Bowl Games (other than ours) and associated silliness 2024 Plus the Playoffs

[BuffWarHog]

I hate Ohio State as well, but if they can do this to Oregon in the next game I am all for it.

That’s my thought.
If OSU is going to win - I want a blowout.

 

[Darth Snow]

Univariate analysis will always draw these simple conclusions. Use real data.

 

[Bread]

Not so much for non-CU fans.

I would venture there were a good number of college football fans unrelated to CU that were happy to see Nebraska and their arrogance knocked down without being able to get back up

 

[BuffWarHog]

I guess since it was called a pick on the field.

But he didn't have control in bounds and that was an egregious miss of PI which led to that ball being up for grabs.

Vols very fortunate there.

What I’ve noticed about the rules analysts (no matter the channel) this year is they have been correct roughly 0% of the time, +/- 0%

 

[Townie]

I’ll say it to you as well. Univariate analyses are fraught and the toys of simple minds. Let’s use real data.

What if, say, Clemson had beat Texas. Should Texas still advance because that "univariate analysis" (aka, an actual game) give way because your data shows they're the better team?

 

[Medford M.]

I’ll say it to you as well. Univariate analyses are fraught and the toys of simple minds. Let’s use real data.

The data doesn't matter. We have a head to head result.

Not only a head to head result, but Tennessee lost fewer games, and their losses are better than Alabama's.

We're not here to put the best 12 teams in.

If that were the case, we'd just set the playoff before the year starts using recruiting rankings, since you clearly want to put the teams with the best talent in, regardless of win-loss record.

 

[hawg1]

Luke shooting fish in a barrel.

 

[The Alabaster Yak]

How is a lopsided blowout better one way or another?

Because there is at least a great atmosphere and excitement leading up to it, and one team advances to next week.

what are we even talking about?

 

[ZKobalt]

ESPN must have gotten a hold of the refs

 

[hawg1]

What if, say, Clemson had beat Texas. Should Texas still advance because that "univariate analysis" (aka, an actual game) give way because your data shows they're the better team?

No, we are talking about data used to qualify for the field of 12. Keep up.

 

[Da Lama]

How is that roughing?

 

[Buffnik]

Roughing?

Are we playing football or some other game?

 

[The Alabaster Yak]

I’ll say it to you as well. Univariate analyses are fraught and the toys of simple minds. Let’s use real data.

Real data like H2H matchup?

 

[Medford M.]

No, we are talking about data used to qualify for the field of 12. Keep up.

Well using analytics to determine best teams is a fools errand and essentially removes the importance of actual results.

 

[Not Sure]

I don’t agree with that roughing penalty. He’s in the act of tackling the guy. Turrible call.

 

[Da Lama]

it wouldn’t even shock me if ESPN told the officials they can’t have another blow out.

 

[Hank]

I’ll say it to you as well. Univariate analyses are fraught and the toys of simple minds. Let’s use real data.

What if, say, Clemson had beat Texas. Should Texas still advance because that "univariate analysis" (aka, an actual game) give way because your data shows they're the better team?

I have no idea what univariate analysis means and this doesn't embarrass me because this is a college football message board. Will you two f*ckheads knock it off?

 

[hawg1]

The data doesn't matter. We have a head to head result.

Not only a head to head result, but Tennessee lost fewer games, and their losses are better than Alabama's.

We're not here to put the best 12 teams in.

If that were the case, we'd just set the playoff before the year starts using recruiting rankings, since you clearly want to put the teams with the best talent in, regardless of win-loss record.

You hit the nail on the head. These aren’t the best teams. We tried that with 2 and four team fields. Folks wanted rules about deserving criteria, like conference champions. So this is what we have.

 

[The Alabaster Yak]

You hit the nail on the head. These aren’t the best teams. We tried that with 2 and four team fields. Folks wanted rules about deserving criteria, like conference champions. So this is what we have.

Plenty of blowouts in the 2 and 4 team formats.

 

[dio]

I don't even care that these games have sucked. This is way better than the usual suspects and over the long haul will produce better results

 

[hawg1]

Well using analytics to determine best teams is a fools errand and essentially removes the importance of actual results.

It depends on what kind if event you want. This is a seeded invitational unlike any other.

 

[Daaah]

What's with the Losing My Religion rejoin?

 

[hawg1]

Plenty of blowouts in the 2 and 4 team formats.

Indeed. And that was an argument by many not to expand. There will be some bad games in the next round as well.

 

[Medford M.]

It depends on what kind if event you want. This is a seeded invitational unlike any other.

You genuinely don't seem to care about results and just want the highest upside teams in.

 

[Medford M.]

Just saw a stat on the first ten years of the playoff.

30 total games.

16 decided by 21+ points.

There's only 2-3 teams that should get a chance to play for a title.

 

[Hank]

Plenty of blowouts in the 2 and 4 team formats.

And in Super Bowls. :SadBroncosFan:

 

[dio]

Some of you are the worst

 

[72grad]

Yep. And we needed five downs to

 

[MtnBuff]

Columbus is only a 5 hour drive from Knoxville. It's closer than most SEC venues.

It wouldn't matter if it was 45 minutes.

The SEC apologist are going to latch on to whatever excuse they can find to to blame for an SEC team getting blown out by a non-SEC team.

Meaningful football games are better than exhibition games where most starters opt out.

This weekends games looked like a bunch of teams opted out.

At this point it seems like you are dug in on defending the playoff and looking for anything to defend it. As much as I've wanted to focus on them the games have been bad enough that they haven't kept my attention. This has been one of if not the least interesting day of college football this season.

 

[Jens1893]

I don't even care that these games have sucked. This is way better than the usual suspects and over the long haul will produce better results

Aren't these the usual suspects? Wouldn't a probable semi of UT v Oregon/OSU and PSU v ND/UGA involve at least 3 of the "usual suspects"?