2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

[Steve19]

What he said ^

 

[Zurp]

The Domers want to get in under their own rules: 1. Independent 2. Semi-conferenced 3. No sharing NBC or playoff money with other schools who helped you get there. 4. Play games in every section of the country to help with recruiting. There's no doubt they'd be in the play offs if they had played in the ACC CCG, but they think they're above that. In short, fuck 'em.

If you want in the playoffs, it's pretty simple.
There's 2 ways in:
1. Win your conference. Then, hope you're ranked as one of the 5 best conference winners.
2. Win your games.

In some ways, #2 helps you to get #1. But not for Notre Dame. They're throwing all their eggs into Basket #2. Then they didn't do #2 enough. If you don't win a conference, and you don't win all your games, you're telling the committee that they have to make a decision. That decision didn't go their way. Boo-hoo, nerds.

You know who else didn't win enough games? Wisconsin. Penn State. Bowling Green.
That's right: I compared you to Bowling Green.
What are you going to do about it?

 

[BB73]

Geez, I get tired of the media types like Saban, DiNardo, and others bitching about not getting the ‘12 best teams’. That wasn’t the deal.

They expanded to 12 to get more TV money. They gave the little guys a guaranteed spot for at least 1 of the 5 conference champions, in order to sell it, appear to be more inclusive, and avoid potential litigation. Everybody agreed to that arrangement.

The fact that the ACC never imagined that their CCG winner would be left out, and that they were idiotic enough to have a 5-loss team win a tiebreaker to get into that game, is the ACC’s problem. So that allowed 2 teams not in the top-12 to get in instead of the 1 that would almost always be included.

So if you’re weren‘t in the top-10 you’re out, Those are the breaks, win more games and quit your bitching. Or take your ball and go home.

 

[buckeyemania11]

Geez, I get tired of the media types like Saban, DiNardo, and others bitching about not getting the ‘12 best teams’. That wasn’t the deal.

They expanded to 12 to get more TV money. They gave the little guys a guaranteed spot for at least 1 of the 5 conference champions, in order to sell it, appear to be more inclusive, and avoid potential litigation. Everybody agreed to that arrangement.

The fact that the ACC never imagined that their CCG winner would be left out, and that they were idiotic enough to have a 5-loss team win a tiebreaker to get into that game, is the ACC’s problem. So that allowed 2 teams not in the top-12 to get in instead of the 1 that would almost always be included.

So if you’re weren‘t in the top-10 you’re out, Those are the breaks, win more games and quit your bitching.

"Best" is a highly subjective matter. If the ESPN personalities had their way we'd have 4 loss SEC teams rolling into the playoff.

 

[zbuck]

"Best" is a highly subjective matter. If the ESPN personalities had their way we'd have 4 loss SEC teams rolling into the playoff.

I'm reasonably sure their annual bonuses are dependent on this ....