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Did the 12 team playoff achieve it's goal?

Your current feelings on the 12 team playoff expansion:

  • I was against it, but now I love it

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dtgold88

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The only team that got a bye, who looked like they deserved a bye, was Arizona State, and before the games were played they were probably thought the least deserving of one.

I get what you say about the blowouts, I can imagine most years that the 1-16 game is not going to be close, and probably the next three matchups as well.
13-0 Oregon didn't deserve a bye?
 

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"who looked like they deserved a bye"
Yeah after seeing this again I get what you mean.

But this happens in MLB or NFL when teams with byes lose. Ignored when they win. I think any coach offered the chance at a bye is taking it.

Likely other than Oregon the teams given byes just were not that good (backup QB might have made UGA that way).
 

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3 1/2 week bye is too long. Either go to 16 or 8. I preferred the 4 teams it kept the regular season meaningful. I look at it this way, the regular season is a glorified 1st round that determines the final four.
 

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They should probably move it to 16 teams. I feel like the wait screwed over the top seeds.
Ok, here is a question for you or anyone else. Next year you are the coach of a conference champion and have one of the byes. But because of the thought that the bye hurt teams this year, you (by virtue of your great season and Conference championship) are given the options of giving up your bye and taking the 5 seed instead. What would you do? What do you think any coach would do?
 

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For all the complaints about the bye layoff and non-deserving teams getting the bye, here is what the playoffs would have looked like with "the best teams" getting the bye:

1 thru 4 Oregon, Georgia, Texas and Penn State (Oregon #1, pick the rest of the order)
5 thru 8 ND, Ohio State, Tenn, Arizona or Boise State pick the order
9-thru12 Indiana, Arizona State or Boise St, SMU and Clemson pick the order.

The first round would have gone to ND, Ohio State, Tenn and either Arizona St or Boise State if they played each other. In this likely set up, the only team that would advance but did not is Tenn.

So depending on the seeding, what makes anybody think that results would have been any different unless ND and Ohio State met in the second or third game. ND could be against Georgia----Ohio State against Tenn----Texas against Arizona State -----------and Penn State against Oregon. Penn St vs Oregon would be the outlier and neither was able to win against ones who were left.
 

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Ok, here is a question for you or anyone else. Next year you are the coach of a conference champion and have one of the byes. But because of the thought that the bye hurt teams this year, you (by virtue of your great season and Conference championship) are given the options of giving up your bye and taking the 5 seed instead. What would you do? What do you think any coach would do?
I think everyone would take the free win.
 
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