College Football

[ClearedHot]

College Football Playoff Committee Boardroom.

 

[kaputt]

12 teams was a stupid idea. Should’ve just done 8. 

[uhhello]

They should just get rid of all regular season games.  Pre-season rankings start the 128 team playoff.

[SurelySerious]

They should just get rid of all regular season games.  Pre-season rankings start the 128 team playoff.

128 team playoff after the 12 game season = mucho profits.

[O Face]

Yeah, would’ve been fun to have even one of these games be somewhat close. Each of the four 1st round games you could tell was gonna be an ass kicking after the first possession. 

[ClearedHot]

Four well thought out matchups, four blowouts. 

The College Football Playoffs brought to you by:

[Lawman]

Four well thought out matchups, four blowouts. 
The College Football Playoffs brought to you by:

But every team in the SEC does is better!!!!!! They deserve 5 or 6 slots!


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[O Face]

1 hour ago, Lawman said:

But every team in the SEC does is better!!!!!! 
 

The way you constructed that sentence, I would’ve guessed you received your higher education from an SEC school.   
Also, I’m not quite sure what your point was.  There were 2 SEC schools in the first round. Texas killed their ACC opponent and Tenn got killed by their Big 10 opponent.  The other two games featured non SEC schools getting massacred on public tv.  Who would you have put in over TX and TN?  SMU, Clem, IU couldn’t have done much worse than any SEC team or any other conference opponent. If the SEC had lost all 4 games, I’d say your point was proven, but following this playoff round, the Big 10 goes 2-1,  SEC 1-1, and the ACC appears to be the weakest conference going 0-2 in the playoff. 

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[uhhello]

36 minutes ago, O Face said:

The way you constructed that sentence, I would’ve guessed you received your higher education from an SEC school.   
Also, I’m not quite sure what your point was.  There were 2 SEC schools in the first round. Texas killed their ACC opponent and Tenn got killed by their Big 10 opponent.  The other two games featured non SEC schools getting massacred on public tv.  Who would you have put in over TX and TN?  SMU, Clem, IU couldn’t have done much worse than any SEC team or any other conference opponent. If the SEC had lost all 4 games, I’d say your point was proven, but following this playoff round, the Big 10 goes 2-1,  SEC 1-1, and the ACC appears to be the weakest conference going 0-2 in the playoff. 

I think you missed the sarcasm 

[O Face]

I think I got the sarcasm. I had made a similar statement early in the season about the SEC schools looking tough. Others disagree now, I’m not so sure it matters. At this point, the only conference looking like a complete fraud is the ACC. 

[VMFA187]

Can we bring back the BCS to pick the playoff teams?

[O Face]

As I sat and watched in Caesar’s sports book yesterday, I will say, the FCS games were on point!  That was some fun football to watch. The rest of the 1st round was quite dull. 

[uhhello]

One thing for certain, the home field playoff games are a MUCH better environment to watch/play a football game.  

[Lawman]

I think I got the sarcasm. I had made a similar statement early in the season about the SEC schools looking tough. Others disagree now, I’m not so sure it matters. At this point, the only conference looking like a complete fraud is the ACC. 

The SEC is routinely granted in preseason and throughout the season a level of BIAS that is outsized to what the league has actually accomplished.

“We keep winning the NC!” Is the dumbest defense of a group of people that doesn’t understand self fulfilling statistical bias. If I give you more goes at bat with the same quality or near quality it will lead to an outsize of statistical victories and it was used to justify putting multiple teams into the playoffs or championships and then ignored as outside norms when they lose to say Oklahoma in a Bowl game.

If they lived up to the hype a Buckeye team would not be putting 3 touchdowns and controlling that game for an entire game not just individual quarters. If not for OSU making errors like fumbles and PIs it would have been a shut out and this is the “second best” team in the SEC.


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[O Face]

23 minutes ago, Lawman said:

The SEC is routinely granted in preseason and throughout the season a level of BIAS that is outsized to what the league has actually accomplished.

“We keep winning the NC!” Is the dumbest defense of a group of people that doesn’t understand self fulfilling statistical bias. If I give you more goes at bat with the same quality or near quality it will lead to an outsize of statistical victories and it was used to justify putting multiple teams into the playoffs or championships and then ignored as outside norms when they lose to say Oklahoma in a Bowl game.

If they lived up to the hype a Buckeye team would not be putting 3 touchdowns and controlling that game for an entire game not just individual quarters. If not for OSU making errors like fumbles and PIs it would have been a shut out and this is the “second best” team in the SEC.


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I’m tracking what you’re saying and perhaps there’s validity to your argument in years past, but this year I’m not buying it. Ohio State kicked the shit out of TN, but what you said about OSU’s win easily applies to ND’s win over IU as well. I don’t envy the selection committee’s job at all, but given the conditions that were put in place for selecting teams, I think they did the right thing. Sadly, the games were all very one sided and quite predictable. My question to you is, who should have gotten in instead of TN?  Who did the “SEC bias” leave out?  Certainly the Big 10 was well represented. The ACC clearly can’t compete.  Are you suggesting the Big 12, AAC, MWC, or the Sun Belt would’ve faired better against PSU, ND, TX, OSU?

[Lawman]

I’m tracking what you’re saying and perhaps there’s validity to your argument in years past, but this year I’m not buying it. Ohio State kicked the shit out of TN, but what you said about OSU’s win easily applies to ND’s win over IU as well. I don’t envy the selection committee’s job at all, but given the conditions that were put in place for selecting teams, I think they did the right thing. Sadly, the games were all very one sided and quite predictable. My question to you is, who should have gotten in instead of TN?  Who did the “SEC bias” leave out?  Certainly the Big 10 was well represented. The ACC clearly can’t compete.  Are you suggesting the Big 12, AAC, MWC, or the Sun Belt would’ve faired better against PSU, ND, TX, OSU?

No I’m fine with who they picked from the SEC. I also don’t think the spread between the best SEC teams and the best teams in other conferences has ever been as wide as they like to pretend, hence the SECs underperformance in bowl games in recent years that weren’t the playoffs.

What is and has been ridiculous is the year on year repeated “well the SEC needs another team” mantra that all their in conference losses don’t count and they shouldn’t tumble in the ratings the way other teams do when they happen. And we will see that crap again next year in preseason rankings with teams like A&M or Ol Miss getting some over ranked position so the first few in conference SEC losses are always to “ranked teams.”


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[O Face]

17 minutes ago, Lawman said:

No I’m fine with who they picked from the SEC. I also don’t think the spread between the best SEC teams and the best teams in other conferences has ever been as wide as they like to pretend, hence the SECs underperformance in bowl games in recent years that weren’t the playoffs.

What is and has been ridiculous is the year on year repeated “well the SEC needs another team” mantra that all their in conference losses don’t count and they shouldn’t tumble in the ratings the way other teams do when they happen. And we will see that crap again next year in preseason rankings with teams like A&M or Ol Miss getting some over ranked position so the first few in conference SEC losses are always to “ranked teams.”


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I hear ya, Man. It’s fun to argue this meaningless shit with friends.  And had a single 1st round game been an upset, or hell I would’ve settled for even a close game, it all would be moot and we’d be talking about how great the new playoff system is. I’m sure next week, BSU and ASU will suffer similar fates and we’ll be down to quasi familiar 4 teams vying for another title. The only truly unknown is how this new NFL without a salary cap evolution of college football fucks up everything we loved about college football. 

[ClearedHot]

1 hour ago, Lawman said:

The SEC is routinely granted in preseason and throughout the season a level of BIAS that is outsized to what the league has actually accomplished.

“We keep winning the NC!” Is the dumbest defense of a group of people that doesn’t understand self fulfilling statistical bias. If I give you more goes at bat with the same quality or near quality it will lead to an outsize of statistical victories and it was used to justify putting multiple teams into the playoffs or championships and then ignored as outside norms when they lose to say Oklahoma in a Bowl game.

If they lived up to the hype a Buckeye team would not be putting 3 touchdowns and controlling that game for an entire game not just individual quarters. If not for OSU making errors like fumbles and PIs it would have been a shut out and this is the “second best” team in the SEC.


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It started with all the Bama homers and they are crying again this year....with THREE losses, including a loss to Vanderbilt and getting RUN by a mediocre OU.