Bowl selection day (and the system in general)

[theboat]

I'll say it again; the CFP selection committee got it perfect this year.

100% right. I don't see how people argue differently.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Penn State should stop whining. If they wanted to be in the playoff, they should have beat Pittsburgh...end of story. That loss keeps you out in my opinion. Sure, OSU lost to Penn State...at Penn State and it was not a beat down...it was a bizarre game where Penn State blocked a field goal and scored 7...they don't win otherwise. Oh, and they lost by 39 to Michigan. The system isn't set up to wholly reward teams for how they are playing at the end of the year...it's certainly a factor, but you have to win at the beginning of the year too. What big game did Penn State win on the road? OSU won at Oklahoma. Done deal.

Penn State has no major win on the road, their road wins, Purdue, Rutgers, Maryland, are ridiculous. Their only true road tests, Pitt and Michigan, beat them. You can't reward a team for winning at home and losing their only true road games against decent competition. They played all the tough teams at home.

^^This^^

 

[hawkeyebob62]

I'll say it again; the CFP selection committee got it perfect this year.

While I think they did well, let's not take your insight, okay? Because you don't possess much when it comes to football...

 

[trj]

While I think they did well, let's not take your insight, okay? Because you don't possess much when it comes to football...

Wow......So how do you really feel?

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Wow......So how do you really feel?

About that particular poster? Let's just "troll" is a word that comes to mind...

 

[Seth53]

This entire argument goes away when they finally and rightfully go to an eight team playoff. There will be far less statistical scrutiny between choosing #8 and #9 than there is choosing #4 and #5.

The four team system was/is an initial compromise to the then bowl powers-to-be. Silly.

The eight team system should have been initially implemented.