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Piayoffs??? Playoffs?

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Piayoffs??? Playoffs?
« on: December 21, 2020, 10:33:10 AM »
The usual suspects were announced yesterday for the 4 team "playoff".  To me, the so called playoffs have become as big a joke as the Heisman.  It's a popularity contest centered around who will get the best rating$$$.  However, unless I'm out here on an island, I have a feeling much of America is totally fatigued with these teams. 

First off, let's start with the system itself.  Broke!!!  Well, it's not broken because it was never right in the first place.  As I've said in other threads, college football is the most unique entity in all of sports, from high school all the way through the pros.  No sport in the world, that I know of is decided completely by the eye test and on popularity.  There are roughly 130 teams in D-1 foosballz and at the start of each season, you can go to about 70 of them and say, "I hope you have a great season, but let's be clear about something.  You can win every game you play by an average of 30 points a game, and you ain't sniffing of a berth in the playoffs."  And the very fact that you have 130 teams competing, only to have a committee say what 4 teams have the right to play for the championship, the only criteria being their opinions, is luda-Kris at best.

How do you decide that Notre Dame is better than A&M?  There's no way to compare the schedules they played other than they both have one loss, which was a skull fucking by another playoff team.  A&M played an SEC schedule while ND played in the ACC.  How does the committee say The Irish have more of a right than the Aggies?  Oh that's right, it's Notre Dame.  How does Cincinnati go undefeated, win their conference championship Saturday and get jumped in the opinion poll by 2 loss Oklahoma?  Oh that's right, because the Bearcats are one of those 70 teams that you can brush aside since they're not a blue blood of college football.  How in fickity frickity frack does a team that only played six games make it over any of them? Oh that's right, they ARE one of the blue bloods.

This should have been the year they changed things up, even if only for this season.  MLB did.  They changed several long standing rules for this year because of how the Ronas had put everything in disarray.  This was the perfect opportunity for college football to do the same.  But here we are again with 4 teams that quite frankly, I doubt very many people want to see in the playoffs for the fiftieth time in a row. Are they the best four out there?  I think an argument could be made for each of them; however, that's just an opinion and championships shouldn't be decided that way.   

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Re: Piayoffs??? Playoffs?
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2020, 04:35:57 PM »
Here is the easy solution to the problem that nobody asked me to solve.  

4 regional conferences comprised of 64 teams.  2 divisions with each conference comprised of 8 teams, also regionally divided.  

8 game schedule, 7 divisional games.  8th game is kickoff classic for every with 2 year home and home from other major conference team.  

Division winners play for conference championship.  Conference champions decide 4 team playoff to decide champion.  Every game matters after kickoff classic basically creating a playoff starting week 2.  

What 64 teams get to make the conference?  Build the conferences based upon graduation rates.  Sign a bunch of 5 stars who wont stay 4 years and graduate? You risk losing your conference standing and pushed to FCS.

Allow the NFL an opportunity to create a summer league for the 5 star players out of high school who have a real chance to compete in the league and let them have a high school draft.  PAY THOSE PLAYERS.  

Star potential players on stacked Bama/Clemson/Ohio State teams now get paid to play, great high school players get to play college football for an education.


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Re: Piayoffs??? Playoffs?
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2020, 04:56:00 PM »
Here is the easy solution to the problem that nobody asked me to solve. 

4 regional conferences comprised of 64 teams.  2 divisions with each conference comprised of 8 teams, also regionally divided. 

8 game schedule, 7 divisional games.  8th game is kickoff classic for every with 2 year home and home from other major conference team. 

Division winners play for conference championship.  Conference champions decide 4 team playoff to decide champion.  Every game matters after kickoff classic basically creating a playoff starting week 2. 

What 64 teams get to make the conference?  Build the conferences based upon graduation rates.  Sign a bunch of 5 stars who wont stay 4 years and graduate? You risk losing your conference standing and pushed to FCS.

Allow the NFL an opportunity to create a summer league for the 5 star players out of high school who have a real chance to compete in the league and let them have a high school draft.  PAY THOSE PLAYERS. 

Star potential players on stacked Bama/Clemson/Ohio State teams now get paid to play, great high school players get to play college football for an education.


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Too many numbers and paragraphs in your plan. Sorry.
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« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2020, 05:40:25 PM »
However it's done, I believe every conference should have representation in the playoffs, regardless of whether or not they're Power 5.  Win your conference and you're in.  You can seed the teams based on a computer model like the BCS, or through a committee.  Doesn't matter to me.  But if Bama or Clemson are going to be at the top every year, their reward could be to let the #8 seed, San Jose State or whoever, travel to Tuscaloosa for the first round game.  
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« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2020, 12:09:09 AM »
However it's done, I believe every conference should have representation in the playoffs, regardless of whether or not they're Power 5.  Win your conference and you're in.  You can seed the teams based on a computer model like the BCS, or through a committee.  Doesn't matter to me.  But if Bama or Clemson are going to be at the top every year, their reward could be to let the #8 seed, San Jose State or whoever, travel to Tuscaloosa for the first round game. 
Yup.
The old BCS rankings, a composite of a few objective models, and the top 8 are in.
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« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2020, 08:53:23 AM »
Yup.
The old BCS rankings, a composite of a few objective models, and the top 8 are in.
I’ve always been a fam of the p5 winners plus 3 at large bids based off this same seeding/ranking. That way a super good p5 runner up or a great g5 team can get in. 
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« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2020, 09:03:40 AM »
I’ve always been a fam of the p5 winners plus 3 at large bids based off this same seeding/ranking. That way a super good p5 runner up or a great g5 team can get in.
Agreed.  Making a conference champion get an automatic bid might help with out of conference scheduling, too, since it wouldn't matter.  And if you get left out?  Too bad, win your conference.
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« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2020, 09:39:03 AM »
Agreed.  Making a conference champion get an automatic bid might help with out of conference scheduling, too, since it wouldn't matter.  And if you get left out?  Too bad, win your conference.
That's the whole key.  Earn your way in and you have a shot. 
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« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2020, 10:08:52 AM »
That's the whole key.  Earn your way in and you have a shot.
Is that what lady Snaggs tells you?
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« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2020, 10:16:24 AM »
Is that what lady Snaggs tells you?
I gots to work for the bootay at my house.
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« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2020, 10:44:16 AM »
I gots to work for the bootay at my house.
Don't we all
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« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2020, 10:59:46 AM »
Don't we all
Yeah.  I remember one time having to practically beg Mrs. Snagg...oh wait, you mean...yeah.
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