🏈 The case for a college football playoff...

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sorry to open such a thread, but it is georgia southern week so here goes...

if there ever was a time when it should be horribly obvious to Bama fans and any other one loss team's fans that college football needs a playoff, IT'S NOW!!!

i have been saying this since i was a kid. the idea that once you lose a game you're pretty much out of contention for the title is ludicrous. you can't find many other major sports of any type without a playoff system. I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE BOWLS AND THEIR STUPID MONEY!

this is about the players, the institutions, coaching staffs and the fans. i'm sure that the money made on college football games isn't going to instantly vanish with a playoff. it just has to be done right.

a plus-one system would be ok but still not void of problems.

FIX IT!!! :wife::bsflag::beer-me:
 
I agree, and I do think it is coming, but it may take 20-40 years until it is a model like the one in the FCS.

As a Georgia Southern fan, LET ME TELL ALL OF YOU, having a playoff DOES NOT HURT regular season game interest.
 
I was doing some research and ran across an article in either a sports magazine or the New York Times (it's been a while since I did the research), now get this, from an article written in 1936 calling for a college football playoff. I kid you not. What's even more funny was the writer stated that he thought it wouldn't be long until this was a reality.
 
Yes, being that OU has 1 loss, (and the absolute worst loss anyone can have) I am pulling for BCS chaos. How does the SEC tie breaker work? Cause if Arky beats lsu, wouldn't that be a 3-way tie? Assuming all 3 win the other games, of course.

Anyway, I was thinking Arky could beat lsu, Trojans beat Oregon, OU beat Ok st, and have all the underdogs win conf title games. Now that would be chaos!

OK, just read the other thread on tie breakers. Thats just weird. The Big 12 tie breaker after all other tie breakers were met, just like OU, tech, and texas in 2008, the highest ranked BCS team represents the division in the conf title game. Which was OU that year.

SEC has a twist on theirs. Strange.
 
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gasouthern said:
I agree, and I do think it is coming, but it may take 20-40 years until it is a model like the one in the FCS.

As a Georgia Southern fan, LET ME TELL ALL OF YOU, having a playoff DOES NOT HURT regular season game interest.
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Thank you for your comment. Those who say that every game counts in the BCS system is simply using a slogan that is not true. LSU won a NC with two loses not long ago and Auburn went undefeated and still did not have a chance at a NC. Every game did not count for them. Those are two examples that prove the every game counts slogan false. To my knowledge, the book "Death to the BCS" has still not received a single serious response to its arguments from any BCS proponent.
 
We essentially have the top six teams playing each other the way the system is now. It's a playoff as it is...the entire season has been.
 
So you KNOW with out all doubt that LSU is better than Alabama?

You see, GSU lost to app state, other than that one game we are undefeated. We will get another chance at our division where your season is already decided. If GSU and App State win out then we have a 100% chance of playing again and deciding it on the field.
 
gasouthern said:
So you KNOW with out all doubt that LSU is better than Alabama?
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they were when it mattered.

gasouthern said:
You see, GSU lost to app state, other than that one game we are undefeated. We will get another chance at our division where your season is already decided. If GSU and App State win out then we have a 100% chance of playing again and deciding it on the field.
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the playoff location is a few miles south of me in Frisco. Was going with some other folks (TAMU and LSU fans), but then the cotton bowl was scheduled the same time and I decided not to go alone...missed on hell of a come back.
 
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I wouldn't mind a playoff, as long as it didn't go over 8 teams. Anything over that would just devalue the regular season in my mind. Besides, I don't think anyone ranked lower than the top 8 really has a legit shot at winning the NC.
 
Bo said:
I wouldn't mind a playoff, as long as it didn't go over 8 teams. Anything over that would just devalue the regular season in my mind. Besides, I don't think anyone ranked lower than the top 8 really has a legit shot at winning the NC.
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agreed. we could drop one of our OOC games and a 3 game playoff would add one game to the average season + bowl game setup we have now... assuming the average season means going to the SECCG
 
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Bo said:
I wouldn't mind a playoff, as long as it didn't go over 8 teams. Anything over that would just devalue the regular season in my mind. Besides, I don't think anyone ranked lower than the top 8 really has a legit shot at winning the NC.
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I think the best model for now is the +1. With conference expansion decimating 2 of the BCS conferences the conference championship games become defacto first round playoffs. There is no reason all 4 BCS games can't be played the first week of January (two of which are semi finals) with the winners playing a second game a week later.

Anyone ranked lower than 5 has no real claim to the title.
 
I am not in the we need a playoff camp. What's painfully obvious to me is that we have two undefeated teams and if they win out they play for the NC. If either one of those teams lose then Alabama should go. If they both lose then Alabama and Oregon go play for the NC.
 
and how do you know that Alabama and Oregon are the 2 best 1-loss teams in your last scenario?

most use comparisons of who beat who and how. that doesn't work very well as can be seen in any SEC league play where team A beats team B badly and team C barely scraped by team B so team A should easily beat team C right? we know that's not always the case.

it just isn't a "clean" championship, and in my mind, will always have an * after the victor's name.
 
foshman said:
I think the best model for now is the +1. With conference expansion decimating 2 of the BCS conferences the conference championship games become defacto first round playoffs. There is no reason all 4 BCS games can't be played the first week of January (two of which are semi finals) with the winners playing a second game a week later.

Anyone ranked lower than 5 has no real claim to the title.
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Oh, I prefer the +1, and think that would give us a true champion. I just said that I didn't want it to go over 8 if a playoff was ever instituted.
 

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