Bliff Cranch
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Final CFP top four is gonna be GA, OSU, Cinn, and ND
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CFB Playoff.
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Seems likely. Barring a Bama win over UGA, what if OSU/OU wins out, then who gets that 4th spot? OU/OSU or ND?
I want to see Cincinnati make it. College sports need Cinderellas.
Well, you were on the money with that. I expected Utah to give them trouble, but not like that.
From ESPN on how yesterday shifted the playoff picture:
www.espn.com
Show-Me Saturday: The week college football finally started to come into focus
In a season of chaos, Saturday was something altogether different. Saturday was sanity.
I think it's going to be Georgia, Ohio State, Notre Dame, and the winner of Oklahoma / Oklahoma State.
Cincy gets left out in the cold because it's a tradition thing.
Was Clemson not ranked when UGA beat them?
White = Utah
Red = Pac-12 playoffs (every year)
Pac-12 gonna Pac-12
Red = Pac-12 playoffs (every year)
Pac-12 gonna Pac-12
From ESPN on how yesterday shifted the playoff picture:
Show-Me Saturday: The week college football finally started to come into focus
In a season of chaos, Saturday was something altogether different. Saturday was sanity.
What kind of pisses me off about the snark is that Utah is actually good. This wasn't a case of Oregon pissing down their leg (they did that earlier against Stanford).
Utah is having a season much like Wisconsin, where they did a u turn after a WTF start.
I'm afraid it will be a blowout, but a Cincy/Ohio State semi would be fun.
Bliff Cranch
Well-Known Member
Agree, UT is a good team. A top 20 team. They are nowhere close to being a top four team.
Oh nowhere near. Just irritating to me that in any other P5 conference, the perceived best team in the conference getting beat on the road by the next best team would be shrugged off as no big deal (especially when said next best team was a touchdown favorite).
But when it happens to the Pac-12, it's because the conference is a joke.
There is almost no scenario where OU will make the playoff. Going to need pretty mech everyone else ahead of them with one loss get a second loss for that to happen
I think they win out and are in, unless Bama beats UGa in the SEC champ.
I have zero faith the committee puts Cincy in over a one-loss conference champ blueblood.
They were 13th, and will pass Mich St., Wake, and Oregon this week to be at least 10th. They win out and pass Okie Lite, Baylor, and Ole Miss for sure to be 7th. That leaves Georgia, Bama, Ohio State, Cincy, Michigan, Notre Dame ahead of them. They pass the loser of Ohio State/Michigan and Cincy and are sitting 5th, maybe tied with Notre Dame for 4th; then all that needs to happen is either UGa beats Bama or an upset in the B1G title game or Stanford beats ND.
As always, eight or sixteen teams would be so much more fun.
Assuming things go chalk-ish this could be the top 8 (P5 champs + 3 wild cards)
1 Georgia vs 8 Wake or Pitt
2 Ohio State vs 7 Oregon
3 Notre Dame vs 6 Alabama
4 Cincy vs 5 Oklahoma
Assuming things go chalk-ish this could be the top 8 (P5 champs + 3 wild cards)
1 Georgia vs 8 Wake or Pitt
2 Ohio State vs 7 Oregon
3 Notre Dame vs 6 Alabama
4 Cincy vs 5 Oklahoma
hawg1
Well-Known Member
No auto bids. Never going to
Happen.
Why not? Pretty standard for every other league of any sort to grant playoff spots to division/league winners.
Still possible, what if:
- WAZZU/OSU wins the Pac-12
- OU beats OSU next week, then loses to OSU in B12 CCG
- Ohio State loses to Mich and/or Wisconsin
- UGA loses to Bama in SEC CCG
That autobid playoff would be lame. But also, any playoff in that scenario would be lame.
Top 6 conference winners guaranteed spot are essentially a bunch of autobids
There's going to be 6 auto bids under the 12-team format.
hawg1
Well-Known Member
Charter says best. Auto bids is deserving concept. SEC will never vote for auto bid 8. 4 or 12, top ranked CC
Yes Clemson was #3 but that was the first week of the season and Clemson has proven out to be nothing close to a top-5 team. But they will be ranked again this week after beating Wake soundly yesterday.
hawg1
Well-Known Member
12 auto (i.e. top ranked) is different in 12 than 8 unless there are caps.
in the end, the Alliance hissy for is over. They will vote for 12 with rights bidding.
Then that would look something like
UD Cincy*
1 loss teams: Mich, Georgia*, Bama, Notre Dame*
2 loss teams: Okie Lite, Wake
Trash rep from pac 12 = Wazzu
That's the pac champ getting in on the cheap, and the 2 loss ACC / Big XII champs getting tiebreakers over other 2 loss Ole Miss and Baylor.
I don't think it moves the needle on the quality of the field
Maybe. But there's also a good chance it will deliver upsets and spread the wealth like the MBB tourney has.
Smaller roster sizes and facility demands make competing in Basketball much easier than Football.
None of that will matter. You’ll end up with a group of say eight teams or so that will essentially play in their own league.
Plus you only have five guys on the court at a time. One really good guy can carry your team.
This will end like it has in Europe.