Good Riddance to the 4 Team Playoff Farce

I'm okay with Bama getting in there as long as FSU and UGA get the shaft... LMFAO! ... Priceless.

One more thing... screw UGA and screw FSU too. Where's that crying meme when you need it.

We need a crying meme and a happy-dance meme.

 

Four only works if there are four major conferences, then you can treat each conference championship as a playoff game too, and nobody will have a legitimate reason to complain. Since there are five conferences the four team option is pretty terrible.

 

Yes, that’s a good point. I still think four can work with five conferences because, while the distinction between #4 and #5 might be murky, the distinction between #1 and #5 will usually be quite clear. However, the four team model would have a problem in the unlikely event that all 5 conference champions are undefeated.

 

In 2015: #4 tOSU beat Bama and then Oregon to win the playoff.
In 2018: #4 Bama beat Clemson and then UGA to win the playoff.

 

I'll counter this: we don't want the regular season to be de-valued like college basketball. I want to heavily reward the best teams in the regular season so that those game retain importance. Otherwise September/October become way less interesting and we're just looking for the team that gets hot in November/December. I like the byes, and I'd go a step further and play the quarters on campus at the higher seeds. For example, I want UGA penalized by losing yesterday by having to go on the road to get to the playoff finals.

 

uga is at 6. You think they couldn't win it this year?

 

Explains why NIL has made it to college football.

 

With an eight team, I think playing the number 8 teamis enough of an advantage.

 

Yes they could but that’s a rarity. If Alabama wasn’t in the conference, Georgia would have the number one seed that’s why the SEC is just different

 

Isn’t the pac12 effectively dead after this year?

 

Can't wait for #13 to piss and moan about being left out.

 

While FSU's AD is crying about not making the playoffs he can blame none other than the ACC's Commissioner... the Pac-12's Commish and the B1G's Commish for missing for vote that could have changed the playoffs this year. Sorry, but this is a long read/article. FSU has no one to blame but their own ACC Conference Commissioner.

File this under poetic justice...

In August of 2021, leaders from three of the five Power Five conferences — the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 — formed a pact built around their educational and athletic missions.

More than two years after the Alliance formed — and about a year after it unceremoniously collapsed — the pact between the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 stands as one of college sports’ greatest failures.

In June 2021, a subcommittee assigned to create an expanded playoff model introduced that model to the full group of 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director. The idea was to swiftly pass a concept for which college football fans clamored for years. Many believed that by January 2022, and maybe sooner, they could garner the necessary approval — a unanimous vote from commissioners.

Finally, in February of 2022, after five months of squabbling with one another in what at times turned into intense debate and petty bickering, commissioners voted. Needing unanimous support, the vote failed, 8-3. The Alliance voted against.

But inside the decision-makers’ room, the three Alliance commissioners — Pac-12’s George Kliavkoff, ACC’s Jim Phillips and Warren — found issues with the model. Months passed. Each meeting led to another which led to another which led to another — none of them producing an agreement.

If the model was approved earlier — in January 2022 as many originally expected — this year’s postseason could have been a 12-team playoff. “It could have been cool,” CFP director Bill Hancock said earlier this fall in a meeting with reporters in Chicago.


If not for 'The Alliance,' college football's muddled playoff picture would be much clearer this year

 

Wonder when bowls will be a thing of the past and postseason will entirely be a playoff like with basketball. Obviously not 60 something teams, but enough to reduce the number of regular season games and just have a month or so of playoff games. Probably the direction we’re going.

 

The Bowls are integrated into the playoffs. I don't ever see the Bowls not being a part of the playoffs.

 

Yeah, that's a joke ranking for them.

 

Eight would have been very good. Just use the four major bowls. I don't know why they went 12, except for $$$$$$$

 

I think teams might be begging to not get the number 12 seed and be guaranteed the number one seed

 

This year was an aberration in some ways. Do you think TX or MI would deserve a bye week before playing a team like GA that didn't get one?