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College Football Playoff 2024 Thread

Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by 62gator, Dec 8, 2024.

  1. 62gator

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    I want to give this both the agree & funny thingy, we should have that option. :D
     
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  2. gatordavisl

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    11-1. Who you putting in over IU? Ole Miss? SC? Bama? Miami (aww hell nah)?

    Just be glad Miami isn't in it.
     
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  3. gatordavisl

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    This will be interesting. I've said many times that I believe the bye in a 12-team tourney to be an unfair advantage. I'm not sure other than GA, which team will be best prepared to take advantage of it. Will the bye help a team like Boise?
     
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    Getting into schedules is so tempting and there is a certain amount of logic behind it. The SoS dilemma also increases subjectivity. W/L otoh is objective. Was SMU dominant vs. a relatively weak schedule? Bama certainly wasn't dominant vs. a relatively strong schedule.
     
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  5. gatordavisl

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    Totally agree. I bet this gets straightened out after a few years.
     
  6. 62gator

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    This will be the 11th season with a CFP. 10yrs with the little 4 team playoff and now the first year with 12 teams.

    These are all the teams that have now made at least one:

    Alabama
    Georgia
    LSU
    Texas
    Oklahoma
    Clemson
    f$u
    Michigan
    Ohio St
    Michigan State
    Oregon
    Washington
    Notre Dame
    Cincinnati
    TCU
    Tennessee
    Penn State
    Indiana
    Arizona State
    Boise State
    SMU

    * UF has yet to make a playoff. :(
     
  7. CHFG8R

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    Only thing I'd add is go ahead and give the home games to the conference champions, or get rid of conference championship games and go with seeds. I like the thought of Boise St getting a home game, but not a bye.
     
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    No, but given their schedule, I want them to earn their way into the second round. That we're going to get a Boise St and ASU game guaranteed in the second round is lame.
     
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  9. CHFG8R

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    Let them host a first round game. That's plenty. Competitive advantage and massive payday.
     
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    We keep discussing Alabama’s absence, but can anyone lay out an objective argument for why Ole Miss was not more deserving?
     
  11. paidinfull

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    They lost to 3 unranked teams.
     
  12. g8wayg8r

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    The SEC teams that have hooverd up bus loads of talent can't lose enough for me. Their wins do not help the Gators. Hoping they lose games this year, the next and every one thereafter
     
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  13. gtr2x

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    Yep, Bama only lost to 2 unranked teams:p. Of course one of those was a blow out loss to the mighty Sooners, a team ole Miss beat easily.

    Neither team deserved to be in the playoffs.
     
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  14. dave_the_thinker

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    Great discussion, but this outside-looking-in thread is hard to read.

    Next year, we're making a fresh thread, right?
     
  15. paidinfull

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    I wasn’t making an argument for Bama. They were rightfully left out too.
     
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    No matter how they do it, there will always be discussion and disagreement about the last couple of teams in and those left out. It happens with the NCAA basketball tournament every year. In a way it's a good thing because it keeps people engaged and talking about it. I know I'm in the minority, but I like the idea of confernence champions getting a bye because it gives incentive for teams to do the thing that Steve Spurrier always said was his #1 priority - winning a conference title. Is the SEC the best and deepest conference? Of course, no doubt. But you don't punish a team for making it to their conference title game and losing it at the last minute over a team that lost 2 games to 6 loss teams. Personally, I like the way it all work out and may the best team win!!!
     
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  17. Gatorrick22

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    The thing they need to get rid of is automatic brackets. Why do they have brackets when they don't even know the rankings till the last confernce championship games are played? Bracket should be formulated based on their last rankings, not before hand.
     
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  18. KronoGator

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    Not only did the tide not belong, I don't think the vols did either.
     
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    If SMU had beaten Clemson, Miami would have gotten in. They didn't want any 3 loss teams, but they had to take Clemson.

    Now they've already got a sacred cow on the outside looking in. Nobody would have dreamed Bama wouldn't get into a 12 team field if they were ranked in the top 12. They'll go to 16 teams after that happens another time or two.
     
  20. 2oldgator

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    I pull for SEC teams because we are members of the SEC. I would feel no pride saying we belong to the ACC or Big 12. I do feel like it means something to be in a conference that has dominated football for a long time.
    I don’t like Tennessee, Auburn, LSU or Georgia until they are playing teams from outside our conference. I want Ohio State, FSU, Miami etc, etc to feel hatred stemming from envy every time the SEC is mentioned: and they do.
    I don’t blame those Gators who pull against SEC teams , its just not me.
     
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