12-Team Playoff On the Way; 14-Team to Follow

I like 12. Still small enough to be exclusive. And getting a bye should be a big deal.

The timing of all of this just sucks though. The 1st round needs to be this week (or even last week). Then round 2 can be the week after. Semi's on NYD. Finals 7-10 days later. No need for the whole thing to go into late January.

And to the people bitching about being #13, you are going to get the same thing about #17 or #9 or #5. I mean we see teams whining in March about being #65 (or whatever the number they let in the tournament is). My answer to all of that is "win a game that you lost".
 
Mavric said:
Oddly enough, four teams would have been pretty clean this year.

I've long been a fan of eight with a stipulation of no more than two per conference. I might bump that to three per conferece now that the B1G and the SEC are so dominant (both in number of teams and talent).
This year, that would have been:
#1 Indiana vs #8 Miami
#4 Texas Tech vs #5 Oregon
#3 Georgia vs #6 Ole Miss
#2 Ohio State vs # 7 Texas A&M

Doesn't look all that bad to me.
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I've always been a proponent of an 8 team playoff. No need to go bigger. But, where we disagree is there is absolutely no need for more than two per conference. Yes, right now the B1G and SEC are dominant. But, the goal is to spread that out, not to consolidate the power more. Yes, that's what the B1G and SEC want. But, that's not what's best for the sport. And, if you can't get at least second in your conference, you shouldn't have a chance at the NC. In a perfect world, we would have 6 qualifiers from power conferences with no more than 2 per conference with 2 at large bids that can include G5 teams. Set it up like a normal tournament (none of this BS bye weeks for the top 4 bids) and let it play out.

Oh yeah....and ND can go **** themselves. Get in a conference and stop thinking you get preferential treatment.
 
BigRedBuster said:
I've always been a proponent of an 8 team playoff. No need to go bigger. But, where we disagree is there is absolutely no need for more than two per conference. Yes, right now the B1G and SEC are dominant. But, the goal is to spread that out, not to consolidate the power more. Yes, that's what the B1G and SEC want. But, that's not what's best for the sport. And, if you can't get at least second in your conference, you shouldn't have a chance at the NC. In a perfect world, we would have 6 qualifiers from power conferences with no more than 2 per conference with 2 at large bids that can include G5 teams. Set it up like a normal tournament (none of this BS bye weeks for the top 4 bids) and let it play out.

Oh yeah....and ND can go **** themselves. Get in a conference and stop thinking you get preferential treatment.
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I was originally going to stick with my long-held two-per-conference stance. But as I typed that out, that left out the #5 team in the rankings (Oregon), along with the #7, 8 & 9 teams (Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Alabama) in favor of the #11 (Notre Dame) and #12 (BYU). I'd rather have more one-loss teams rather than two-loss teams, because those teams earned it on the field by winning their games.

Oregon lost to the #1 team in the country. They beat two teams currently ranked by the Committee, #16 and #23.
Texas A&M lost to the #13 team. They beat #11.
Oklahoma lost to the #6 and #13 teams. They beat #9 and #18.
Alabama lost to #3, #9 plus a bad loss. They beat #3 and #14.

By contrast, Notre Dame lost to #7 and #10. They beat #16.
BYU beat #15. They lost to #4 twice.

It looks to me like Oregon and Texas A&M are more deserving of a spot in that Playoff than Notre Dame & BYU.
 
College football is so fucked up. Ok, if players want paid, then there needs to be a contract that they are here and play through whenever their team is done. Same with coaches. This bull crap has to stop. College programs, players and coaches have to be held legally under contract till the season is over.

 
BigRedBuster said:
College football is so fucked up. Ok, if players want paid, then there needs to be a contract that they are here and play through whenever their team is done. Same with coaches. This bull crap has to stop. College programs, players and coaches have to be held legally under contract till the season is over.

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This one was a fake post. Look at who posted it. I had to go research it as i was dumbfounded.
 
Can everyone (or just everyone old enough to drink the last time we won a conference championship) just take a minute and block the 274 Sport twitter account? I get it, it does look like the official 247 sports one. But this is like the 10th time.
 
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