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

Darth Snow said:
The topic of Bama being too ****ty for the playoff is dumb so please go on about Bama so we can keep laughing at them and the sec with their 8-game schedule.
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There’s nothing in that argument. I’ll make another one, SoS now seoarates itself from SOR in large conferences. The committee should add a Vegas oddsmaker with power rankings if they want the best 12. Otherwise, the seeded invitational format is fine.
 
Hank said:
Indiana is not very good. We all knew that. Luckiest schedule ever.

And that was not a catch.
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Another ugly impact of having these giant mega-conferences. Hard to say that a team is best or even second or third best in a conference when the schedule doesn't have them play any of the top teams until a CCG.

And for the SEC whiners, they almost never leave the SEC footprint to play games, play a bunch of free wins in the OOC, play a pushover (SunBelt or FCS) near the end of the season to pad their records, and oh by the way remind me of why playing Mississipi State, Kentucky, Auburn this year, Vandy most years, even Florida and Oklahoma qualifies as quality wins?

The top schools have loads of talent but the conference itself is extremely topheavy and set up to over-exaggerate the good teams.
 
MtnBuff said:
Another ugly impact of having these giant mega-conferences. Hard to say that a team is best or even second or third best in a conference when the schedule doesn't have them play any of the top teams until a CCG.

And for the SEC whiners, they almost never leave the SEC footprint to play games, play a bunch of free wins in the OOC, play a pushover (SunBelt or FCS) near the end of the season to pad their records, and oh by the way remind me of why playing Mississipi State, Kentucky, Auburn this year, Vandy most years, even Florida and Oklahoma qualifies as quality wins?

The top schools have loads of talent but the conference itself is extremely topheavy and set up to over-exaggerate the good teams.
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But it is possible to compare teams with unequal schedules.

The SEC playing OIC away games began to change in preparation for the CFP. With thus years results, they will flip back to the old model. They said such. Games will be worse.
 
Tatanka™ said:
Why schedule a cold weather game at night? It sucks for the fans. This should have been an afternoon game. They could have scheduled Clemson at Texas for tonight. I hope they rethink scheduling next year.
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Unpopular opinion but why couldn't this game have started at 5 or 6pm EST? I know people will whine at this notion but 1) it's a Friday, and 2) we're heading into the holidays and most people cut out after lunch today anyway.
 
CarolinaBuff said:
Unpopular opinion but why couldn't this game have started at 5 or 6pm EST? I know people will whine at this notion but 1) it's a Friday, and 2) we're heading into the holidays and most people cut out after lunch today anyway.
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Would have been better than that Tulane vs UF thing. Committee is learning.
 
Duff Man said:
Not enough to say the SEC should be forced to do it or get penalized... so no.
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I’m fine if they are “forced” to do it. But by whom? Committee sent the opposite message this year. I get the howling by other conferences but, damn, go to 8. If you can’t beat them, join them.
 
hawg1 said:
There’s nothing in that argument. I’ll make another one, SoS now seoarates itself from SOR in large conferences. The committee should add a Vegas oddsmaker with power rankings if they want the best 12. Otherwise, the seeded invitational format is fine.
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This is one of the problems you have when you do a playoff format.

Nobody worries about how the first team out compares to the top teams. Instead the arguments always center on the comparing the first teams out to the last teams in and it usually ends up in loud calls for expanding the size of the brackets.

This ends up solving nothing because when the playoff was 4 the argument was always #4 compared to #5. Go to 8 and the fans of #9 and #10 make their arguments.

Currently it is at 12 but eventually that will go to 16 then 24. No matter if it were 32 you would hear claims that if #'s 30, 31, and 32 are in then so should 33 through 36.

One of the unique features of college football has always been that the champion was supposed to be the best team that year, not the team that got lucky in terms of injuries, opponents, etc. in the playoff games.

To try to tell me that a team that has lost 3 games before the playoff starts is the best team that year is a complete farce and if they end up getting hot/lucky and win a playoff it makes a mockery of the playoff.
 
CarolinaBuff said:
Sure and even Saban has said that the SEC should be playing 9 conference games. Even with that there'll still be unbalanced schedules that need to be taken into account by the committee.
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With mega conferences, unbalanced schedules are now bigger than 8or 9 game issue. Now we are back to SOS, SOR and power ratings discussion. Sigh.
 
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