🏈 SEC coaches want four best teams in football playoff

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Spurrier wants selection committee; Saban likes BCS; Chizik says coaches need a voice

DESTIN, Florida -- If there's ever a topic SEC football coaches can be united on, it's how to choose a national champion. Conference-champion and plus-one models are met with disdain by the league that's won the past six BCS national titles.

Not surprisingly, SEC football coaches overwhelmingly support choosing the four highest-ranked teams in the playoff no matter if those teams won their conference.

"So now we're going to mess that up by saying you've got to be a conference champion," Alabama coach Nick Saban said Tuesday at the start of the SEC spring meetings. "I think somebody is a little bit self-absorbed in worrying about how it affects them and how they can best get somebody in the game all the time."

The Big Ten, ACC and Big East support some kind of conference-champion stipulation. The Pac-12 has tossed out the idea again of a plus-one championship game after all of the bowl games are played. The Big 12 hasn't weighed in yet.

"It's just like politics and self-interest," Saban said. "Somebody wants to create a circumstance that's going to help their particular situation or conference and it's not what's in the best interests of college football."

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[LBS]

If the BCS is used, without change, how is that different that than the PLUS-ONE system?

I can see using the bowls as the sites for the semi-final round, but that is not the BCS system in any form we have known.

 

[bamaraider]

I guarantee there will be one team that is undefeated siting at number 5 and a team from a better conference will jump over them and get into the no. 4 spot leaving the undefeated team out. Or the scenario last year with Alabama/Ok St at no. 2 will happen but it will be who gets into the playoff and who doesn't. I understand why they can't use a 16 team playoff due to bowl games, but at least make it top 12 or something.

 

[psychojoe]

I don't want a playoff to be bigger than 8 teams. I hate the automatic bid concept that came in with the BCS. I can't think of any reason why the Big East or ACC champions should automatically be included in a national championship playoff, whether four or eight teams.

 

[TerryP]

I guarantee there will be one team that is undefeated siting at number 5 and a team from a better conference will jump over them and get into the no. 4 spot leaving the undefeated team out. Or the scenario last year with Alabama/Ok St at no. 2 will happen but it will be who gets into the playoff and who doesn't. I understand why they can't use a 16 team playoff due to bowl games, but at least make it top 12 or something.

There is the point that didn't happen to consider.

 

[Bo]

Personally, I'd be fine using the BCS rankings to determine the 4 teams.

And like pychojoe, I don't want to ever see anything over 8. 4 to me is plenty actually. I mean once every 10 years the #5 team MIGHT have a legit argument to be in over the #4, but as long as they don't limit it to conference champs, it ain't going to happen very often.

 

[planomateo]

I don't want them to make it a conf championship requirement, although my Texas buddy reminded me that years ago I believe in that (what are friends for).

My fear/concern, that the polls becoming further devalued, potentially causing teams not to schedule tough OOC games (from a post season play, you could argue that you get the same value by playing or not playing those tough OOC games). Teams/confs will look for every advantage they can find, and this will be one area they look at.

The thing I like about the existing BCS, it typically gets the two best teams playing (better than what was there before in my opinion). I want the best teams playing, regardless of conf champs or not.

I don't want schools/confs taking the easiest route to conf champs - where I'm stuck right now with this thought process, how does the SEC playing 8 instead of 9 confs games fit with "conf taking the easy route". I could see arguments on both sides at the moment....thoughts?

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

The other conferences want the conference champ scenario b/c they want to be in those big games & at least get some $$$. Otherwise, the SEC is typically going to have 1 or maybe 2 in the BCS top 4 (and it would be legit).

IF there are 2 SEC teams in the top 4 that would probably void some other conference champ that would either be the Pac 14 or B1G (whatever they are) b/c the other conference champ would be the Texas conference (for lack of a better name). So one of those typical Rose Bowl conferences would get left out of the championship run (stuck at a consolation Rose Bowl game & who would they play?) while the other is in the dance. It all comes down to the deep roots of the Rose Bowl romanticism.

 

[planomateo]

"We're in favor of taking the four highest-ranked teams," said Neinas, who has begun to transfer power to new Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsy. "We think it should be some type of selection committee operation, and how you rate a conference champion, strength of schedule must be included."

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...olved-picking-4-team-college-football-playoff

 

[UAgrad93]

"We're in favor of taking the four highest-ranked teams," said Neinas, who has begun to transfer power to new Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsy. "We think it should be some type of selection committee operation, and how you rate a conference champion, strength of schedule must be included."

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...olved-picking-4-team-college-football-playoff

Sounds like the BIG 12 is taking to this new found partnership with the SEC to heart!!

I think you have to take the 4 best teams and determine your Champion that way. Conference champs only is a load of BS. That way of thinking would open up WAC, Mountain West, Big Least, and others "bitching about why they are left out". Keep the polls, let them be publicly known from the beginning, and reward SOS. That would encourage the big OOC game each year like CNS wants. That would also call out the PAC 12 and BIG 10.