Posted on 12/07/2014 6:25:06 AM PST by 2harddrive
Several media pundits have opined over the last several months that it almost appears that divine intervention is playing a role in the continuing close, come-from-behind victories that Florida State University has achieved this season. If so, would that be a valid reason for the Football Playoff Committee to exclude FSU from the Top Four? After all, Alabama would not want to play America's Team, the Dallas Cowboys, so they SURELY would not want to play God's Team, no?
They’ll finally play a good team.
Be careful that you don’t turn your coach into “God”.
We did that in Pennsylvania and after things fell apart, many of the worshipers were so upset they voted in ways they would not otherwise voted.
Two Democrats have won here statewide because football fans created a religion and made its coach a “God”.
Maybe it is not divine...at all...questionable? You bet. IMHO. They are not worthy, just sayin. They just aren’t that good.
That said, I have a theory about what transpired over the last week. Of all the games in the final week, the FSU/GA Tech matchup was supposed to be the closest....and it was.
IMO, the committee put FSU on the bubble so they would have no problem bringing OSU in if the game had turned out differently. Now, they have a problem. They put TCU at 3 and Baylor at 5.
Baylor beat TCU head to head. They're going to have to drop TCU 3 spots, with Baylor and OSU in front of them if their criteria actually mean anything. If they do, the whole thing was a sham and they're only after Big Ten eyes and revenue.
The corrupt ncaa has created a system so corrupt it would make olympic figure skating judges blush. No one goes to class. Officials determine champions. I'll be watching more and more volleyball. Championships are settled on the court and the girls are hot!
The 4-contender national championship is going to get a lot of criticism after the results come out later today.
It will probably be revamped to an 8-contender play-off field eventually, because too many ‘good’ teams with equal or better records got bypassed.
College football will probably need to move to a system that resembles the NFL — with basically equal conferences.
The 4, then 5, then 50 bowl games used to sort of determine the ‘national’ champion. Now, the bowls don’t seem to mean as much as they did 30 years ago.
Put the names of the champions of each conference in a hopper.
Pull two at a time.
Any odd team left over gets a first round bye.
Play until you have a winner.
Now THAT’s a “playoff’.
What we have now is still spinach, and Popeye and I say to Hell with it, AND to Hell with NCAA football bowl money gurus.
The college football “national championship” will remain a joke until we have real playoffs, like every other professional and college sport.
It will also remain a joke until an NFL minor league system (separate from Universities) is created.
Universities need to go back to eliminating freshman eligibility and forcing REAL academic reform. Kids shouldn’t see the playing field before they attend a class or know where the library is.
A four-team playoff.
Can you imagine college basketball beginning—and ending—it’s playoffs with a Final Four?
It makes no sense. It’s just stupid.
Look at who fought tooth-and-nail to keep the BCS and you have the answer to the mystery of why we persist in this arcane bowl system of reading bird entrails and consulting Oracles to select playoff teams.
Well said.
It will probably be revamped to an 8-contender play-off field eventually, because too many ‘good’ teams with equal or better records got bypassed.
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Plus that would mean more money.
That can never happen as long as some of the colleges, including some of the big ones, and some of the conferences, cling to the antiquated notion that athletes should be literate past the sixth grade level, and at least pretend to attend classes.
It's time to pull the plug. The system is driven by the chase for television dollars, and academics have been so prostituted that it's time to sever the link and just have an NFL developmental league. Same for basketball.
“It will probably be revamped to an 8-contender play-off field eventually, because too many ‘good’ teams with equal or better records got bypassed.”
I firmly believe an eight team playoff is in our future but probably not as most imagine.
I expect the big five conferences to establish their own Division leaving the rest of Division 1A behind. The big five conferences will reorganize into four large (16+ teams). Each conference will have a conference playoff to determine the conference champion. This conference playoff will be the first round of the eight team playoffs. The four conference champions will advance to the round of four and then the round of two.
A lot of folks will be disappointed that the mid size conferences will be left out but there is no way one can have a college football playoff at the major power level with more than eight teams. The logistics of more teams in a playoff are too formidable.
People finally got what they demanded - a playoff system for college football and they STILL ain't happy.
They're undefeated for 2 straight seasons. That doesn't count for anything in your book? A win is a win. This garbage that "they're just not that good," is the reason why people loath the NCAA.
Hard to decipher exactly what the ref is saying. Sounds like the audio on those Ghost Adventure shows. The only word I can really make out is the word “edge”.
This year’s selection process is a failed experiment which has a committee deciding who will play in the final four games (announced today at 12:30 EST)rather than base the playoffs on actual win-loss records (FSU is the only undefeated team yet ranks 4th). Rather than have an actual playoff system, it has been reduced to a committee looking at the best geographic and conference matchups in the interest of ratings. This “final four-light” concept is really a joke and does not represent match-ups based on winning games.
>>Ha haaaaaa!!!
People finally got what they demanded - a playoff system for college football and they STILL ain’t happy.<<
Exactly right!! The BCS wasn’t fair they said. Shouldn’t be chosen by computers they said. How on God’s green earth people thought individuals with their biases would some how be better just blows my mind.
Just my opinion, everybody’s got one.
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