It also was strange to me the CFP committee chair kept going back to BYU to explain why Miami flipped flopped with ND last week when neither team played. It seemed as if he knew there was no legit answer, but he had a prepared script that dodged the issue and repeated it twice. IMO, the committee heard the sports media unanimously say Miami should get in ahead of ND. I also believe the CFP committee made a promise to Greg Sankey (the commissioner of the SEC) they would not harm losers of conference title games. (This is part of the reason the SEC finally implemented a 9-game schedule). In other words, there would have been a nuclear volcano from the SEC if Alabama were left out. The committee would have been thrashed by sports media if Miami were left out. In this instance, because leaving ND out was the path of least flak, they took it. IMO, regardless of if it was correct or not, objectivity did not factor into the final decision; fear and politics did. Again, to be clear, I love it when ND gets skewered. It's hard to believe they actually lost a political battle with the oversized clout they have wielded over CFB for so long.
Totally agree with all of this. I do find it funny that the "Alabama can't drop due to a title game" thing doesn't apply to BYU. Prior to Saturday, BYU was considered better than Miami, but that title game was allowed to hurt them. At the end of the day, they had to leave some teams out and put some in, but their attempts of trying to explain it all away is ridiculous.
Yall seem to care more, talk more, about rankings and committee crap than you do actual football games
Unfortunately it’s the dominant narrative of those covering the sport. We talk a ton about playoff chances in other sports, but the story is just radically different for college football where what happens on the field is suggestive, but not definitive, ultimately
Ok, let me know when we're crying for the "last 4 out" at large big conference teams in March because a couple of little baby schools got automatic bids. Greg Sankey, is that you?
I don’t really care about college football, but hearing what Notre Dame is doing seems to be b****ing of the highest order. What a bunch of losers
Would they need to include language that the conference is forbidden to tweet or show replays of losses?
If we're just shitposting, here is what I'd do if I were college football czar: Un-do conference realignment by moving the west coast schools back to the Pac-12 and force Notre Dame to join the Big Ten. Get rid of conference championship games and name the best team over the course the season the conference champ. Ties are fine, they give us something to argue about. Eliminating conference championship games allows us to schedule the first round of playoff games on the first weekend of December. Create a six-team playoff: five conference champions + highest-ranked G5 school. Top-two seeds get a bye. Weekend one schedule: Army/Navy at noon ET, quarterfinal 1 (on-campus), quarterfinal 2 (on-campus) On-campus semifinals would be December 14-17 and the national championship game would always be on New Years Day at the Rose Bowl.
This only works if the conferences are small enough (10 schools?) where every team gets to play each other so there is a clear conference winner. Otherwise, in your scenario, Indiana or OSU wouldn't have even had the chance to make the playoff this year despite going undefeated.
Yeah we'd have to reenact the old Big East for this to work, too, and move teams back to a mid-2000s alignment when geography made sense.
