Oh geez. They got it wrong because for years they told the Big12 they had to have a championship game to be considered. They let Notre Dame in. Hell Notre Dame should have at LEAST dropped to #4.
Georgia lost they are out. They didn’t win their conference. It wouldn’t be fair to Alabama to put them in there and make them play again either. Georgia should have moved to #7 behind all the teams that did win their conference title game. They screwed that up too.
This is pretty much like it was before the tournament...people arguing. They need to get go to 8 teams. 5 big conferences get automatic bids. The other 3 will be by bogus selection (like it is this year). But no more than 2 teams from a single conference allowed.
I've always been against the tournament getting too big. FCS started as a 4-team tournament. It now has 24 teams -rediculous!
But this year convinces me that they should expand the tournament. Eight teams makes everybody play in the first round. Six teams would mean #1 and #2 get byes into the second round.
But I agree with the committee's selection of the 4 teams.
IF they go to a 8 team playoff, then the conferences need to be balanced out—changed completely if need be.
Teams like Notre Dame need to be put into a conference, too, where they have to play rivals just like everyone else, and win their conference like any other team if they want a chance in the arena.
This would entail some of the biggest changes in 100 years, and perhaps do away with decades old rivalries, but if you’re going to make a real playoff system, you need to balance the conferences.
for-q-clinton wrote: “This is pretty much like it was before the tournament...people arguing. They need to get go to 8 teams. 5 big conferences get automatic bids. The other 3 will be by bogus selection (like it is this year). But no more than 2 teams from a single conference allowed.”
We just finished the first round of a 10 team playoff. Five power conferences held five championship games with a total of ten teams involved. People still argue.
Sure, it’s a bad thing for a team that barely lost to be out of the hunt. That’s football. Win or go home.
It’ll be 8 teams next year. There’s too big an outcry, both from fans and media.
And of course Oklahoma deserves the playoff. They’re a powerhouse.
Yeah.
Georgia lost all credibiliy with that STUPID fake punt call. Idiots!
>>They need to get go to 8 teams.
16. There will be just as many arguments with 8. And this year is a great example of why. Even if you take the 4 announced, add UGa and Ohio St., what are your 2 other ones? Michigan? Washington? UCF? Heck, even Wassu has an argument.
With 16, there’s little to no argument. You’d have to pick between Kentucky, Miss. State, A&M, Texas, and West Virginia for the final couple of spots. NONE of those teams have a legit shot at beating both an Alabama/Clemson team and then turning around and winning a second round game against a UGa or Ohio St. With 8, if, say, Michigan were 8 and beat 1 Alabama, they’d play the winner of a 4/5 game — UGa vs. OU. Win that and they play for a title. We’ve seen a LOT of really high (number) seeds get to the final four in basketball but only ONE team at 4, 6, 7 and 8 (four teams total) have ever won a championship and no one lower than an 8. It simply won’t happen in football very often.