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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
The only thing that chart tells me is how desperate ESPN is for Texas to be back. What on earth did they show last year that should propel them into the playoff discussion? Oh well, one must suffer through the idiotic Texas hype before one can savor the inevitable Texas tears.
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Maybe they're glad to have Maryland off the docket, and didn't think through the alternative?
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Second game is against Bama, which should be a thorough thrashing. You know how Saban likes to teach his former assistants a lesson. Even if the B12 sucks balls, I think we can count on Texas to drop at least one conference game. So, they're going to need a whole lot of late season help to drop teams ahead of them. I'd put their chances at less than 5%. The only thing they have going for them is espn lobbying the committee non stop.
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OREGONSOCKPUPPET
It's Puppet Time!
I would be impressed if Georgia made it. They might have 5 defensive players drafted in the first round and 7 in the first two rounds which is crazy. They lose a lot on the defense.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Why there's no rush on College Football Playoff expansion talks, what needs to be resolved and what comes next
This placid meet-up was a complete reversal from months of sometimes contentious conversations and stressful meetings that boiled over and played out publicly until they ultimately culminated in February with an 8-3 vote that will keep the four-team format in place for four more years. For now, the issue of college football's championship format beyond the 2025 season is on pause -- most likely for another year. No expansion meetings are currently scheduled, and no changes have been made to how the four best teams are determined.
Entire article: https://www.espn.com/college-footba...off-expansion-talks-needs-resolved-comes-next
Sounds like we'll have the 4 team college playoff format for (at least) 4 more years.
This placid meet-up was a complete reversal from months of sometimes contentious conversations and stressful meetings that boiled over and played out publicly until they ultimately culminated in February with an 8-3 vote that will keep the four-team format in place for four more years. For now, the issue of college football's championship format beyond the 2025 season is on pause -- most likely for another year. No expansion meetings are currently scheduled, and no changes have been made to how the four best teams are determined.
Entire article: https://www.espn.com/college-footba...off-expansion-talks-needs-resolved-comes-next
Sounds like we'll have the 4 team college playoff format for (at least) 4 more years.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
“I was sitting there watching the national championship, and I thought they just thought I wasn’t serious when I said we can leave it at four,” Sankey said, in a media availability at the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame museum, which is across the street from the SEC office in Birmingham, Alabama. “People apparently didn’t take me seriously. I don’t think people heard me when I said we are fine with it staying at four.”
Later in the conversation, Sankey was a bit more direct about the SEC's dominance in the current system.
“We can stay at four,” Sankey said. “This conference will thrive at four ... period. That’s not healthy for the rest of college football, but we can stay at four.”
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
I can think of a good reason: Northwestern in 2018. Sure, they lost in the CCG, so no harm, no foul. But they lost to Akron and to Hamburger University and to Evanston Elementary School for the Blind. They also lost to Sparty's little brother. But they won their division. I think going 8-4 is enough to keep a team out of any playoffs. If they had found a way to beat Ohio State in the championship game, it's bad enough that they would go to the Rose Bowl (if the Rose Bowl wasn't a playoff game that year - I forget if it was), but to go to the playoffs cheapens the playoffs.
Also, and along the same lines, why would a team even need to try very hard to win their OOC games? All you need to do is win your conference games, and you're in the playoffs.
I agree that it's hard to lose your CCG and still make it into the playoffs. The SEC can do that because they're THAT good. But just saying that if you win, you're in the playoffs, I don't like it. Mathematically, a team could lose 3 OOC games, then go 5-4 in conference play and tie for the division championship. I suppose they could even go 3-6 and tie for division championship (all teams in a division win at home against other division opponents, and all teams lose their games against the opposite division). All teams would be 3-6 in the conference, and you have to pick a winner. So, a 3-9 team could be in the CCG. Then they magically win their CCG. I know all of that is extremely unlikely, but I don't like the fact that we have a path available for a 4-9 team to be in the playoff.
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cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
Every year at least one CCG winner gets left out of the party and there's no way 2018 Northwestern would have gone on to the big show even if they had won. But to make it to the CCG is all but essential to make it into the CFPs. I think Notre Dame and Alabama are the only exceptions.
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