Effed up playoff system

BigD

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This is why they need to expand the number of teams in the playoff. There are so many teams that improve as the season goes by. Also, if your strength of schedule exceeds other teams that just squeak in before you then the playoff is a joke and a failure. What is it now, twelve teams. Ok, play one more round of games and make it 24 teams. For decades they have talked and advertised top-twenty and top twenty-five rankings. Well if that is so damn important then include that group into the playoffs and lets see who really is the best. If it's not that important then lets do that with college basketball........ and just play the top 16 teams in college basketball.

It only makes good money sense also. One more game of twenty-four teams to get to the twelve we now have. The fans bases of twelve more teams. Seriously??? CHA CHING!!!!!!!! It would be a rainmaker financial for the playoff's and bring in millions of fans who would have a sports vested interest during playoffs. It would also add credibility and consideration based on a teams over all loss record When considering the strength of schedule that can strongly determine the win/loss factors. We damn near beat one of the top three teams in the playoffs. Now 8-4 wouldn't have cut it for Iowa this year but 9-3 .............. outside chance maybe. Maybe we would have had some hope at two or three losses, with a 24 team playoff.

from the article........... James Madison, Duke, and Virginia............ let's get effing real here. By the fourth Quarter Iowa's offense would be running through their defenses like a red hot knife through butter.......... and that is why the playoff system needs more teams.

Let's cut through the chase and see who really is the best team at the end of the season. The more teams included the more we will find out. James "EFFING" Madison................... Seriously??? Did you see who was rated above them??? Let's match James Madison against our Hawkeyes in the first round............. Results??? Seriously??? Nebraska would beat James Madison. "EFFED UP!!!!!!!!!!"

 


Not expand.
Contract.
Conference winners only.
I don't care if the Big 12 rep is lame. Let the Group of 5 figure out a way to crown a champ if they want.

There is no point in another IU/OSU matchup. Indiana won. They have proven they are better, on a neutral field even, than OSU. Alabama and Georgia could play a 3rd time.

Just utter nonsense
 


This is why they need to expand the number of teams in the playoff. There are so many teams that improve as the season goes by. Also, if your strength of schedule exceeds other teams that just squeak in before you then the playoff is a joke and a failure. What is it now, twelve teams. Ok, play one more round of games and make it 24 teams. For decades they have talked and advertised top-twenty and top twenty-five rankings. Well if that is so damn important then include that group into the playoffs and lets see who really is the best. If it's not that important then lets do that with college basketball........ and just play the top 16 teams in college basketball.

It only makes good money sense also. One more game of twenty-four teams to get to the twelve we now have. The fans bases of twelve more teams. Seriously??? CHA CHING!!!!!!!! It would be a rainmaker financial for the playoff's and bring in millions of fans who would have a sports vested interest during playoffs. It would also add credibility and consideration based on a teams over all loss record When considering the strength of schedule that can strongly determine the win/loss factors. We damn near beat one of the top three teams in the playoffs. Now 8-4 wouldn't have cut it for Iowa this year but 9-3 .............. outside chance maybe. Maybe we would have had some hope at two or three losses, with a 24 team playoff.

from the article........... James Madison, Duke, and Virginia............ let's get effing real here. By the fourth Quarter Iowa's offense would be running through their defenses like a red hot knife through butter.......... and that is why the playoff system needs more teams.

Let's cut through the chase and see who really is the best team at the end of the season. The more teams included the more we will find out. James "EFFING" Madison................... Seriously??? Did you see who was rated above them??? Let's match James Madison against our Hawkeyes in the first round............. Results??? Seriously??? Nebraska would beat James Madison. "EFFED UP!!!!!!!!!!"

There are ALWAYS going to be teams that feel like they are being left out regardless of how many teams ya have in it. At least with 12, you pretty much get all the contenders who can possibly win it.
 


Quibbling about the 20th ranked team getting in over the 11th ranked (or similar) because the “worse” team won their conference is dumb. The best 8-10 teams are getting in with a couple others that played their way in. #11 ain’t winning a natty anyhow. It will be okay.

There are too many teams for the first or second round to be interesting anyway. It has the effect of still being the same old four team playoff with a couple weeks of bad football in the middle.

Six with top two seeds getting a bye could work. Eight should’ve been the absolute max. There aren’t 12 teams competing for a natty each year. There will never be a CFB Cinderella story.
 


There are ALWAYS going to be teams that feel like they are being left out regardless of how many teams ya have in it. At least with 12, you pretty much get all the contenders who can possibly win it.
I am guessing the "pretty much" portion of your comments would be directed towards the James Madison's and there is the flaw in the system. There are likely twenty teams not included that would beat JM. I am not saying that increasing it by 12 teams, would result in one of those twelve teams winning it all. However you can't prove they wouldn't.

Who would bet any significant amount of money on INDIANA doing what they are doing? They have been a perineal loser in college football for decades. It's good for their fans, not so much for Iowa fans, as they would normally be counting on that game being a win for Iowa when seeing their team on the schedule. Not any more.
 




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