Florida State hasn’t lost since November 24, 2012, and just beat its rival. Better drop them from #3 to #4. Yeah, yeah, Baylor beat TCU head to head, but keep TCU in and Baylor out. Ohio State is on its third-string quarterback, but…
Aren’t you glad the College Football Playoff is here to eliminate controversy and make sure a real champion is crowned?
I said from the start that it was a bad idea for the CFP committee to release rankings weekly, and this is exactly why. Only one ranking matters – the final one – so why sow discord going into it? Have the weekly CFP rankings accomplished anything but that?
More importantly, I also said that unless we agree to be fully beholden to it, which we clearly aren’t, there would be no less controversy with this playoff than there ever was with the BCS.
And here we are. Don’t you love all of the reporting on what the BCS rankings would be if we still had them?
Eight spots. Take the Power 5 conference champions and the three highest-ranked non-Power 5 conference champions using an average of the AP and coaches’ poll. Not in a conference? Get in one, or you’re not eligible for the title. Two ostensibly deserving teams in one conference? Those are the breaks. Better win your conference next year. Or, if you insist, drop it to two non-Power 5 conference champions and make the highest-ranked Power 5 conference non-champion team a wild card.
That, or something similar, or we’re just bumping along. Only the objects of our derision change.
Why did anyone really think this would be smoother?
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You and I almost agree on this one, Bo. Power 5 conference champs should be auto-bids, but the 3 remaining slots should be wildcards based on a BCS-like combination of polls and computers. (The computers like rewarding SOS more than voters seem to). If a non-Power 5 team (or independent) can get into that wildcard slot, then great. If not, tough noogie. Mainly, I shamelessly support opening any way possible for another SEC team to get in, even if it’s through the back door.
I think most years one wild-card would be an SEC team (but it would probably be a Big 12 team this year).
I like having non-Power 5 conference champions in there because I like the idea of everyone having a shot. Take Boise State, for example, the year they beat Oklahoma in the bowl game. They never had a chance at the national title, but probably could have legitimately competed for it.
I just think its hilarious because all my Fla State peeps on my feeds are combusting weekly. It’s very entertaining at the least
I imagine so. Were I a Florida State fan, I wouldn’t find it at all amusing. But, Florida State wins this weekend, and they’ll be in.
But see, that’s emblematic of the problem too, because that’s been true for weeks. It’s been obvious for some time now that without way more help than was ever likely to come, only an unblemished ACC champion was getting in anyway. Georgia Tech won’t leap that far, even if they do beat FSU (which I don’t find all that ridiculous a notion, for the record). (You know Tech is hating it too, because both of their losses were eminently winnable.)
All of the agitation right now is so meaningless and unnecessary. The CFP committee should release nothing until the final seeding.
As a selfish college football fan, I would love an 8-team playoff to extend the season. However, that’s asking a lot of the kids that have 12 regular season games and a conference playoff game. I know it’s all about money now, so I don’t see a return to a 10 – game season to lessen the impact.
I’ve been watching games on YouTube from the 80’s and 90’s and reminiscing about what it used to be like attending games. The atmosphere now is more and more like an NFL game. “And that’s a State Farm 1st down!” I don’t like what has happened here.
I hear you and am sensitive to what you’re saying. Right now a team can feasibly play 15 games, and you and I both remember when they topped out at 12.
The other side of it is that I think eight probably is the magic, most-for-the-least number. Look at the logjam this year. Would there have been any significant controversy? The ninth and tenth teams are Ole Miss and Arizona, each with three losses. (‘Course, as I say above, I’m for removing the human factor from it all except for the bottom two or three slots.)