CFB or New Year's Bowl Game?

Which would you rather have?

  • Make CFB and get blown out/embarrassed?

    Votes: 112 80.6%

  • Make prestigious bowl and dominate?

    Votes: 27 19.4%
  • Total voters
    139
#26
#26
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. One and done in the CFP is a real kick in the head. I believe there is someone, somewhere, who decides who will win and lose based on odds, home field, money, and whatever they can influence. Injuries, weather, and other things bookies miss are possible but, again, being out of it just blows. If Georgia takes it all...good for them. If Ohio State takes it all, good for them. Either of those scenarios helps us. If Penn State, Ohio State, Texas, or Oregon win it, they will gain what we lost. We are a lot better team with CJH so I am sticking with him and hoping we make it past the first CFP game next year. Go Coach Barnes, Coach Vitello, Coach Caldwell, and the rest of our coaches, teams, staff, University.
 
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To be honest I missed the old bowl games the way they were back before the days of sitting out for the draft and Nil/transfer portal. Now all the good prestigious bowls are no part of the play off. Why would I want to go to a lesser bowl being a 10-2 team that didn’t make the playoffs because a lucky 3 loss team won their conference and got in over me. Before long you’ll see colleges not take bowl games as protest for getting passed up by the 14 seed team winning their conference and the 11 seed not getting because of it.
 
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This is like the people who ask if it’s better to lose in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament or win the NIT. Making the playoff and losing in the first round, even in embarrassing fashion, is much better than winning any bowl game.
 
#30
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RDU VOL#14 said:
I think this will change sooner than later. It’s absurd that both Texas and Penn State lost their conference title games and the quarterfinal games are vs Arizona State and and Boise State, while UGA gets Notre Dame and undefeated Oregon gets Ohio State.
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It really makes the entire event a complete farce, to be honest. You play joke schedules and lose your CCG's and get gifted into the semifinals? If this "committee" didn't clearly see that discrepancy, they are unconscious on top of being biased and corrupt.

To seed schools like Boise St. and ASU at 3 and 4 shows a reckless disregard for the entire event just to prove some sort of asinine point.
 
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sami said:
It really makes the entire event a complete farce, to be honest. You play joke schedules and lose your CCG's and get gifted into the semifinals? If this "committee" didn't clearly see that discrepancy, they are unconscious on top of being biased and corrupt.

To seed schools like Boise St. and ASU at 3 and 4 shows a reckless disregard for the entire event just to prove some sort of asinine point.
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I think people really liked throwing the word “inclusive” around when this was developed. They wanted to give the little guy to have the opportunity to win a championship. To be fair , Arizona State and Boise could very well win their games and prove their worthiness of their seeding. We’ll see next week I guess, but there are more kinks that need to be worked out . I’m with you that there should be more, not less, on campus CFP games. Oregon, UGA, Texas and Penn State if you go by the AP poll should all be hosting quarterfinal games IMO. I think it makes more sense for the integrity of the regular season and is also a true reward for being an elite top 4 team. Reseeding is something I think would also be good given the way this has shaken out.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
I think people really liked throwing the word “inclusive” around when this was developed. They wanted to give the little guy to have the opportunity to win a championship. To be fair , Arizona State and Boise could very well win their games and prove their worthiness of their seeding. We’ll see next week I guess, but there are more kinks that need to be worked out . I’m with you that there should be more, not less, on campus CFP games. Oregon, UGA, Texas and Penn State if you go by the AP poll should all be hosting quarterfinal games IMO. I think it makes more sense for the integrity of the regular season and is also a true reward for being an elite top 4 team. Reseeding is something I think would also be good given the way this has shaken out.
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You and I both know that ASU and/or Boise winning this week would be more an indictment on how overrated Texas and Penn State are than anything else. I'd love to see it, but it isn't happening.

The whole idea of this being like March Madness is another thing that you have to be utterly clueless about the two sports to actually believe. You can ride a unique scheme or a hot shooter and make a run in CBB, but in CFB it will always be about talent, and depth of talent. Boise St. and ASU have stud RB's and not much else, and both will get smoked, as they would against any legit playoff team.

Agree that reseeding would be a great idea, but that would require ending the idiotic auto byes for conference champs.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Horrible analogy. The Playoff is the goal of every team. Making that is better than not making it, no matter how you look at it, even if you suffer a humiliating loss as opposed to beating a top 20 team in a non-playoff New Year’s Bowl.

Getting turned down in embarrassing fashion by a 9.5 is not better than sleeping with a 7, no matter how you look at it.
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No **** Sherlock you're arguing my argument entirely, common from the forum, I've learned quickly you guys have less reading comprehension than McDowell county residents

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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Horrible analogy. The Playoff is the goal of every team. Making that is better than not making it, no matter how you look at it, even if you suffer a humiliating loss as opposed to beating a top 20 team in a non-playoff New Year’s Bowl.

Getting turned down in embarrassing fashion by a 9.5 is not better than sleeping with a 7, no matter how you look at it.
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Like what are you arguing against here? That I said the same thing in different words? English second language? Hate this place. Then you go on to say getting humiliated in a playoff is better than not making it, which I said, and arguing about it. Then you argue that being humiliated by a girl but at least asking her out is a horrible analogy, while saying getting in a playoff and being humiliated is better than not making it. You shouldn't be able to vote1000029179.gif
 
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Dadof2Vols said:
Maybe we should get Alabama, Ole Miss or USCjr fans to answer……
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Already asked a few of them, sadly a lot of those fans live in my area. Not a one of them wanted to be in the CFP and get demolished like we did! It’s been used on the recruiting trail against us as a sign we were pretenders and we arent even close to competing for a national title(they are right, we had no chance in that game since we got both outcoached AND out played by OSU and they could have beat us worse than they did)! We were the 2nd worst beating given in the 1st round but by a team seeded much closer to us and our QB didn’t throw 4 picks and 2 of those being pick sixes! SMU imploded by their QB, we just got used like a street corner whore. So yeah, we made the playoffs, but we absolutely got shown to be pretenders instead of actual contenders. Of course as a fan I’m glad we made it past Bama and Florida as we haven’t done that much in the last few years, however to get absolutely embarrassed in prime time across the country was not a good look either and talk to any high school recruit(they were all watching) we didn’t show that we belonged on that stage at all, so making it wasn’t even a good look for us when getting beat that badly! You fans love to be able to say, but yeah we made the playoffs and such and such didn’t, but in the end we had no chance to win that game and got shown to not belong on the same field as OSU. We would have had a much better game against Indiana (who lost by less to OSU or SMU) but sadly that isn’t who we matched up against, if we had beaten Arky we very well might have had one of those teams or even Clemson to show we belonged.
 
#38
#38
cgbtn said:
All of the first round CFP games were won by the home team. The first round needs to be moved to neutral sites. Some of the lesser bowls could serve that purpose.
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I said same in another thread. Neutral site with both teams receiving the same allotment of tickets. This would also make it easier to take the entire Pride of the Southland. Bowl games are also a reward to band members as well as teams and families.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Horrible analogy. The Playoff is the goal of every team. Making that is better than not making it, no matter how you look at it, even if you suffer a humiliating loss as opposed to beating a top 20 team in a non-playoff New Year’s Bowl.

Getting turned down in embarrassing fashion by a 9.5 is not better than sleeping with a 7, no matter how you look at it.
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But what if the 7 got a nice booty but her face is not as nice as the 9?

I say that’s a win. I’m in the dating market and it sucks. Give me a 7 with a big booty and I’m set! She’s an instant 9 if she has good credit. Lol
 
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207 others said:
Like what are you arguing against here? That I said the same thing in different words? English second language? Hate this place. Then you go on to say getting humiliated in a playoff is better than not making it, which I said. Then you argue that being humiliated by a girl but at least asking her out is a horrible analogy. You shouldn't be able to vote
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Getting rejected by a girl isn’t better than the alternative and isn’t an accomplishment. Making the playoff is better than the alternative OP gave and is an accomplishment. If you were going to compare what we did to trying to pick up women, the girl told us yes. We just didn’t last 5 strokes before it was over and we probably aren’t getting with a girl like that again any time soon.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Getting rejected by a girl isn’t better than the alternative and isn’t an accomplishment. Making the playoff is better than the alternative OP gave and is an accomplishment. If you were going to compare what we did to trying to pick up women, the girl told us yes. We just didn’t last 5 strokes before it was over.
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Sex tips
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I love freakin Volnation!
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Getting rejected by a girl isn’t better than the alternative and isn’t an accomplishment. Making the playoff is better than the alternative OP gave and is an accomplishment. If you were going to compare what we did to trying to pick up women, the girl told us yes. We just didn’t last 5 strokes before it was over.
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So Ohio State is the hot blonde that said yes? That is the original analogy, you are frying my brain today
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Getting rejected by a girl isn’t better than the alternative and isn’t an accomplishment. Making the playoff is better than the alternative OP gave and is an accomplishment. If you were going to compare what we did to trying to pick up women, the girl told us yes. We just didn’t last 5 strokes before it was over and we probably aren’t getting with a girl like that again any time soon.
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Our CFP game was more like the 9 said yes and we finished before she ended up taking off her clothes!
 
#46
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207 others said:
So Ohio State is the hot blonde that said yes? That is the original analogy, you are frying my brain today
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The Playoff is the hot blonde that quite literally said “Yes, you’re in.” Then we shot our wad immediately and embarrassed ourselves. It’s quite possible that our performance will kill our prospects with others when word gets around about how horribly we performed, but we did get the chance to dance.
 
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