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RE: CFB today with an 8-team playoff
(11-06-2017 02:47 PM)BadgerMJ Wrote: (11-06-2017 10:01 AM)otown Wrote: (11-06-2017 08:33 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote: (11-05-2017 12:38 PM)otown Wrote: (11-01-2017 07:45 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote: How about this instead.
8 team playoff.
5 conference champions with 3 wild cards to be determined from the group of divisional winners plus ND.
Based on the first rankings, that would look something like this:
1) SEC Champ
2) B1G Champ
3) ND
4) XII Champ
5) ACC Champ
6) PAC Champ
7) WC I - SEC Runner up
8) WC II - B1G Runner up
In the mix would also be the XII runner up and the ACC runner up, depending on the final records. In other years, the PAC runner up would be in the mix as well.
Simple, straight forward, and leaves little room for bitching. ESPN and Fox are happy, the conferences are as happy as they can be.
So off on so many levels.
This would officially open up anti trust litigation due to the G5 effectively being banned from the playoff..........currently they technically can make it, even though we all know they can't....... courts would like that technicality in an anti trust case. You remove that and it becomes a lot more murkier and would favor a plaintiff.
Secondly and more importantly, what on GODS green earth makes you think the PAC, ACC, and BIG12 are just gonna roll over and allow B1G/SEC to get advantages. We all know that since they usually have more bias in their favor, they will get those last two slots most years.
Lastly, you are giving ND an inherent advantage. All they need to be is top 8. Other teams need to win their conference or compete in ranking with other runner ups......which is tough to do when the runner up would have just lost the championship game and taken a bath in the polls from the loss.
Look, I'm all for expanding the playoffs.......but just leave it to the current ranking system of the committee. You start making designated auto bids and it screws up the system and makes it weaker.
I am so amazed that a fan of any sport would be ok with making a playoff based off of potential ratings and not simply using the best teams.
Where to start.....
1) Those seeds were based on THIS YEAR'S performances. In other years, those WC's could change, capiche? It's also possible that if, like last year, ND is down then that slot would go to another conference's runner up.
2) No one gives a flying duck about the G5 except G5 fanboys. If you think the PAC would have a problem with the SEC/B1G getting one of the WC's over their runner up they sure as hell aren't going to accept some G5 program getting in over theirs. That pretty much COMPLETELY destroys your argument.
3) The playoffs are about RATINGS. The networks didn't pay billions for the rights to televise the CFP to show the Memphis game. They WANT programs from the P5. They want programs with huge followings. They'll take and WANT a Bama-tOSU, OU-Washington or ND-OU matchup over what "some" might argue as a "better team". Which, BTW, is completely subjective and purely opinion based.
4) It amazes me that a fan of any sport would continue to fall for the old and untrue argument that all conferences are the same. I heard that same BS back in the Boise days. Oh, they're 12-1, they DESERVE to be there. Ah, no they don't. Playing an average Iowa or Mississippi team is still harder than playing a "good" MWC team.
Oye vei, lets try this a little slow. Try to form logical arguments instead of pounding your chest like a drunken frat boy running in circles.
1. Year in and year out, there are more powerful P5 conferences, and they seem to have consistency at that. It will be owned by the same two P5 conferences more times then not. that wont pass muster over the long term. PAC, Big 12, and probably the ACC will take issue.
2. Stop the keg stand pounding the chest rant. Take some time and read the anti trust implications other then a juvenile rant about "P5 dont care about G5" nonsense..... thats not the point. You think the P5 wanted to have an access spot for the G5......they did this for a reason.
3. Any sports fan should want the best matchups. When TV companies create the best ratings matchups...... its no longer a championship..... its simply a show. Now you want ratings match ups, see point #1 about ND. Not only will they have an easier time getting in via your convoluted autobids........ but they will also have a ratings handicap..... because like it or not...... the TV executives would MUCH rather have ND in the playoffs over Wisconsin.
4. Yes, the conferences are not the same. I would put the top 3 from the SEC in over your undefeated Wisconsin with their baggage of a cute little powder puff schedule. That is why I would simply expand the playoffs without making autobids.
I hope you can understand. If not, carry on with the screaming, chest thumping, keg stand, frat house diatribes.
I ALWAYS love the pseudo-intellectual who THINKS they're taking the high road when, in fact, they're just as down in the muck as those they're looking down upon.
Both the XII and the PAC have advocated expanding to an 8 team playoff. Why? It CERTAINLY isn't to get some non-P5 wannabee into the playoffs, it's so they have the opportunity to get another team in PLUS their champion. The final three would be a combo of ND and the two best remaining. Those teams and conferences will most likely change year to year so everyone will get their shot.
Your anti-trust "implications" and a buck will get you a cup of coffee. The fact is that the networks and the conferences can write their contracts however they wish. If the powers that be decide that the national champion will be from one of the P5 or ND, that's their option to do so. If there were any legal issues, there'd be lawsuits already filed. Considering there aren't any, the system works. Even if they expand to 8, it won't change. The "rest" will get their opportunity to play in a NYD game and be happy with it. If not, they might find out that the P5 will simply break away and do things their own way.
"The Best" idea is simply a fallacy. It's entirely based on OPINION. It won't matter if the playoff is 4, 6, 8, 12, or whatever, you'll ALWAYS have someone left out that "can make the argument" they're "better" that those who are in. What makes the most sense is to take the leagues that are PROVEN to have the best teams, take their champions, and leave room for a group of experts to select the next best three. Let's be honest, if the conferences are going to expect the networks to shell out billions for TV contracts, those networks are GOING TO HAVE A SAY in how things are done. Schools want money, networks want ratings and as far as I'm concerned, taking the champion 5 plus 3 wild cards is a very good compromise that allows for competition plus ratings.
So ND would make for better ratings than Wisconsin. Thanks for that Captain Obvious. With the possible exception of Bama, ND would have better ratings than ANYONE so taking that example isn't truly fair now is it? There's a reason big bowl games will take names over records, that being names travel better and draw better ratings. As for scheduling, I don't remember anyone taking pity on Wisconsin last year when they had LSU, Michigan, and tOSU. Normally, BYU would be good. Normally, Nebraska would be better than they are. They hit Northwestern on a down swing during the year. Iowa still remains to be seen as does Michigan. You play the schedule you're given and win the games you're supposed to win and thus far, they have. That's all they (or anyone) can do. Do I think they can beat Bama? Probably not. Are they a top 4 team? Maybe, maybe not. I do know they'd hold their own and then some against just about anyone.
Outside of your childish frat boy diatribes, simply expanding the playoffs to 8 without any requirement for auto bids would work just fine. It would be next to impossible to not get all the P5 champions in via that scenario. It still has a pathway for a G5 to make it in if the CFP chooses that they have the resume for it. This would avoid the anti-trust headache, despite what you and your self perceived Alpha Beta Law degree feels. CFP still run by the supposed independent committee.
If once in a blue moon a team like Houston from last year goes undefeated (yes, I know they stumbled in conference) while beating the #3 Oklahoma, #3 Louisville, as well as #18 Memphis while running the rest of their table, kind of hard to keep them out.
(This post was last modified: 11-06-2017 03:03 PM by otown.)
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