(06-12-2021 10:54 AM)epasnoopy Wrote: https://theathletic.com/2646301/2021/06/...tle-hunts/
Quote:2012
1. Alabama
2. Kansas State
3. Stanford
4. Florida State
No. 12 Boise State vs. No. 5 Notre Dame (at-large)
No. 11 NIU vs. No. 6 Florida (at-large)
No. 10 Texas A&M (at-large) vs. No. 7 Oregon (at-large)
No. 9 LSU (at-large) vs. No. 8 Georgia (at-large)
This one is fascinating. First of all, it’s one of those years that Greg Sankey dreams about when he backs a 12-team playoff instead of an eight-team model. Here’s five SEC teams in the field (and South Carolina almost makes it in) with a great shot at four advancing to the quarterfinals. We know Johnny Manziel makes Texas A&M the team nobody wants to play, too, and they could definitely go far. Notre Dame is supposed to be the No. 1 seed but gets a much tougher path to the title game. The top-four seed rules force some odd rearranging, as three at-large teams finished in the BCS top four. Florida State, for example, should be the No. 10 seed but gets to vault all the way up to No. 4 as a conference champion.
Keep in mind, this is also the year when undefeated Ohio State is serving a postseason ban and an 8-6 Wisconsin team destroys Nebraska in the Big Ten title game. So the Big Ten is not getting into this playoff, opening up room for both No. 15 NIU and No. 19 Boise State to earn spots with No. 21 Louisville barely missing out.
And it starts. Propaganda machine rolling already.
Saw this “theoretical” argument coming a mile away. It’s pure bûllshit.
“In theory”
FOUR non-Cartel conference teams/Champs can get into the current playoff structure but anyone with two brain cells to rub together can tell you it ain’t never happening. But that doesn’t stop them from trotting out this garbage.
They attempt to skirt around the anti-trust issues by not offering automatic bids to the Cartel Conferences and instead go with “Top six” conference champs. Except who gets to define what the “Top six” are?
Make no mistake about it, a system without auto-bids for EVERY Conference Champion is no less corrupt and no more equitable.
This proposal amounts to nothing more than two at-large selections. In a field of 130 (or whatever the current number is) FBS teams, the first half of the 12-team playoff pool is essentially an AT-LARGE SELECTION of six teams from a pool of ten. The four not selected then get returned to the pool and the second pull is six AT-LARGE SELECTIONS from a pool of the remaining 124 teams.
Any system that is allowed to arbitrarily discriminate one Conference Champion from another when it comes to inclusion to the playoff, has no place in an organization that proclaimed, in front of the US Congress, to provide “fair national competition.”
“Fair national competition,” HA! What a joke. Not in FBS football.
EQUALITY for all ten Conference Champions. Anything less is corrupt and illegal, considering the protected NON-PROFIT status of the NCAA.
DEMAND WHAT IS JUST!