You truly are an idiot. Please tell us how they could schedule such teams with conference ties they are obligated to deal with? While you are at, maybe you could list the teams willing to play these teams year in & year out in a fair series?
The sport is setup to reward the "storied" programs from the main conferences & throw crumbs at the others.
You can't fault Utah or USC.
USC goes out and schedules OSU and Notre Dame. 5-10 years ago, ND was a perenial top 10 and OSU has been in the last 2 title games correctly or incorrectly.
Utah goes out and schedules Michigan. Michigan was ranked as high as #2 two years ago. 5-10 years ago, they were always top 10.
-Sean
USC goes out and schedules OSU and Notre Dame. 5-10 years ago, ND was a perenial top 10 and OSU has been in the last 2 title games correctly or incorrectly.
Utah goes out and schedules Michigan. Michigan was ranked as high as #2 two years ago. 5-10 years ago, they were always top 10.
-Sean
Out of curiosity what would happen if a private entity ran a playoff in the spring?
The coaches might be contractually unable to take part, but every team runs spring practices under captains.
What if say Mark Cuban set up a spring playoff and gave each team a coach ? What could the NCAA do? Ban the top 8 teams' players next year?
-Sean
The coaches might be contractually unable to take part, but every team runs spring practices under captains.
What if say Mark Cuban set up a spring playoff and gave each team a coach ? What could the NCAA do? Ban the top 8 teams' players next year?
-Sean
Now, how is that fair?
It wouldn't be!!!
A team with four losses should not have a chance to become national champion.
Long live the BCS system.
If there were a playoff in cfb, it would be a 4, 6, or 8 team playoff at most, and unfortunately, Iowa wouldnt be sniffing a berth into any of those scenarios.
Quick question. You hate the idea of 1 game playoff, such as the ncaa bb tournament. So do you also hate the NFL playoff system? Should they have been like the BCS and put New England and Dallas in the superbowl last year immediately after the regular season and left the NY Giants home???
What is so bad about making teams earn their way on the field? Sure, in a one game scenario, there is more potential for upsets. But you know what champions do, they persevere and win. And if you cannot win, then you do not deserve to crowned a champion. Seems pretty simple.
I absolutely do not see any downside to a 4 or 6 team playoff in college football. Once you get out to 16 team playoffs then you run the risk of teams shutting down late in the season like they do in the NFL. You really don't want Alabama to rest players vs Auburn next week or Florida to take a game off vs Florida St. That could, and probably would happen in a 16 team playoff scenario. But it wouldnt happen in a 4 or 6 team playoff which is where they should go.
6 team playoff:
1. Florida - Bye
2. OU - Bye
3. Texas vs 6. Utah
4. USC vs 5. Alabama/Penn St/TTech
Tell me you wouldn't watch and love every minute of that playoff scenario.
Sure there would be plenty of argument about who should be in and out of the last couple spots, just as there is about the bubble teams in the NCAA tournament. That will never ever change. But this way you dont have those very very deserving teams like Auburn and Oregon a few years back sitting on the outside wondering what if.
And you still get the rest of the Bowl games on top of it.
Why can't they invite 16 teams for a playoff tournament?
The four remaining teams play on New Years Day and the big show down a week later.
The rest of the teams with at least six wins goes status quo.
WTF is with all the time off between end of season and Jan. 1st about anyway,get real and play some damn games.
The biggest set back is the fat cat schools and bowls who will lose their big slice of the revenue pie.
Also these smaller schools will have better recruits knowing they have a shot at a championship.
The four remaining teams play on New Years Day and the big show down a week later.
The rest of the teams with at least six wins goes status quo.
WTF is with all the time off between end of season and Jan. 1st about anyway,get real and play some damn games.
The biggest set back is the fat cat schools and bowls who will lose their big slice of the revenue pie.
Also these smaller schools will have better recruits knowing they have a shot at a championship.
exactly. these guys dont get it. college basketball is hands down the worst sport to watch. 4 meaningless months of games that mean essentially nothing until you get into the tournament. granted i like march madness, but every week in cfb is march madness in itself which is why it is so great. im just hoping nothing gets changed, i think the system is pretty much perfect the way it is.
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It would take two weekends to get it to the four that would play New Years day.
16 turns to 8 turns to the four
So Dec. has some games to watch besides the Motor City Bowl and whatever they call those other shit head bowls that are only there for us degenerates to bet on.
Lord knows the average Joe aint a watching!
I love the NCAA hoops format as you play your conference to position your team for conference tourney.
To me those conference tourneys are more fun than the tournament it's self.
And no team is rubbing the opposition face in the dirt late in the game looking for added votes on so called style points as Musburger called it last night.
What ever happened to a win is a win is a win.
What a great so called system We have going here. Now it's up to some biased voters in suits to decide that either Texas or Oklahoma should sit ! Now that sure is a great system right ! Go back to smoking whatever it is you have as you are the one that don't get it.
By the way, there is nothing meaningless about a single game played in college basketball as every game is taken into consideration when the final seeding not only decides who gets to go but where they are seeded. I suppose you don't see any difference between a 1 seed playing a 16 or perhaps a 12 playing a 5. I figured not !
