Playoffs format is garbage

#5
#5
It's just a matter of time before the field expands to 16 teams, and there won't be any more byes. When that happens, the selection committee can just seed teams 1-16 as they would in an NCAA basketball tournament region. They will keep the automatic bids for the 4 highest ranked conference champions, but do away with having any guaranteed slots. This will also increase the number of at-large bids to 12. That should further help to prevent any of the major conference championship game losers from being snubbed.

It's a fluid work in progress that will get better.
 
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yabadabadolnavy said:
Whoever is the 5 seed will get to play Arizona state/Iowa state and then Boise state? Those teams are absolute garbage. Vandy would easily go 2-0
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Garbage? Vandy would likely go 0-2. You can make the point without getting ridiculous.

Conference champs should not get an auto bye. That's the only problem to solve. The other problem is the committee, which will never be solved.

And if it's true that a team playing in a CCG can't get jumped by a team not participating, then the whole committee needs to do something else with their lives.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
It's just a matter of time before the field expands to 16 teams, and there won't be any more byes. When that happens, the selection committee can just seed teams 1-16 as they would in an NCAA basketball tournament region. They will keep the automatic bids for the 4 highest ranked conference champions, but do away with having any guaranteed slots. This will also increase the number of at-large bids to 12. That should further help to prevent any of the major conference championship game losers from being snubbed.

It's a fluid work in progress that will get better.
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If they follow your suggestion and eliminate any "committee" from the ranking process, it would make it 100% better.

Unfortunately, the second part is highly unlikely, as the powers that be are not going to relinquish control over the process.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
It's just a matter of time before the field expands to 16 teams, and there won't be any more byes. When that happens, the selection committee can just seed teams 1-16 as they would in an NCAA basketball tournament region. They will keep the automatic bids for the 4 highest ranked conference champions, but do away with having any guaranteed slots. This will also increase the number of at-large bids to 12. That should further help to prevent any of the major conference championship game losers from being snubbed.

It's a fluid work in progress that will get better.
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This is the way ^^^
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
They should just expand it to the top 25 teams. Even then there will be complaints.
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Rightly so, because SOMEBODY would be getting a bye. ;)

I think we need to expand the 'championship' conference to 32 teams. Do away with out of conference play. At the end of the season do the relegation thing with the next conference like European soccer. Swap the bottom 4 teams and the top 4 teams.

It's all about money.
 
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They're going to have to fix this crap in the future.. There will be teams that have no business in this year's playoff because of it..
 
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#18
#18
They need to reseed the second round based on rankings so that playing the 4 seed isn’t easier than playing the 8 seed.
 
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#19
yabadabadolnavy said:
Whoever is the 5 seed will get to play Arizona state/Iowa state and then Boise state? Those teams are absolute garbage. Vandy would easily go 2-0
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Vandy lost to freakin Georgia St., so they definitely can and probably would lose to both. They beat Alabama and give them credit but this wasn't exactly prime Bammer.
 
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Ned Ray McWorkher said:
It's not garbage. If we had beaten UGA then we'd have faced Texas in Atlanta with the 5th seed as a consolation prize for losing the SEC title. Win more, complain less,...
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I'm loving in the old system it was "The reguar season was a playoff so don't lose" and now we're arguing that 8-3 teams should get in.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
They should just expand it to the top 25 teams. Even then there will be complaints.
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Of course there will be becaues if there is one constant in the world it's that someone will always b****. It's still a million times better than "hey let's just let the Top 2 play that we came up with a complicated formula for". I'd rather have 12 and argue about 1-2 spots than have like 6 valid argument having teams get shut out because there were only 2 spots.
 
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#24
#24
volfan102455 said:
It needs work that is for sure. If they just gave the top 4 ranked teams a bye it would ensure round 2 was more balanced.
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It's wild though as another year like this one seems unfair too. These huge conferences where not everyone plays everyone. Teams like Indiana and Penn State avoid better competition except one game and get ranked super high. Lose one game and get a bye meanwhile better teams play more games of consequence and lose two or three. I'm not sure there is a great solution.
 
#25
#25
DeepSpringsVol said:
It's wild though as another year like this one seems unfair too. These huge conferences where not everyone plays everyone. Teams like Indiana and Penn State avoid better competition except one game and get ranked super high. Lose one game and get a bye meanwhile better teams play more games of consequence and lose two or three. I'm not sure there is a great solution.
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I believe the great solution is to exclude teams who do not have an exceptional resume against quality competition. They’re going to have to force these weaker conferences to play more difficult out of conference games. We’re not going to get anything to makes sense while we’re being charitable to schools whose records look good if only they were in the SEC.

 
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