Running CFB Playoff Debate Thread

[Spartan Squad]

See ya later, Pac-12.

See ya in New York, Bryce Love

 

[Jevans]

I didn't say there was anything wrong with speculation. Done lots of it myself. But we should see it for what it is, a series of hypotheticals.

They won't. I am amazed that you do.

 

[Vombatus]

I'd love it if the CFP expanded to six. All conference champs plus an at-large with two byes. The bottom four play at the 3 and 4 home sites the week after the championship games. Then the final four at new years, with one caveat. Either cut the season to 11 games with a minimum of eight conference games. Or 12 and a minimum of nine conference games.

But think of the STUDENT-athletes!!!

(Just goofing with you - I agree with Cosmo that it should go to 8, mainly because it would be fairer.)

 

[Jevans]

If they go to eight, they need to include an admission that having two was not as fair and then pull out the asterisks.

 

[cjericho]

If they go to eight, they need to include an admission that having two was not as fair and then pull out the asterisks.

What? They used to just end the season with a few major bowls on New Year's Day and then vote for the national champ, WTF are the asterisks for?

 

[Jevans]

For when they had two instead of eight.

 

[cjericho]

For when they had two instead of eight.

Excellent idea.

 

[Jevans]

I know.

 

[Batman]

So 75 years of asterisks?

 

[cjericho]

Do any fans of 1AA, D2 and D3 ever say a team that didn't make the tournament could have won it? Is it unreasonable to have a 16-team tournament in D1? Take the 10 or 11 conference champs and 6 or 5 at-large bids. Let the next 30-36 teams play bowl games.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Do any fans of 1AA, D2 and D3 ever say a team that didn't make the tournament could have won it? Is it unreasonable to have a 16-team tournament in D1? Take the 10 or 11 conference champs and 6 or 5 at-large bids. Let the next 30-36 teams play bowl games.

If the NCAA orders that G5 champions must be part of the 16, the P5 would bolt in an Alabama minute and form their own association.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

If the NCAA orders that G5 champions must be part of the 16, the P5 would bolt in an Alabama minute and form their own association.

Unsure if that's so. More games mean more money to divvy up. Throwing the other conferences a bone might not hurt the bottom line. Look, college sports is in violation of every antitrust law ever written and gets by only because the feds have always defined it as part of education, not as a business. The Dept. of Education could end that with a memo. This administration wouldn't do it, but another might. You don't want to stir up trouble within the confederation of thieves.

 

[BTExpress]

Ain't accepting no bleeping asterisk on the one bleeping championship my team will have in my lifetime.

 

[BTExpress]

Do any fans of 1AA, D2 and D3 ever say a team that didn't make the tournament could have won it?

How many here can name the current FCS, D2 and D3 champions?

Nobody cares who's champ. Thus, no one cares who could have been champ.

That's the difference.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Oh, the schools and their alumni, students, etc. care. But the schools are smaller. That's why they're in FCS, D2, D3 in the first place. Also, they don't get on TV so degenerate gamblers don't follow them -- unless they're degenerates on a truly heroic scale.

 

[User 11148]

Oh, the schools and their alumni, students, etc. care. But the schools are smaller. That's why they're in FCS, D2, D3 in the first place.

The schools tend to be smaller, but there's a lot of variability. James Madison, No. 1 in FCS, has a total enrollment that would put it right in the middle of the ACC. The Univ. of Chicago, essentially D3, is plenty big enough enrollment-wise for D1.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Central Florida has the largest enrollment (64K and change) of any school in the country.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

The schools tend to be smaller, but there's a lot of variability. James Madison, No. 1 in FCS, has a total enrollment that would put it right in the middle of the ACC. The Univ. of Chicago, essentially D3, is plenty big enough enrollment-wise for D1.

Good point. My D3 school, Wesleyan, is small and in a smallish town and that probably influences my outlook. But it was a big deal about a decade ago when it reached the finals of the D3 baseball tournament.

 

[Neutral Corner]

If the NCAA orders that G5 champions must be part of the 16, the P5 would bolt in an Alabama minute and form their own association.

Why? Seed the playoff. The top guys essentially get a bye game, and the top half likely gets another home game to sell out, plus more TV money. What's not to like?

 

[Donny in his element]

Ain't accepting no bleeping asterisk on the one bleeping championship my team will have in my lifetime.

Yeah, but it came against a lifelong backup QB. That deserves an *.