First playoff rankings released

[ahoelsken]

What if one of them gets hot in the playoffs? What if Alabama's bus crashes on the way to the game?

Tell me you honestly believe every year's BBall champion was the best team that year.

The wider you make the playoffs, the more diluted the pool is, and the greater chance someone gets lucky.

And conference championships matter because they ARE the first round of the playoffs.

How can championships be doomed with expansion and doing away with divisions? There'd still be 16 teams per "conference", which would have some sort of inner playoff for the top spot, which would then go to the final playoff. Which is exactly what I'm arguing for in the current conference setup.

Get rid of divisions and go to the Big 12's model of 1 v. 2. More often than not, you're going to get situations like the one the Big 10 has this year-the championship game as it stands now would be Michigan/Northwestern. If they used the Big 12's model, we'd get Michigan/Ohio State two weeks in a row. If they split in that hypothetical, then I'd have no problem taking a second SEC team or even a group of 5 over either of them if one made sense. We'd have a much better sense for how good people are if everybody did it that way.....and if you get a split there......

 

[CarolinaBuff]

Beamer? The 15-25 is just mush as this point. So what ACC is ranked. There are Committee processes to prevent undue influences from single contributors.

B1G underrepresented. Fox sure shows a lot of these games.

It’s a silly 9 minute video.

To Klatt's point, how teams are ranked matters because that helps determine who ends up in the top 4 based on how many ranked teams they have beaten. He had a great interview on Outkick this morning and pointed out how ACC teams were ranked on average of 16 spots higher in the CFB rankings than they are in the Sagarin, compared to Big 10 teams which were ranked 3 spots lower on average than they are in Sagarin.

The ACC is very mediocre once you get past Clemson.