This might be one of those seasons with no unbeaten teams
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I think over time the opposite happens with some many teams in each conference some teams will get brutal schedules and others will avoid the majority of the tougher teams. Teams in those conferences wont play 9 of them during the regular season.
Good, that's good. Going undefeated doesn't mean anything, it never did. I mean it did with the stupid bowl games. The old bowls and the polls. But now that we have a playoff it doesn't mean shit. You play out the regular season, you qualify for the playoff, and then you win the championship. And that's the move, bitch!
Seriously, we finally have a dignified, proper postseason. That's why we got to make this initial playoff. It's a moral imperative. So RL is just going to have to come through for us. No alternatives. Playoff of bust!!!
Seriously, we finally have a dignified, proper postseason. That's why we got to make this initial playoff. It's a moral imperative. So RL is just going to have to come through for us. No alternatives. Playoff of bust!!!
My one beef with a too large a playoff field is that it devalues the season
One thing I liked about college football was that you had to be on top of your game the whole year to win the NC
Not just get hot for a few weeks
One thing I liked about college football was that you had to be on top of your game the whole year to win the NC
Not just get hot for a few weeks
Agree. Vanderbilt would have ended Alabama’s title hopes in the past just like NIU would have ended ND’s.
I like a four or eight team playoff but twelve probably does make it more interesting.
At least a twelve team playoff has all of the major bowl games deciding the champion though.
Name the team that only has to get hot for a few weeks? The end of the season will be exciting there will be multiple teams vying for limited playoff spots.
We saw it last year. A major Conference champion with 3 losses could have happened witth Iowa as they would have won the western division even with three losses
From what I have watched, I can not imagine Notre Dame getting hot and winning every game the rest of the regular season and then winning 4 consecutive CFB playoff games.
The only reason there is a 12 game playoff is money. Which is fine.
The number of teams that can win 3-4 straight CFB playoff games is small.
Well, Bama's national title chase was not ended, but wow the Tide's chances of a 1st round by went down by about 15%.
8 was the right number. 4 major conference champs, highest rated G5 champ, 3 at-large.
The "major bowl games" are completely pointless, just like the rest. The minute they allowed sponsored corporate names in front of the actual bowl game name (Taxslayer Gator Bowl) it was over. The Rose Bowl presented by.. that was the classy way, the right way, to preserve the brand of the bowl.
I'm trying to understand your thoughts/feelings in the last paragraph. When you say "at least a twelve team playoff has all the major bowls", do those bowl game names (Rose, Sugar, Cotton) within the confines of a playoff have meaning for you?
I couldn't tell you what bowl was what in the last two playoffs with only 4 teams. Sure as hell can't with 12 teams.
If it were only 8 teams, ND would definitely not be able to stay independent. 12 is the bare minimum that ND could abide. If Swarberick was so heavily involved as he apparently was in the devising of the playoff format, I would imagine he insisted on at least 12 teams.
Instead of rotating the major bowls (Rose, Sugar, etc.) that will decide the champion, those bowl games will always be part of deciding the champion. It’s a tiny consolation that doesn’t amount to much at all, I admit.
I guess tradition causes me to like that. Or now there’s no remembering which bowl games were the playoff games (that doesn’t really matter anyway). It’s a little silly that they had to rotate too. Now there’s no major bowl game outside of the playoffs. One could say it doesn’t matter since it’s not the playoffs, and there’s truth in that, but I would still say that two top 10 teams is still a big matchup. Sadly that has been reduced with all of the opt outs.
I’d still prefer eight teams just in terms of not devaluing the regular season too much.
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Of course you think that because you are only here to troll ND fans. Get a life sport.
I really like the parity we're seeing this season so far. I don't know if you can count on that being the norm every season because upsets like we saw this weekend aren't going to be happening every year, but its nice to see and borderline fun.
As for an ND fan like me... the prospect of playing meaningful football in late December is still alive. Lets be honest, that loss to NIU would have typically been the nail in the coffin for the season and we'd be running out the clock on the rest of the year as we'd have been eliminated from post season play except a participation trophy in a meaningless bowl game.
As for an ND fan like me... the prospect of playing meaningful football in late December is still alive. Lets be honest, that loss to NIU would have typically been the nail in the coffin for the season and we'd be running out the clock on the rest of the year as we'd have been eliminated from post season play except a participation trophy in a meaningless bowl game.
