With 12 teams I don't think people can complain. Most of the time 3-5 teams have any real shot at the championship.
12. Clemson 4. Arizona State5. Texas 9. Tennessee 1. Oregon8. Ohio State 11. SMU 3. Boise State6. Penn State 10. Indiana 2. Georgia7. Notre Dame
Oregon (#1) should get to pick their own bracket to have a bye in. Then #2 picks. Etc... they got screwed.
As much as I want to them win, Clemson has no chance against UT. I also passionately want IU to beat Notre Dame, but they won't. Seeing Boise St seeded at #4 ahead of two other conference champions blows my mind. I do understand why they are. However, IMO, ASU would handle them easily.
Yeah, Notre Dame is playing really good ball though. If Beck is truly hurt, then idk. Still like Georgia's chances but we'll see. I like Tennessee a lot, but freshman QB worries me.
This was more of a nauseating factor in the BCS era. I wasn't around for the fake championships of the 1950s, 60s, and parts of the 70s, but I don't know how people lived with themselves. Pretty sure Notre Dame lost the cotton bowl to Texas in the early 1970s but was still voted champs or something? We've come a long way.
Texas blows out Clemson Penn State struggles but beats SMU Notre Dame beats Indiana but it’s closer than you think Tennessee upsets Ohio State Oregon beats Tennessee Texas beats Arizona State Georgia (whether Carson Beck plays or not) beats Notre Dame Penn State beats Boise State Oregon beats Texas Georgia beats Penn State Oregon beats Georgia
Six always felt like the sweet spot to me. It would've kept the Pac-12 intact, allowed for good Notre Dame teams to get in, or for a G5 team to take the last spot instead. It was always stupid that the "power five" agreed to a four-team playoff.
The sport has always been more important regionally than nationally. I can't speak to eras I wasn't alive for, but my guess is that winning a regional conference was much more important than national championships for some programs. I think the natty or bust mindset has been detrimental to the sport. I think we'll have fun during this expanded playoff, but I hate how everything outside of it risks being hollowed out.
I don't like certain aspects of the sport today, but the playoff system is not one of them. I was fine with the 4 team playoff, but I'm certainly not upset about 12 teams. It's fun. I do miss SEC on CBS though. Those games seemed more meaningful when Verne Lundquist (and then Brad Nessler) were calling them.
in 2004, if TAMU beats UT, it sends UT to the Cotton Bowl and TAMU to the poopoopeepee bowl. TAMU loses to UT, TAMU gets the Cotton Bowl. It used to be ****ing stupid.
Let's be real, A&M was never going to beat the Horns in the VY years. Y'all would have been better off in the poopee bowl that year than getting slaughtered by Tennessee in the Cotton Bowl.
