What's YOUR Number 1 Pet Peeve in College Football?

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onevol74 said:
So basketball championship has no value?
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How many times has the actual best team of the season won?

Also, since this board only sees absolutes, I’m not saying it has “no” value. It’s a very exciting way to crown a champion, but it certainly devalues the season. It’s also loaded with just as much human corruption crafting the brackets as the CFP selection
 
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give_him 6 said:
My pet peeve is ESPN

a. They have made NCAA football a giant money making industry. Its so over exploited by ESPN. They play to the fan bases to make more money. Every week and every location, its the same ----"this place is special"; "this is the loudest stadium"; "these are the best fans"; "this is the greatest tradition in football"; "this is the greatest rivalry"; etc. They operate from a script.

b. There are way too many college commentators or analysts who spend hours hypothesizing and talking nonsense on what will happen in this game, week, month, and year. They are no more credentialed to spew their opinion than you or I other than having played or coached at the college level. I mean who is clinging to what Jordan Rodgers, Trevor Matich, etc have to say?

Ok. I am exiting my soap box and done ranting.
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That’s not just ESPN’s fault. They’re capitalizing on what the NCAA is pushing.
 
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The media bias for certain teams. Targeting(how is a defensive player suppose to do his job? There is a difference between a cheap shot and a clean football play) The playoff system still needs to be tweaked some more. My suggestion: each team drop a cupcake game and have a 8 team playoff. Each power 5 conf champ + 3 wild cards. You still only play a max of 15 games
 
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gobravesvols16 said:
The media bias for certain teams. Targeting(how is a defensive player suppose to do his job? There is a difference between a cheap shot and a clean football play) The playoff system still needs to be tweaked some more. My suggestion: each team drop a cupcake game and have a 8 team playoff. Each power 5 conf champ + 3 wild cards. You still only play a max of 15 games
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Any proposal that requires dropping a game is a non-starter. No one will agree to sacrifice that revenue.
 
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I could say targeting rule.
I could say the weak fair catch at kickoff rule
I could say the stupid excessive celebration rule.

But I won’t.

Armchair coaches is what ticks me off the most.

I don’t mind legit criticism of the coaching when it’s warranted. But the stupid “id have gone for it on 4 and 5, he needs to be more risky, now he’s being two risky, why can’t the other quarterback play nonsense”

It’s so freaking annoying
 
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1) Notre Dame not being in a conference.

2) Cupcake OOC games. I want to see quality football every week, not these crappy teams that give us no gauge on how good we actually are.
 
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OldandStillaVol said:
Games are too long. I’d not stop the clock after first down.
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3 1/2 hours to run 60 minutes of play clock is beyond ridiculous. It's really worse than that as the teams obviously don't run plays the full 60 minutes that the clock is running. The average number of plays per team in a game is 72 or 144 total for the two teams. I would guess that the length of each play on average is no more than 10 seconds of action? That equates to around 24 minutes of playing action in 3 1/2 hours. Realizing that football is a high speed and high impact sport often resulting in injuries I'm not advocating more playing action per game. I bet, however, the more than 2 1/2 to 3 hours of dead time could be cut at least by a third? I know it's the TV revenue, but geeeez!
 
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My pet peeve is how the delay of game is more of a judgement call, while it seems very clear cut and is missed constantly. There’s no reason a buzzer shouldn’t sound like in basketball. My frustration began with this in the 2014 UF game.
 
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OldandStillaVol said:
Games are too long. I’d not stop the clock after first down.
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This is very true also. The pace of play talk seems to focus it’s attention to Golf and Baseball. Yet few people talk about how long some of these games last. The 3:30 CBS game has gotten ridiculous with how they drag the game out.
 
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The CFP for sure. The "best" teams concept is a joke. The fact that twice you've had teams not qualify to play for their conference championship and still make the playoffs is just points to the fact that it is simply about creating the most lucrative entertainment. I don't have a great idea, but any system that rewards you for losing is flawed.
 
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volfanbill said:
That’s not just ESPN’s fault. They’re capitalizing on what the NCAA is pushing.
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They are capitalizing on what they invested in. They invested heavy into College football, stupid money for Monday Night Football and stupid money on the NBA . That’s why you get the Monday night commercials in June, that’s why Max Kellermans stupid ass is talking NBA in his first segment 2 weeks before the NFL or College kicks off. They have to try and salvage whatever they can for viewers because they lost their ass with the NBA contract and what they are paying for MNF. At least College football puts a good product on the Tv with good games on ABC, Espn, and they have the best studio show in sports with Gameday. IMO it’s right there with Fox NFL and TNT NBA broadcast
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
1) Notre Dame not being in a conference.
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I agree that it's eye-rolling, but they simply are taking what the market is giving them. The economics of it allow them to operate outside of a conference. If Tennessee had similar economics, we'd probably do the same thing. I can see a day coming though when ND won't be able to do that and they'll have to join a conference.

However, the school where the fans' perception of the program is furthest removed from reality is Michigan. Not even close. Notre Dame might be second, but it is a distant second. And I'm not saying that just because of Harbaugh's underachievement or how they've underachieved from Lloyd Carr's final years. The entire history of their program since about 1950 is highly overrated.
 
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bamawriter said:
Actually, it's this premise that's flawed.
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How's that? I'm not picking on Alabama, it' just the one I remember more clearly. I know Ohio State received the same benefit.

Alabama goes into the final regular season game and loses to Auburn, which means they do not win the SECw and therefore do not have to play a very talented Georgia team in the SEC Championship. Because they lost, they were protected from playing another high quality team and protected from the possibility of taking a second loss which very likely would eliminate them from the CFP. They were chosen to play in the CFP as a one-loss team.

Georgia was also a one regular season loss team. Had they lost to Auburn in the SEC CG, they would not have been invited to play in the CFP as a two-loss team.

Alabama benefited by finishing second in the division as did Ohio State in a different year.
 
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SaintLouisVol said:
The CFP for sure. The "best" teams concept is a joke. The fact that twice you've had teams not qualify to play for their conference championship and still make the playoffs is just points to the fact that it is simply about creating the most lucrative entertainment. I don't have a great idea, but any system that rewards you for losing is flawed.
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you got a 8-4 Northwestern that COULD win their conference, you saying they wouldn't be rewarded for losing in your system of conference champs?

Bama starts playing an NFL schedule and they could have the worst record in the country, but still easily be one of the best teams.
 
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SaintLouisVol said:
How's that? I'm not picking on Alabama, it' just the one I remember more clearly. I know Ohio State received the same benefit.

Alabama goes into the final regular season game and loses to Auburn, which means they do not win the SECw and therefore do not have to play a very talented Georgia team in the SEC Championship. Because they lost, they were protected from playing another high quality team and protected from the possibility of taking a second loss which very likely would eliminate them from the CFP. They were chosen to play in the CFP as a one-loss team.
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Except there was never the possibility of a second loss. If Bama had won the Iron Bowl, they'd have been undefeated, and even a loss to UGA might not have eliminated them from playoff consideration. Given how everything wound up playing out, I think it's reasonable to assume that Bama would have made it in at 12-1 just like they did at 11-1.

The issue is how one values each loss. Had Bama lost to a terrible Tennessee team rather than a really good Auburn team, it would have been a worse loss in every way imaginable, except that it wouldn't have kept Bama out of the SECCG. To say that Bama didn't deserve to be in the CFP because they didn't win the West would be saying, essentially, that losing at 10-2 Auburn is worse than losing to 5-7 Tennessee at home.

Georgia was also a one regular season loss team. Had they lost to Auburn in the SEC CG, they would not have been invited to play in the CFP as a two-loss team.

Alabama benefited by finishing second in the division as did Ohio State in a different year.
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There is a significant difference between '17 Bama and '16 tOSU, in that Bama didn't get in at the expense of their conference champ.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
They are capitalizing on what they invested in. They invested heavy into College football, stupid money for Monday Night Football and stupid money on the NBA . That’s why you get the Monday night commercials in June, that’s why Max Kellermans stupid ass is talking NBA in his first segment 2 weeks before the NFL or College kicks off. They have to try and salvage whatever they can for viewers because they lost their ass with the NBA contract and what they are paying for MNF. At least College football puts a good product on the Tv with good games on ABC, Espn, and they have the best studio show in sports with Gameday. IMO it’s right there with Fox NFL and TNT NBA broadcast
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NBA Ratings have been down so far this year, but they've seen an overall upward trend for some time.
 
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I would be good with an 8 team playoff with 5 pc winners, 3 wild cards, 9 conference game season, guaranteed 1ooc p5 game, remove divisions and conference champ games. 1-4 hosts 5-8 . The storylines would be awesome .

Very hypothetical here, but let’s say we get back to being elite and we’re a top 4 seed. The Vols host Penn State or USC, Ohio State, etc . I have a hard time believing people can argue against that. OU hosting Michigan. Some of those venues with great teams facing off would be great. The regular season still counts because you get rewarded with home field advantage and then the winners basically play the playoff the way it is now. I would also include the new Los Angeles Stadium being built and the new stadium in Vegas as part of the rotation for the playoff.

Playoff venues:

Atlanta
Orlando (maybe)
Miami
Tampa
New Orelans
Dallas
Houston
Phoenix
LA x 2 (Rose Bowl + New Stadium)
Santa Clara
Indianapolis
Vegas

Maybe’s:
Minneapolis (that would suck in December/ Jan)
Meadowlands
Washington DC (Landover)
Charlotte

My 2 cents. Go ahead and pick it apart.
 
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