IMO things started to go downhill when they started having so many bowl games that many of them featured teams with 6-6 records (or worse) going against each other. Things got really watered down.
I thought a solution to this would be to reserve bowl slots for the losers of the first and/or second round of the playoffs.
They should also move the transfer window to some time after the playoffs are over.
10-10 entering the fourth quarter, then game ends 27-24. Pretty hectic.
Notre Dame to the title game.
Completely agree. It’s Pro Football Lite. And I have no interest in Pro Football.
And Fuck Notre Dame.
Yeah, I watched much of this game and it was pretty fun.
Now I’m looking forward to the championship.
That was a fun “Pedophilia Bowl” game, but overall I’m liking this playoff system even less than I thought it would. It’s a big bloated spectacle that makes the regular season irrelevant. Four major conference champions, one minnow champ and three at-large is plenty. (And I’m not just saying that because my Ducks lost to a team that we already beat and that had two more losses than we did, but it helps)
I think NCAA ought to simply have 8 teams in the playoffs. Ranked entirely by AP polling 1 through 8. No bye weeks.
Heck of a game last night. I thought ND got stiffed on a PI call in the fourth quarter, so I was happy that call didn’t cost them the game. It was sort of comic relief towards the end when it seemed like Mr. McGoo was the Orange Bowl timekeeper. Would have been nice to see an all Big Ten final but ND-OSU would be acceptable as well.
I assume you are referring to the call at the goal line when the pass was intercepted. Because I thought that was a clear case of DPI, although a lot of pundits after the game agreed with you.
It was a heckuva game, and I’m hoping for another good one tonight. I’m certainly not a Texas fan, but it would be good to have no SEC teams in the final.
I’m a big ND fan and ecstatic ND won. They are an extremely well-coached team. Outside of a couple players they are pretty average and it’s surreal they made it this far. 
Yes, that was the one. I thought it was a pretty clean pick and I happened to be watching the feed with Pat McAfee yammering away so it’s possible I was swayed into the wrong opinion.
On the topic of Texas, I can’t see how the Longhorns, who needed a near-miracle 4th-and-13 to survive against underdog Arizona State, are possibly going to hang on for long against an Ohio State that was routing Oregon 34-0 midway through the second quarter last week.
The transitive law doesn’t apply to college football.
I think that’s a really bad idea and I suspect most college football fans would agree.
There has to be some value to winning a conference if most of your games are conference games.
It’s just not a very smart idea.
My personal preference would be they drop the idea of finding the “best” team and instead have a championship of champions. That is, a playoff of exactly conference champions, no more, no fewer.
But, I still greatly enjoyed my Buckeyes tromping over Oregon. Payback is fun! Speaking of which, Ohio State and Texas are playing again in the fall. One of the teams will be holding a grudge.
The pick itself was clean. It was the other defender (with his back to the ball) that ran into the receiver that drew the flag.
If you don’t block Xitter, you can watch the replay here. The flag was thrown on #8 of the Irish.
OK then I was wrong. I was led astray by announcers. Never trust announcers to know the rules.
So 6 SEC teams + 2?
I’d agree with 8 teams playing their first round in the New Year’s Bowls. Power 4 Conference Champs + highest ranked left-over conference champ + 2 highest ranked at-large teams but both can’t be from the same conference. If you don’t want to leave it up to luck of being chosen by the committee then win your conference…
One wrinkle to that rule is the face guarding clause, but I just googled it up and apparently it only is if contact is also made (for both the NCAA and NFL, but was at the HS level, until recently maybe), which is news to me since I thought that was on the NFL books at least for decades. [/mandela effect]
Beautiful touchdown by Buckeyes right before halftime.