(01-03-2021 03:25 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(01-03-2021 03:16 PM)JHS55 Wrote:  

(01-03-2021 02:56 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(01-03-2021 02:30 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-03-2021 02:20 PM)cubucks Wrote:  Fair points! IMO the CFP has hurt the game much more than help. Way too much focus on the Playoff, on behalf of ESPN, that we can't even enjoy the regular season. You have teams like Northwestern, Kansas State, Houston, Georgia Tech, Louisiana, Ole Miss, Stanford and so on being called out for having loses or a weak schedule non-stop, rather than just enjoying football.

I turn on a game like Texas-Oklahoma for example, to enjoy a rivalry game and all I get is graphs, rankings and talking heads telling me why these two teams do/don't matter. The way everyone sets up the drama for a lousy 4 team playoff is just ridiculous!

ESPN is selling it like the NBA. All Celtics and Lakers or personalities, Lebron James or Seth Curry. That is not what college football is about.

And a 5-1-2 playoff means the regular season, well it just matters more.

I do not agree. With 5/1/2, or any system that has conference champ auto-bids, the OOC games become far less important, irrelevant save for filling the two paltry at-large spots. You can lose them all and still make the playoffs, as long as you win your little conference-bubble. And when filling national playoffs, the irony is that OOC games should matter most.

so what your saying is you do not like the playoffs in any sport like well you name any sport with real playoffs and you don’t like it
you are a socialist! plain and simple

That's a pretty weird thing to say, since in just about every sport with playoffs I can think of the "OOC" games count very much. E.g., in the NFL, if the Cowboys are 5-3 in the division but 10-6 overall while the Eagles are 6-2 in the division but 9-7 overall, the Cowboys win the division not the Eagles. But in college conferences, no.

And in every sport, the division winner advances. The NFC East will have at best, a 7-9 champion. It may be 6-10. They will make the playoffs.