jaws
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It still perplexes that a sport that is tied up with so much money has the most convoluted way of picking its champion.
So please, tell me who you think the best team is in college football.
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It still perplexes that a sport that is tied up with so much money has the most convoluted way of picking its champion.
So please, tell me who you think the best team is in college football.
Crusader Husker
All-Conference
Screw up was the wrong word. I should have said, people still won't be happy. 8 team play-off is still just a way to get 2-3 SEC teams in. We need to make strength of schedule.
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Cdog923
All-American
That would involve centralizing all scheduling with the NCAA and forcing conferences to play by the same rules in terms of number of conference games and scheduling of FCS teams. I'm all for it.
Crusader Husker
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That is exactly right. How about same academic standards too? I think we should cut through all of the BS and just have the power 5 and let the other play for something different. I think that is what the powers that be really want. Let's stop dancing around it. I just get tired of the season and playoffs that seems to just be a commercial for the SEC.
Cdog923
All-American
I would be all for that as well. Schools should have to play by strict academic standards as well.
I think all we need to do is decide on how to pay players, and we'll have fixed NCAA Division 1 football.
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BigRedBuster
International Man of Mystery
I'd be OK with this as long as the academic standards are not lowered to a ridiculous level just for athletes at all schools. These kids are STUDENT athletes and they are attending schools of higher learning. These schools also vary in academic standards from public state schools to pretty elite private schools. A school like Notre Dame or Duke should not be forced to lower their standards for athletes if they don't want to.
(yes, I know it already happens at some schools. But, it shouldn't be forced on them by the NCAA)
Crusader Husker
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I work at a High School, we had two kids recruited by Cornell a few years ago. Coach said they only needed to get a 28 or a 29 on their ACT to get in. I was like wow! But to be honest at Ivy league schools, they wouldn't be able to have all sports if they didn't.
Decoy73
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8 team playoff with a maximum of two teams from any given conference. The eyeball test assessment and Strength of schedule are way too subjective to carry as much weight as I think they do with the current playoff committee. Make it the power 5 champions, plus 3 at large. Winning any P5 conference is difficult no matter what your final record is and should be rewarded with a playoff spot. You’re fellow conference foes usually know you well and can beat you any given Saturday (e.g. Iowa pounding Ohio State). 18-22 year olds sometimes have off days and sometimes good coaches get out coached. When this happens it doesn’t mean you either are or aren’t playoff worthy. Win the conference and you’re in. We can all argue about the final three teams then. My 2 cents.
jaws
Starter
BigRedBuster
International Man of Mystery
And...that is the choice of Cornell as to who they want to allow in as far as academic standards. A 28 or 29 is still pretty dang good compared to what it would take to get into UNL as an athlete.
This shouldn't be regulated by the NCAA to lower standards for athletes just to level the playing field in the sport.
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Kiyoat Husker
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That's not very surprising. On the ACT a score of 28 is a 90th percentile for the USA, and a very good score IMO. For Cornell, their middle 50% of scores for admitted students is from 30-34. That means that a score of 30 would be the 25th percentile for Cornell, or a better score than 25% of admitted students.
28 or 29 probably is already about the lowest they would accept, and students with those scores would have to be exceptional in other aspects of the application.
https://magoosh.com/hs/act/about-the-act/2016/act-percentiles/
https://blog.prepscholar.com/whats-a-good-sat-act-score-for-the-ivy-league-whats-the-lowest-score-i-can-get-in-with
Kiyoat Husker
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...and just for fun, here are the average scores of the B1G schools (25th-75th percentiles)
32-34 Northwestern
29-33 Michigan
29-33 Maryland
27-31 Ohio State
27-31 Wisconsin
26-32 Illinois
26-31 Minnesota
25-31 Purdue
25-29 Penn State
24-30 Indiana
24-29 Michigan State
23-28 Iowa
22-28 Nebraska
32-34 Northwestern
29-33 Michigan
29-33 Maryland
27-31 Ohio State
27-31 Wisconsin
26-32 Illinois
26-31 Minnesota
25-31 Purdue
25-29 Penn State
24-30 Indiana
24-29 Michigan State
23-28 Iowa
22-28 Nebraska
mrandyk
Starter
I don't care if someone other than the top two seeded teams play for the title, so long as they got there legitimately. It happens all the time in basketball and no one complains. Why? Because the selection process and tournament are a hell of a lot more reasonable.