Playoffs....

[Wolegib]

I guess by all those people saying IU was not deserving of being in the playoffs Clemson wasn’t deserving either. Can we bring the playoffs back to 4 or 8 teams? I have doubts Boise st is worthy either

 

[Wolegib]

Go tell the nfl that home games in the playoffs are bad, no they’re the reward for being a higher seed. And the bowls have been roadkill for nearly 20 years aside from the 4 that rotated the national title game, just leave bowls on the roadside where they belong as college football enters a new era

Home games were the reason ucla and usc won so many rose bowl games

 

[awthomps]

Home games were the reason ucla and usc won so many rose bowl games

You’re making my point for me, should B1G teams be punished by forcing them to travel to tourist trap destinations that are almost all in SEC territory despite home playoff games being the norm in the nfl?

 

[DrEss]

16-team playoff format, no home games, play games at bowl sites with most attractive bowls for later rounds. If these don't draw crowds at neutral sites...it tells me that college football is NOT as much fun as college basketball tournament in which games are sold out or well attended.

In the college basketball tournament, the highest seeds are local to the neutral site, which helps bigly with attendance.

 

[Purdue Grad in Texas]

In the college basketball tournament, the highest seeds are local to the neutral site, which helps bigly with attendance.

Duke in Charlotte, Raleigh or Greensboro and Kansas in Kansas City or Omaha as examples.

Plus, you have multiple schools in the same pod/site or Regional.

 

[seminolesboilers]

All first round games are blowouts…NCAA sucks…having first round home games…so unfair. 52-0 Ohio state wins!

 

[SKYDOG]

All first round games are blowouts…NCAA sucks…having first round home games…so unfair. 52-0 Ohio state wins!

These playoffs are going well so far. Need to add more teams to the mix in the future. 😂

 

[Wolegib]

Somebody needs to tell ESPN that Tennessee, Clemson, and SMU are just as bad as IU was. and Boise ST should never have been given a bye.

and maybe next year, reduce the championship back to 4 teams or 8 at the most. You just aren't going to beat teams like ND, Texas, and OSU at home.

 

[Wolegib]

You’re making my point for me, should B1G teams be punished by forcing them to travel to tourist trap destinations that are almost all in SEC territory despite home playoff games being the norm in the nfl?

the orange Bowl was similar to the rose bowl. if Miami played in the orange Bowl, they won.

 

[Thordog]

I agree on PSU and ND games. I'd take TX over clemson in 1st round. OSU and TN could be a really close game.


TX over AZ state
OR over OSU/TN
PSU over Boise State
GA over ND

ESPN is broadcasting the last games so I'd guess GA and TX in the final.

I honestly thought the OSU / TN game would be the best one of the 1st 4 games. The Clemson / TX game was entertaining.

 

[BBG]

All first round games are blowouts…NCAA sucks…having first round home games…so unfair. 52-0 Ohio state wins!

Hopefully the next round is better but I agree, the first round games we're all that great to watch. SMU/IU never should have been part of it in the first place, which didn't help.

 

[Indy_Rider]

Hopefully the next round is better but I agree, the first round games we're all that great to watch. SMU/IU never should have been part of it in the first place, which didn't help.

Apparently, neither should have Tennessee and that should stop the SEC teams whining they didn't get in, but it won't.

The real truth is 12 teams is to many if your goal is to have all the games competitive. But that was never the goal, the goal is money and to stop some of the whining. So, I am fine with the current format and next round will have more blowouts because 8 is still too many. But the blow out all top teams that get stuck playing early games to try rest players and pull them to try and prevent injury.

 

[Boilerfla]

The only way to make 12 decent is to use a computer ranking with strength of schedule a good percentage. Sorry, you win the conference/conference championship and you’re not rated in top 12, then enjoy the next bowl

 

[TC4THREE]

Think this weekend supported the idea that 12 is too many. 8 is the right number.

 

[TC4THREE]

The only way to make 12 decent is to use a computer ranking with strength of schedule a good percentage. Sorry, you win the conference/conference championship and you’re not rated in top 12, then enjoy the next bowl

Disagree. Include conference champions and cut out the 3rd and/or 4th teams from any conference. I don't care if the top three teams are all in the SEC. They have a conference season to determine who their best team is. If they do a poor job in determining that, that's on them. Same for the Big Ten who probably sent 3 legitimate top 12 teams this season (IU clearly was not). Should have been a choice between Ohio State and Penn State as the second team (and I believe OSU won head to head).

G5 needs to be represented.

Go to 8. Every year five conference champions (P4 and top G5) and three at large determined by formula with the caveat that no conference can have more than one at large bid. Formula also determines seeding once the teams are determined and conference champions don't automatically get top seeds. If the ACC champ isn't good one season, they can be 8th.

That has always been the ideal setup but somehow ($$$$) we went straight from 4 to 12 instead.

 

[Purdue Grad in Texas]

Disagree. Include conference champions and cut out the 3rd and/or 4th teams from any conference. I don't care if the top three teams are all in the SEC. They have a conference season to determine who their best team is. If they do a poor job in determining that, that's on them. Same for the Big Ten who probably sent 3 legitimate top 12 teams this season (IU clearly was not). Should have been a choice between Ohio State and Penn State as the second team (and I believe OSU won head to head).

G5 needs to be represented.

Go to 8. Every year five conference champions (P4 and top G5) and three at large determined by formula with the caveat that no conference can have more than one at large bid. Formula also determines seeding once the teams are determined and conference champions don't automatically get top seeds. If the ACC champ isn't good one season, they can be 8th.

That has always been the ideal setup but somehow ($$$$) we went straight from 4 to 12 instead.

"Cad....all we need to do now is have the Lions of Nittany kill some Broncos, a Longhorn to gore the Devil, and our Bulldog to maul that Leprechaun......and we'll RULE the world!"

 

[BBG]

Think this weekend supported the idea that 12 is too many. 8 is the right number.

Yep. I would add if you're gonna do 12, just do all top 25... make it like the basketball NCAAT and be done with it.. that has blowouts in the first round and is widely expected.. seems like this is where we are heading anyway....

 

[RDUBoiler]

Top 8 is plenty. I'm torn between supporting a rule that would have limited it to two teams per conference and one that emphasizes computer rankings. I have lots of friends who are Alabama fans, and I have a hard time feeling sympathetic to a 3-loss team, but they probably better than SMU or Indiana.

 

[RossMackey]

I can see ND beating the Dawg's and moving on. Their defense is something special.

LOL - ND is demonstrably fraudulent— they get rolled
If they played anywhere ( other than equally fraudulent Indinia) on the road in this first round….

Money talks— NOT legitimate competition.

 

[PaBoiler78]

LOL - ND is demonstrably fraudulent— they get rolled
If they played anywhere ( other than equally fraudulent Indinia) on the road in this first round….

Money talks— NOT legitimate competition.

how about those tacky, cheap looking gold numbers on their uni's, look like they were bought at the dollar store