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Quite a big difference between a game at 4 pm on a Sunday and 6:30 on a Monday night but okay. No one throws college football parties for the championship but most people do so for the super bowl. I have also stated quite a bit that I would prefer the super bowl moving to Saturday or Presidents’ Day weekend.
Disagree, top 8 teams regardless of conference.
If you want the regular season to mean something, you want to encourage more meaningful matchups, and if you want conferences to still maintain their flexibility, then you have to go with conference champions as auto bids. The other 3 can be at large bigs that have priority to go to G5 schools or independents. Any other arrangement will devalue the importance of the regular season and make the selection subject to bias and perception.
I want the 8 top teams. If a P5 conference gets blanked, they will work to improve the regular-season the next year.
Yes...BTW IMO your point is specious...when was the last time any team won a P5 Champ with 8 wins? My guess is never. I like the idea of having conf championships honored w an auto bid. And throwing the G5 a bone appeals to me too. But I’m sure the NCAA will ignore all suggestions and come up with some kind of clusterfvck. Lol.
That ignores is the current disparity in scheduling philosophy between the conferences, nevermind individual schools. Why should Notre Dame, USC, Stanford, and others be punished for scheduling difficult road games across the country while another team is rewarded for playing nobodies or only playing at home. The current system overweights losses and undervalues good wins. When a late season blowout win at home over Mercer is considered better than having a true road loss to an upper tier P5 program, them you have a problem and that is where we are at. If you want to take the best 5 teams, then we should set up a point system. Wins at home against P5 schools are worth 3 points, against G5 at home 1, FCS 0. P5 on the road win 5, lose 1, true nuetral site win 4, lose 0. G5 neutral site win 2, lose -1. G5 road win 3, lose 0. FCS win anywhere is 0, lose is -10.
Your general point is a great one, but under no scenario is playing Kansas the same as playing OU, which completely undermines your attempt at a point system where any old P5 school is worth x points.
Cat is out of that bag. And you're wrong, there is often an undisputed best team. But no playoff system guarantees the best team wins in any sport. Sometimes they have an off day while the opponent plays lights out.
That really would just add 3 games after conference championships, and further diminish those champs.
The average G5 conference foe is so much weaker it's comparing apples and oranges to the P5 schedules.
I wouldn't really listen to them. 3/4 won their conference and they have used the conference champion thing in the past. The committee doesn't like to lock itself into anything. They use whatever criteria they want that will explain their picks the best, that is why it changes so much every year.
That moving target is a big part of the problem IMO.
The way to do it properly is to eliminate emotions. Go with an average of 8 computer rankings that give emphasis for strength of schedule and deduct for patsies. No guarantees, no AP or coaches polls, no ESPN power rankings and biggest of all, NO playoff committee.
If the criteria for ranking teams is clearly defined and transparent, count me in.
Gross
Blame the committee for that one. I used their week 15 ranking. I think being undefeated, UCF would deserve a shot to replace one of those at large SEC teams.
I always thought we were headed towards something like this. The interesting thing to me is that the article about TV revenue requiring cross regional games blows it up. I think want they want the 1st several rounds to be UGa vs UW and PSU vs OU, not Conference semi's and CCG's within a region.
Yep. NBA is the only sport where I think that an indisputable “best team that season” champ is crowned. Those 7-game playoff series are tiresome, though, in the early rounds.
I corrected your erroneous point of a single game comparison, when it's the average that matters.
I watch it every year. Love that game.
If your point really is to remove emotion, seeding the conference chanps also works.
