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Couldn't agree more.Stop telling half of college football they don't belong
Paul Finebaum, Taylor Lewan and others say the Group of Five doesn’t belong in the playoff. Here’s the case for why they’re wrong.
I agree 100%. I think the big thing missing for some people is this... the playoff is not designed to get the best 12 teams in the bracket. Or best 16. Or best 18. Or whatever it will expand to. That was never the intent. It's the same thing with a lot of tournaments. Take the NCAA basketball tournament as an example. It's not the best 64 (or 68) teams. Not even close. Look at the MN state high school hockey tournament. If teams participate in any sport, they want to feel like they have a realistic shot at getting to the year end tournament... and it is good for the game. The excitement generated at a school like Temple, JMU or South Florida if their team made the CFP far outweighs the need to have the 5th best SEC or Big Ten team included. And yes, I mean that even if the fifth best Big Ten team is our Gophers in any year.
What was the point then? Every year people were bitchin' about the #3 team not making it; they weren't upset the #13 team or where ever a G5 team ended up didn't make it.
And lots of teams and fans were happy ending their season with a win, even if it wasn't the NC game.
What scale are you "weighing" with? How does the "excitement" at the campus of JMU or South Florida outweigh all the TVs that will turn off when the game is 28-0 in the first quarter?
You forgot Northwestern State. Even though they didn't look so hot against our mighty Gophs, who knows how they'd do if they felt they had a shot at competing for the national championship? They would certainly be more focused, and in football anything can happen, right?
Keeping the Bowl system relevant was one of the reasons I prefer an 8 team playoff (5 conference auto bids, and 3 at large to not miss a deserving team).
I hate to bring up soccer, but are you familiar with Leicester City winning the English Premier League in 2015-16 season? 5000-1 odds. Yes Lloyd, I’m saying you have a chance
That's comparing apples to oranges. There are different levels for a reason. We don't let Winona State into the D1 March Madness, because they are not a D1 school. They have their own tournament to play for the championship.
You're basically saying that you care more about TV ratings and your own idea of what is entertaining than having a level playing field for all the teams at the same level. I would argue that one single upset of say a MWC team beating a SEC team would bring far more attention to the game than some matchup between a third place SEC team and a second place B1G team.
He was hotly recruited by us and IIRC, seriously considered us.
The ASU playoff loss to Texas last year, was the most fun I had watching a CFB game last year and as a bonus, a nation fell in love with Cam Skataboo - perfect RB name.
Yeah, but undersized teams in basketball have a chance because they can shoot 3's, and if they get hot, that's how they stick around. A similar concept doesn't exist for football. Scoring 3 points versus 2 points helps the underdog, scoring 3 points versus 7 points hurts the underdog.
shit the nfl and mlb playoffs don't do that either. there are division winners every year who are mediocre compared to other teams playing in harder divisions.
It's more that winning your conference should provide a path to play for a national championship, because that's literally how it works for FCS, D2, D3 and NAIA. And pretty much every sport for that matter. There will always be weaker conferences/divisions in any given season.
tell me, what game was competitive during last year's CFP 1st round? if anything, you're arguing we should just put OSU, Bama, Georgia, and Oregon in the playoff every year because you think they're good. there were 2 one score games in the entire bracket (ASU, CFP autobid who finished behind Bama,-TX, PSU-ND). The SEC didn't make the title game and had losses by 14, 13, and 25 in the bracket. that plucky G5 team that didn't belong lost by 17 giving up a late TD in a game they turned it over 4 times, missed 2 FGs, and threw one of those picks in the end zone.
And the stupid thing about that is that idiots like Finebaum would tell you that ASU didn't belong and that some fourth place SEC team deserved it more, despite ASU being a very good team who absolutely belonged.
Agree. I would be much more likely to tune into a South Florida vs Ole Miss game than sime of the other matchup that might occur if we took 5 teams from both the SEC and BIG. Group of Five teams might never win the whole thing but they could absolutely pull an upset in first game.
Exactly
yeah if you're that worried about it, just pick the teams that are in then straight seed them (byes determined by rankings, not top 4 conference winners).
I’m not a playoff fan. I prefer the old BCS format of picking two teams, hell I don’t even mind the old voting format. I mean the real point of the playoff was obviously just a money grab. But they sold it as a chance to give everyone a chance to remove any questions marks. To me though it could be argued that a lesser playoff is more pure as we watch all year and see who we think is the best, takes out the possibility of a flukes playoff loss removing the team that was the best that year.
Lewans dad Dave grew up in Edina for awhile and played for the Gophers in the ‘80’s