Playoffs format is garbage

#27
#27
Col_Cathcart said:
NFL reseeds 🤷‍♂️

It’s pretty much a necessity if you’re handing out byes in any way other than a pure power ranking.
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And sometimes teams with losing records make the playoffs. Also they play championship games as part of the playoffs, not before the playoffs.
 
#28
#28
C-south said:
And sometimes teams with losing records make the playoffs.
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Just like how mediocre teams sometimes win weak conferences. If you want to reward conference champions (and make those championship games matter) you need a corrective for when you have a really weak conference champion just like the nfl does for weak division champs.
 
#29
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Col_Cathcart said:
Just like how mediocre teams sometimes win weak conferences. If you want to reward conference champions (and make those championship games matter) you need a corrective for when you have a really weak conference champion just like the nfl does for weak division champs.
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The world doesn’t revolve around the sec nor should it.
 
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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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Don't know on that. ASU seems pretty legit. Vandy might beat them in Nashville, but not sure easily is the word I would use.
 
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GroverCleveland said:
Forget UGA. If we'd beaten Arkansas.
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Arkansas is a long way back there... UGA was a very clear SEC title game elimination game. And we smoked it. Badly. We are lucky to be in the playoff.

I'll never accept us not defeating them. They are standing directly in our way of getting to the top of this League. Not Alabama or Florida.
 
#34
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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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Hate the AQs. The rest works
 
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C-south said:
The world doesn’t revolve around the sec nor should it.
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What does that have to do with reseeding the playoff bracket after the first round? This isn’t about the SEC. It’s mostly about the big 12 and ACC to the degree that it’s about any particular conference at all.
 
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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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So more crappy teams get a chance…
 
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#38
n_huffhines said:
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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Just do the selections and seedings as part of the Dr. Pepper challenge!! Or, use a dart board.
 
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Ned Ray McWorkher said:
Arkansas is a long way back there... UGA was a very clear SEC title game elimination game. And we smoked it. Badly. We are lucky to be in the playoff.

I'll never accept us not defeating them. They are standing directly in our way of getting to the top of this League. Not Alabama or Florida.
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If the Vols had beaten Arkansas, they play Texas, not UGA.
 
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#42
Needs to be 8 or 16 team playoff with no byes. Go by computer ranking. #1 plays #16, #2 vs #11 and so on. But the computer rankings determine it. Not the AD of a ______ conference. Top half of the bracket host.
 
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Cartervol said:
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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How will they do that? The conferences are too big, and your schedule might not warrant playing for the CFP based on feelz that would be driving that particular bus. That's not fair either.
 
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Ned Ray McWorkher said:
While that ended up being true, even after losing to Arkansas, the Georgia game was for all of the marbles. You see who just won the league again.
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Not following you here. If UT had beaten Arkansas, they go into the UGA game with no SEC losses and uga having two, in essence the Vols having a game to give.

In that case, the outcome of the game in Athens would have no effect on the Vols' SECCG prospects assuming the rest of the schedule played out as it did. Beat the Razorbacks and the UGA game is not for all the marbles.
 
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Beat a bad Arkansas on the road, and we would have been at the very least hosting. That game is still baffling to me and totally unforgivable.
 
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Ned Ray McWorkher said:
Arkansas is a long way back there... UGA was a very clear SEC title game elimination game. And we smoked it. Badly. We are lucky to be in the playoff.

I'll never accept us not defeating them. They are standing directly in our way of getting to the top of this League. Not Alabama or Florida.
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That Georgia game was tied at half and a one score game halfway into the fourth. No way we got smoked. A few holding calls and we were right there.
 
#49
#49
Aside from a few tweaks on how they seed teams the playoff is great. The regular season means even more now. No matter what a few say it is very popular. I do think it will ultimately end up at 16. I just hope it stays at 16 for a long while. Football isn’t like basketball it doesn’t need nor can expand like that and keep regular season and conference championships in tact. I think it ultimately goes to 16 with conference champions guaranteed a spot in the playoffs but no automatic seedings. It will be done by rank if a conference champ is outside the top 16 they will be given the 16 seed, if 2 or 3 are outside they will be given 14,15,16 seeds. If folks get knocked out on backend that’s just tough somebody is always going to be left out, learn and get better. I also think there will be no bye’s. 16 will play 1 and 15 play 2 and so on. High seeds get first round home game. The quarterfinals will carry on like they are designed now. I think this is the best way to do it. It will be hugely popular. GBO
 
#50
#50
volinbham said:
Holy crap Penn St got a sweet deal - SMU, then Boise?
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It's crazy the B10 conference champion gets the winner of UT/OSU, and the runner up gets SMU and Boise.

The seeding needs to be fixed. The playoff should just be a straight 1-12 ranking with the top 4 teams getting bye's. All conferences are not created equal and treating them as such just screws it up.
 
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