What 8 teams would send to a college football playoff?

[CuseCubFan69]

I understand a lot can happen from herre to the end of the season but what 8 teams would you send to the playoffs? Mine:

 

USC vs West Virginia

Texas vs LSU

Alabama vs VTech

Miami vs Penn State

 

 

UCLA, Oregon, Georgia as the next in line to replace any team one loss team that loses another game and as long as they stay with one loss.

 

ND, Ohio State, Florida, Florida St, Auburn, Louisville slide in if a 2 loss slot opens.

 

I think a 16 team playoff diminishes the regular season as 2 loss teams in a college football playoff IMO should not be in the mix unless they are not enough 1 loss teams.

 

The playoffs in the ACC, Big 12 and SEC could make this more complicated.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I like your 8 Cuse(WVU shouldn't be in there, but automatic bids are automatic bids). Here's how I'd rank the rest in terms of taking a spot.

 

Georgia

Florida

Ohio State

Oregon

UCLA

Florida State

Notre Dame

Auburn

Louisville

[adamb0719]

I think a playoff system should have 16 teams. IMO some two loss teams with a tough schedule deserve a spot more than 1 loss teams with an easy schedule.

 

To answer the original question here is my 8 team playoff

 

USC

Texas

Bama

Miami

VT

PSU

Georgia

LSU

 

That will definately change after this next weekend though.

[CuseCubFan69]

I think a playoff system should have 16 teams. IMO some two loss teams with a tough schedule deserve a spot more than 1 loss teams with an easy schedule.

 

To answer the original question here is my 8 team playoff

 

USC

Texas

Bama

Miami

VT

PSU

Georgia

LSU

 

That will definately change after this next weekend though.

 

You're right things will change and it is unfair for some teams to skate through an easy schedule and beat the LA-Laf's and division 2 teams while others play tougher teams out of conference or as an idependent. The SEC teams do this way too often IMO especially LSU, Auburn and Alabama.

 

Let me also add that the SEC has not beaten any quaility opponents other than Georgia's win ove Boise St. Any conference can have teams go 3-0 and 4-0 playing teams like that.

[Andy]

Removing the automatic bid for a playoff would be best IMO.

 

My eight as of now:

 

USC

Texas

Alabama

Miami

LSU

PSU

VaTech

Oregon

 

After Bama beats LSU this weekend I would stick ND in over the Bayou Bengals.

[CuseCubFan69]

Removing the automatic bid for a playoff would be best IMO.

 

My eight as of now:

 

USC

Texas

Alabama

Miami

LSU

PSU

VaTech

Oregon

 

After Bama beats LSU this weekend I would stick ND in over the Bayou Bengals.

 

Removing the auto bid is fine if that team has lost 3 or more games but who's to say any of those 1 loss teams are better than West Virginia? That's why you play the games IMO and get it out of the computers, writers and good old boy network.

 

What are your suggestions if a 3 loss team beats a Miami, Texas or Alabama with the auto bid?

[hardcorecubfan]

West texas A and M ooops already there

West Liberty State college West virginia

Kent state University

Northern Arizona

Phoenix college (online version)

Coast Gaurd academy

MIT

Amarillo community college

[CuseCubFan69]

West texas A and M ooops already there

West Liberty State college West virginia

Kent state University

Northern Arizona

Phoenix college (online version)

Coast Gaurd academy

MIT

Amarillo community college

 

Why did you put Texas Techs schedule on there?

[imb]

West texas A and M ooops already there

West Liberty State college West virginia

Kent state University

Northern Arizona

Phoenix college (online version)

Coast Gaurd academy

MIT

Amarillo community college

 

Why did you put Texas Techs schedule on there?

 

That's Kansas State's schedule, fool.

[CDBears1259]

Removing the automatic bid for a playoff would be best IMO.

 

My eight as of now:

 

USC

Texas

Alabama

Miami

LSU

PSU

VaTech

Oregon

 

After Bama beats LSU this weekend I would stick ND in over the Bayou Bengals.

I wouldn't hold my breath that Bama beats LSU this weekend. LSU has way more offensive weapons, but how well they will get used is the question. It'll likely be a defensive struggle. Especially with Prothro out. Of course I'm a little biased.

[TruffleShuffle]

OK well here's how I look at it... there are a few teams that I think are gimmes:

 

1. USC

 

-Good wins: @Oregon (blowout), @Arizona State, @ND

-Losses: None

 

2. Texas

-Good wins: @Ohio St., @Mizzou, Colorado, Texas Tech, (Oklahoma because they've had problems with them in the past)

-Losses: None

 

3. Miami

-Good wins: @Va Tech, @Clemson, Colorado

-Losses: @Florida State (First game, close, special teams cost them)

 

4. Alabama

-Good wins: @South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee (kind of),

-Losses: None

 

5. LSU

-Good wins: @Arizona State, Florida, Auburn

-Losses: Tennessee (fell apart at the end of the game)

 

6. PSU

-Good wins: @Northwestern, Minnesota, Ohio St., Wisconsin

-Losses: Michigan (last second TD allowed)

 

 

That's all the gimmes IMO... here are the cases for the other two spots:

 

Georgia

-Good wins: Boise St., South Carolina, @Tennessee

-Losses: N- Florida (missing starting QB, close game)

 

Virginia Tech

-Good wins: @NC St (being generous with this one), Ga Tech, BC, @WVU, @Maryland

-Losses: Miami (not very comptitive)

 

Oregon

-Good wins: Fresno State, @Arizona St., Cal

-Losses: USC (blown out)

 

Texas Tech

-Good wins: @Nebraska or Kansas, I guess

-Losses: @Texas (blown out)

 

West Virginia

-Good wins: @Maryland, Louisville

-Losses: Virginia Tech (34-17)

 

UCLA

-Good wins: Oklahoma (sort of), Cal, @Stanford

-Losses: Arizona (blown out)

 

Notre Dame

-Good wins: @Michigan, Tennessee (Purdue and Pitt suck)

-Losses: Michigan State (loss looking worse in retrospect), USC (no shame in this one at all)

 

Ohio State

-Good wins: Iowa, Michigan State (sort of), @Minnesota,

-Losses: Texas, @PSU (both close)

 

 

My instinct is that out of the other six, I think the best three are Va Tech, Georgia and Ohio State. I don't think Oregon is really that good, Texas Tech and West Virginia have played joke schedules, and UCLA has been hanging on by its fingernails to win too many games. I actually do think Notre Dame is very good, but its schedule was not really that strong, and the BCS computers have picked up on that.

 

Ohio State only lost two games, and those losses were to the BCS #2 and #5... I also think that the OSU-PSU game was probably decided by PSU having home field advantage. If the game were in Columbus, the score might very well have been reversed. Can you really say that if Oregon, West Virginia or UCLA had hosted Texas and gone on the road to Penn State, those teams wouldn't have all lost those games? I'm going to guess they would have all lost, and most likely by larger margins.

 

Virginia Tech is troubling because they've played a pretty strong schedule and looked very good in a number of games against pretty good competition (Ga Tech, @Maryland, BC and @WV they were never threatened)... but there is, of course, the matter of getting blown out by Miami at home. Is Va Tech really that sloppy and turnover-prone, or did they just have a bad day against the wrong team?

 

I'd probably go with the BCS top 8 at this point - USC, Texas, Bama, Miami, PSU, LSU, Va Tech, Ohio State - and leave Georgia out right now. But, two of Georgia's last three games are against Auburn and then against Georgia Tech, which could move them up. I expect that either Alabama or LSU will drop out of my top 8 after this weekend, and Georgia will move in - assuming they beat Auburn.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

woohoo, Mizzou is a good win!

 

Seriously though, if Mizzou is a good win, then there's a lot of good wins to be had. They're a fringe bowl team right now, and while the game was at Mizzou, it was a blowout.

[TruffleShuffle]

woohoo, Mizzou is a good win!

 

Seriously though, if Mizzou is a good win, then there's a lot of good wins to be had. They're a fringe bowl team right now, and while the game was at Mizzou, it was a blowout.

 

Well, I think it was a blowout because Texas is really good. I was probably being generous with the "good" label, but it was a road game... that's the only reason I put it in the good category. In any case, Texas doesn't really need to worry about the classification of its wins as good or not since they're undefeated. Plus, I think the win at OSU is, along with the Miami win at Va Tech, the most impressive victory by any of the contenders I listed.

[Mark_R]

Truffle, you are very generous to give Georgia credit for a "good win" over Boise State. Georgia doesn't have the resume that some other teams have. One loss. Two loss. Boise State is 7-2 but I don't consider them to be anywhere near the class of some of the other good wins you gave credit for.

 

Great analysis, and appreciate the lack of O$U jokes ;)

[biittner77]

To make a playoff work it has to be 8 teams with 4 of the BCS games comprising the first round.

 

To satisfy the traditionalists, the games will go back to the traditional match ups i.e. Big 10 - Pac 10 Rose Bowl etc.

 

Automatic bids

Big 10

Pac 10

Big 12

SEC

ACC

Big East

 

plus 2 wild cards to be determined by the rankings.

 

A perfect system? No. But certainly the most practical. Potentially a 3rd good team could miss the playoffs because of a weak conference's automatic bid. Too bad. That happens in sports all the time (the 2005 Padres for example)

 

This adds two weeks to the season for the Championship game.

[hardcorecubfan]

West texas A and M ooops already there

West Liberty State college West virginia

Kent state University

Northern Arizona

Phoenix college (online version)

Coast Gaurd academy

MIT

Amarillo community college

 

Why did you put Texas Techs schedule on there?

 

Oh, that's cold what you should have said is why did i put Texas's second half schedule on here.