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

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ORD_Buckeye said:
Juggalos are getting Sandusky'd. No fucking way they should be 9th, and it's clear they've consciously been slotted far enough down that no matter how much chaos could happen this weekend, there's no plausible scenario that they could rise to four. I mean the bias is literally so blatant, it has me in the juggalos' corner. That's how bad it its.
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Jesus. Just when you thought 2020 couldn't get any weirder.
 
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CincyInterloper said:
Indiana is getting hosed as well. I can see a two-loss P5 team being ahead of an undefeated G5 or one-loss P5 if both losses were competitive and to highly ranked teams. But Florida and Iowa State each have what I would characterize as a bad loss.
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I think Indy’s getting penalized for Penix being out for the season.... but would that happen to Gawja or florida no..
 
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“Given the realities of 2020, we always reserve the right to make decisions as late as possible,” College Football Playoff Executive Director Bill Hanock said on a teleconference Tuesday night. “For example, what happens if the state of California shuts down entirely and doesn't allow any games. So we're keeping our eye on the situation, but we are planning to play that semifinal at the Rose Bowl.”

While the Rose Bowl is still scheduled to continue as expected, there are a number of issues. Chief among those is allowing families of players and staff to watch the game in-person, something even the cautious Big Ten has permitted its teams to do.

“That's very important to us,” Hancock said of families attending the game, “and we're going to continue to monitor the situation. We do plan to play at the Rose Bowl, and we're just hoping that the state will allow the families to attend. I realize that may not exactly answer your question, but that's where we are.”

The College Football Playoff management committee has made multiple appeals to the state of California to allow a small number of socially distant families to attend the semifinal game. No resolution has been reached as of this writing.

A decision on whether to play the semifinal at the Rose Bowl could directly affect the Buckeyes. Ohio State sat at No. 4 in the penultimate Playoff rankings released on Tuesday night ahead of the Scarlet and Gray’s Big Ten Championship Game against Northwestern on Saturday. If Ohio State wins in Indianapolis, the Buckeyes are likely into the Playoff.

Depending on the results of other conference championship games and how the Playoff selection committee ranks the teams on Sunday, Ohio State could move up to No. 3 and take on either No. 2 Notre Dame or Clemson in the semifinal. With Alabama likely to remain at No. 1 in the final Playoff rankings, the Crimson Tide would play at the Sugar Bowl, and the Buckeyes and either the Fighting Irish or the Tigers, in this very possible scenario, would be designated for the Rose Bowl.

There is yet to be any indication of where the management committee would move the semifinal if it cannot be played at the Rose Bowl. Reports have indicated that Dallas or Indianapolis could be used as alternative sites for the semifinal. The Cotton Bowl is scheduled for Dec. 31, a day prior to the semifinal games, and the Indianapolis Colts play Dec. 27 and Jan. 3, meaning Lucas Oil Stadium could be a possibility.

“I'm not going to speculate about that, but I'll just suffice it to say that we will be prepared,” Hancock said of the possibility of moving the game.

“We have long-standing agreements in place, and I may be old fashioned, but I think it's important to honor agreements. We are planning to play the game in California, and we're hoping the state will fix the situation and will allow the families to be there.”
 
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SKULL SESSION: ANOTHER FIVE-STAR COULD BE COMING TO OHIO STATE, MICHIGAN'S SIGNING DAY WAS NOT SMOOTH, AND THE BCS SYSTEM MIGHT HAVE BEEN BETTER

THE BCS WAS BETTER. The American Athletic Conference commissioner has just joined the rest of the world in realizing that the College Football Playoff committee is more full of shit than the penguin exhibit at the zoo.

Welcome to the club!

American Athletic Conference commissioner Michael Aresco strongly criticized the College Football Playoff selection committee for dropping undefeated Cincinnati another spot in its rankings -- behind three two-loss teams.

During an interview Wednesday on SEC Network's The Paul Finebaum Show, Aresco said the CFP selection committee needs to do some "soul searching" and is "undermining its credibility with rankings that defy logic and common sense and fairness."

"I never thought I'd say it, but if this continues, bring back the BCS and the computers because it would be a fairer system than what I'm seeing now," Aresco said. "This is the seventh year [of the CFP], and it does appear the deck is stacked against us and against other [Group of 5 teams]."

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"If it continues to be the way it is, then you really don't have a path," Aresco said. "It looked like, at one point, Cincinnati might have had a path. We're not satisfied anymore with just playing on New Year's Day when we have teams this good."

I like that he brings up the BCS because the truth is, we as college football fans were hoodwinked and bamboozled from the start.

ESPN sold us a four-team playoff and included a selection method that everyone should have known was bullshit from the start as a surreptitious free-rider in order to make sure they always got the big-name and big-money schools in the field.

We replaced a system that ranked teams by evenly weighing the coaches poll, a poll of 150 highly-qualified people's opinions, and an average of 10 objective computers with a committee of 12 people just subjectively picking teams based on the eye test.

And we did it gladly, because all we saw was "four-team playoff!" and that sounded awesome, so we didn't even consider the methodology.

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And if you think I'm remembering the BCS ranking system just a little too fondly, go ahead and compare for yourself.



There's no perfect way to rank teams, especially this year, but the BCS was better.

Regardless, all of this drama can be fixed with an eight-team playoff. Give an auto-bid to the winner of each Power Five conference and have three at-large spots with one required to go to a Group of Five team. This isn't hard.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...higans-signing-day-was-not-smooth-and-the-bcs
 
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woofermazing said:
An 8 team playoff would just mean 3 SEC teams get in every year without question.

I think I'd be happier with the BCS, or even the pre-BCS bowl system.
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I could live with 6 teams - the P5 conference champs and 1 highest-ranked non-P5 team. The two byes and the seeding would be determined by a committee, but that’s all.
 
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BB73 said:
I could live with 6 teams - the P5 conference champs and 1 highest-ranked non-P5 team. The two byes and the seeding would be determined by a committee, but that’s all.
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that would be SEc winner, and SEC 2nd place team if Clemson was not in every year... i’m all for taking those geezers out of the equation all together
 
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