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Poll: What would you do to the college football playoff?
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Improve the college football playoffs.

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11-14-2019, 12:17 PM

(11-13-2019, 03:47 PM)Kane Wrote:
(11-13-2019, 11:36 AM)mikesez Wrote: I don't understand.
BYU would deserve a playoff game? Or they deserve a spot in the outback bowl? Or are you saying that the outback bowl should be a playoff game?

Sorry, typo. When BYU goes undefeated they don't deserve a shot at the playoff.
But they do deserve a decent bowl game.

If UCF or BYU play in a real conference, and go undefeated, they'd be a shoe in for the playoff.
It's simple.
(11-13-2019, 02:19 PM)mikesez Wrote: Why are you sure they would get blown out?
What about UCF's win in 2017? What about Utah's win in 2008?

Because ND went undefeated in 2012 and proved they didn't deserve their spot in the natty. And they were better than the UCF team and Utah team you point to.
And often when a really good BIG10 or SEC team misses playoff or BCS, they don't quite show up for their consolation bowl game.
Bama misses the natty, they mail it in for the sugar bowl, cuz no one cares about those games except the people making money from them (and stupid fans that think a sugar bowl or citrus bowl win means something)

You can't be sure that the 2012 ND team was better than 2008 Utah or 2017 UCF.  
And you can't be sure about the outcome of games that never happened.
It's hypocritical to insist that BYU or UCF or Utah don't deserve a meaningful game, and then dismiss the result of the less meaningful game you gave them as, "well the other team didn't 'show up.'" That's a classic double bind.
And it's even more hypocritical to insist that the 2017 UCF team only deserved the Peach Bowl, but then insist that they shouldn't be joint national champs based on the peach bowl result.  The Colley Matrix put them at the top.  The NCAA record book says so too.  You can say that Alabama would have beat them.. sure... but it would be hypocritical to say that if you're one of the people who didn't want Alabama to play UCF in the first place.

Back to the topic at hand, I think change is needed to avoid these kinds of joint national titles in the future.
My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.
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RE: Improve the college football playoffs. - by mikesez - 11-14-2019, 12:17 PM



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