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CFP Race 2024
- Thread starter Robert Sorell
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Which is why I preferred the old pre-Bowl Alliance bowl system.
You could conceivably have 3 bowl games on the same day that could be a national championship game. Then EVERYONE would be talking about the outcome all offseason.
Pre-BCS when the Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton and Fiesta were all on New Year's Day and mattered was pretty damn good.
That's never coming back, though. We all know where this is going - NFL model on alignment and playoffs.
i think you have to applaud the effort to crown a "true" and "consensus" national champion ... and that can only happen on the field with teams facing each other
i admittedly dont remember "the old days" and my first conscious memory is tennessee with tee martin but i think the sport is messy enough as is so i appreciate the effort to "clean up the championship process" but i also realise that the messiness factor is part of the appeal for some ... but to me the bowls always were glorified exhibition games
They were still glorious.
The mess of #1 playing #12 and #2 playing #6, and #s 3 & 4 playing each other, and #5 getting stuck in a second tier location playing a non ranked team set up off-seasons of **** talking that will never be paralleled.
It also meant that losing any single game against any opponent at any point in the season could end a title run - which meant that every single game simply mattered more.
It wasn't a good system, but it had its charm and I have some great childhood memories of NYD stacking 3 TVs in the family room with my dad to watch all the games. It was also meaningful to teams, students and fans when even if there wasn't a national championship on the line, winning the Big 8 and going to the Orange Bowl was huge.
It was better than the BCS and 4-team playoff eras. But just as 4 teams was an improvement over 2, we'll see 12 as an improvement while still not feeling completely satisfied. We're still a few moves from the endpoint, I think.
yes, part of me has always thought that part of the appeal cfb has for some was the pretty much endless reason for discussion as it was and probably still is next to impossible to crown a "real" champion ... but i like fairness
They were still glorious.
The mess of #1 playing #12 and #2 playing #6, and #s 3 & 4 playing each other, and #5 getting stuck in a second tier location playing a non ranked team set up off-seasons of **** talking that will never be paralleled.
It also meant that losing any single game against any opponent at any point in the season could end a title run - which meant that every single game simply mattered more.
we are, but therell never be a system that satisfies everyone as thatd presumably take at least a 20 game season and im not sure were ever getting there
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yep, internet plays a role here as well but i saw a similar development in soccer ... 20 years ago id see some teams and players maybe one or two times a season if they were playing in a big game or against my team in an international competition, nowadays with the internet i could probably follow the entire career of temple's back up qb if i wanted
When I was a kid, the west coast games often didn't finish early enough for the AP story and box score to make the Sunday paper. It wasn't easy to find the result of a Lakers, Dodgers or USC game.
and how many games did you have on tv every week?
Before cable, maybe 6. I had 3 main networks and then the NYC/Philly local channels which would give me some small conference or an Ivy in addition to the main network stuff.
so you essentially saw the west coast teams in the bowls and maybe once if they happened to play one of "your" teams ooc, i assume
Yeah. Big 8, I'd see OU-NU and maybe another one if there was a highly ranked team playing one of them. Pac-10, maybe 1 game other than USC-Notre Dame every year. I mostly got a heavy dose of Penn State, Notre Dame, and Eastern independents (which pretty much became the Big East).
THIS is exactly what I’m ****ing taking about.
They were still glorious.
The mess of #1 playing #12 and #2 playing #6, and #s 3 & 4 playing each other, and #5 getting stuck in a second tier location playing a non ranked team set up off-seasons of **** talking that will never be paralleled.
It also meant that losing any single game against any opponent at any point in the season could end a title run - which meant that every single game simply mattered more.
Now, once the season is over, everyone is like
…basketball. Before, it was non-stop **** talk until September. And bowl games were ABSOLUTELY NOT glorified exhibition games. They were for legit standings and championships.
*larger
Growing up in California, all I ever saw was Pac-12, Notre Dame, and sometimes Mich v Ohio St. Then out of nowhere I was watching Penn St v Miami in 1987 rooting for PSU…for no reason.
Robert Sorell
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This surprises me
Projected bracket that’s highly likely and just cancelled bets if that’s not the matchup
A lot of smoke out of Vegas.
That's no surprise but it'd be interesting to know how that got leaked
What would that be? 8/9?
My (stupid) predictions:
1. Oregon
2. Georgia (gross)
3. Boise (grosser)
4. ASU
5. Texas
6. Notre Dame
7. Penn State
8. Ohio State
9. Tennessee
10. Indiana
11. SMU
12. Clemson
Yes 8/9 would almost definitely be the matchup for the Tenn-tOSU game
ND path to the championship would go through smu and Boise
