CFB Playoffs
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SCHawkeye2
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While happy the B10 has four teams, I feel Indiana is the fake ID of this group.
Look at Indianas out of conference schedule next year.
You shouldn’t be able to do this and be taken seriously as a playoff team.
You shouldn’t be able to do this and be taken seriously as a playoff team.
HuckFinn
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Penn State starts with a home game. Then Boise St. Hmm.
Zstatman
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And, oppostie that might be a potential Ohio St - Oregon re-match.
SCHawkeye2
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I am looking forward to watching Tennessee playing outdoors in Columbus on Dec 21.
Might have been nice to see Alabama playing PSU outdoors in snow.
Might have been nice to see Alabama playing PSU outdoors in snow.
There are some nice matchups in the first round, for sure. Ohio St./Tenn will be lots of fun to watch, and Indiana/Notre Dame was a cute wink by the committee.
I would suggest Oregon got screwed pretty badly, tho. Their reward for being a unanimous #1 seed? Very likely a rematch vs Ohio St. -- a conference opponent who was ranked #2 for much of the season, and who they barely beat on their home field. Compare that to the 4th Seed ASU, who will get either the #12 seed or a very sloppy #5 Texas team. This scenario exists because for some inexcusable reason the committee put Penn St. #6 and Ohio St. #8. I understand why they did it: because if they put Penn St. #8 -- where they should be -- and the Nits won, it would result in a rematch of the BTen title game played yesterday, which I suspect they wanted to avoid. But Ohio st. and Penn St. have the same records, Ohio St. beat Penn St. HEAD TO HEAD just 1 month ago, and the Buckeyes played Oregon much closer than Penn St. did in Eugene. So, kind of a screw job for Oregon AND Ohio ST., really. Drives me nuts when these selection committees devalue head-to-head matchups. I mean, that's WHY we play the games!
I would suggest Oregon got screwed pretty badly, tho. Their reward for being a unanimous #1 seed? Very likely a rematch vs Ohio St. -- a conference opponent who was ranked #2 for much of the season, and who they barely beat on their home field. Compare that to the 4th Seed ASU, who will get either the #12 seed or a very sloppy #5 Texas team. This scenario exists because for some inexcusable reason the committee put Penn St. #6 and Ohio St. #8. I understand why they did it: because if they put Penn St. #8 -- where they should be -- and the Nits won, it would result in a rematch of the BTen title game played yesterday, which I suspect they wanted to avoid. But Ohio st. and Penn St. have the same records, Ohio St. beat Penn St. HEAD TO HEAD just 1 month ago, and the Buckeyes played Oregon much closer than Penn St. did in Eugene. So, kind of a screw job for Oregon AND Ohio ST., really. Drives me nuts when these selection committees devalue head-to-head matchups. I mean, that's WHY we play the games!
99topdawg
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They did. I believe they said that a CCG loser couldn't drop below a non CCG participant that they already ranked ahead of.
Which is insane if the two have the same record and played head-to-head!
Fix the conferences.
Win your conference.
Go to the playoffs.
Why is this so hard?
What passes me off is this was all supposed to feed the demand for true, inarguable champion..then you do it that way.
But, it is so abundantly clear it is to squeeze every potential dollar out of it.
kicker22
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I don't mind 12 teams, but the way they put it together makes me cringe. Conference champs should have received bids, but not byes in a 12 team format. The byes should have gone to the top 4 contenders and then seeded the rest, because I think they've absolutely butchered things the way they did it.
Oregon is the best team in the country and has possibly the roughest path to a national championship. Just seems to me that they could have split the field up a bit more because tbh it seems like its Georgia at the bottom of the bracket and everyone else at the top.
I think I would pick OSU...I thought they looked like the better team in the first match-up, they just made more mistakes. Then again, the Michigan debacle has me re-thinking that.
trj
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Same. Hard to trust Ryan Day or Will Howard in a big spot. I wouldn’t be surprised if they get clipped by Tennessee.
Fryowa
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Notre Dame getting beat by their in-state, formerly irrelevant little brother with a first year coach and a bunch of FCS transfer players would be the best thing ever.
Zstatman
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If they do play it will be one hard hitting game. I thought OSU would get them in Eugene but playing that late night west coast game hurt them I thought, just like we know how it affects us.
One thing I've learned abbout Oregon coach Dan Lanning the last few weeks is he will come out saying we've worked hard, deserve to be here and are ready to compete.
Lanning is from Kansas City and played linebacker at William Jewel for anyone who cares.
guffus
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Along with getting rid of the byes for conference champions I would like to change the brackets so that more emphasis is placed avoiding rematches and avoiding inner-conference matches in the first 2 rounds .
Just pick seeds in groups of 4.
The four #1 seeds would get first round byes.
The four #2 seeds would host first round games.
The four #3 seeds would play on the road.
After that the matchups are flexible. Just make sure a #3 plays at a #2. Then the winners play a #1. try to avoid rematches in first and second rounds. Try to avoid inner-conference games too.
So for this year, you have four #1 seeds that get first round byes.
Oregon, Georgia, Ohio St, Texas
Then four #2 seeds that host the first round games
PSU, ND, Ind, Tenn,
Then four #3 seeds that play on the road
Boise, Ariz St, Clem, SMU
So you end up with matchups like this
SMU @ PSU. / winner vs Tex
Clem @ ND. / winner vs Ohio St
Ariz St @ Ind / winner vs Georgia
Boise @ Tenn / winner vs Oregon
Just pick seeds in groups of 4.
The four #1 seeds would get first round byes.
The four #2 seeds would host first round games.
The four #3 seeds would play on the road.
After that the matchups are flexible. Just make sure a #3 plays at a #2. Then the winners play a #1. try to avoid rematches in first and second rounds. Try to avoid inner-conference games too.
So for this year, you have four #1 seeds that get first round byes.
Oregon, Georgia, Ohio St, Texas
Then four #2 seeds that host the first round games
PSU, ND, Ind, Tenn,
Then four #3 seeds that play on the road
Boise, Ariz St, Clem, SMU
So you end up with matchups like this
SMU @ PSU. / winner vs Tex
Clem @ ND. / winner vs Ohio St
Ariz St @ Ind / winner vs Georgia
Boise @ Tenn / winner vs Oregon
