Florida continues to win ugly.
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Florida continues to win ugly.
gfm7175 (10-07-2019)
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Mott the Hoople (10-06-2019)
Life is Golden (10-06-2019)
TOP (10-07-2019)
anonymoose (10-07-2019), TOP (10-07-2019)
The problem with automatic bids for conference champions is that you will not necessarily see the best team.
One of the things I love about college football is that on any given Saturday any team can win. App State beat Michigan some years back. Ohio State got drubbed by Purdue, ect ect.
And the conference championship game ignore the rest of the season except for games against teams in your division of your conference.
A perfect example was the SEC Championship game in 2016. Alabama was 11-0 going into the SEC Championship. Florida was 8-3 going in. Alabama had played 6 teams that were ranked at the time of their game. Florida had only play 3 ranked teams and lost to 2 of them. But if Florida won that one game, they were given an automatic bid? Alabama opened the 2016 playing USC. Who is going to schedule a power team as an opener when it is completely irrelevant as far as getting in the playoff?
If a team beats every team in their division of their conference, but loses every non-conference game and wins their conference championship game, they get an automatic bid for a shot at the NC?
Here is a chaos question.
Suppose Alabama, Ohio State and Oklahoma finish their regular seasons undefeated. And both Georgia and Wisconsin have a single loss each (their conference championship game). Does Clemson make the playoffs after no losing to the longest string of cupcakes in the league?
So far, Clemson's marque game was against Texas A&M. But A&M is 3-2 and will probably lose 3 more games (Alabama, Georgia and LSU). Is beating a 7-5 SEC team enough of a boost to get them in? Hell, UCF had a schedule that was as tough a couple of years ago and no one thought they should be in.
But the defending National Champions going undefeated and NOT making the playoffs sounds like a PR nightmare.
Hey Alabama, you should be pretty happy, now that California has opened the door on paying college athletes you favorite school should be lining up overt pro teams down the road
Wonder what new major Alabama could come up with now to meet the goal
The problem with "Best" team is you can't provide a objective measure of what is a "best" team. Using a playoff format, nationally, if you don't win your conference, on the field, you have proven by the best objective measure, that you are not the best team. Certainly not in your conference.
So I'm far more in favor or using the objective measure of deciding on the field and having to earn your place in the playoff. I can see having a playoff format where one or two teams who did not win their conference, can, based on specific performance criteria, be selected for the playoff as a wild card.
What selecting the "Best" teams has done is making the National Championship, corrupt, regional,subjective and grossly biased. There is absolutely no way a UCF or Boise State can get a well earned opportunity at a national championship. Instead they get to lose by proxy, instead of having it determined on the field as it should be and as it is done by virtually every sports league in the world.
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