On another note, the committee dropping beloved ohio to #2 instead of putting Georgia there is pretty ****ing lame. Really doesn't make much difference unless they were going to drop them to #4, which they weren't, but pretty ****ing weak **** nonetheless.
I'm aware. Easiest fix for THIS year - playoff should be 8 teams. No BYEs. But bi is still allowed for @tinman I respeck his sexuality
F@ck Alabama! Hope the land thieves molly whoop. Would like to see Miami make the semis just for the Georgia vs Beck hilarity.
The committee explanation of their process and why it took so long for the head to head to matter for Miami/Notre is like listening to a David Culley press conference. Nothing makes sense. Im quite gleeful that Notre Dame got left out though.
Difference is KST and Iowa St both have to cough up $500k to the Big12. ND is crying on its Comcast money bags.
Losing a conference championship game hurts less than an OOC loss to a top seed. In hindsight, it's too risky to schedule tough OOC games.
Of course it does - it's a 13rd bonus game against a really good opponent that other teams don't have to face. Why would anyone penalize it more than losing to a team on the regular schedule? Miami and likely OU are in the field because the played and won a hard OOC game. I find it funny that teams who think they deserve a shot at a national title would be scared of playing a good team. I think instead of being cowards, not looking awful for half the season is a better strategy for making the playoff.
What if you are already playing more good teams than pretty much anyone else? If you are in the SEC, decent chance you are playing 4-5 ranked teams (possibly top 10 or higher) in conference play alone. Why add another really difficult game when the rest of the P4 are playing 1-2?
Aw, poor little Notre Dame got their feelings hurt and decided to take their toys and go home! I love it! I will say, though, that Miami should have been ahead of ND several weeks ago. But if ND really wants to get mad at someone, get mad at the stupid ACC for their stupidass tiebreakers in determining who gets to play in the conference championship game.
Even though the committee got it right between ND/Miami IMO, they couldn’t have gone about it any worse. And having these guys try and explain their rankings week after week was just a bad idea. This current iteration of the CFP is completely broken.
I'm starting to think that every big team should freeze out Notre Dame and refuse to schedule them unless they join a conference. They expect kid glove treatment despite going 21 years without a major bowl win and hoarding all of the TV money to themselves. Their independence hurts everyone else so everyone else should stop enabling it.
I think it should stay at 12 or just go to 16 and get it over with. Either completely eliminate the first-round byes or keep them at 4 until the inevitable expansion to 16 happens. Incremental knee-jerking to 14 because of this year is silly.
That will happen when the NCAA basketball tournament backtracks from 68 back to 32 teams. (Or even 64). The truth is it will either stay at 68 or increase to 72 or 76 teams. Moar always wins.
Agreed - I don't have any opinion between ND and Miami, but if the committee said ND was better than Miami a week ago, it doesn't make sense to flip it now, given that nothing of relevance happened. If you're going to re-evaluate everything every week, that's fine - but then don't bother with rankings each week that they are admitting aren't accurate.
With a 16 or 18 team conference, though, there's a decent chance you're not doing that. This made sense a few years ago when there were 2 divisions and everyone in each division played the same schedule. But an SEC schedule now is largely meaningless - you're playing 8 random teams out of a 16 team conference where half the teams aren't actually any good and none of the teams can be directly compared to each other because they have vastly different schedules. So every year, you'll have 1 or 2 teams like A&M that play virtually no one interesting and others that play a bunch. So the SEC schedule is a grab bag of good or bad luck. Vandy had an SEC schedule, lost 2 close games to top teams the road, and didn't even get near consideration without that extra high quality OOC game (VaTech is not good and hasn't been for a decade). So those extra games still help, even in the SEC. I'd argue they were difference makers for both Vandy and OU this year. Same issue in the B10 though it worked out very easily there this year with 3 clear-cut teams and a bunch of others. But some B10 teams might have faced 3 top-5 teams in conference while others faced no one good. I think that was the criticism of Indiana last year despite going 11-1 and still being a little on the bubble. At the end of the day, if schools want the "easy path" to the playoffs, they could have stayed in the B12 or ACC or Pac-whatever. But the goal of sports is entertainment - winning is a route to that, but the primary goal is to give your fans entertainment. And Texas-OSU is a whole lot more entertaining than Texas-UTEP. College football would be awful if every team's regular season is about just trying to produce as many blowouts as possible to create while everyone tries to find the easiest paths to a playoff.
