College Football - Week 10 (Nov. 1)

[stuy119]

Guys, there are 6 more weeks of football. Over the next 6 weeks, most of the teams within the Top 10 will lose, some at least twice. There will be shuffling, re-shuffling, trash-talking amongst fanbases, a final release by the committee, and more anguish by the fanbases of the 5th & 6th place teams.

 

The last 15 years of watching college football have taught me this. This entire committee stunt was held to get people talking, nothing more and nothing less.

[OleMissCub]

But don't you think the playoff ruined the bowls. And also ruined the subjectivity of college football that fostered so much passion and arguments and a then a showdown. It was fine the way it way. I liked the bcs bowl system as well. I now feel like the bowls are also-rans. It kinda sucks.

 

Eh, if you are so concerned about bowls then expand it to 8 and you'll have 7 bowls that really matter. A quarter-final Cotton Bowl is 100 times more intriguing and will have many magnitudes more viewership as opposed to it just meaning nothing except bragging rights.

 

Under the BCS bowl system, every bowl except one was an also-ran.

[CubInOK]

I'm all for a 16-team playoff. We can tell the 17th place team not to lose 3 games.

[Derwood]

Every bowl except one was just a meaningless exhibition game. Now at least 3 bowls have meaning.

[Ryne Ween]

Achieving a BCS bowl birth was not meaningless. Te BCS bowls were not meaningless and some of the better non BCS bowls weren't meaningless either. The College football season doesn't exist to crown a mythical national champion. The movement to redefine it is dumb and wrong.

[OleMissCub]

some of the better non BCS bowls weren't meaningless either.

 

how?

[bcl412]

I kind of liked the pre BCS system honestly just because it was kind of unique compared to other American sports. I'm okay with no national champion. I didn't like that polls decided to vote for their champion though. I like having a playoff system too, if you're going to name a champ in this sport is the proper way to do it but, yeah, I echo the sentimant that a few random guys shouldn't make the decision.

[Ryne Ween]

I felt like the cotton and the capital one bowls were both usually a feather in a programs cap. Winning the conference and making a BCS bowl wa always a great year. Now it seems like everybody from year end no. 5 to SMU sucked equally.

[Andy]

I felt like the cotton and the capital one bowls were both usually a feather in a programs cap. Winning the conference and making a BCS bowl wa always a great year. Now it seems like everybody from year end no. 5 to SMU sucked equally.

I don't think this is true at all. Mid-major teams can now shoot for a New Year's 6 bowl every year, and lower-tier Power 5 teams (Minnesota, Kentucky, Wazzu to use a few examples) still know they're not likely to make the playoff and can use a certain number of wins or even an occasional New Year's 6 bowl appearance of their own as benchmarks.

 

I do think the further you expand the playoff, the less of that there will be.

[WrigleyField 22]

8 instead of four just seems so much better so I hope it doesn't take long. Just include a few more currently non-BCS Bowls for the quarterfinal round and you're set.

 

 

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[Andy]

8 instead of four just seems so much better so I hope it doesn't take long. Just include a few more currently non-BCS Bowls for the quarterfinal round and you're set.

Literally every other major American sport has an overly inclusive playoff system. We can't just have one that isn't?

[dew1679666265]

I felt like the cotton and the capital one bowls were both usually a feather in a programs cap. Winning the conference and making a BCS bowl wa always a great year. Now it seems like everybody from year end no. 5 to SMU sucked equally.

 

To be honest, I've never cared that much when Tennessee won any bowl other than the title game. Sure it's cool to see my team win and I'd love to see Tennessee start getting back to bowl games, but it's not because the bowl games are/were particularly meaningful. They're as meaningful now as they ever have been - a chance to see your team one more time in an exhibition game.

 

Anything the NCAA does to make the postseason format actually mean something and not just be a meaningless series of exhibition games is good. We can debate the merits of a selection committee and I would probably fall on the side of there almost certainly being a better way, but a playoff system gives us the best of both worlds - an actual meaningful postseason system while keeping the exhibition games that give lesser teams extra practices and (varying degrees of) more exposure.

[Ryne Ween]

The system was fine before the BCS. There was no need to officially crown a national champion. The BCS was a decent attempt at an egalitarian system. It worked decent at giving us a 1 vs 2 which was never the intent of the bowl system. This fuckig committee of ADs, famous QBs dads, hamhanded attempts at regional neutrality and gender/racial inclusion is dumb as [expletive]. They as a group are stupid. They shouldn't exist. This whole thing is dumb and it's gonna ruin everything. Nothing was wrong nothing needed to be fixed.

[OleMissCub]

8 instead of four just seems so much better so I hope it doesn't take long. Just include a few more currently non-BCS Bowls for the quarterfinal round and you're set.

Literally every other major American sport has an overly inclusive playoff system. We can't just have one that isn't?

 

They would never go past 8 because of the additional number of games and all that. If you don't think an 8 team College Football playoff wouldn't be fun as hell to watch, then you're a communist and hate puppies.

[Ryne Ween]

I felt like the cotton and the capital one bowls were both usually a feather in a programs cap. Winning the conference and making a BCS bowl wa always a great year. Now it seems like everybody from year end no. 5 to SMU sucked equally.

 

To be honest, I've never cared that much when Tennessee won any bowl other than the title game. Sure it's cool to see my team win and I'd love to see Tennessee start getting back to bowl games, but it's not because the bowl games are/were particularly meaningful. They're as meaningful now as they ever have been - a chance to see your team one more time in an exhibition game.

 

Anything the NCAA does to make the postseason format actually mean something and not just be a meaningless series of exhibition games is good. We can debate the merits of a selection committee and I would probably fall on the side of there almost certainly being a better way, but a playoff system gives us the best of both worlds - an actual meaningful postseason system while keeping the exhibition games that give lesser teams extra practices and (varying degrees of) more exposure.

 

The main problem with th bowls is not their exhibitive nature but the 5 weeks off. That's the bowl systems only problem.

[Ryne Ween]

8 instead of four just seems so much better so I hope it doesn't take long. Just include a few more currently non-BCS Bowls for the quarterfinal round and you're set.

Literally every other major American sport has an overly inclusive playoff system. We can't just have one that isn't?

 

They would never go past 8 because of the additional number of games and all that. If you don't think an 8 team College Football playoff wouldn't be fun as hell to watch, then you're a communist and hate puppies.

 

I would accept the following:

 

A six team playoff of the power 5 conference champions and a single at large team. The playoff committee can choose the at large team and seed the tournament (give the byes). That would be fine. The AP can still crown it's own mythical champion.

[Ryne Ween]

8 instead of four just seems so much better so I hope it doesn't take long. Just include a few more currently non-BCS Bowls for the quarterfinal round and you're set.

Literally every other major American sport has an overly inclusive playoff system. We can't just have one that isn't?

 

They would never go past 8 because of the additional number of games and all that. If you don't think an 8 team College Football playoff wouldn't be fun as hell to watch, then you're a communist and hate puppies.

 

If you think they are gonna stop at 8 you are crazy.

[WrigleyField 22]

8 instead of four just seems so much better so I hope it doesn't take long. Just include a few more currently non-BCS Bowls for the quarterfinal round and you're set.

Literally every other major American sport has an overly inclusive playoff system. We can't just have one that isn't?

 

They would never go past 8 because of the additional number of games and all that. If you don't think an 8 team College Football playoff wouldn't be fun as hell to watch, then you're a communist and hate puppies.

So Sulley?

 

 

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[Andy]

8 instead of four just seems so much better so I hope it doesn't take long. Just include a few more currently non-BCS Bowls for the quarterfinal round and you're set.

Literally every other major American sport has an overly inclusive playoff system. We can't just have one that isn't?

 

They would never go past 8 because of the additional number of games and all that. If you don't think an 8 team College Football playoff wouldn't be fun as hell to watch, then you're a communist and hate puppies.

The seven playoff games would be fun, sure. Playoff games are always fun.

 

Would it be fun enough to make up for the loss of some of that week-to-week tension generated by the exclusivity of a small playoff? I don't think so, though obviously I'm in the minority. The idea of any contender automatically having a mulligan no matter how bad the loss is, and most SEC contenders probably having 2, plus the loss of any real reason for any power-conference fan to care what happens in any other power conference because they'd all have auto-bids for their champions, doesn't seem very much fun to me.

[Ryne Ween]

8 instead of four just seems so much better so I hope it doesn't take long. Just include a few more currently non-BCS Bowls for the quarterfinal round and you're set.

Literally every other major American sport has an overly inclusive playoff system. We can't just have one that isn't?

 

They would never go past 8 because of the additional number of games and all that. If you don't think an 8 team College Football playoff wouldn't be fun as hell to watch, then you're a communist and hate puppies.

The seven playoff games would be fun, sure. Playoff games are always fun.

 

Would it be fun enough to make up for the loss of some of that week-to-week tension generated by the exclusivity of a small playoff? I don't think so, though obviously I'm in the minority. The idea of any contender automatically having a mulligan no matter how bad the loss is, and most SEC contenders probably having 2, plus the loss of any real reason for any power-conference fan to care what happens in any other power conference because they'd all have auto-bids for their champions, doesn't seem very much fun to me.

 

I agree with whAt this man andy thinks 100pct.

[jersey cubs fan]

8 instead of four just seems so much better so I hope it doesn't take long. Just include a few more currently non-BCS Bowls for the quarterfinal round and you're set.

Literally every other major American sport has an overly inclusive playoff system. We can't just have one that isn't?

 

They would never go past 8 because of the additional number of games and all that. If you don't think an 8 team College Football playoff wouldn't be fun as hell to watch, then you're a communist and hate puppies.

 

In pretty much every sport out there I lose interest long before the championship game unless my team is involved, or maybe if an interesting game 7 type situations arises. I love this part of college football season, get rejuvenated right around the Jan 1 games but completely check out before the championship game. I find March Madness entertaining on the first weekend, tolerable on the 2nd and boring as hell at the end. I watch the beginning of MLB playoffs and that's it.

 

A prolonged college playoff would be very boring to me.

[Guest]

The seven playoff games would be fun, sure. Playoff games are always fun.

 

Would it be fun enough to make up for the loss of some of that week-to-week tension generated by the exclusivity of a small playoff? I don't think so, though obviously I'm in the minority.

 

Citation needed here. Sure a couple teams will probably be more assured of their playoff spot in the last week or two, but if anything there's far more teams gunning for #8 in November than there will be teams gunning for #4. Also, the 'mulligans' you're referring to are basically 'the right to play one of the best couple teams in the country in the 1st round of the playoffs, possibly on the road'.

[Guest]

Can we move some of the playoff games to northern locales or will all the games continue to be home games for southern teams?

[bcl412]

My team has only been someone close to a BCS championship game once (if you count 9-0 as close). I'm not sure if anything can replicate the tension I felt that year. Than again, they could have finished undefeated and got left out and that would have been tough to swallow also.

 

But an 8 team playoff would be fun.

[bcl412]

Can we move some of the playoff games to northern locales or will all the games continue to be home games for southern teams?

I've always wanted on campus playoff games but that won't happen.