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Future Football Schedules (Updated 8/31/2024)

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Jaxbuck said:
assuming the committee doesn't just go and do the opposite in '18

I think the CFP is way too new and the committee has proven to be way too inconsistent for AD's to start making schedule changes yet.
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Feel like it's just the BCS all over again. The secret formula shifts every year to compensate for some perceived injustice that occurred the previous year.

Regardless, schedule tough OOC and don't lose more than 1 and you'll probably be rewarded.
 
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Dryden said:
Feel like it's just the BCS all over again. The secret formula shifts every year to compensate for some perceived injustice that occurred the previous year.

Regardless, schedule tough OOC and don't lose more than 1 and you'll probably be rewarded.
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Mostly agree. BCS seemed way more open and honest.

There was a formula and those so inclined could make predictions off of it.

The current system is the CFB equivalent of the Fed right down to reading/interpreting the minutes of the meetings.

I do think that regardless of system, if you are OSU and schedule well, 0-1 losses will get you in almost always.
 
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Dryden said:
Feel like it's just the BCS all over again. The secret formula shifts every year to compensate for some perceived injustice that occurred the previous year.

Regardless, schedule tough OOC and don't lose more than 1 and you'll probably be rewarded.
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Jaxbuck said:
Mostly agree. BCS seemed way more open and honest.

There was a formula and those so inclined could make predictions off of it.

The current system is the CFB equivalent of the Fed right down to reading/interpreting the minutes of the meetings.

I do think that regardless of system, if you are OSU and schedule well, 0-1 losses will get you in almost always.
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The CFP is twice as good as the BCS since 4 teams (vs 2) get in. I do think they should increase the CFP to 6 teams with the 5 power conference champions automatically getting in; which takes their selection out of the committee's hands. The committee can seed the teams (with the top 2 getting a 1st round bye) and pick the "best of the rest" 6th team. I know they will never do this; if they increase it they will go to 8 teams, since 2 more games equals more money, etc.

Basically it should be: you win your conference and you are in. You do not win your conference you are on the outside looking in unless the committee picks you as the 6th team. I'd even be OK if the 6th team was limited to an independent team and/or "Group Of 5" conference winner.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Basically it should be: you win your conference and you are in. You do not win your conference you are on the outside looking in unless the committee picks you as the 6th team. I'd even be OK if the 6th team was limited to an independent team and/or "Group Of 5" conference winner.
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Meaning that losing to Michigan would mean next to nothing other than which low seed OSU gets. It would be their third loss of the year yet they'd limp into the playoffs if they could beat an untested Wisky team.

Heaven forbid a bad west team (with 3-5 losses) manages to rise up one day and gets in with one good game. It's happen multiple times in the CCG era.
 
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jwinslow said:
Meaning that losing to Michigan would mean next to nothing other than which low seed OSU gets. It would be their third loss of the year yet they'd limp into the playoffs if they could beat an untested Wisky team.

Heaven forbid a bad west team (with 3-5 losses) manages to rise up one day and gets in with one good game. It's happen multiple times in the CCG era.
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Losing to scUM means a lot, it means you lost to those "dumb shit fuckers up north". That is something you never ever take litely or want to do.

Basically the first round of the CFP would be the conference championship games. Yeah, a 3-5 loss conference winner could get into the CFPs; however, they are the conference winner. The NCAA has no problem with basketball teams with several losses (i.e. getting selected for March Madness) playing for the National Championship.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Losing to scUM means a lot, it means you lost to those "dumb [Mark May] fuckers up north". That is something you never ever take litely or want to do.
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What would it mean, script? Of course no one likes losing to them. That doesn't make it very relevant. Like when OSU loses to Michigan in basketball.

It would not have kept them out of the NC game this year, nor losing 1/4 of the games on their regular season schedule.
Basically the first round of the CFP would be the conference championship games. Yeah, a 3-5 loss conference winner could get into the CFPs; however, they are the conference winner. The NCAA has no problem with basketball teams with several losses (i.e. getting selected for March Madness) playing for the National Championship.
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The NCAA has a big problem with the regular season not mattering.

You can prioritize the entire season or you can prioritize the tournament. CFB has an unrivaled, suspenseful regular season with a weak tournament, or you can have a mostly unwatched regular season with a massive, exciting tournament like CBB. You can't have both, and the further you move in one direction, the worse the other one gets.


Many are so concerned with achieving fairness and balance via a more familiar playoff system that they do not notice they it will destroy what makes CFB great.
 
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When the BCS was around, there were 0-3 teams with a strong case for the NC most years. Sometimes 4. There definitely were never 6-8 teams.

This year is yet another instance where they can't fill 4 slots credibly (and so they literally picked a team for how they played before August 2017), yet we want to expand it to 6? Why? What is the incentive?

Because OSU got left out when they played like garbage in two separate contests, one of which could be against their playoff opponent depending on seeding?

Based on fairness?

What is the reason that we must minimize the value of losses in the college football regular season?

What is the reason that we should no longer race to our TV sets to watch a big upset in CFB happen because it could have wide sweeping effects on the rankings and playoff hunt?

Alabama should have missed the playoffs because of one upset. Unfortunately CFB did not field competent teams this year, so they backed in thanks almost exclusively to OSU getting Iowa'd. (Another loss that captivated the attention of cfb in a way that Wofford over UNC, or whoever beat Kansas recently, never can in CBB, because the consequences are so much lighter ).
 
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jwinslow said:
When the BCS was around, there were 0-3 teams with a strong case for the NC most years. Sometimes 4. There definitely were never 6-8 teams.

This year is yet another instance where they can't fill 4 slots credibly (and so they literally picked a team for how they played before August 2017), yet we want to expand it to 6? Why? What is the incentive?

Because OSU got left out when they played like garbage in two separate contests, one of which could be against their playoff opponent depending on seeding?

Based on fairness?

What is the reason that we must minimize the value of losses in the college football regular season?

What is the reason that we should no longer race to our TV sets to watch a big upset in CFB happen because it could have wide sweeping effects on the rankings and playoff hunt?

Alabama should have missed the playoffs because of one upset. Unfortunately CFB did not field competent teams this year, so they backed in thanks almost exclusively to OSU getting Iowa'd. (Another loss that captivated the attention of cfb in a way that Wofford over UNC, or whoever beat Kansas recently, never can in CBB, because the consequences are so much lighter ).
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Apologize if its been stated, but there is a really easy fix to this, which actually makes things much fairer.

You eliminate conference divisions, have a rotating schedule, and keep one rival game a year that is locked in. Use the BCS formula and have #1 and #2 play each other in the conference championship in each Power 5 conference, with the 5 winners going into a pool to be selected for the CFP. Any outside team that has a stronger resume can supersede a Power 5 team (Notre Dame, non Power 5 team.....which would be rare).

All conferences should play the same amount of conference games (SEC only plays 8, everyone else plays 9).

It's actually a really simple solution that keeps the regular season exceptionally important, makes the conference championship a "quasi-playoff" game, and keeps interest in who will be selected into Final 4.

And finally, we don't have to see the injustices of trash divisions like the SEC East, Big 10 "West", ACC "Coastal", etc....Divisions are garbage.
 
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Dryden said:
Feel like it's just the BCS all over again. The secret formula shifts every year to compensate for some perceived injustice that occurred the previous year.

Regardless, schedule tough OOC and don't lose more than 1 and you'll probably be rewarded.
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The people who pitched the BCS are the exact same people who pitched the CFP.
 
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billmac91 said:
Apologize if its been stated, but there is a really easy fix to this, which actually makes things much fairer.

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All conferences should play the same amount of conference games (SEC only plays 8, everyone else plays 9).

It's actually a really simple solution that keeps the regular season exceptionally important, makes the conference championship a "quasi-playoff" game, and keeps interest in who will be selected into Final 4.

And finally, we don't have to see the injustices of trash divisions like the SEC East, Big 10 "West", ACC "Coastal", etc....Divisions are garbage.
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The ACC and the SEC both play 8. I agree with your point, though
 
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