CFB Playoffs

Like I said earlier this year, Malachi Toney is Tyreek Hill 2.0

Also, to jump back on the selection process, if the goal is to get the very best teams in the playoffs, then how can you justify having some conference winner that's not even ranked in the top 20 teams in the playoffs over a team like Notre Dame who could legitimately have won it all? Tulane is en route of getting curb stomped by Ole Miss and James Madison is just a sacrificial lamb that will probably lose by 4 TD's at Oregon tonight. Does anybody really want to see that happen in these games? I know I don't regardless of what happened to Notre Dame. College football needs to once again tweak things and I don't think continuing to add more teams is the right answer. 12 teams is fine, just take the best 12 teams regardless on if you did or did not win some bum ass conference title. Automatic qualifiers needs to come with some kind of caveat, like while you may have won your conference, if you aren't ranked as a top 15 team at seasons end, too bad. Nobody can say with a straight face that Tulane or James Madison are better teams than Notre Dame or BYU

supafreak84 wrote:
Like I said earlier this year, Malachi Toney is Tyreek Hill 2.0

Also, to jump back on the selection process, if the goal is to get the very best teams in the playoffs, then how can you justify having some conference winner that's not even ranked in the top 20 teams in the playoffs over a team like Notre Dame who could legitimately have won it all? Tulane is en route of getting curb stomped by Ole Miss and James Madison is just a sacrificial lamb that will probably lose by 4 TD's at Oregon tonight. Does anybody really want to see that happen in these games? I know I don't regardless of what happened to Notre Dame. College football needs to once again tweak things and I don't think continuing to add more teams is the right answer. 12 teams is fine, just take the best 12 teams regardless on if you did or did not win some bum ass conference title. Automatic qualifiers needs to come with some kind of caveat, like while you may have won your conference, if you aren't ranked as a top 15 team at seasons end, too bad. Nobody can say with a straight face that Tulane or James Madison are better teams than Notre Dame or BYU

A complex power points system is the only logical answer. I'm not sure how to fairly weigh the power conference teams higher than the good teams from weaker conferences without unfairly disqualifying strong teams from those weaker conferences,  but im sure there is a better option than what gave us this years mess.

For March Madness when you have a 64 team field, it makes sense to have automatic bids and create some excitement for some of the smaller schools. For a 12 team field, you can't afford to be giving away spots. Tulane and James Madison cannot compete with these teams, not fair to anyone. They both should have gone to a bowl game they would have had a chance of winning. Imagine it will help them with recruiting, but the two games today were a complete waste.

supafreak84 wrote:
Like I said earlier this year, Malachi Toney is Tyreek Hill 2.0

Also, to jump back on the selection process, if the goal is to get the very best teams in the playoffs, then how can you justify having some conference winner that's not even ranked in the top 20 teams in the playoffs over a team like Notre Dame who could legitimately have won it all? Tulane is en route of getting curb stomped by Ole Miss and James Madison is just a sacrificial lamb that will probably lose by 4 TD's at Oregon tonight. Does anybody really want to see that happen in these games? I know I don't regardless of what happened to Notre Dame. College football needs to once again tweak things and I don't think continuing to add more teams is the right answer. 12 teams is fine, just take the best 12 teams regardless on if you did or did not win some bum ass conference title. Automatic qualifiers needs to come with some kind of caveat, like while you may have won your conference, if you aren't ranked as a top 15 team at seasons end, too bad. Nobody can say with a straight face that Tulane or James Madison are better teams than Notre Dame or BYU

Or Texas

JR44 wrote:
For March Madness when you have a 64 team field, it makes sense to have automatic bids and create some excitement for some of the smaller schools.  For a 12 team field, you can't afford to be giving away spots.  Tulane and James Madison cannot compete with these teams, not fair to anyone.  They both should have gone to a bowl game they would have had a chance of winning.  Imagine it will help them with recruiting, but the two games today were a complete waste.

James Madison hasn't been winning FCS championships,  not sure why they suddenly go to the big leagues and deserve a shot at the big trophy over perennial power houses that had respectable records.

Allowing those two high school teams in was new level of stupid.

Back to the drawing board...

At what point did common sense go out the window when constructing that system?

Cant be allowed to happen next season.

You have to get rid of automatic qualifiers for lower conference winners. That's just the bottom line if CFB really want the 12 best teams competing for the championship. You can be a lower conference winner, but if you aren't even ranked in the top 15 teams at seasons end, then you don't qualify. James Madison finished ranked 21st. I get that they don't want to eliminate the "little guy" from competing, but if that's the case then the little guys needs to start scheduling more out of conference big games during the season to be graded on. James Madison lost handily to the only real big team they faced in Louisville, yet because they won theor conference they got a spot in the big dance!? Total bullshit and I hope the backlash over all this causes some changes.

StickierBuns wrote:
If I'm Notre Dame, I'm going super nova at not being included watching Tulane and James Madison, two teams they would have SMOKED.

Yeah and all the talking heads who have been pissing and moaning about what a tragedy it was that ND declined their bowl invite to the Pop Tart bowl can suck it. Notre Dame did the right thing and the results of yesterday proved it. They can shove the Pop Tart Bowl up their asses.

supafreak84 wrote:
Great game last night with Bama coming back to beat Oklahoma. Miami and A&M in a dogfight this morning. I still think Notre Dame would have beaten any of these four teams 

If only ND had any of the four above on their 2025 schedule.  You know, so it could be decided on the field and not decided by a ‘memorandum of understanding’,  LMAO.

savannahskol wrote:

If only ND had any of the four above on their 2025 schedule.  You know, so it could be decided on the field and not decided by a ‘memorandum of understanding’,  LMAO.

Certainly Oklahoma or Bama, and I would have liked our chances in a rematch against Miami or A&M. Oh well. On to next year

Speaking of next year…. You seem to be ‘dialed in’ to Irish fb.

There’s this ‘memorandum of understanding’ that has apparently been agreed to between ND/CFB playoff commissioners

Unique agreement.

Thoughts?

savannahskol wrote:
Speaking of next year…. You seem to be ‘dialed in’ to Irish fb.

There’s this ‘memorandum of understanding’ that has apparently been agreed to between ND/CFB playoff commissioners

Unique agreement.

Thoughts?

Yes if ND finishes in the top 12, they'd be guaranteed a playoff spot starting next year. I would think everybody would be good with that as it saves us from watching the the Tulane's, James Madison's and other sacrificial lambs of the world get slaughtered in the first round. The "memorandum of understanding" is better than having some team from the Sun Belt getting an automatic bid. We saw the results of that

JimmyinSD wrote:

A complex power points system is the only logical answer. I'm not sure how to fairly weigh the power conference teams higher than the good teams from weaker conferences without unfairly disqualifying strong teams from those weaker conferences,  but im sure there is a better option than what gave us this years mess.

What college football is needs is some kind of post-season selection system that created four or five bowl game match-ups involving eight or ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of American college football, including an opportunity for the top two teams to compete in a national championship game.

It should rely on a combination of polls and computer selection methods to determine relative team rankings, and to narrow the field to two teams to play in the BCS National Championship Game, held after the other college bowl games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl_Championship_Series :P

12 team playoff is absolutely STUPID. FCS (I am a Northern Iowa grad) played a 16 team playoff from 1986-2009. In 2010 they went to a 20 team playoff format and IT WORKS. FBS should AT LEAST be a 16 team format if you are going to make Conference Champions an automatic bid. Just think, had this year had a 16 team format they would have almost NO controversy. Notre Dame, BYI, Vanderbilt, and either Texas or USC would have been in. Go to a 20 team format and you could include Virginia, Georgia Tech, Utah. If you are a team on the bubble at 20 teams then STFU at that point. It would BE easy to do, MORE $$$$ for everyone and would definitely HELP mid level programs. I cannot for the life of me see how or why a 20 team playoff would be a bad idea.

Posted this on another Viking board