Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

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Dadof2Vols said:
I do believe however that a 24 team playoff will expose the ranking bias because we will see 8-4 teams with tougher schedules upset 11-1 and 10-2 teams ranked above them. Remember the 24 team proposal, the top 8 teams get byes so the 9-12 ranked teams who were previously getting charity rankings for being 11-1,10-2 from smaller conferences will now have to play 9-3, 8-4 SEC type teams.

The 24 will expose conferences and bad ranking system if nothing else.
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Though, I believe they've been exposed time and time again. They've been exposed in recent playoff performance and in bowls before that. But yes, this will really shine a light on the discrepancy. However, this does give us more 'relevant' games to watch. But please, oh please, don't expand beyond 24.
 
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#141,907
Rishvol said:
"Mercer was a top 30 RPI why weren't they in?"
"... They need a higher RPI..."
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One problem is that college baseball is still in the dark ages by still using the RPI. It’s a flawed metric. Mercer was 1-4 against P4 teams while that one win was GTech. Mercer being ahead of UT in the RPI is kind of ridiculous.
 
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headhunter15 said:


The goal is always to win a title. However, let me ask this. If Tennessee goes 8-4/9-3 in a season, would you rather have a bowl trophy or a first round playoff loss?
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I think most fans just care about beating their rivals. I really don’t care about the postseason personally. If a bigger postseason ends up taking away from the goal of “beating your rivals” due to load managing, sitting players, etc, then I am not for it. I just want to beat their piss out of our rivals. Don’t care about anything else.
 
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SagginVawls said:
I think most fans just care about beating their rivals. I really don’t care about the postseason personally. If a bigger postseason ends up taking away from the goal of “beating your rivals” due to load managing, sitting players, etc, then I am not for it. I just want to beat their piss out of our rivals. Don’t care about anything else.
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This. I want a crisp Third Saturday morning in October or the last Saturday in November against Vanderbilt to mean the absolute world to my fandom.
 
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SagginVawls said:
I think most fans just care about beating their rivals. I really don’t care about the postseason personally. If a bigger postseason ends up taking away from the goal of “beating your rivals” due to load managing, sitting players, etc, then I am not for it. I just want to beat their piss out of our rivals. Don’t care about anything else.
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Look to the NFL. Almost half the teams make the playoffs. Added a game (5 more than college). The result is maybe a quarter of the teams resting starters the last game of the season.

That is not going to be a problem. However many teams you have resting starters or trying to take a game off, you'll have twice as many teams playing to keep their championship hopes alive, instead of mailing it in at Home in the second half against Vandy.
 
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I think I saw the most Panama City Beach thing ever Friday. A guy one row in front of us on the beach chairs stood up to yell something to his friend in the ocean and his dentures fell out and landed in the sand. He rinsed them off with his beer and put them right back in. I also saw a lot of thongs in sizes that should not exist.
 
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Ten_Titans said:
Look to the NFL. Almost half the teams make the playoffs. Added a game (5 more than college). The result is maybe a quarter of the teams resting starters the last game of the season.

That is not going to be a problem. However many teams you have resting starters or trying to take a game off, you'll have twice as many teams playing to keep their championship hopes alive, instead of mailing it in at Home in the second half against Vandy.
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I don’t agree with the take. I also don’t really care what percentage of teams make the playoff for the nfl. Recruiting players out of highschool is not the same as a draft. Talent is not evenly distributed. The big games already have meaning now. If Tennessee vs Vanderbilt has more meaning at the end of the year because we need a win to get in, then more likely than not you’re removing meaning from a tougher game earlier in the year, like Alabama. You aren’t creating meaningful games, you’re just moving meaning from the ones that traditionally mattered.
 
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Ten_Titans said:
Look to the NFL. Almost half the teams make the playoffs. Added a game (5 more than college). The result is maybe a quarter of the teams resting starters the last game of the season.

That is not going to be a problem. However many teams you have resting starters or trying to take a game off, you'll have twice as many teams playing to keep their championship hopes alive, instead of mailing it in at Home in the second half against Vandy.
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Also, I realize my post might have come off rude. Not my intention, I appreciate your posts here and the healthy discourse even though we disagree.
 
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