College Football Playoffs (12 Team Format)

[buckeyemania11]

That's an interesting one. 2-loss Ohio State versus 1-loss pedsters and IU who we will have beaten in the last half of the season. All four should get in, but will they do that at the expense of a 5th SEC team and/or a second academy? So how do they play that?

As for espn, the B1G, B12 and G6 are really going to need to be on the same team when the playoff media deal expires and make sure that FOX, CBS and NBC get in on it. You can't leave the playoff as essentially the in-house property of one network.

Indiana is absolutely getting left out for another SEC team in that scenario. It's shitty but you can bet it's not even a debate for the committee. For Ohio State & Ped State it depends on how the SEC plays out

There's a nightmare scenario where you have 6 SEC teams with 1 or 2 losses. You know the propaganda about it being the greatest season ever for a single conference would be in full force leading up to selection time.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Indiana is absolutely getting left out for another SEC team in that scenario. It's shitty but you can bet it's not even a debate for the committee. For Ohio State & Ped State it depends on how the SEC plays out

There's a nightmare scenario where you have 6 SEC teams with 1 or 2 losses. You know the propaganda about it being the greatest season ever for a single conference would be in full force leading up to selection time.

It could happen in the B1G with Oregon, Ohio State, pedsters, IU, Bert and Wiscy all ending up with no more than two losses. Of course, then the espn narrative is how mediocre the B1G is.

 

[buckeyemania11]

It could happen in the B1G with Oregon, Ohio State, pedsters, IU, Bert and Wiscy all ending up with no more than two losses. Of course, then the espn narrative is how mediocre the B1G is.

Lol yep "see it's not because the big 10 is strong, its just because the bottom half is that bad!"

Meanwhile you got ESPN trying to hype up garbage teams like Florida, Auburn and Arkansas with their FPI crap that's always been slanted toward the SEC.

 

[cincibuck]

Whelp, Texas, Tennessee and Georgia are probably all going to get into the playoffs. It's almost like the SEC is designing team schedules with the objective of packing the playoffs with SEC teams.

Along with an established history of playing South Charleston, VMI, and Dilly Dally Tech the week before big games.

 

[buckeyemania11]

Now more than ever they really need to get rid of preseason rankings. With rosters even more drastically changing with the transfer portal year to year. Don't have any rankings until like week 7 or 8 when you have a real picture of how good or not good teams really are. Of course this will never actually happen, but it should. It would really help filter out the bullshit some.

 

[Zurp]

Of course this will never actually happen

Agreed.

but it should.

Agreed.

Meh... maybe not. I mean, the polls are dumb and we really shouldn't care about them. The only reason they're there at the beginning of the year is because we care about them. And we shouldn't.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Army - Navy game is 12/14, a week after SEC, BIG CGs. How's that fit in with the playoffs?

It doesn't. Playoffs will be decided before Army-Navy. So you could have the fucked up scenario where a one-loss Army or Navy is jumped ahead of a Boise team with the Heisman winner and then picks up a second loss the following weekend. But........'Murica!

 

[cincibuck]

Important to remember that it’s teams 5 - 8 who get to host the round one games in their own sand box. then, back to bowl system. As long as the bowl committees have a voice you can count on very few SEC teams having to travel north to play.

 

[Zurp]

Important to remember that it’s teams 5 - 8 who get to host the round one games in their own sand box. then, back to bowl system. As long as the bowl committees have a voice you can count on very few SEC teams having to travel north to play.

That's what I've been saying all along. There might be a token SEC team that has to go north, but it will be a team that probably shouldn't have made the playoffs, anyway. Either that or they'll have a team that everyone knows is overrated in the north ranked about 8th, and 9th will be an SEC team everyone knows is underrated. Then that #9 team goes to play #8 and wins, so people can say, "See? Playing in the cold isn't so awesome. Nerds."