Northwestern was one of the top four teams in the B1G this year, and Ohio State had already beaten Penn State and destroyed Michigan.
It has now been three years in a row that the B1G champ has been punked by the CFP.
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Northwestern was one of the top four teams in the B1G this year, and Ohio State had already beaten Penn State and destroyed Michigan.
Fine, throw Ohio State in the West and watch the West dominate in the championship game because nobody is beating Ohio State anyway right now.
The biggest problem right now is that they are looking for the "BEST" team. If that is what you are looking for you open yourself up for the "Eye Test."
I want the champs to play it out on the field. Sometimes the "best" team loses and that is ok. The Patriots went undefeated and lost in the Super Bowl to the Giants even though they were likely the better team. It happens all the time with playoffs.
The #1 seed has yet to win a MNC in the current CFP format.
Travesty. They were rewarded for NOT playing in a conf. championship game. IMO, you don't qualify for the final 4 if you don't win your conf. Period.
Conceptual fine..... until you get to the hurdle of determining #1 and #2 - who get a "bye".... and who gets "home field" among 3, 4, 5, 6.
Who’s gonna’ do that? A committee?
Why would one clean up a stinking pile of wet dog shit.... and leave behind a moldy pile of dog shit?
There is no way to do away with polls and voting as a means to judge 100+ teams in disparate conferences norm. But as smart as you are, I'm sure you understand that. Select individuals voting will always have some component.
Is that the goal?
That’s not mine.
I was operating under the assumption that the goal was a LEGITIMATE SETTLED-ON-THE-FIELD PLAYOFF TO A CHAMPIONSHIP.
If that isn’t the goal? Then I am both mistaken and uninterested.
If that is the goal, it is actually quite easy to accomplish (assuming the group of participants at issue is the group of squads competing as P5 football competitors - and to a lesser degree, non-P5 FBS squads)
And I most certainly am quite “smart enough” to know that.
I am also quite “smart enough” to know that all of the circle-jerking over a system that - by definition - precludes that possibility, is about the most idiotic waste of time - and demonstration of stupidity - in any venue known to man (it’s quite “intellectually pathetic”, actually)
So...... there’s that
Well, one of us is living in reality and suggesting what is possible and would be a vast improvement, and one of us puts quotation marks around terms they are typing for the first time. So...there's that
Big Ten Title game could have also been OSU vs ND if the Irish ever got over themselves and joined a league... which should be the Big Ten, which just happens to be full of teams they face the most.
Seems Franklin is the only one in the BIG with balls to say anything about ANYTHING...
Yep, remove the "EYE TEST"... seems to work just fine in the NFL, am I missing something? Also, the history of the program should have zero effect on whether a team makes it to the playoff or not. Let them hash it out on the field and let the best team win.
Yet again, all power 5 conference winners get in, followed by the highest ranked group of 5, then 2 at large highest ranked teams. Regardless, something needs to change. Get rid of the human aspect and all the bias that goes with it... Not a Georgia fan, but I believe they'd have just as good of a chance to win it all as anyone.
Oh yeah, and get Notre Dame out of the playoff! If you aren't in a conference, you don't deserve to even sniff a shot. It's a joke that they got to sit back and chill yet get ranked above a team that had to play an extra game. Notre Dame could possibly have been an "At Large" team this year, but not ranked in the top 4. Just my opinion...
Conceptual fine..... until you get to the hurdle of determining #1 and #2 - who get a "bye".... and who gets "home field" among 3, 4, 5, 6.
Who’s gonna’ do that? A committee?
Why would one clean up a stinking pile of wet dog shit.... and leave behind a moldy pile of dog shit?
I guess that there are plenty of good rating systems out there that they could average out, better than the dreaded "eye test" and the human factor...
Oh norm. As they say in the south, "bless your heart."
As this is just an internet message board and I am simply a fan of one CFB team, I won't be implementing anything. As is done on internet message boards, I'm merely discussing a topic, using logic, and pointing out the failed logic of ideas that have no possible chance be functional or ever be implemented. I do appreciate you conferring such great power to me however.
