College Football Playoff Rankings
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That would be about as good a draw as Mississippi could hope for.
Brackets make no sense, why would you not have Boise State and Miami play in the opening round and Ohio State get the bye ?
Ole Miss goes on the road to play PSU at home.
I expect some shaking up of this bracket if Georgia beats Vols and A&M beats Texas.
This won’t be close to the final bracket come December 10th.
Somethings definitely wrong when the last team in gets a favorable draw. Although at Penn St in December likely at night could get pretty cold.
All draws look favorable bc there just aren’t a lot of great teams. At Penn St is about as tough as it gets with that group.
Hear me out. If they win Penn State and BYU, going to those three games would have to cost close to 10k. Assuming their top 10,000 boosters attend those games. That is 100 million in games that they would probably spend on NIL. Meanwhile we are sitting home growing our coffers. Chess Checkers bitches. FYI Message Boad Geniuses this is satire.
Why would Ohio State get the bye? They are currently behind Oregon in the standings, and lost the head to head.
They just pencilwhipped the Top 4 and put the current first place team in each league in the Top 4. If its a tie (like the SEC is), they just put in the highest ranked CFP team. Bracket is nonsense until the final version is released.
I wouldn’t seed BYU or Miami ahead of Ohio State , Ole Miss, Alabama or a few other teams.
Texas resume is no worse than Penn State’s. Texas best win is Vandy. Penn State’s best win is Illinois. IU has only being undefeated to write home about, they are basically Boise State without a loss. At least BYU has the Clemson win.
What’s also really confusing is having both BYU and IU leapfrog Tennessee, when we didn’t learn anything new about any of those 3 teams this past week. All 3 just beat bad teams. If anything, BYU should drop due to the scare from Utah.
Regarding the committee’s opinion of UGA, that will change quickly with a win over UT. You’ll see those teams trade places. They seem to be setting up these closely ranked matchups in the IU / Ohio State game and UGA / Tennessee game. Those 2 and Texas / Texas A&M are really the only 3 meaningful matchups left in the regular season….which is kind of crazy. There need to be a lot more conference games and a lot less cupcakes with these gigantic asś conferences. Pathetic that less than halfway through November….you only have 3 prime matchups left with major implications in a 12-team CFP format.
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I’d say about half those teams at most have a snowball chance in hell of winning the whole thing.
Well no shít….nobody would if there was actually a choice. But the conference championship game winners get those Top 4 seeds and the byes automatically. That’s what is so stupid about this format. It’s been discussed at great length.
Four highest rated conference champions get a 1-4 seed.
They are assuming Miami wins the acc, Oregon wins the B1G, BYU wins the B12 and Texas wins the SEC.
It's possible none of those win their conference.
Yeah but Penn State played Ohio State to the wire at home. TX got mauled by Georgia at home. And is still 3 spots ahead of Penn State. But yeah a lot of teams with not much to write home about.
It’s absurd to seed the ACC winner or Big 12 winner on equal footing with SEC or Big #2, without context to overall ranking and strength of team/league. I like having different teams and leagues but not pretending MWC, Big12 and ACC are equal when it comes to seeding.
are you pretending byu or the big 12 is comparable to the sec ? Let BYU in the playoffs but don’t seed them ahead of Ohio State and Alabama.
Outside of a loss, what scenario sees OM miss the playoff? I need to know how to cheer.
Ok I understand your take. I’m for 16 teams and no byes for anybody. Top 16 get in, period.
That said, I could see a scenario where people would lose their minds if the first round byes weren’t reserved for the 4 highest ranked conf champs.
Georgia beats Tennessee by 10 points or less, Oregon wins out, Ohio St/Indiana ends in OT either way, Penn St wins out. Texas loses to A&M.
The above scenario would almost certainly put B1G teams ranked 1-4. How fair would it be to then see one conf get all of their teams get a first round bye?
As a 12 team playoff, 4 highest ranked conf champs getting bye is about all you can do. Again, byes are dumb.
College basketball does it right. they try to honor conference champs in seedlings but they will give two #1 seeds to a conference if they have dominant teams. they try to rank the teams 1-64 and seed them accordingly, exactly how football should do it. getting BYU in round two is essentially a bye.
Unless Georgia beats Tennessee soft enough to move Georgia up and keeps Tennessee from falling or Texas A&M beating Texas to the point that aTm jumps them and Texas stays ahead, not likely.
Maybe if Colorado moves up and beats BYU in the conf champ game but doesn’t knock BYU out.
Not much but I’d say cheer for smu and Miami. And smu to beat Miami in the champ game. Cheer for byu to go undefeated and hope they get beat in the champ game. Still Not sure either of those conferences get two bids under that scenario. Even more remote: LSU wins out and somehow qualifies for the sec cg and wins it
Basically pull for Georgia, Alabama and A&M to win out. That gives SEC 5 2-loss teams. 6 counting Missouri but they probably can’t make the playoffs even if they do win out. Also pull for Notre Dane to win out ensuring they get a bid.
The real kicker could be when a team takes its third loss in the title game. A committee has never had to consider whether to punish a team who lost in the title game in favor of a team that didn’t even make that conferences title game.
This bracket makes it seem like they are rigging the preliminary rankings for compelling theoretical matchups. These all feature SEC vs. B1G or SEC vs. ND. Seems intentional.
For example, if they’d done the common sense thing and not leapfrogged Penn State, BYU, and Indiana over Tennessee for no reason….you’d have:
Byes
1) Oregon
2) Texas
3) BYU
4) Miami
At large
5) Ohio State
6)Tennessee
7) Penn State
8) Indiana
9) ND
10) Alabama
11) Ole Miss
12) Boise St
1st Round matchups:
Ohio State vs. Boise State (gross…but same as current.)
Tennessee vs. Ole Miss (conference game, neither fanbase wants that and more of a regional TV draw than national)
Penn State vs. Alabama (kind of OK)
Indiana vs. Notre Dame (intra state matchup with one being a really small brand; not great for TV at all)
3 of those 4 matchups straight up suck for a national TV audience. BUT, those should be the matchups and rankings if they simply just followed last week’s results. So, it will be interesting to see if the committee makes extremely questionable pivots to their rankings just to create better TV matchups. I hope not. But I’m also a realist.
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You somehow assume our coffers are growing, based on what????
After this season they would grow???? You have a lot more faith and optimism than i do
Yeah that’s going to suck more now because you’re going to absolutely have convoluted tie breakers in just about every league for at least one if not both championship game spots. The lack of scheduling equity is going to guarantee that some championship game participants are extremely questionable. If you make it, better win it.
Not entirely true. 2017 Auburn would like a word.
I think you are missing something.
The ACC and Big 12 champs are guaranteed Top 4 seeds. It doesn’t matter if they’re 7-6 and ranked 58th in the final CFP rankings. If they win their conference championship game, they get a Top 4 seed and a bye.
That was the dumber than shít “compromise” that was reached over the offseason when all the leagues voted on this crap.
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Many have seemed to miss the fact that the top 4 *Conference Champions* get a bye. But several have pointed that out so I won’t spend any more time on it.
What I will say is that the reason it’s done that way instead of the best 4 teams getting a bye is because the power 2 had to give that as a concession to get the PAC 12*, ACC and Big 12 to agree to the thing to begin with.
Why would the ACC sign up for a format where they may get 1 team in and compared to 4 each from the Big 10 and SEC? On the face of it, the best expansion for the other conferences would have been to go to 6 or 8 and limit the at-large teams.
*Obviously there’s no PAC 12 anymore, but there was when all of this was being ironed out.
What I will say is that the reason it’s done that way instead of the best 4 teams getting a bye is because the power 2 had to give that as a concession to get the PAC 12*, ACC and Big 12 to agree to the thing to begin with.
Why would the ACC sign up for a format where they may get 1 team in and compared to 4 each from the Big 10 and SEC? On the face of it, the best expansion for the other conferences would have been to go to 6 or 8 and limit the at-large teams.
*Obviously there’s no PAC 12 anymore, but there was when all of this was being ironed out.
According to the CFP website, top 4 conference champs get a bye and the 5th highest ranked conference champ is guaranteed a spot in the 5-12 rankings. No specific conference is guaranteed a spot.
About the 12-Team College Football Playoff Format
About the 12-Team College Football Playoff Format
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Semantics. The B1G, ACC, Big 12 and SEC champs are always going to be the 4 highest ranked conference champions.According to the CFP website, top 4 conference champs get a bye and the 5th highest ranked conference champ is guaranteed a spot in the 5-12 rankings. No specific conference is guaranteed a spot.
About the 12-Team College Football Playoff Format
About the 12-Team College Football Playoff Format
And if somehow you have Boise State finish ahead of the ACC or Big 12 champ or something, that doesn’t make the problem any better. It’s a godawful format.
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