I think you need to go to an 8 team playoff. Power 5 conference champs get it, but no more than one per conference. Other 3 spots go to other FBS leagues and/or independents.
OK, Georgia beat ND. Bully for them. But they also played Samford, Appalachian State, Vandy, Missouri, and Kentucky. Alabama plays Fresno State (at home, of course), and in the traditional ranking-padding SEC second to last week, takes on mighty Mercer.
Face it, playoff spots are largely based on reputation. Poor Wisconsin beats all comers, including a road win at BYU. Not that BYU is all that, but fuck it, very few SEC teams play any road non-conference games. Wisconsin had the good fortune to play three of the lesser sisters in the Big Ten cross-division games, but that isn’t their fault. So after week 8, they’re 5th in the AP poll at 6-0. Now at 9-0, they drop to 6th in the AP and they’re 9th in the playoff picture with 6 one-loss teams in front of them? This is a fix.
The problem hasn’t been the SEC; it’s teams like Oklahoma and Ohio State who show up undefeated or with 1 loss and get murdered in bowl games or a playoff. And re: LSU-Bama, it was actually Bama that had one loss entering the title game. The debate was whether Ok St. was more deserving than Bama and I think the Tide answered that question emphatically. I’d rather see a rematch between Bama and UGA than watching Bama thrash Miami. That’s assuming that Bama doesn’t thrash UGA in the SEC title game, which I’m sure would be taken into consideration at selection time.
ETA: But I will root for them in any Big10 vs out-of-conference game. Ohio State is the only Big Ten team I won’t root for, unless maybe it comes down to Ohio State vs Notre Dame. That’d be a tough one. I’d probably pull Ohio State there. So, yeah, actually, I guess I was rooting for Iowa in this particular game (Iowa vs tOSU).
Rule 9-2-1-b-3: “No person or mascot subject to the rules, except players, officials and eligible substitutes, shall be on the field of play or end zones during any period without permission from the referee.” Band members are “persons subject to the rules.”
Besides, that sort of rule has been in place for decades, and Cal was on the penalized end once - Mark Harmon’s father got tackled by a Cal fan when running for a touchdown in the 1940 Rose Bowl.
I’m lovin’ this! USC wins, clinches the Pac-12 South, Georgia lost, Alabama is losing and Notre Dame is getting the shit stomped out of them! I don’t even care if UCLA loses later tonight. I’m good!
I don’t care what anyone says, the Southeastern Conference should have a minimum of one team in the playoff and possibly two. The ACC is probably just as good as the ACC. The other conferences? Pfffff. Nope. And please, no more Notre Dame in the top 10. Notre Dame is a scam.
Both of you are terrible people and nobody likes you. The only thing the Hawkeyes have done in the last…33 years is The Wave. It is by far the ugliest public campus in the state, and a dumping point for all the idiots from Illinois that can’t get into Champaign or Chicago.
To be fair, Bjaysville Lane is a pretty awesomely named street, but you guys can’t even manage to riot properly. Come to Ames if you want to see how it’s done.
The in-state rivalry among my family is pretty impressive, considering there’s two ISU alums, two derps that went to Iowa, and soon, two UNI grads. A house divided doesn’t even begin to describe us.
Go Cyclones, and may the Iowa River flood Kinnick Stadium.
I dunno. The ACC has been strong for the last few years, but they’ve fallen off a bit while the ACC has come on strong this fall. It’s pretty much a tossup at this point, and I’ll have to go with the ACC.
