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How should the playoff be tweaked

Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by g8orbill, Jan 1, 2025.

  1. Wanne15

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    Never isnt tge answer is it. Penn State would not have made the top four but didn't they win two games already. Oregon got beat right off the bat and they were the number one team in the country. Kids play playoff games people watch the TV and nobody gives a shit about anything but playoffs anyway. Georgia would've been a top-seeded regardless and they lost also.
     
  2. paidinfull

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    I think the format will change. You still won’t like it and neither will the first four teams that get left out.
     
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  3. Wanne15

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    Its fine with 12 or 16 in any order really. If they lose on the field, its all good. If a team gets left out of 12 or 16, they shouldve won more games. Indiana didnt earn it but neither did ol miss. Ol miss wouldve been in if they didnt lose to us.
     
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  4. oneatatime

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    What the NFL has figured out is that it doesn't really matter which teams make the playoffs or win the Super Bowl. The schedules are based on a formula that looks at last years records, with the goal of having as many teams as possible stay in playoff contention all the way to week 18. One year, the entire league will go 9-8 or 8-9
     
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  5. Matherly87

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    Sarcasm alert.......
    I say we leave it up to some strange men wearing bright colored blazers with bad combovers that show up at games in early November and by handshake invite two teams to their city in hopes they end up with a decent match up come January. This would almost guarantee the number 1 team almost never faces the number 2 team after the season and we would leave it up to some pompous media guys to vote who they think should be the champion. Besides no one really wants to see any conference championship games after all. Not that the real fans of college football would matter (NTTRFOCFWM), my new acronym.
     
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  6. Skink

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    No way I think the 12th or 13th or 14th ranked teams should get a shot at the national championship. This isn’t basketball with dozens of games and double digit losses making a final 64. It would be a freaking joke for a 2 or 3 loss team to put it all together and make a late run at the national title. The regular season becomes almost irrelevant if a #16 team can make the cut. BS on the money-grabbing monster playoff.

    I get that sometimes teams get overlooked in the rankings, so make it the top 8. If you can’t make that cut, you shouldn’t be in the running for the crystal ball. Anything beyond 8 is nothing more than a circus designed to take in as much TV cash as they can. Is anything sacred anymore?
     
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  7. grayg8rstevo

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    Tweaked?
    More like Twerked.
    Nothing was learned about 12 that we didn't see with 8. Don't worry. The fixers will give us 16 next year. Don't want to hurt any feelings.
     
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  8. Wanne15

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    16 is better anyways as noone deserves a bye. Obviously four was bs.
     
  9. BrianUF5220

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    At 8 you are going to have the 4 P4 champs and another Champ from one of the other conferences. I am not saying that is right, but that is what they will do to be politically correct. You will have 3 at large teams. This year it would have been Texas, Penn State and Notre Dame. Ohio State would have been out. The team that most people think will win it all, would not have made it.
     
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  10. Skink

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    Let the BCS computers pick the top 8 and run with that. The conferences are so big now that they’re basically irrelevant. 16 teams all staking a claim to be champions is absurd. If you can’t crack an objective Top 8, try winning more games next year
     
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  11. BrianUF5220

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    I agree with you that is what SHOULD happen. I am saying that will not happen. It would not be fair to the smaller conferences (said in a weak whiny voice).

    I do not see any go forward without the 4 P4 Champs in it and very likely an extra Champ for "Equity" purposes.

    If you go to 8, you will get the best 5 or 6 teams and 2 or 3 others.
     
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  12. Wanne15

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    If they could have figured out a way to keep the eventual national champion at 9, i dont want that methed used. 16 gives another week of games and there's no team of consequence left out.
     
  13. Skink

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    In my opinion the problem isn’t not enough teams - it’s simply how they choose to rank the teams. 8 is plenty enough if they simply rank them objectively. I like more games like everyone else, but it’s stupid to have teams who clearly aren’t anywhere close to #1 competing in a format where they could potentially walk away with a title they did not earn in the regular season. This isn’t basketball
     
  14. Spurffelbow833

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    And so was 6, as that would still have left out the teams in the championship game. More campus games. More football. For the foreseeable future, a better chance of us getting in. It's all good. The only question is how will they televise 8 games without scheduling conflicts over a weekend that still has NFL action all day Sunday? I'm beginning to think this is why they went with 12 teams instead of 16 to begin with.
     
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  15. Wanne15

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    If that targeting was called properly, Arizona State would've been in that game last night instead of Texas. If they were ranking them one through 16 Arizona State would not have been in a 8 playoff yet they would've been in the final four last night. It might've taken a team playoff to even get State into it and they should have been playing Ohio State anyway. Just like it takes away everybody's opinion and get to the field.
     
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  16. OB1

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    This is what needs tweeted! The criteria for this first 12 team playoff got a lot wrong. Get rid of the P4 conferences auto bye and top seeding and let the BCS ranking system pick the 12.
     
  17. ozgatorfan

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    And please start it two or three weeks earlier. It should all be over by now. These guys start class on Monday.:rolleyes:
     
  18. Skink

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    Or the 8
     
  19. Matherly87

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    8 games in one day is no problem for ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 with 3 time slots of Noon, 4 and 8. With December weather on college campuses, any northern or mid-west locations need to be day games and deep south or west coast would start later.
     
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  20. crl

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    Let the Gators in every year. :D