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The Polls (AP, Coaches, & CFP, etc.)

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Jaxbuck said:
It’s easy to say it would never happen but it absolutely could. My point is that the risk goes from 0 to something bigger than zero.

One of the very first years the SEC had a CCG, the OBC rested players vs FSU to get ready for the SEC CG.

It can hurt more rivalries than just The Game and rivalries are a big part of what makes CFB special. IMO.
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Yea but that's UF and FSU... whose their rival anyway? Georgia? Tennessee? FSU?
And it's a non-conference game with no bearing on CCG.
Reality is that Big East will frequently go through The Game. And even when head-head isnt deciding, how many years can we say a loss wouldnt have bumped one team out? Off the top of my head - 2014? Do you think we rest starters that year ?
 
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jwinslow said:
I've been a staunch opponent of diluting the field, but the current system does not work. I'm also dying for home games, including at osu's expense.
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Same and same.

Home field advantage for even just 1st round would completely put me over to the pro side of an expanded playoff.

That said, they'll never do it.

D1A college football power brokers have a Cincinnati Redsian track record of bad decision making. If they expand they will fuck it up, sure as you were born.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Same and same.

Home field advantage for even just 1st round would completely put me over to the pro side of an expanded playoff.

That said, they'll never do it.

D1A college football power brokers have a Cincinnati Redsian track record of bad decision making. If they expand they will fuck it up, sure as you were born.
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Oh they wouldn't fuck it up. They'd just pick the outcome that most lines their pockets and not care about what the fans want or what's good for the sport itself. In their eyes, that's Mission Accomplished.
 
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jwinslow said:
I think this goes here. Innteresting breakdown of how few bad teams were ranked 8th, and one of the only ones was sanction inflated Bucky.



I've been a staunch opponent of diluting the field, but the current system does not work. I'm also dying for home games, including at osu's expense.

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I'd have no fear of going to South Bend next week for a first round game this year.
 
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BB73 said:
I would be OK with expanding to a 6-team playoff, under the following terms:

5 conference champions and the highest rated of the other-5/Notre Dame, or just the other-5 if they can force ND into a conference. That allows entry for everybody.

The 2 added games would be played between Dec. 15th and 21st at the home fields (or a local stadium of their choice) for #3 and #4. Top 2 seeds get a bye. It's really an 11-team playoff because the CCGs are elimination games, pure and simple.

You don't win your division, you're out.
You don't win your CCG, you're done.
No eye test among the Power-5, let a BCS-type model rank the 5 champions and slot in the non-Power-5 team. No committee with politics and people recusing themselves from discussions.

This retains the regular season, maximizes the importance of the CCGs, adds the excitement of two on-campus playoff games in mid-December, and retains the current bowl structure within the playoff and New Year's 6 games.

The only problem I see is that it makes too much sense to ever be agreed upon. The obvious opponents will be ESPN and the SEC, who would expect to get 2 of the top 6 almost every year under the current 'best teams eye-test' mantra. But everybody else should support it and force them to go along.
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Anyone hear or see a single questioning by the national media of Notre Dame's ability to get into the playoffs without having to win something? Their only win of note is against Michigan and their playoff game against Clemson is the one they should have had to play to determine the winner of the ACC. An ACC, I might add, that right now consists of Clemson and a bunch of teams that would finish in the lower half of the Big Ten, Big 8 - 12 - 14 - 11, and SEC. And yet no one dares to question their "unique" situation. IMO, three teams got screwed - Georgia, Ohio State, and Oklahoma, who now has to play Alabama instead of Clemson or Notre Dame.
 
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buckeyebri said:
How did Georgia and Oklahoma get screwed? UCF and the Buckeyes got screwed.....
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Georgia had to play a CCG. I still think they were one of the top four teams in the nation and they played like it. Without that CCG, they would have been in the playoffs. Oklahoma had to win a CCG to get in and could easily have been dropped if the Bucks had pounded NW. Ohio State won their division by stomping a Michigan team that was within a touchdown of ND, then won a CCG.

I concede that ND normally plays a tough schedule, but this year they caught Stanford (8-4) and USC (5-7) with weak teams, Navy with one of it's worst teams in 20 years, Syhracuse and Pitt as the only two ACC teams other than clemson with so much as a heart beat. And no CCG.
 
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