ESPN will manipulate the College Footballl Playoffs

[RoyalCrowns]

Just watched the ESPN Bowl Selection Show and four of five placed Bama in the final four, while Baylor was first team out on four of the ballots. It was a hypothetical of what a four-team playoff might look like this year. Rece Davis didn't have Baylor in his top six. My point is I think they will manipulate the hell out of the standings all season long in an effort to have multiple SEC teams in the mix. Translation, Big XII champion has to go through the season undefeated to even be considered. I think a major criteria should be winning your conference. Otherwise, why not put 3 SEC teams in the final four, or, better yet, make it the top four teams from the greatest conference God ever made. Remember the best college football team ever assembled and championed by ESPN in 2005? I'm simply not a fan of ESPN and the stroke they carry with college football.

 

[Oilfield]

They are a major reason for the SEC's long run.

 

[Embrey]

The four team playoff is a step in the right direction but it will be inherently political as is the current system.

The eight team playoff would allow for teams that had one loss to have the opportunity to earn their way to a NC.

The sixteen team playoff, which I prefer, allows for teams that gelled midway through the season to have the opportunity to compete for a NC.

Is the point of the prior system (traditional bowls with conference ties) or the current system (BCS) to find the best team? No.

It is to name a national champion while upholding the 'tradition' of the bowls.

I for one would like to know who is best rather than have sportswriters, opinion makers and ESPN tell my lying eyes what to think.

 

[Fatherof5]

I have deleted my esecpn bookmark and started using cnnsi as my source for sports information simply because I am so sick of the bias. This 7 year run by the sec would not have been possible without their overt fellating of the sec.

 

[NLeininger]

Fortunately the polls don't matter anymore, as the selection committee have their own selection criteria.

So no more coaches f##king with final ballots and gone are the crappy computer models that weren't allowed to consider a few things that make a huge difference.

 

[TheContractor]

yep, ESPN has manipulated it for a while. Thats why i was happy LHN is a product of the ESPN.

 

[ridik01]

ESPN drives the SEC, without ESPN they wouldn't have half their championships because ESPN gives them their preseason rankings! They harp about SEC teams all off season, thus getting them low rankings and continued low rankings because of losses or wins to other low ranked SEC teams.

It'll change with FS1 getting. Bigger and Fix carrying more college games.

 

[gemini]

on twitter https://twitter.com/MrCFB/status/409875754978009088

 

[GetHooked]

They are a major reason for the SEC's long run.

Yes they are. It's sickening actually.

 

[Lord Vader]

The fact the SEC masses can justify leaving out a conference champion is absurd....

 

[Hiwood]

its all about ratings and advertising revenue..anytime you have a cable outlet with a financial interest on the possible matchups and games to be broadcast they will control the agenda..ESPN/BCS got bailed out that both N.Illinois and Fresno State got beat late, they dont want some small market team playing in the big money games

 

[Juan]

ESPN gives us an advantage too.

Yet we squander it.

 

[orangeman01]

ESPN gives us an advantage too.Yet we squander it.

yep.but all you hear are the butt hurt fans from all other conferences. If we don't like them all we have to do is beat them and apparently no one's been able to beat the SEC. They deserve it but everyone else is catching up. Their run will end.

 

[Randolph Duke]

Winning solves everything. Teams that lose are the teams that complain they fate was caused by a big consipracy that was against them.

 

[Longhorns96]

You guys are exactly right. Look at the comparison of the two teams that beat an undefeated team, late in the year.

Team 1). Lost early in the season by 14 points. Won their final two games on fluke plays. Were they legitimate? Absolutely. And you must play the full 60 minutes to claim a victory. They beat the undefeated #1 team by 6 in the final second of the game at home.

Team 2). Lost early in the season by 3 points on a very poorly officiated game against the Irish. Went undefeated in conference. Beat the previously undefeated conference leader....by 10 on a neutral site.

Yet, ESPN says that the sec would still gave two teams in the playoffs, and Team 1 is ahead of Team 2, simply because the way they won was flashier and more impressive than Team 1.

And to make things worse, the slobbering sycophant, Lou Holththththz, said he would have auburn as the 3 seed and Bama as the fourth, so we wouldn't have to see an SEC matchup in the semi finals. This is the shit we are gonna see in the very near future.

 

[Juan]

Your pic makes me think of this pic.

It cannot be helped.

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[Finkle is Einhorn]

Granted, ESPN is all over the SEC's jock, but I don't really have a problem with someone saying that Bama is better than Baylor.

 

[cmb89]

They mentioned Baylor and correctly stated that they got whipped soundly by OSU. Baylor hasn't beaten anyone good this year.

I think that the 4 best teams should go. Why would you want a team that you don't believe is better go ahead of a conference winner? You really think Baylor could beat 'Bama?

No way.

 

[echeese]

I have deleted my esecpn bookmark and started using cnnsi as my source for sports information simply because I am so sick of the bias. This 7 year run by the sec would not have been possible without their overt fellating of the sec.

While I share the concern about ESPN. . . .the only year you can make a good argument someone else deserved to be there (really deserved) was OSU in 2011 which had a better SOS than Bama but a worse "loss".

In those 7 years. . .the SEC has not only won but often won in DOMINATING fashion. (Bama ND Fla tOSU etc)

But that is not to say such bias isn't a problem going forward.