2024-2025 College Football Playoff
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admo
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I cannot speak for him, but sports are different. For example,
Golf is a skill sport.
Baseball is a reaction and skill sport.
Hockey is a contact sport on ice skates.
Football is a collision sport, with helmets using metal or carbon steel face masks.
Basketball is a cardio sport, with shorts and tank tops. The more teams the merrier
Personally, with my recent hind-sight, 8 teams seems to be the sweet spot with no bye weeks.
Because the first round of games was less interesting then the conference championships week.
However, 12 teams is fine and if they want to go 16 teams, that's fine too. I don't have a problem, just an opinion.
But I mostly worry about injuries to key players during Round 1 and or in Round 2 that could keep a team from performing their best in a playoff run or before a championship game. And with too many playoff games that could possibly happen. Which would also destroy the dreams of the team and fan base.
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Archy1221
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And I would add to that, the best team doesn’t always win the NCAA tournament or the Super Bowl. Some times it just just the best team playing at that time (the last few weeks of the season). I like the new format, I’m sure they can still tweak it some. If this format sticks, I’m quite certain at some point a lower seed 9-12 with make it to the final four/championship game/win it all.
macroboy
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I love the playoffs idea but it needs some work. Seeding and first round byes are problem this year for sure.
Oregon got screwed. Arizona State and Boise should’ve had to play this weekend.
I could see 3/4 game next week being blowouts.
Average margin of victory in round 1 was 19.25 points...so basically 3 touchdowns.
Not a very high bar for competitiveness. I do think things get better as time goes on and parody invades cfb with the portal talent spreading out like a virus...until we get that, it'll be a bit like we saw this weekend.
I love the playoff btw...so I'm not a hater of it, have always loved the lower level format. Blowouts happen, just hoping for at least 1 competitive game.
Crusader Husker
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So what is the Lane Kiffen/SEC excuse for thier team absolulutly getting their asses handed to them? Vols looked weak and soft.
They had to put thier back up QB in, otherwise they would have scored a few more TD's.
They had to put thier back up QB in, otherwise they would have scored a few more TD's.
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I think the top four conference champions sounds like a good idea. And it probably made more sense a couple of years ago when they were coming up with the plan.
But it probably doesn't work out very well in a world of two superconferences.
TGHusker
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How in the world did Nebraska play OSU tight earlier in the season? That OSU team looked like a whole different team last night. OSU must have severely overlooked NU and came in overconfident. Our talent level has a ways to go to catch up wt the talent at the top programs.
Red Five
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This isn't a new phenomena. There are playoff blowouts. And there were blowouts in the old BCS (37-14 ring a bell), Bowl Alliance (62-24 ring a bell), and Bowl Coalition days.
Here is the average margin of victory in each year's 4 team playoff (3 games):
2014 - 23 points
2015 - 21 points
2016 - 17 points
2017 - 9 points
2018 - 22 points
2019 - 19 points
2020 - 22 points
2021 - 20 points
2022 - 22 points
2023 - 11 points
And here is the final score for each year's championship game. Only 3 of the 10 games have been w/in 2 touchdowns (last close game was 2017).
2014 - 42-20
2015 - 45-40
2016 - 35-31
2017 - 26-23
2018 - 44-16
2019 - 42-25
2020 - 52-24
2021 - 33-18
2022 - 65-7
2023 - 34-13
This somewhat ties into one of my general feelings about the playoff. The more mulligans a team reasonable knows they'll have, the less chance they're going to bring their A game to every matchup.