Soonertshirtfan
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First? It's basketball.Tell me how March Madness is not better than the CFP
First? It's basketball.Tell me how March Madness is not better than the CFP
This would be a myth thats already been disproven. Higher competition level increases the meaning of the pay offs.....Best 6 teams that qualify > Best 4 teams based on opinions off the field.....The current system is sit too close to the previous failed system and its showing ratings and revenue will continue to drop. While question marks regarding selection process continue to rise every yearIf set criteria is just "be a member of a power-5 conference & win your conference, and/or be the highest-ranked group of 5 team," then, no thanks. It just makes it easier for mediocre teams to crack the playoffs.
Having auto bids in the CFP would be awful. Neither division champ from the Pac-12 deserved a playoff bid this year; and if Northwestern had knocked off Ohio St. in the Big 10 or Pitt had beaten Clemson in the ACC, that would have been more unworthy teams entering the playoffs. The playoffs should go to the teams that deserve to be there, not to those who just happened to luck out in one or two key games. Auto bids work in the lower classes because those schools have fewer scholarships to give (which means they are more susceptible to ups & downs due to injuries) & play fewer crossover games from outside their region (which makes it harder to rate them on a national scale). There's no need to fix what ain't broken.
I guess my real beef is, once expansion starts, say at 6, then we need 8. At 8 we need 16 etc.
Just human nature.
I would go with 6 or 8 if that's it.
Yes. And fuck all that talk about 8 teams Take that mother fucker right to 32 teams playing in seeded regional brackets. Fuck the bowls, they don't matter anymore anyway.
Exactly. I love the bowl games, but if my team is playing in one and a couple of key players pass on it, I may not even watch.I consider myself "pro-bowl", but all the games besides the National Championship teams, are purely for money distribution purposes. More and more players are seeing these games as meaningless and skip them, if they want to enter into the NFL draft.
The SEC Championship game means a ton. And it will not go away. Even if the other conferences do.Let's get rid of conference championship week and expand to 8, conference championship week is mostly a boring, irrelevant waste of time anyway.
We're still going to get the same teams in the championship but might as well make the journey more fun
Not true at all. The NFL when they expanded their Playoff had a ton of backlash back in the day. Some still feel it is watered down with Wild Card teams. Same with MLB and their Playoffs.
People just don't like change. Nobody is complaining now that there are too many teams.
#UCFudge
Right now the PlayOFFs stand for something. It's not enough to play a tough conference schedule but play a tough schedule with a great OC game. Baylor didn't get in with that Bullshit, lame ass OC schedule. UCF didn't get in a was punished, rightfully so for playing cupcakes.
I love seeing tOSU playing OU, texASS. Bama playing USC, FSU. Clemson playing aTm. Auburn playing UW. If OU could get in playing a weakass schedule, then hell lets move to G6. Win every game, rest players the 2nd half and gear up for the playoffs.
So make the regular season bullshit or have GREAT games all season. Fuck no I do not want an expansion. I have loved watching OU play Bama, OSU, ND, FSU,Tenn, Miami, UO and UW. As a fan, it's great to have storied programs come into Norman and play. Go on the road and see these stadiums, their fans, their traditions.
Go to 8 and why take the chance.
You saw what UCF did to Big 12 champ the last time we played.
Impossible to do, unless you hate basketball.Tell me how March Madness is not better than the CFP