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#51
#51
bamawriter said:
You said "had to." That made it sound like a requirement.
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For any school not named Alabama, yes you will need to win your conference championship to get in. Yes the selection committee 's broad power does allow them the right to select a team that lost a conference championship to make it in according to strength of schedule and quality win factor. This is why Notre Dame is in as an independent in football. But being a conference champion is STILL one of the major elements of their selection criteria.
 
#53
#53
midtnvol2 said:
For any school not named Alabama, yes you will need to win your conference championship to get in. Yes the selection committee 's broad power does allow them the right to select a team that lost a conference championship to make it in according to strength of schedule and quality win factor. This is why Notre Dame is in as an independent in football. But being a conference champion is STILL one of the major elements of their selection criteria.
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Were you in a coma in 2016?
 
#56
#56
BowlBrother85 said:
And why not call a timeout when he saw that Alabama had dropped into punt safe and change out of it? Alabama had every gunner covered plus a safety in the middle on 4th and 11. It wasn't a situation where Alabama realized Justin Fields was in the game and sniffed it out at the last second. Alabama was playing for the fake all the way. That never had a chance.
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Yeah, it was a failure with a "I don't believe I can win" stench about it from the getgo.

But not calling a timeout when the bama defense was playing for the fake rather than a return or block, when fields was spotted, and him and the gunner were being pointed out, how do you not know the gambit was up, and not gonna work, it was a "rommel" moment, complete with hand binoculars.

Not calling the timeout there was the most unforgivable lapse in the history of bulldog choke lapses. And thats saying a LOT.
 
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#58
VolunteerHillbilly said:
If Clemson gets boat raced, I have a feeling the ACC will be odd conference out for the next couple of years until FSU gets back on track.
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If Georgia gets boat raced by a three loss LSU team and loses the SEC championship to Alabama, I have a feeling they will be out this year.
 
#59
#59
SDV said:
Zero chance that Georgia gets in. Zero
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Exactly, it was not yesterday's loss that kept them out, it was the beatdown LSU gave them. No 2 loss teams are going to get in while they have undefeated teams like UCF getting left out.
 
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#61
Samuellbronkowitz said:
Of course there is.
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Yep, I took some solace knowing the guy that rolled up tuas ankle was his own OLineman who was in the midst of an egregious hold, his arms wrapped around the defender.
It seemed like justice. The only possible punishment that could be imagined.
Then realized karma doesn't apply to bama, as hurts was the only way that bama was going to take advantage of georgia well prepared but poorly adjusting defense.
 
#62
#62
BowlBrother85 said:
I disagree with this. There will always be an argument over the last team in to a playoff field voted on by a committee, just like there is in the NCAA basketball tournament... but the college football playoff has solved the problem of getting the "odd man out" in. We won't have a scenario again like Auburn in 2004, who went undefeated in the SEC but was denied a shot at playing for the National Championship. You can make a case for Georgia being in the playoff but if they are left out, they haven't been screwed. They had their shot at Alabama and lost.
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I agree with this. It has solved the problem of the “odd man out”, i.e. the third tram.

But the arguments are still being made over best versus most deserving and who is getting left out of the playoffs. And the solution a lot of people will propose is to expand the playoff.

I just don’t want to see it happen.
 
#63
#63
VolsSportsFan said:
First of all, a gigantic LOL to going back to the "old way"; the 4 team playoff is still better than anything we've had because at least it's an attempt at a playoff.

Second, it actually has solved some problems; the main problem is, no system is going to solve every problem and people just start whining louder.

The idea that the "old" ways of doing things was better is quite ridiculous, unless you just want to do away with the idea of a national champion. Because the old system of the #1 team playing in the Sugar and the #2 play in the Rose and then we wait around for people to vote on who was best was one of the dumbest setups I've ever seen.
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It had its problems but I’d still prefer the old system versus an expanded playoff format.
 
#64
#64
DC_Vol said:
I agree with this. It has solved the problem of the “odd man out”, i.e. the third tram.

But the arguments are still being made over best versus most deserving and who is getting left out of the playoffs. And the solution a lot of people will propose is to expand the playoff.

I just don’t want to see it happen.
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No system is ever going to please everyone. Aliens that are far more advanced than us could come down and say they have analyzed everything and they are impartial, and then present the closet thing to a perfect system we could ever get, and some would still complain.
 
#65
#65
DC_Vol said:
It had its problems but I’d still prefer the old system versus an expanded playoff format.
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I don't see how going back to a system that doesn't even necessarily pit #1 and #2 is somehow better than a 4 team playoff, unless like I said you just want to completely do away with any idea of an actual national champion.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
No system is ever going to please everyone. Aliens that are far more advanced than us could come down and say they have analyzed everything and they are impartial, and then present the closet thing to a perfect system we could ever get, and some would still complain.
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I agree with you. I don’t think my point was clear in my first post since I didn’t actually respond to the post I was referencing.

Expanding the playoff format will never perfect the system.
 
#67
#67
VolsSportsFan said:
I don't see how going back to a system that doesn't even necessarily pit #1 and #2 is somehow better than a 4 team playoff, unless like I said you just want to completely do away with any idea of an actual national champion.
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I’d prefer the old system to an expanded playoff format.
 
#71
#71
volfanhill said:
So if 7-5 Pitt beat Clemson last night you would want them in?
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Yeah, I think the conference winners and one at large should be in....take out most of the guess work. If Pitt had beaten the #2 team, why wouldnt they deserve to be in?
 
#72
#72
volfannbama said:
So you think there are 8 teams that deserve a chance to play for the NC right now? Who?
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It’s all about matchups at this point. For instance I still think Washington and WV would be a tough out for a lot of people. Then obviously UGA is clearly talented enough; that’s 6 teams right there. Ohio state and possibly Michigan as well. There just to much bias and past history put Into the equation for committee when selections come around. That’s my view in it anyway.
 
#73
#73
KeyVol14 said:
It’s all about matchups at this point. For instance I still think Washington and WV would be a tough out for a lot of people. Then obviously UGA is clearly talented enough; that’s 6 teams right there. Ohio state and possibly Michigan as well. There just to much bias and past history put Into the equation for committee when selections come around. That’s my view in it anyway.
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No
 
#75
#75
volfannbama said:
Yeah, I think the conference winners and one at large should be in....take out most of the guess work. If Pitt had beaten the #2 team, why wouldnt they deserve to be in?
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Bc they lost 5 games this year. No one thinks they are a top 25 team let alone top 8.
 
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