2018 College Football Thread

Saban going ape shit again of his team being careless

Murray just Vick’d that defender

posted by Classyposter58

We need an 8 team playoff for sure. These top four are just so competitive...

Fuck it. We don't even need a playoff. Everyone knows Alabama is the best. Give them the trophy now. 

2002 OSU vs Miami, 2006 OSU vs Florida and 2014 OSU vs Alabama and Oregon prove that the team everyone thinks is best isn't always best. Play it on the field. 

posted by FatHobbit

Fuck it. We don't even need a playoff. Everyone knows Alabama is the best. Give them the trophy now. 

2002 OSU vs Miami, 2006 OSU vs Florida and 2014 OSU vs Alabama and Oregon prove that the team everyone thinks is best isn't always best. Play it on the field. 

I agree it should be played on the field but we’re in Year 5 of this and we’ve only had 2 semifinal games end in a single digit margin of victory. Bottom line is most of these games have been complete blowouts, so why on Earth is another round needed to determine a champion?

It just baffles me that there are still people out there that think a 4 team playoff is the best option. 

posted by SportsAndLady

It just baffles me that there are still people out there that think a 4 team playoff is the best option. 

It just baffles me that people listen to Classy

posted by ernest_t_bass

It just baffles me that people listen to Classy

I wasn't even talking about classy. Just in general, you have poeple that are still trying to convince themselves a 6-8 team playoff isn't feasible. Just mind boggling

posted by SportsAndLady

I wasn't even talking about classy. Just in general, you have poeple that are still trying to convince themselves a 6-8 team playoff isn't feasible. Just mind boggling

Feasible, but the point was made by various people last night that in the five years of the playoffs, there has only been one year (last year) that there were more than two real NC contenders.

posted by queencitybuckeye

Feasible, but the point was made by various people last night that in the five years of the playoffs, there has only been one year (last year) that there were more than two real NC contenders.

Isn't that sports though? There is usually a couple teams that are significantly better than everyone else. But you still have a playoff where other teams get to attempt to knock them off. It just seems so logical.

posted by SportsAndLady

It just baffles me that there are still people out there that think a 4 team playoff is the best option. 

Agreed. When classy is being classy I just chalk it up to that but my twitter feed was full of it. I don't understand the correlation between "Hey most of these games have sucked so we don't need more of them!" If we include OSU, Georgia, UCF, Washington, etc then maybe we get some better games. 

And, who are we fucking kidding? We'd all watch them anyways whether they sucked or not. I hate Alabama and don't care for Clemson but i'll still watch some of the championship. 

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2813062-alabama-and-clemson-domination-creates-ugly-day-for-cfb-playoff-committee?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial

this

I like and understand the article, but (save the last two games) I don't think OSU is one of the best 4 teams in the country.  I can't say with certainty that OSU would have done any better yesterday vs. either opponent.  Let Alabama and Clemson battle for the top spot, and let OU and ND be the laughing stock.  I'm just happy that it's not OSU in the latter spot, and they get to soak in the Rose Bowl and TCB against Washington. 

posted by Crimson streak

yeah bc that matters, Ohio st played northwestern in the big championship, who ND bear handily. That argument is retarded. 

 

It was a three-point game until ND scored a touchdown in the final three minutes. If that's "handily", then OSU shit-stomped them so badly that they're disbanding their program out of shame.

posted by SportsAndLady

Isn't that sports though? There is usually a couple teams that are significantly better than everyone else. But you still have a playoff where other teams get to attempt to knock them off. It just seems so logical.

Except that it's almost a sure bet that those additional games wouldn't be competitive.

posted by queencitybuckeye

Except that it's almost a sure bet that those additional games wouldn't be competitive.

 

Lol have you ever watched sports before? There's no way to say what you are saying. Underdogs win all the time.

In 2014, OSU was a 10 point dog against Bama and 7.5 point dog against Oregon. No way those games would be competitive, right?

posted by queencitybuckeye

Except that it's almost a sure bet that those additional games wouldn't be competitive.

 

Which means nothing other than asking people whether they'd rather watch meaningful playoff games that potentially will be blowouts or meaningless bowl games that'll potentially be even further diminished because various key players skip them to prep for the NFL.

If the goal is to satisfy the people who weren't convinced who the national champion was when it was decided by the writers then the goal has been accomplished.  A National Championship game was created....but people whined that the Number 2 team wasn't obvious and that the Numer 3 team was being robbed....robbed of I don't know what because they had the opportunity to compete all year.

Because of this....a semifinal round was put into place...just in case the selection committee got number 2 and 3 wrong.   This gave them a "buffer" to make sure the top 2 teams were in the "playoffs".

If the goal is to determine who the best team is then another round doesn't make it more likely.  I'd be satisfied with going back to one championship game.  My only reservation would be having to hear all the whiners who finished the season at 3 again. 

posted by SportsAndLady

Lol have you ever watched sports before? There's no way to say what you are saying. Underdogs win all the time.

In 2014, OSU was a 10 point dog against Bama and 7.5 point dog against Oregon. No way those games would be competitive, right?

OSU in 2002 was probably the greatest upset in terms of underdogs. What I’m saying is expanding is pointless because these semifinal games are repeatedly trash, auto bids would be a joke, and teams like Georgia and Ohio State would get mulligans for losses basically. 

I remember hearing the SEC commish say pretty much we can’t expand without auto bids for conference champs, so Alabama, Clemson, Oklahoma, Ohio State and Washington get in and are your top 5 while Notre Dame, Georgia and Michigan are the at larges. And then as you said underdogs win all the time imagine if you had teams like Northwestern pull off the upset? 

That format in 2012 would have produced #13 Florida State, unranked Wisconsin, #8 Stanford, #2 Alabama and #7 Kansas State with your highest at large seeds being #1 Notre Dame, #3 Florida and #4 Oregon

posted by queencitybuckeye

Except that it's almost a sure bet that those additional games wouldn't be competitive.

 

It’s almost a sure bet that OSU and Georgia were better than ND and Oklahoma. Come on.

posted by SportsAndLady

Lol have you ever watched sports before? There's no way to say what you are saying. Underdogs win all the time.

In 2014, OSU was a 10 point dog against Bama and 7.5 point dog against Oregon. No way those games would be competitive, right?

and they were not competitive. That they were upsets is of no significance, the point is they were shitty games unless they involved "your" team. Most of the games in the playoff era have been shitty games. Why do you believe adding more games will change that fact?