Wow, SMU in Bama Dropped
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.Pleasantly surprised. I think ASU was overseeded and ND should have been seeded higher. Everyone has a shot. Lace 'em up!
Was pleased that they followed past precedent and didn’t push SMU below an idle Alabama.
I hear lots of criticism about the format - giving the top 4 champions byes, but I much prefer a playoff that favors conference champions. If I had my way, all 9 conference champions would get in, and then you’d add the top 7 at large teams. No at large team would get a home game in round 1.
I hear lots of criticism about the format - giving the top 4 champions byes, but I much prefer a playoff that favors conference champions. If I had my way, all 9 conference champions would get in, and then you’d add the top 7 at large teams. No at large team would get a home game in round 1.
Yeah and it was absolutely pathetic to have to listen to Nick Saban try and justify Alabama getting in over a two loss team that made their conference championship in SMU. He tired to play the whole “every week it is a gauntlet in the SEC”, Kirk rebutted it by saying in some weeks there were no top 10 match ups being played. Saban then back tracked and said that he wasn’t criticizing the Committee for their pick of SMU or Alabama. Need we forget at one point there was five teams in the ACC who could have made the CFP, six if you add Notre Dame.
Exactly what I would do, except get rid of the committee and use objective criteria to determine the 16 playoff participants.
he said objective. However, I do agree with 16 teams and no one gets a bye. The top teams almost always have the best depth and don’t need a bye. It makes it that much harder for everyone else.Not sure I get the joke. Push didn’t say objective. I did.
Kirk also suggested that maybe just like in the NFL there should be a governing body that creates all of the schedules for the top teams in the power five conferences. It was another one of his ideas to counter all of the SEC bias that Saban was trying to interject for his reasoning for putting Alabama in over SMU.
The playoff is about as good as you can do. There will never be a perfect format or selection process. I would eliminate the bowls until Semi round. Round 1 and 2 need to be at home stadiums. I don’t like the number one seed ending up having to play TX in TX. That is brutal.
There are some great matchups and it will be settled on the field.
It won’t be any good until the committee is gone and they use objective criteria known to all before the start of the season. I like home stadiums until the college Super Bowl, just like the NFL does it.
I'd eliminate the human bias and subjectivity elements of the committee. Let the computers decide. It's been done before. Too many personal agendas involved.
The NFL has unbalanced schedules too. Even with only 32 teams. Kirk is reaching with this.
Creating a perfect schedule is a fool's errand.
Money will push this tournament to 16 ....
.... and again to 24 with top 8 teams getting byes.
If the FCS can do a 24-team playoff, on shoestring budgets, with next-to-no TV revenue, then by God the FBS can do it.
The one way eliminate bias is settle on the field like the NFL. Expand to 18. Give the power 4 conferences 3 AQ’s. 1 AQ for the other 5 conferences. The 1 at large bid for the best team based of a specific metric.
Then seed it like they do in basketball. Create a NET ranking metric to determine the seeding. Equal representation at each level.
Then seed it like they do in basketball. Create a NET ranking metric to determine the seeding. Equal representation at each level.
Nick left out Bama’s out of conference schedule. You know the one were they nearly lost to South Florida, or played WKU, and that powerhouse Mercer. They did play a bad Wisconsin team. So as I say the SOS is arbitrary at best because they rarely play another P4 team.
Maybe they could do something like Div. 2 does? If they can do it, i don't see the FBS can't. You would have a lot more teams in and its still winner take all?
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