I don’t have a problem with there being a playoff but as far as I’m concerned four teams in it simply isn’t enough. If it doesn’t have enough teams in it to bring in, at the very least, champions of all five so-called “Power” conferences, then what’s the point? Without that they may as well go back to the old method of leaving it strictly up to voters and give people like you a chance to debate, on January 2nd, which team really WAS the best one that season.
Ooh ooh ooh ooh, my boyfriend quacks…
Playoff be damned, this is THE FUCKING ROSE BOWL. Get hyped!!!
And yes, the PAC-12 leads all conferences in total NCAA championships won in all sports, hence the “Conference of Champions”.
Well I am surprised by the Michigan game, not by the final score, but by how it got there. Michigan was the better team for 3 quarters. If Patterson could have thrown to a route more than 10 yards downfield, without over throwing it by 5 yards(although he did hit the CB in perfect stride on that one I have to admit), they would have been up by 20.
My life as a Duck would be much happier if I could somehow learn to give a shit about track and field…
Lol! While I know it’s televised, it’s definitely one of those sports that only gets attention during the Olympics. I guess it provides programming for all the regional and conference sports channels that need something to fill their time slots.
I’d be fine scrapping the playoffs. Expanding the playoffs means you’re tapping the alumni base for yet another trip and most pockets aren’t that deep. And, depending on the expanded playoff system you could end up with two southern teams playing a first round in California.
There’s really no good way to do it, I’m fine with going back to arguing.
The playoffs should be expanded so that D1 is the same as every other division. 16 teams.
My big bitch today is that only one game was on broadcast TV. I really hate ESPNs attachment to the bowl games. It is crap that the Rose Bowl isn’t on ABC and that only the Outback bowl was available for me to watch today on a day that should be nonstop college football.
I don’t think the NCAA really wants some teams to play 17 - possibly 18 - games in a season. Besides, if the tournament is expanded, almost certainly the NCAA will demand that it take control of it, which means it also takes control of the money.
I was among those who wanted the current plus one format, and in the past I’ve been in favor of going to an 8-team playoff. But my faith in an improved fan experience was based on the assumption that NCAA (and its conferences, and its media sponsors) wouldn’t fuck it all up, which they unfortunately have.
An older fart like me remembers the time when no games of consequence were before January 1. Nowadays, they change the dates every year. They change the bowls – I don’t remember the Peach Bowl ever meaning anything beyond bragging rights. I remember when the Cotton Bowl was relatively important. And the worst part of the playoffs is that all of the other major bowls are watered down – or at least they seem that way.
An expanded playoff won’t help college football; it’ll just make the season longer and the regular season games will be less important.
DII plays a 11 game regular season with up to 5 games of playoffs. I don’t see why that’s even slightly difficult for D1, take LSU’s 2020 schedule they play 12 games over 13 weeks and two of those games are against UT San Antonio and Nicholls either of which could be dropped and both probably should be.
NCAA gets a cut from the bowl games already who cares if they get a cut from the playoffs. In DII the host split the revenue with visitors and I believe that the conference teams get a cut too based on the conference agreement.
Yeah, nobody is going to want to watch those 1 v 16 games. I agree that there was something to just having a pant load of games on Jan 1 and calling it good. Bring back the BCS algorithm!’
Oh, and another thing, the players sitting out would become a huge issue. ‘Yeah, coach, I’m not going to play in the Potato Bowl in Boise vs some 16 seed and risk blowing out a knee and pissing away an NFL contract’
In D2 this year one out of the four #1 seeds were upset. If you think no one would watch OU vs Penn State, Notre Dame v Clemson, Ohio state/ Memphis or LSU / Minnesota first round you live in a different college football world than I do.
Those sound more like 8 team playoff matchups. 16 teams would have LSU and Clemson playing the champions of the Sun Belt and Mountain West.
Right, that’s why they sit out garbage games currently. They sit games now because winning a bowl game doesn’t matter but playing in the tournament and the only way to win a national championship does. Unless a coach decides that Notre Dame is such a walkover they don’t need their starters.
At least every 16 team proposal I’ve heard calls for letting all the D1 conference champions in.
Not necessarily I put the top 4 against 13- 16. The way D2 does it is to break the country into 4 regions and then seed each region based on the rankings in the region. I think giving the power 5 conference champs get auto bids is a good idea but the next 11 should be based on the rankings.
But would people travel to see them? The alumni budget only stretches so far, especially around the holidays.