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College Football Playoffs (12 Team Format)

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GET RATIOED. Eleven years ago, Bud Elliott of CBS Sports created the Blue-Chip Ratio, which examines the percentage of four and five-star prospects on a college football team and identifies whether that team can win a national title.

Since its inception in 2013, the Blue-Chip Ratio has been “an excellent method for identifying the top 10% of teams that have a shot at winning a title,” Elliott wrote this week. “To win the national championship, college football teams need to sign more four- and five-star recruits than two- and three-star players over the previous four recruiting classes. … This has been consistently true since the advent of modern internet recruiting rankings.”

Does the Blue-Chip Ratio guarantee a team will win the national title? No. Does the Blue-Chip Ratio guarantee a team will compete for a national title? No. But it never hurts for a team to have a roster full of four- and five-star talent. (Unless you’re Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M). And this season, Ohio State will have the most four and five-star talent in college football.



While I loved learning that Ohio State has the most Blue Chips in the sport, I was reminded of a comment head coach Ryan Day made about his team in March. He said the Buckeyes are talented, but it will be the “no-talent issues” that make the difference in 2024.

“You see the potential,” Day said. “But for as much talent as we have, it will be the no-talent issues that help us win and reach our goals. That’s been the focus now. Once we get on the field, that’s what we focus on. It isn’t seeing Jeremiah (Smith) run a go-ball. It’s the discipline of knowing what to do. It’s the focus. It’s the running the ball. It’s the effort. It’s all the things that take no talent. That’s the focus.”

Like head coach, like assistant coach, James Laurinaitis made a similar comment last week.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
somehow I don't see them supporting a plan that in the second round could get one of their teams playing at a cold weather school.
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Right. They already have the majority of the bowl games in their territory. So we should they vote to change? And add in the fact that an away game for them could put them in weather that puts them at a disadvantage.
 
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Zurp said:
Right. They already have the majority of the bowl games in their territory. So we should they vote to change? And add in the fact that an away game for them could put them in weather that puts them at a disadvantage.
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So blow jobs and luxury cruises all around sayall the Big Ten ADs. Why work to get equitable sites for a national play off system?
 
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cincibuck said:
So blow jobs and luxury cruises all around sayall the Big Ten ADs. Why work to get equitable sites for a national play off system?
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Yep. Nobody fought harder against the current round of home sites than Gene Smith who happens to...checks notes...be on the board of the Fiesta Bowl. And don't get me started on Delaney who gladly sold out the interests of conference members to protect his beloved Rose Bowl.
 
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