Football could break away and have its own conferences i.e. Notre Dame and their ACC "membership" for everything except football. If this happened, some sanity would return to which teams made up conferences. There would be no more Stanford in the ACC and USC in the B1G foolishness.
Miami, Indiana, Boise State, and SMU
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No conference plays a harder schedule than the SEC teams. SEC is the elite football conference, just a brute fact.
Bama did do better with their scheduling after the 4 team playoff was created compared to before... and kudos to them for dong so. That said, I wont be surprised to see them go back to their old ways now. Sad state we are now forced in to.
Remember the TCU Georgia Yawner!! maybe a few more of those type games and there will be conference adjustments made and eliminate automatic Bids.
So I'm sitting here watching 10-2 Iowa St with two wins over ranked opponents and 10-2 Arizona St with three wins over ranked opponents play for the Big 12 championship wondering how on earth they can be ranked below teams with fewer quality wins if any at all.
Maybe the CFP could follow the I-AA model. Twenty four teams, the top 16 are seeded. The top 8 seeds get byes the remaining 16 play in the first round with the seeds 9-16 having home games. If they have conference champs auto qualify there would be 9 (AAC, ACC, Big 12, Big 10, USA, Mid American, MWC, SEC, and Sun Belt - PAC12 gets nothing auto with only 2 teams), plus 15 at large bids of the highest ranked remaining teams. Seedings off of rankings too (then the fight's over which ranking AP, Coaches, ESPN power index, ..., maybe a composite - average of AP/Coaches and whatever else is included)
Create a points system similar to what the high schools used to do. Conference champs are automatically in. For the remainder of the field, assign points throughout the year. Points are based on outcome and opponent. For example, a close loss to a top 10 team earns the same number of points as a win against a team with a ranking of 50 or below. Teams with the most earned points fill the remaining spots regardless of conference affiliation or if they are P4 or G5.
You take the top 16 teams and I'd be willing to bet all conference champs will be included anyway. No sense in creating a system to include them. If you win your conference and you aren't in the top 16 you dont deserve to be in. You want a committee? Develop a committee to develop a computer program to rank the teams starting after the fourth week. Then disband the committee. Forever. Your rank is your seed. Boom. Done. We dont need folks with high opinions of themselves making decisions because they think they know best based on whatever their agenda is that particular week. We are way overthinking how we produce a nation champion... it doesnt have to be that damn hard.
I guess the argument could be made that it just means less to be in the SEC. This same type of thing happened to us during the BCS era. I will never forget Swinney gloating that they were the team from SC that made the BCS even though we beat them. The tougher league and ridiculous rule about the number of participants allowed from one conference is what kept us out. Here, again, we are basically being punished for being in a stronger conference. What good does all the extra money do when other teams can enjoy greater privileges for doing less?
As the #1 seed I feel like Oregon got done wrong. next round is either OSU of Tenn.
UGA get the winner of ND or Indiana luck of the draw
Penn ST has to get through SMU and Boise to make the final semis
UGA get the winner of ND or Indiana luck of the draw
Penn ST has to get through SMU and Boise to make the final semis
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Got what I wanted: Clemson got no bye and Bama got snubbed. Maybe now they will change the system for the better.
I love the fact that Clemson has to play Texas in Austin.
I expect Texas offense to feast on Clemson's defense.
I love the fact that Clemson has to play Texas in Austin.
I expect Texas offense to feast on Clemson's defense.
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