sitting here watching a youtube vid of guys making their pics on who the top 4 should be. i think the show was done early, yesterday, before the official top 4 was released. and there are a couple who were making their case for UGA.
now...while their arguments are sound, there's a couple things that keep nagging at me in the back of my mind.
first: UGA now has 2 losses. if you look at that and compare it with the other 3 teams, BAMA, Clemson, OK....2 of those are undefeated and 1 has only 1 loss (OK). so should UGA get in instead of OK simply because they were ahead of or tied with the #1 team except for the final minute of their conference championship game? also, should they get in instead of OK even though they have 2 losses and OK has only 1?
second: ND is the other team of the top 4. they were idle this week due to them not having a conference championship game...which is due to them not being in a conference. yes, they're undefeated. but they're not in a conference so they can't claim anything like a conference champion can. so should they be in and UGA left out? but, again, UGA does have 2 losses and ND is undefeated. also, i really think the NCAA or even the CFP committee should tell them that if they want to be in the playoffs, they need to join a conference in football and make it to the conference championship game.
stuff like this is why the CFP needs to go to 8 teams as soon as possible. i know the committee has said they have no plans to do that...but they need to REALLY rethink that whole mindset.
i posted the following on another forum:
*drop the regular season to 10 games (with off weeks, it goes to 11 weeks)
*teams should play nobody but conference opponents during regular season (someone made a comment about how this would screw non-BCS {don't no where or why they get BCS...?} teams out of playoff spots as they wouldn't get a chance to play a Power 5 team to boost their SOS. also, going to an 8-team playoff would mean the non-Power-5 conferences would have a chance at putting at least 3 teams in the playoffs.)
*move conference championship games to 2 weeks after regular season
*playoffs start 4 weeks after conf. champ. games (after thinking about it...maybe bring it back to 3 weeks)
also, stop coming up with more and more bowl games and allowing teams that have losing records (5-7) to go to a bowl game. this is college...participation trophies shouldn't be a thing. hell, i even have apprehension about letting a 6-6 team go to a bowl game. being 6-6 just means you were mediocre enough to win as many games as you lost. but that's all just my opinion and doesn't amount to much.