Yeah, I really don't care that much about who gets in and who gets left out. It is a made for TV event anyway. And honestly as a fan I would rather watch Alabama over pretty much any of the garbage teams in the Big 12 or ACC this year.
You put all 3 loss teams names in a hat and draw as many as are needed.
So it's not about the best teams anymore?
It's not about gambling odds if you want the regular season to matter ...
Because, even after the Georgia/TCU beatdown, some people still think glass Joe has a chance against the Mike Tyson's of college football simply because they won their conference.
Who cares.
And this is the problem with having 12 teams when there are really only 2 major conferences.
Worse. The NFL has objective criteria for who gets a shot.
then Boise is out?
Disagree they are turning college football into the NFL.....I'm not sure what they are turning college football into but the NFL has structure and rules. Players have contracts and the playoffs are determined by what the teams do on the field not some committee.
No, it's the most deserving teams based off of their wins and losses.
Michigan, in my opinion, was better than Georgia and TCU beat that Michigan team.
It should be, but the committee is told “best” in their directive
Gambling odds don't determine who the best team is. They determine who people think the better team is. Either way, if it's just about the best teams, why even keep track of W/L records?
And I would expect some non qualified teams in the nfl could get favorable odds in a hypothetical game vs a team qualified for the playoffs….. but nobody cares about that.
I dunno, for the BCS, I think the 2 best teams were playing for the NC 90% of the time. We'll see how often this system puts the 2 best teams in the NC game.
If they lose to UNLV, yes.
Be careful what you ask for. What if a team that wasn't challenged goes to the CC game and gets pummeled 56-0. Who's gonna wanna watch them get beat down again in the CFP?
Totally agree. 4, 8, 12, 16 whatever there will always be the first couple out that everyone talks about. The NCAA BB tournament has 68 teams (I think?) and everyone talks about who got screwed...
I agree that it doesn’t make any sense both ways.
About the most clever comment I've read on the subject.
What a little bitch
Did you decide they were on merit or based on winning their conference? For example, your MAC team that goes 12-0 is in because they “won the conference”. They lose the title they haven’t done that. A 12-0 P4 team who beats the number 2, 3, and 4 but loses to some other team by 55 shouldn’t get bounced. It’s the whole of you should release one ranking and they should be based on merit, however you objectively have decided.
I agree that there are upsets in the regular season, why are they upsets, because of the point spread set by Vegas.
I'm coming back to this after lunch, having flushed these thoughts from my head I'm not totally following what you're getting at.
In on. Thanks for catching my typo. My point is that if you felt they were in your top 12 prior to this, you’ve deemed their quality thus far is one of the 12 best teams (you don’t get to “assume” they’ll win and include them). Punishing a team for losing an extra game another didn’t have to play is silly as they’re playing an extra, challenging opponent while others move up sitting at home. If you’re going to boot teams on that, make the others play as well then so we all have 13 games.
Being favored doesn't mean you are better. That isn't how gambling, odds or probability work.
I called Alabama getting in a few days ago and that we all need Clemson to beat SMU in a close game to keep them out. Multiple outlets have said it will hard to drop an 11-2 SMU out because you are penalizing them for playing and extra game in their league's championship. That's harder than leaving Miami out.
