thing is you put the top tier ~30 some odd teams in a league and they play each other for 12 weeks.. Get rid of the OOC stuff against non big boy teams.
My solution is just 12 10-team conferences. Play 9 conference games every season, winner take all. Play 3 OOC "warm up games" like the NFL for seeding and ticket selling purposes. You could schedule all marquee games that way, since they won't "matter".
 
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