Bad look for the playoff committee so far [updated]

[UTFranklinVol]

The first four playoff games have been horribly boring and uncompetitive. didn't expect Indiana or SMU or Clemson to win but certainly thought Tennessee would be better than this. I was right a few weeks back Tennessee was never a playoff worthy team, too many glaring issues on offense and clearly our defense can be added to that list now we left players wide open all over the field.

This 12 team format with home games is troubling because none of the home teams came anywhere close to losing. They need to reconsider both the seeding process and how they evaluate worthy teams because they screwed this up which I know isn't a surprise to most people.

 

[Offset Eye]

Two playoff games down and both have been horribly boring and uncompetitive. didn't expect Indiana or SMU to win but certainly thought they would be better than this. Hopefully from now on strength of schedule becomes a more outsized factor in selecting teams. Someone in the SEC could have put on a better show than this garbage.

Here's hoping that someone is Tennessee lol GB!

I has been a joke so far, but has been great for my wagers.

 

[brockytop]

So we’ve got to watch two teams that half the SEC could wipe the floor with.

They need to quit worrying about the other BS and pick the best 12 teams period.

 

[WillisWG]

Football god to the Committee

 

[VolForLife83]

Two playoff games down and both have been horribly boring and uncompetitive. didn't expect Indiana or SMU to win but certainly thought they would be better than this. Hopefully from now on strength of schedule becomes a more outsized factor in selecting teams. Someone in the SEC could have put on a better show than this garbage.

Here's hoping that someone is Tennessee lol GB!

I think they know that. This is what they want. For the BIG schools to look dominate

 

[I4Vols]

Football god to the Committee

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Still looks like Kiffin giving his team defensive signals

 

[SpookyAction]

I think they know that. This is what they want. For the BIG schools to look dominate

Yeah.
The committee members are getting exactly what they wanted.
so far.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

Yeah.
The committee members are getting exactly what they wanted.
so far.

Yeah, it's a conspiracy

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

Yeah.
The committee members are getting exactly what they wanted.
so far.

Not sure they wanted SEC schools just outside their sacred list to have talking points.

 

[Boston Vol]

This should be no surprise. Most of the semifinals during the 4-team playoff era were non-competitive.

 

[Johnnyreb#VFL]

Don’t care. Alabama and ole miss missed the playoffs and that is worth some boring games

 

[volfeeva]

The SMU quarterback looked sad all game. Gonna be long ride back home.

 

[EverythingOrange]

Strength Of Schedule is definitely starting to reveal itself... —Something that needs considerably more emphasis in future playoff seeding.

Call it “home-field advantage” or whatever…. But, even with a couple of late scores, It was pretty obvious that Indiana & SMU didn’t belong in the CFP.

— They fell behind early & often. And frankly, the games were both ugly & boring to watch.

I really expect to see the same thing from Clemson; ; Boise State; & even Arizona State, as well. - But you never know….

Oh well - At least they didn’t put Bama in there!

 

[just bob]

I know it's a very lengthy discussion, but there should be more divisions at the top level. Just having FBS and FCS isn't enough. FBS should be split into perhaps three divisions.

 

[cbrown]

This is what happens when you apply DEI to college football. It’s bad on several levels. First, it’s going to discourage teams from scheduling other good teams during the regular season because they don’t want to take a loss. This produces a worse product in the regular season. Second, you get games like last night and today that aren’t competitive. This produces a worse product in the playoffs.

Schedules are too imbalanced for the “if a team has three losses they shouldn’t get in the playoffs” argument to hold water. I dislike Alabama as much as the next Tennessee fan, but if Alabama had played Indiana’s schedule, they would be 11-1 or 12-0. If Alabama had played SMU’s schedule, they would be 11-1 or 12-0. Conversely, if Indiana or SMU had played Alabama’s schedule, they would likely be 8-4 at best.

 

[DeadVols]

I don't really want the CFP to become the Big Ten/SEC invitational, but I think any objective person could see no reason to give two invites to the ACC. Quint Kessenich, who simultaneously covers lax for ESPN and has an absolutely lax name, said it pretty well. I'm having a hard time seeing SMU as better than the fourth-best team in the ACC. In fairness, I'd love to see a return to smaller conferences and far less of this unbalanced scheduling crap. And at the least, there need to be real divisions so you can have comparable schedules to differentiate teams at the top of conferences for CFP-invites.

 

[ArmchairQB]

If they really wanted to go all in on making the B1G look good, they should have said no independents and found a way to get Indiana seeded against Marshall or something instead of Notre Dame.

 

[temptn]

Yeah.
The committee members are getting exactly what they wanted.
so far.

.
Yeah, Penn State has ridiculously easy path so far.
.

 

[DaddyChad]

Not enough speed for Indiana to be competitive. Just like the iowa team that was so awesome until they played us.

 

[DaddyChad]

Yeah.
The committee members are getting exactly what they wanted.
so far.

Sankey got what he wanted. Everything that’s happened as far as the SEC is on him. They set Texas up as well as they could. They wanted Texas and Georgia in. Really wanted Bama in as well but SMU wouldn’t do their part.

 

[LegionnaireOfTheMiserable]

I think they know that. This is what they want. For the BIG schools to look dominate

Last night the BIG school got pantsed

 

[NighthawkVol]

Two playoff games down and both have been horribly boring and uncompetitive. didn't expect Indiana or SMU to win but certainly thought they would be better than this. Hopefully from now on strength of schedule becomes a more outsized factor in selecting teams. Someone in the SEC could have put on a better show than this garbage.

Here's hoping that someone is Tennessee lol GB!

I’ll be fine with a blowout tonight as long as it’s Tennessee doing the blowing out.

 

[temptn]

Yeah.
The committee members are getting exactly what they wanted.
so far.

No way the ninth and twelfth ranked teams should get a bye.

 

[DaddyChad]

Last night the BIG school got pantsed

Big Ten doesn’t give a damn about Indiana

 

[VolCalls]

H

The SMU quarterback looked sad all game. Gonna be long ride back home.

He was not ready for the big stage. Saban called it in the pregame when he said he could see it when they interviewed the QB during warmups. Said PSU would win big and he was spot-on.