Posted on 12/31/2017 6:48:29 AM PST by C19fan
This bowl season was one that Pac-12 teams would not mind forgetting. With three-fourths of the conference headed to bowl games, there was potential for the Pac-12 to have an impressive showing and prove that despite not having a team qualify for the College Football Playoff, it is still one of the better Power-5 conferences. Instead, Utah was the only one of the nine teams to win its bowl game and the Pac-12 ended the bowl season with the worst record ever for a Power-5 Conference for an entire bowl season.
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The sports genius’ are going to have to explain why the Big 10 Champion was left out of the playoff while the SEC gets 2 selections. OSU and WI or even PSU could win the whole thing if given the chance. What a joke.
Simplest solution to all this is to have the Power Five Conference Champions. Take the top two seeds and give them a bye.
Then take the best Non Power Five team, and have them play the best at-large Power Five team, so that a team like UCF gets a shot.
So in this case you’d have:
OU and Clemson as the Bye teams.
Georgia vs USC
Ohio State vs (Alabama/UCF winner)
The thing I like is that it requires a team that doesn’t play in a conference championship game, like Alabama, to play an extra game to get into the tournament.
Bama was not given a chance to win their Conference and are not champions. They were given a Bama exemption. If you are not a Champion go to the bowl circuit but not the Championship of Champions.
The Mountain West has a good argument for getting in as do a couple other Conference Champions. This would take it out of the media’s hands and decide it on the grass.
But this is personal, USC took the chance of a crown from OU.
There’s always going to be a “beauty pageant” aspect to it, no matter what you do. I think my proposal pretty much accomplishes everything with the fewest number of games necessary.
It makes the Conference Championship games, defacto playoff games, although a team that loses the conference championship game, could still get in at an at-large, but I would say any team that doesn’t win their conference championship has no right to complain if they are left out. And in most years, the at-large team will most likely be the loser of the conference championship game.
I would also specify that for a non Power 5 team to get in, that they have to be ranked in the Top 16, or else the best two Power 5 at-large teams would play each other to get into the tournament.
Bowl games are not quite meaningless enough, yet. The obvious answer is to create more bowl games, lower the automatic pass to a bowl to four wins and make the sponsorship wide open. For starters, I propose the Porcelain Bowl, by Lysol Bathroom Scrubbing Bubbles.
How about The Chico’s Bail Bonds Bowl?
or just "go away".....
Shouldn’t the “Bama exemption” actually be the Ohio State exemption? They were the first “non-Champion” to be in the playoffs when they didn’t play in the Big 10 championship game last year.
Which is more proof the entire Championship is a farce.
Oh... sorry.... not that there’s anything wrong with it.... ;)
First this is a new year. And one year they only had 2 teams from the sec in the finals. Yeah that’s fair.
Alabama had no more claim to the playoff than Wisconsin whose only lose was by six to OSU. ALA and WIS strength of schedule were nearly identical. ALA was selected because of past history, nothing else.
Just like Hillary had nothing to do with the DNC when she was running against Bernie.
Do you have proof of this, or just unsubstantiated allegations?
No that would be the “Screw the Big10 over Rule”.
Last year they didn’t take the Big10 champ and took a lessor team. This year they didn’t take a single team from the Big10. The committee doesn’t want to have the Big10 be seen as the best because that will upset the rule that SEC is the toughest ever since ESPN started backing them in their partnership.
Last year Big 10’s #2 or #3 team made it. This year they couldn’t do that again and didn’t want Ohio State to embarrass the SEC so they just put in 2 SEC teams. Next year if SEC gets any worse they’ll have to put in 3 teams to have a chance.
So Auburn beats both Georgia and Alabama and Georgia and Alabama make the cut. Oh man if UCF pulls off a win over Auburn...that will be even more egg on the committee’s face. Leave out the only viable unbeaten team and have them beat the only team that beat two of the final 4.
I have as much proof as we do for Hillary not being on the board of the DNC yet still controlling it.
All’s it takes is a little reasoning power. Look at how ESPN used to love on the Big10. Then the Big10 started their own network. ESPN started ragging on the Big10. They have huge influence over the committee. In fact, I believe they were about the only sports source before the selection that was backing two SEC teams to make the final 4. And guess what happens...two SEC teams make the final 4. Alabama has no place in the final 4. Also look at the polls the week after all the upsets. They jockeyed the positions so that SEC would be set to make a claim for two teams. Also look at what happens when Mississippi State upsets a higher ranked SEC team (like last year). They move up about 10 spots. The polls always have to have two or three SEC teams in the top no matter what happens. They will move a #16 team to #4 in one week to keep it that way. Then when that top 5 team loses in SEC play—hey an SEC team beat a top 5 team.
So, does ESPN also influence the AP and Coaches’ poll, because they both had the same rankings for the top 4 as the committee? How deep does the collusion go?
I could have gone with WI. AL has that cache stuff goin for it.
What do you think?
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