🏈 Is the College Football Playoff Fair?

[UAgrad93]

If any expansion occurs, limit it to 6. Don't simply say Power 5 conference champions plus an "at large". We will get diluted playoffs with a champion or two with possibly 3-4 losses. Set a parameter for SOS (must be within the Top 60?), OOC games with other Power 5 conferences or Group of 5, all FCS games are then likely omitted, use some version of the BCS computer or the Sagarin rankings metrics to aid. Without some blueprint to look at, teams will continue to schedule some of those cupcakes like FCS teams or bottom feeder MWC teams like UNLV or others.

We likely won't see any games removed from the regular season. Instead of 30 days until the playoff starts, cut it to 20, with seeds #1 and #2 getting a first round bye, while 3 v 6 and 4 v 5 play. Then 7-10 days for the semi-finals, another week for the Championship game.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

So what we are saying is this The Power 5 teams, should be separated from the other conferences?

Not me...and wont happen....and no reason to happen...one day ....one will break through...i think midmajors arent unhappy...

 

[50+yeartidefan]

If any expansion occurs, limit it to 6. Don't simply say Power 5 conference champions plus an "at large". We will get diluted playoffs with a champion or two with possibly 3-4 losses. Set a parameter for SOS (must be within the Top 60?), OOC games with other Power 5 conferences or Group of 5, all FCS games are then likely omitted, use some version of the BCS computer or the Sagarin rankings metrics to aid. Without some blueprint to look at, teams will continue to schedule some of those cupcakes like FCS teams or bottom feeder MWC teams like UNLV or others.

We likely won't see any games removed from the regular season. Instead of 30 days until the playoff starts, cut it to 20, with seeds #1 and #2 getting a first round bye, while 3 v 6 and 4 v 5 play. Then 7-10 days for the semi-finals, another week for the Championship game.

I think also...the break between games is reall awful...
Take nearly a month between first playoff and the 7 days between the NC game...kinda silly

 

[RollllTide!]

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[musso]

Cut the season back to 11 games. Make the playoff 8 teams, P5 champions and 3 wild cards. This year you would probably have Clemson, Oklahoma, Georgia, Ohio State, USC, Alabama, Wisconsin, and either they throw a bone to UCF or they let Auburn or Penn State in.

I support this mostly. I'd tweak it with the following:

• Return to granting conference titles without conference title games. Big deal if we sometimes have shared titles. We had them before. And let's admit that the conference title game was a creature of the BCS era which only considered the top 2 teams. We no longer need a frivolous "quality win" to enter an expanded playoff.
• Reduce FBS conferences to 4 super conferences. We need to trim the fat anyway, especially if we cut the regular season to 11 games. No more scheduling cupcakes.
• Without a conference title game, we can simply enter the 2 best teams from each conference (2 x 4=8).
• Higher seeded teams get home-field advantage until the final game played at a neutral site.

 

[musso]

All conferences are not equal - that's not fair
All teams in a conference are not equal - that's not fair
All teams in a division from a conference are not equal - that's not fair
All schedules are not equal - that's not fair
All conference bowl tie-ins are not equal - that's not fair

Why does the CFP need to be "fair?"

No two teams, divisions, conferences, or schedules are the same. So inequality is fair and natural.
However the rules should be fair. Why? Because the integrity and credibility of championships depends on fair rules. We wouldn't approve of referees favoring one team over the other during a game, would we? Well then, why do we approve of a secret committee favoring one team over another team?

If polls can't be eliminated, then let's return power to the AP. At least the voting records of all voters are made public, right? That's transparency right there.

 

[RollllTide!]

College football is big bu$ine$$. Having $aid that the power$ of ticket $ales, TV rating$, and bowl $ponser$ make an intere$ting $pin on why we try to ju$tify the BC$ playoff $y$tem. If a team like W_____ng won all their game$ and earned their way to the playoff becau$e of that, the team from nowhere would not pull enough $ponsor$ money to make it a TV hit or a real contest that would make us want to travel to the game or watch it on TV. Even if Valdo$ta $tate and North Alabama made it, it would be a financial di$a$ter for the $pon$or$. Ju$t not enough money in it even for the conce$$ion $tand vendor$.

It would be fun to watch for u$ true football fan$, but for the many above rea$on$ you can read between the line$, it ain't going to ever happen. 8 team playoff ye$ but that will probably be it until @50+yeartidefan becomes 100+yeartidefan. Fair is a word clo$e to Fairytale.

 

[TUSKtimes]

College football is big bu$ine$$. Having $aid that the power$ of ticket $ales, TV rating$, and bowl $ponser$ make an intere$ting $pin on why we try to ju$tify the BC$ playoff $y$tem. If a team like W_____ng won all their game$ and earned their way to the playoff becau$e of that, the team from nowhere would not pull enough $ponsor$ money to make it a TV hit or a real contest that would make us want to travel to the game or watch it on TV. Even if Valdo$ta $tate and North Alabama made it, it would be a financial di$a$ter for the $pon$or$. Ju$t not enough money in it even for the conce$$ion $tand vendor$.

It would be fun to watch for u$ true football fan$, but for the many above rea$on$ you can read between the line$, it ain't going to ever happen. 8 team playoff ye$ but that will probably be it until @50+yeartidefan becomes 100+yeartidefan. Fair is a word clo$e to Fairytale.

This is still the old Boise State, fly in the ointment, argument. For a hundred reasons it isn't ever going to be fair for the big boys or the midtier teams. The FCS took matters in hand but the future was a lot more defined.

If it's that unsettling, the UAB's of the world need to decide what they want to accomplish overall. Is it a national championship or a conference championship and bowl win? Frankly, I've never heard a groundswell of discontent coming from the midtier ranks about having their own midtier playoff. But, If they want a playoff to call their own why not go at it publicly and see if it's doable? Either way, since the conclusion of the BCS it's really not a power 5 team problem, anymore.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

It would be fun to watch for u$ true football fan$, but for the many above rea$on$ you can read between the line$, it ain't going to ever happen. 8 team playoff ye$ but that will probably be it until @50+yeartidefan becomes 100+yeartidefan. Fair is a word clo$e to Fairytale.

May have todrop the +.....100 ok..100+ stretching things.....