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Bowl Games (other than ours) and associated silliness 2024 Plus the Playoffs
- Thread starter MtnBuff
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They’ll never sniff the playoffs again.
SMU played Houston Christian
Indiana played Western Illinois
Ohio State played Akron, Western Michigan and Marshall
Boise played Portland State
Carry on though
If you want. The field is set, the games are being played, and yet all the air is being taken up by SEC coaches and fans whining.
Honestly, if you were able to step back and look at it from a non-SEC fan perspective, you'd probably be embarrassed by the way you are all acting. Like as an entire segment of the country.
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
ND also boat raced everyone on the schedule after that NIU game.
Bama had those losses and struggled against other weak teams.
Big Jim
WTF?
Sure, 12-1 team got screwed last season so how can a committee be trusted to pick 12 teams that actually deserve to be in the playoffs?
Nah. They should have a 8 game season then seed 128 teams and have a 7 round playoff for the championship. Eazy peazy.
Cannon fodder for the upper guys, but what if….
Suddenly Clemso Receivers are getting wide open
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
That was the best team Cignetti is going to field at IU.
They aren't ever going back to the playoff.
Robert Sorell
Well-Known Member
How do you envision the error bars on the statistics like SOR or a power ranking?
There's a lot of strong opinions on Bama being clearly better than Indiana based on something like Sagarin, which has them like 5 points apart. My gut, is that is that there's probably some overlap in 90% CI's and not a p < .1 or .05, but I've honestly never seen or heard any discussion of statistical error with these rankings.
I don’t really get the complaining. When it comes to the top 10-15 teams in the country, we see blowouts and non competitive games throughout the regular season. We’ve also seen plenty of blowouts in the 4 team CFP.
This playoff isn’t about having every game be some great matchup between two evenly matched teams. Texas, PSU and ND were supposed to beat the lower seeds handily, just like many top seeds do in the basketball tournament.
This format is also about the hype and the build up and “what if” scenarios for underdog programs. More meaningful games and gives non blue bloods a chance.
This playoff isn’t about having every game be some great matchup between two evenly matched teams. Texas, PSU and ND were supposed to beat the lower seeds handily, just like many top seeds do in the basketball tournament.
This format is also about the hype and the build up and “what if” scenarios for underdog programs. More meaningful games and gives non blue bloods a chance.
Clemson making this one interesting
Crazy. Earlier I was assured that a 14 game season with a 16 team playoff would be awesome.
All of those teams played 9 conference games. Carry on, though
Not ASU or Boise St
@hawg1 and @CarolinaBuff breathing audible sighs of relief after that run.
If you don’t even want the ACC champion in I assume you’d be fine with a true SEC and Big Ten invitational?
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Ooooh 9 conference games in the ACC!
And Indiana played 7 of the 8 bottom teams in the B1G
EDIT: ACC only played 8 conference games
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
What he actually wants, and what I want is not having a playoff.
Most years, only 2 or 3 teams really even deserve a shot.
I think ESPN was looking to recoup some of the ridiculous money they’re spending on this with a sub license.
Alabama played 3 G5/FCS teams and a bad Wisconsin team. SEC teams play fewer P4 games than other conferences. It makes a difference and has been the major reason that conference has built the illusion that it’s so tough top to bottom when in reality it’s always only had 2-3 great programs at any given time.
That’s correct. I think I said this earlier today in this thread but a playoff is an unfair system to determine a champion.
Oh no, the SEC people would then argue to not bother with the "lowly" B1G and just automatically give the crown to the SEC winner each year since really nobody else matters.
How many times did they manage to sneak Alabama either into the playoff or the championship game? Was it twice or three times?
Don’t underestimate the role that Fox has, btw. Fox being in bed and married to the Big Ten helps the conference preserve its interests and push its narratives. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the two conferences are essentially married to the two most important media stakeholders.