What if we had playoffs??

#26
#26
Funny how a college playoff "would suck" when as soon as these guys graduate and go to the NFL or CFL, if they are lucky, where everyone has a playoff and it works great.

Just like it does for every other major athletic sporting competion from Little League to Lacrosse. All except one-college football.

And you expect us to believe everyone else is doing it wrong and college football is doing it right? Good luck with that.
 
#27
#27
cotton said:
I'll bet everybody on this board can recap the football games against the tide off the top of their head back until they were about 5 years old. And the fact that the loser of a key conference matchup would still be in the hunt goes to prove the point that regular season games would not be as important.
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They can recap it because it is a rivalry. Not because there is or is not a playoff system.

In this non playoff system, do you think anyone outside of UK and UT fans, cares about that game.
If UT rolls in there with 2 losses and there were a playoff system, I can guarantee you there would be people not assocaited with either of those teams very interested in that game. If you don't want a playoff system, that is your business. But to argue it would diminish the regular season is nonsense.
 
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#28
allvol123 said:
If you don't want a playoff system, that is your business. But to argue it would diminish the regular season is nonsense.
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How can you argue, when one or two losses gets you into a playoff just the same as none, that regular season games won't lose some importance?
It will, even in rivalry games.
 
#29
#29
cotton said:
How can you argue, when one or two losses gets you into a playoff just the same as none, that regular season games won't lose some importance?
It will, even in rivalry games.
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They would not lose importance. How important is the game with Arkansas this weekend for UT? How important would it be if the top 12 teams went to a playoff?
 
#30
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allvol123 said:
They would not lose importance. How important is the game with Arkansas this weekend for UT? How important would it be if the top 12 teams went to a playoff?
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If you can lose to Florida and lose to LSU and still make the playoff, then those losses, and therefore those games, don't matter nearly as much as they do now. Sure, you are going to have some games where 12 meets 16 to see who gets in, but it doesn't really matter if you are 2nd or 12th after the season; you are going to get in, and you are going to have to play somebody pretty good.

Would the Louisville/WVU game have lost some importance? Louisville/Rutgers? Michigan/Ohio St?
 
#31
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cotton said:
If you can lose to Florida and lose to LSU and still make the playoff, then those losses, and therefore those games, don't matter nearly as much as they do now. Sure, you are going to have some games where 12 meets 16 to see who gets in, but it doesn't really matter if you are 2nd or 12th after the season; you are going to get in, and you are going to have to play somebody pretty good.

Would the Louisville/WVU game have lost some importance? Louisville/Rutgers? Michigan/Ohio St?
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How could a game with UF lose importance before you even played it? You are saying if you lose it, it loses importance. How can you lose it before you play it? Your interest for the game does not drop after it has been played, if you lose it. You want to win it, playoff or not. A playoff is not going to take away the hatred you have for other SEC teams and wanting to beat them.

The Arky game means nothing to UT this weekend, but I bet you are still interested in it. A playoff would not diminish your attitude towards wanting to beat any SEC team you are playing during any week of the season.
 
#32
#32
If the playoffs were kept to 6 to 8 teams, the regular season would be JUST as much as it does now.

I personally like the 6 team idea. BCS #1 and #2 get a bye, #3 plays #6 and #4 plays #5.

So, like ... Ohio State and Florida would get a bye, fpr example.

Each bowl would get a playoff game and it would rotate each year for which round games.

FOr instance, in 2006:

Fiesta: #3 Texas v. #6 Rutgers
Rose: #4 Cal v. #5 Auburn
Sugar #1 Ohio State v. # 6 or #5
Orange: #2 Florida v. #3,4,or 5

Then in 2007, the 2 first round games would be the Sugar and Orange.

Problem is with the above: Conference champs may not make the playoffs.
 
#34
#34
allvol123 said:
You are saying if you lose it, it loses importance.
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No. I'm saying that if it doesn't matter whether you win or lose it, it loses importance. If you can lose, say, 2 out of 3 against the conference's best, each of those 3 games loses some importance BEFORE you play them. The only reason the Arkansas game would retain its magnitude under that situation is if you had already lost the other two.

Take basketball, for example: a game against a conference rival is always a big game, but it doesn't compare to the "elimination" importance in football.

I have a feeling that we are just going to have to disagree here, but that is OK; I do not expect to convert the entire world to the Cotton doctrine until at least May of 2012:biggrin:
 
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