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Stewart Mandel has a pretty good breakdown of the College Football Playoff and assoicated premier bowl rotation.

This quote caught my eye,

"This will be must-watch TV for two days in a row," said executive director Bill Hancock. "...The whole cultural nature of New Year's Eve is going to change in this country. People are going to stay home from their parties to watch these games."

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/co...ollege-football-playoff-system/#ixzz2RUDlnS5G
 

I can't stand any school being National Champs with a poorer record due to a season ending streak. I dislike everything about this.
 

So, if I read this correctly - there will be a triple-header on New Year's Eve, a triple-header on New Years Day - and then they won't play the Championship game for 12 days?

Oh joy - 12 days of hype and promotion. I think I might try to spend that time in a sensory-deprivation tank so I don't have to listen to the endless blather of the talking heads. (the TV commentators - not the band "The Talking Heads." Come to think of it, one of my favorite Talking Heads songs is "Psycho Killer," which might match my mood after being subjected to 12 days of pre-game hype.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Oh joy - 12 days of hype and promotion. I think I might try to spend that time in a sensory-deprivation tank so I don't have to listen to the endless blather of the talking heads. (the TV commentators - not the band "The Talking Heads." Come to think of it, one of my favorite Talking Heads songs is "Psycho Killer," which might match my mood after being subjected to 12 days of pre-game hype.
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Unless of course the Gophers are in the game !! In which case 12 days of PTO from work? :)

I agree 12 days is too much. Will this vary depending on where NYD falls? For example the shortest stretch is if NYD is on a Saturday and the longest is a Monday? Or are they intentionally trying to create 12 days of hype?
 

wait!what? said:
I can't stand any school being National Champs with a poorer record due to a season ending streak. I dislike everything about this.
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I guess I don't see the scenario where this could happen - there are only four teams eligible for the championship - they will be the top of the conference champions and maybe one other team that likely either lost their conference championship game and were nearly unbeaten before or missed out on the conference title game due to a tie breaker. It's not like an 0-5 team that gets hot and has an 8-5 record (after title game) would make the top four teams. They still would make a BCS bowl, just not be part of the playoff. Wisconsin last year would certainly not been part of the playoff, for example.
 


Sounds sensible, except for the selection committee. There will be huge controversies over who they are and the selections they make. This is not basketball. I'd much rather go with the polls, which have been choosing national champions since 1936 and are an integral part of the game from the fans' point of view.
 

There will be controversy, yes, but the controversy over the #5 team being snubbed will be considerably less than the controversy over #3 getting snubbed. We've had a playoff since the 90's, it's was just a two-team tournament. The era where the polls picked the champion are long gone. Football is just expanding the playoff.
 

RodentRampage said:
There will be controversy, yes, but the controversy over the #5 team being snubbed will be considerably less than the controversy over #3 getting snubbed. We've had a playoff since the 90's, it's was just a two-team tournament. The era where the polls picked the champion are long gone. Football is just expanding the playoff.
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What if there are no undefeated teams and 5 teams with 1 loss? Controversy!
 

FreakyDeke said:
What if there are no undefeated teams and 5 teams with 1 loss? Controversy!
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Sure. But far less controversy to snub #5 than to sub #3. That situation of 5 one-loss teams would have been still more controversial in the days before the BCS, when #2 could only hope that the #1 team lost their bowl game.
 



RodentRampage said:
Sure. But far less controversy to snub #5 than to sub #3. That situation of 5 one-loss teams would have been still more controversial in the days before the BCS, when #2 could only hope that the #1 team lost their bowl game.
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I disagree. That would still mean that a human and/or a computer would determine who is #5. Who's to say #3 is a better team than #5? Or #1 or #2? It will be a judgement based on strength of schedule, quality wins and bad losses, etc. Obviously some years will have more controversy than others.
 

FreakyDeke said:
I disagree. That would still mean that a human and/or a computer would determine who is #5. Who's to say #3 is a better team than #5? Or #1 or #2? It will be a judgement based on strength of schedule, quality wins and bad losses, etc. Obviously some years will have more controversy than others.
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That is exactly right. adding more teams will only make it messier and if were are using the 2012 season as an example...Kansas State. yes ,crappy logo and all would have been in the mix.
 

The way-too-early first College Football Playoff:

#1 Alabama vs. #4 Florida State (Sugar Bowl)
#2 Ohio State vs. #3 LSU (Rose Bowl)

First Team Out: Oklahoma

Am still a bit of a traditionalist, but I think I could wrap my arms around that New Year's Day feast.
 

Trade out FSU and LSU for Boise and Kansas St. how does that feel?
 




While discerning the #2 team from the #3 team may or may not be easier than the #4 from 5 (or 8 from 9) (it depends entirely on the season), the level of grievance a team at 5/4, 9/8, 17/16 has with not making the playoffs is far lower. Keeping the excitement and importance of the regular season is paramount for college football. A 4 team playoff preserves this while drastically limiting the "first out" team's complaint vs a 2 team playoff. Anything beyond four does not - for example, in 2012 spots 5-8 all has 2 losses. A 1 loss team playing its final game (big rival or conference championship) could sit their starters or flat out care less about the game and still be assured a spot in an 8 or 16 team playoff. Likewise, a single loss in the middle of the season is not a devastating blow to a team, making the game that much less meaningful. To me, this ruins the best regular season in college or pro sports.
 

If you factor in the conference championships, we will already have the equivalent of three rounds of playoffs to get to the champion. It's enough.
 

I think we can agree this playoff is/was not driven by college football fans.
 

wait!what? said:
I think we can agree this playoff is/was not driven by college football fans.
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Well, there's certainly been enough fan and media fervor around adding teams to a playoff for a while, and college football responded. Whether that was private business (media) pushing for it because their viewers wanted it, fans being the direct route the NCAA responded to, or if it's business (media) pushing a supply-side product that fans will eventually consume, one way or another fans are the reason the NCAA is doing this...
 

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