Let's talk about "not punishing those who play in championship games"

[Visidog]

Screw them. How about not rewarding losing?

Why reward teams that weren’t even good enough to get to play in the game?

 

[Carp]

Why not? did they play the exact same schedule during the season? Say it is the same scenario but Mizzou made the champ game with their easy schedule ranked #11 and Georgia with their hard schedule is right behind them at #12 and Mizzou gets beat like they stole something in the CCG....

To be clear my issue is with putting blanket rules in place like they shouldn't get bumped out, I understand there are some situations where they shouldn't, the blanket statement is my issue.

Because Mizzou was forced to play an extra game in that scenario. If they were a playoff team before the SECCG, they are a playoff team after the SECCG. UGA shouldn't get rewarded for not making the SECCG in that scenario.

 

[HeavenUniversity]

This seems a very strange argument to get rid of CONFERENCE championship games in football. Seems much more attuned to arguing against big NATIONAL championship playoff fields, like 8, or 12, or 16.

Conf CG is one game, two teams. Playoffs are 11 games, involving 12 teams. Lot more wear and tear on the players involved and time away from academics.

You kinda flipped this one on its head (for the football component in particular), and it doesn't make much sense that way.

Your argument woulda been better if you had stuck to basketball.

Go Vols!

To each his own.—I would also like to see only eight in the playoffs and do away with the extra play in basketball NCAA games. Every sport season is wayyy too long. I would like to see NFL go back to 14 games. Also would like to see 154 MLB season again. NBA and NHL 60 game seasons would be enough for me. And every pro sport has too many teams in playoffs. Just my two cents.

 

[VFL-82-JP]

To each his own.—I would also like to see only eight in the playoffs and do away with the extra play in basketball NCAA games. Every sport season is wayyy too long. I would like to see NFL go back to 14 games. Also would like to see 154 MLB season again. NBA and NHL 60 game seasons would be enough for me. And every pro sport has too many teams in playoffs. Just my two cents.

And see, this is just about the time of the year when I start moaning about how the football season isn't long enough. Heh.

As you said, to each his own.

Go Vols!

 

[WiseOlVol]

Highly likely Texas, PSU or both get blown out.

Vols will jump over one or both.

 

[swampfoxfan]

what loser says, "No...I don't want to compete for an SEC title"?

so you don't know

 

[SockeyeVol]

"We have a lot of value — we're not gonna speculate on what will happen — but we have a lot of value with the teams that make a championship game," Manuel said on ESPN in an interview with host Rece Davis. "That says a lot, playing 12 games in the regular season, making your championship game is a really valuable data point, No. 1.
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"No. 2, we're gonna evaluate the games and how teams play and the performance on the field. That's what the commissioners asked us to do. They didn't ask us to stop right before the championship game. They asked us to rank teams through the championship games."

The last two sentences in bold clearly state the Committee will consider the results of CGs.

 

[volfan102455]

"We have a lot of value — we're not gonna speculate on what will happen — but we have a lot of value with the teams that make a championship game," Manuel said on ESPN in an interview with host Rece Davis. "That says a lot, playing 12 games in the regular season, making your championship game is a really valuable data point, No. 1.
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"No. 2, we're gonna evaluate the games and how teams play and the performance on the field. That's what the commissioners asked us to do. They didn't ask us to stop right before the championship game. They asked us to rank teams through the championship games."

The last two sentences in bold clearly state the Committee will consider the results of CGs.

Yes! And it doesn't say we are going to only look at certain conferences. This implies outcomes in those games matter which they should.

 

[Jax_Vol]

Careful what you wish for. They have a decent defense and 2 good QBs.

I didn't "watch watch" much of the game. But, UGA was just killing them.

Unsure why people think they changes this time?

Georgia will kill them again, unless their QB zones out.

 

[Tenacjim]

Welp….

 

[volfan102455]

I didn't "watch watch" much of the game. But, UGA was just killing them.

Unsure why people think they changes this time?

Georgia will kill them again, unless their QB zones out.

Ture but rematches are trap games - most times the team that lost wins the second game.

 

[Jax_Vol]

Ture but rematches are trap games - most times the team that lost wins the second game.

Yeah, in basketball, I used to hear that it is hard to beat a team three times.

Personally, I prefer to be on the team that won the first two.

 

[ftsandersvol]

 

[Frozevol]

Exactly. If #5 UGA gets beat by Texas they will fall behind #6 UT even with the head-to-head win. It's dumb to think otherwise.

You are giving the committee way too much credit to imply they won’t do something dumb.

 

[VolCalls]

"We have a lot of value — we're not gonna speculate on what will happen — but we have a lot of value with the teams that make a championship game," Manuel said on ESPN in an interview with host Rece Davis. "That says a lot, playing 12 games in the regular season, making your championship game is a really valuable data point, No. 1.
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"No. 2, we're gonna evaluate the games and how teams play and the performance on the field. That's what the commissioners asked us to do. They didn't ask us to stop right before the championship game. They asked us to rank teams through the championship games."

The last two sentences in bold clearly state the Committee will consider the results of CGs.

He also said, unless I clearly missed something, those not playing this weekend will not have their ranking change due to not having additional data points. To me, this means only a Clemson win will push Alabama out (I think SMU is in even if they lose).