Posted on 01/02/2015 5:39:29 AM PST by C19fan
This is playoff via committee.................Kinda like government programs..................
Agreed. Still better than BCS but at least if you expand it to 16 teams - 2 and 3 loss teams have less to complain about if they don’t get in. Plus, it gives teams that lose a game or two due to injuries or turnovers or whatever a chance to still compete. Like I said, we see it all the time in our high school playoffs. Another thing it does is make teams more willing to schedule quality opponents because they know that one or two losses will not automatically eliminate them.
One would think with all these different ‘Bowl’ games around the country, they could assemble a real playoff structure, and it would increase viewership as well....................Yeah, I know I’m dreaming..................
really...at what Big Ten school was he the head coach?
Thankfully, for the teams outside the SEC, the SEC beats the hell out of each other all season long before the bowl games. They do it to make bowl season more competitive....at least for one year out of every ten.
Technically TOSU is 1-10 against the SEC in bowl games. The Bucks had to vacate a win against Arkansas in 2010 due to "tattoo gate". Oddly enough though, over the years the Buckeyes are 8-0 against Oregon.
OK. You get one year to win. The SEC is nice that way.
See you again in 2025.
“Ohio State is now 2-9 against the Sec in bowl games. As a famous SEC coach once said, act like you been there before, son...”
Well stated. PLEASE stick anyone of these ‘big’ 10, westcoast or otherwise teams in the SEC West for ONE entire season... they couldn’t reach .500 and they wouldn’t be in any shape to win a bowl if they did.
AND the coach of Ohio State is a former SEC coach..........................
Who is a former Ohio State coach...
...and the Dominant SEC Coach he beat was also, briefly, and longer a Michigan State coach.
Don’t forget Suburban Meyer’s success at Bowling Green!
And Saban’s at Toledo!
Can’t any of these guys hold down a job?.......................;^)
Meyer developed his hc chops at Bowling Green!
The SEC gig was just to experience nice winters, LOL.
One would think with all these different ‘Bowl’ games around the country, they could assemble a real playoff structure,
That was never the point of the bowl games, and they aren’t owned by the NCAA. The Rose Bowl, for example, is owned by the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association. It is an outgrowth of the Parade, and accompanying fair...not the other way around.
Pasadena, being the Indiana Colony of Pasadena, added an exhibition game to their spectacle between a prominent college where they were, and a prominent college from where they were from. They spent more than a century building this up. For what reason would they want to give this up so someone else can take their *century* of work and repurpose it to their detriment?
that’s why he went from Bowling Green to Utah! LOL...
You mad bro?
Make any of the SEC play their bowls as Home games at Big 10 stadiums in January, and you’d see blow outs the other way...even worse than the Big 10 gets when the play in Louisiana, Florida, Florida, Florida, Texas, and Southern California in January.
Until those are happening, the dice are loaded one way. That OSU was able to go to Louisiana and outplay a team from Alabama shows OSU was a LOT better...though this time it appears the heat wasn’t jacked up in the dome to make the home field advantage even worse.
Nah. Just some good-natured teasing. The SEC has been so dominant for so long the rest of the nation needs to let off some steam this year.
The so-called mighty SEC West was embarrassed this bowl season...Stop scheduling directional schools, schools made up of choir boys like Incarnate Word and Presbyterian, and FBS opponents.Over the past 10-15 years, I think your argument is all wet. This year, you can make the argument that the SEC was overrated. Nevertheless, you can make a much more persuasive argument that the Big 10 and Big 12 in particular have been consistently overrated as conferences for the last 15-20 years, perhaps longer.
Unfortunately, it does not pay for schools in the SEC to schedule tough out of conference opponents. Some of those SEC schools have never done much of that. Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi, and Mississippi St, in particular, rarely have scheduled tough out of conference opponents. Occasionally they have, but not year-in and year-out. Tennessee, Florida, LSU, and probably a few others always have scheduled at least one tough non-conference opponent almost every year. Georgia has seen their out of conference schedule in recent years become much more difficult with the rise of Clemson and Georgia Tech programs. Florida always has FSU on the schedule, and occasionally has scheduled Miami.
The pressure in the SEC is to add yet another conference game - from 8 now to 9 perhaps. That will put enormous pressure on teams like Tennessee who do not have to schedule a tough out of conference opponent but do routinely (UCLA, Oregon, Oklahoma, Miami, Notre Dame, etc.). Teams like Florida and Georgia are going to want to drop FSU and Clemson, perhaps. So, unfortunately, you will probably see less games with tough out of conference opponents.
If you think that teams like Ohio State, TCU, or Oregon wouldn’t finish over .500 in the SEC West, I don’t know what to say. The events of the past couple of days have shown that the power of the SEC West was mostly self proclaimed bluster and preseason overrating. You won 2 games: against a 6-6 Texas team and a middle of the pack West Virginia team. But, let me guess, you guys weren’t trying.
How ‘bout them Hawkeyes!
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