So make it 24 or whatever it works out to make byes. 12 team system is awful because the 8th-12th best teams at the end of the year have never once deserved a chance to play for a national title. In the history of the world, craig.
Ah okay so you really dont believe in it, youre just saying that because you know something worse is coming and would prefer it. Makes senseFirst off, that's not true. I guarantee you I can go back and find some teams in that range that had the same record as a team going to the national title via popularity contest.
Secondly, I've already said that my advocacy for a 12 team model is based on the assumption that the playoff will ultimately expand to 16+ teams. So telling me that you don't think any hypothetical 12 seed is deserving is irrelevant to the point.
First off, that's not true. I guarantee you I can go back and find some teams in that range that had the same record as a team going to the national title via popularity contest.
Secondly, I've already said that my advocacy for a 12 team model is based on the assumption that the playoff will ultimately expand to 16+ teams. So telling me that you don't think any hypothetical 12 seed is deserving is irrelevant to the point.
So make it 24 or whatever it works out to make byes. 12 team system is awful because the 8th-12th best teams at the end of the year have never once deserved a chance to play for a national title. In the history of the world, craig.
Cool, yeah i agree6 is the ideal. 12 is the next best thing.
I value the incentive structure more than I dislike the risk of including a good team that isn't worthy.
This is where it needs to be to satisfy both the L3G1T TEAMS hounds and semi satisfy the whiteys. All legit teams get in, huge ratings, fun times.
I would love a rule that cancels the conference shampship game if it is a rematchI'll be much more satisfied once we eliminate rematches.
-YTC
What if the road team won the previous game?Meh, rematches don't bother me. If every game was played at a neutral site then I might be more perturbed by it, but every game is handicapped by exigent circumstances to begin with.
Just make it 6 teams.
Game 1: (6) TCU @ (3) Florida State
Game 2: (5) Baylor @ (4) Ohio State
Game 3: Winner Game 1 @ (2) Oregon
Game 4: Winner Game 2 @ (1) Alabama
National Title: Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4 (Neutral Site)
- Top 2 teams rewarded with a bye and home game
- Seeds 3-4 rewarded with a home game
- Seeds 5-6 get a chance to win the title, but have to beat three of the top six teams in the country in three straight weeks (2 of which are on the road, 1 at a neutral site)
- Fans don't have to spend crazy amounts of money flying to the Sugar Bowl/Rose Bowl one week and elsewhere in the country like Dallas the next week like they do now.
- A maximum of two teams each season will play more games than currently structured, and that only occurs if both the #1 and #2 seeds lose on the same day.
- Maintain bowl tie-ins with the major bowls and have the highest ranked teams from those conferences not in the playoff participate in them e.g. the highest ranked non-playoff Big Ten team v. the highest ranked non-playoff Pac 12 team play in the Rose Bowl.
Why is 6 preferrable to 8 teams?
Why do the top 2 teams deserve a bye week?
the teams at the top of the rankings by the end of the year have barely any common opponents. you're essentially giving the top two teams a bye because they look better then the other 4. Even in this year, were a 6 team playoff would be 'perfect', how can you decide which team gets that bye weeks?
As mak said, FSU hasn't lost in 2 years but in the current climate wouldn't get a bye week, yet Alabama and Oregon do?
also, of the 6 teams in this playoff, is it a requirement that the winner of a P-5 conference be admitted?
but the top 2 teams don't have better seasons.
the reason the BCS was rid of was because it was impossible to come to a consensus on the 2 best teams.
imo the playoff was introduced to rid CFB of the 'beauty pagent' aspect that plagued the BCS, the bowl system and (for this year at least) the 4-team playoff
i don't see how your 6-team playoff does this.
all it does is kick the can down the road
Taishair welcome new trog
He's an Aggie, so he is used to being viewed as a weirdo (and probably a moron too) when he is out in the world amongst people unfamiliar with sacred Collies, jizz jars and homoerotic faux military units.
What does this have to do with the nice debate we were having about an expanded playoff versus current playoff versus BCS Era and how it all impacts teams that are either non P5 or without a conference championship game? I mean I didn't insult you did I? If so I do apologize I was here to have a semi mature chat about the changes to college football.