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BrutusBobcat
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CleveBucks;1901859; said:
If Northern Illinois could beat last year's Notre Dame, Stanford, LSU and Wisconsin in successive games, that would set college football history and be riveting enough...
...except that it would be exceeded by Air Force over FSU, Boise, Florida and Oregon in sequence.
Their entire bracket is ludicrous. Oklahoma State over Auburn AND Ohio State in back-to-back games? It doesn't take an icon and entertainer to see the absurdity of that.
I mean, we all know that bracket would really give us an all SEC Final Four...just ask Gator, Smoov and Nutria.
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SmoovP;1901785; said:
I wouldn't. If a 3-loss team (which would likely be seeded 14th-16th) makes the four-game run through the 16-team field, then they deserve the national title. However, it's far less likely that a 3-loss football team will have such a run than it is a basketball team like VCU having the March Madness run they're having now.
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Apache
Frank Kremblas wore #22
Playoffs in Football
Ok Here is a "half-baked" way to do this without adding too much to the year.
Every conference has divisions with 8 teams. 7 Games played
Conference championships. 1 game played
16 Teams make playoffs 5 games to the Championship
Total= 13 games
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Or we could leave it the way it is a lot of folks have something to grouse about.
Ok Here is a "half-baked" way to do this without adding too much to the year.
Every conference has divisions with 8 teams. 7 Games played
Conference championships. 1 game played
16 Teams make playoffs 5 games to the Championship
Total= 13 games
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Or we could leave it the way it is a lot of folks have something to grouse about.
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Apache;1901956; said:Playoffs in Football
Ok Here is a "half-baked" way to do this without adding too much to the year.
Every conference has divisions with 8 teams. 7 Games played
Conference championships. 1 game played
16 Teams make playoffs [strike]5[/strike] 4 games to the Championship
Total= [strike]13[/strike] 12 games
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Or we could leave it the way it is a lot of folks have something to grouse about.
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Apache;1901956; said:Playoffs in Football
Ok Here is a "half-baked" way to do this without adding too much to the year.
Every conference has divisions with 8 teams. 7 Games played
Conference championships. 1 game played
16 Teams make playoffs 5 games to the Championship
Total= 13 games
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Or we could leave it the way it is a lot of folks have something to grouse about.
Would never happen as too much money would be lost. You think OSU would be okay with a guarantee of only 3-4 home games a year?
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alexhortdog95
Eye to the future, honoring the past
buckeyegrad;1901972; said:
In my opinion, before a playoff can happen, they need to fix the issue of pay for play. Otherwise, a playoff will be a waste, as those teams that want to go deep into the playoffs would have the most $100.00 handshakes.
Just my opinion.
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alexhortdog95
Eye to the future, honoring the past
MililaniBuckeye;1901979; said:
LOL - just saying that now that the whole Fiesta Bowl stuff has come out along with this 'pay for play' junk, the people that are pining for a playoff are trying to come at the justification of one a different way...
I heard Jemelle Hill on ESPN talking about paying players out of the school's income off the player's likeness. Then, Skip Bayless comes after that and says, "Eliminate all the rules for pay to play."
The look on the cat's face is the same one I had after hearing all of that.
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kn1f3party
Hall of Fame
This thread is still going strong I see.
Still for playoffs.
Reasoning has changed a little.
I like the bowls, that time of year is fun and there are some good match-ups.
However, I think seeing a series of games against the nation's best is a lot more compelling.
How much do the fans really care about the Motor City Bowl? Is nobody else tired of seeing these mostly empty stadiums with little to no crowd participation?
I think the major programs are starting to realize how they could in fact make more money by way of the playoffs--especially if you get a game or two at home on top of the regular season--and further marginalize mid-major programs.
There is no way Air Force or Northern Illinois is ever competitive enough to make it through a playoff and play for a championship. That is something unique to college basketball.
Still for playoffs.
Reasoning has changed a little.
I like the bowls, that time of year is fun and there are some good match-ups.
However, I think seeing a series of games against the nation's best is a lot more compelling.
How much do the fans really care about the Motor City Bowl? Is nobody else tired of seeing these mostly empty stadiums with little to no crowd participation?
I think the major programs are starting to realize how they could in fact make more money by way of the playoffs--especially if you get a game or two at home on top of the regular season--and further marginalize mid-major programs.
There is no way Air Force or Northern Illinois is ever competitive enough to make it through a playoff and play for a championship. That is something unique to college basketball.
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Apache;1901977; said:
Don't get me wrong, I support a playoff system; and I actually like your idea to a certain degree, just the numbers as you presented them would never work.
Personally, my ideal for college football would be even more crazy and unlikely: go to four mega-conferences of 20 teams each and dump the bottom-feeders from the MAC, WAC, Sunbelt, etc. Each conference would be two divisions of 10 teams and you play everyone in your division (9 games). Plus, you get 3 games out of division, but you can only schedule other mega-conference schools--no bottom-feeders. This system would pretty much guarantee a school at least 5 home games a year, and it could be as high as 7 or 8.
You have your conference championships and the four winners go into a playoff. All other teams at .500 go to bowl games as in the current system, but again, without the bottom-feeders. Yes, to win the championship, you would have to play 15 games, but that would only be 2 schools. The overwhelming majority of programs would still only play 12-13 games. Oh, and did I mention, I don't want any bottom-feeders!
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muffler dragon
Bien. Bien chiludo.
BUCKYLE;1902046; said:
That's only because you got sick of Mike Brown punching you in the nut sack every year. :p
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