Playoff Chaos?

[Epictetus]

So the consensus is that tOSU losing to Iowa was the reason they didn’t get in. Oklahoma lost to Iowa State...in Norman. Yeah, ou bounces back and has looked really good, but how can the committee look at Iowa any differently than Iowa State? The process is far too subjective. Are we taking conference champs or aren’t we?  If it’s supposedly a representation of the P5 conferences, shouldn’t it be a 5-team setup with a first round bye?  USC has as much of a bitch, if not more so than tOSU. Alabama did not even win their division, let alone their conference. 

This is a horrible message the committee has sent. (Understand I don’t have a dog in this fight, and if all four playoff teams, USC and tOSU got a raging case of Montezumah’s Revenge that sidelined them all for the month of January and cancelled the playoff, I wouldn’t lose a wink of sleep.)

By ignoring two P5 conference champions, the committee made it completely subjective declaring "best team" as a label for a decision, and a list of 'bullets' for determinations. Says who? The Playoff Fairy?

To make such subjective analysis flies in the face of getting away from season-ending polls of long ago. Zero improvement and screws with traditional bowls, flying in the face of a conference race to the finish, mocking fans and public in general.

I'm betting Ohio State / USC in the Cotton Bowl will get a better rating than Clemson-Bama. By dusk Jan 1st the national viewing audience will have had enough quality bowl games thru Sat night.

This year, the NFL's Sunday lands on New Year's Eve putting a gap between most of the top bowl games of Fri/Sat, and the NY Day lineup. By Monday, who really Cares for two late bowl games with 3 of the 4 teams an afternoon's drive from one another, two in the same conference with one a loser of its Div and an SOS of 50! Oh, I forgot, it's got a brand (and a committee).

The OU-GA game could get fair ratings, but Clemson vs. We're-Entitled-to-the-Opportunity, may not. Half the country will get ready for work on Tuesday. I'm spending time with the family. May DVR OU/GA for the heck of it.

 

[dillohorn]

The BCS and this new system suck and are no better than  beauty pageants. I for one loved the old bowl match ups and the UPI/AP polls systems. These were every bit as fair and were no more subjective than the crap we are getting now.  The new systems have not been an improvement by any means. Change for the sake of change sucks.   

 

[Grandpa Zorro]

I say go to an 8 team playoff system.  P5 conference winners are automatically in.  the other 3 can be selected at large by the committee.  Then let these guys settle it on the field.

 

[North Texas Golfer]

This year is no different than any other year. There are 2-3 obvious choices and 2-3 more that a case can made that should be picked. 

Guess what. The same thing will happen again next year and the next and the next.

It won't change until a true division/conference style setup with a true playoff system like the NFL is in place. 

 

[DBut82]

This year is no different than any other year. There are 2-3 obvious choices and 2-3 more that a case can made that should be picked. 

Guess what. The same thing will happen again next year and the next and the next.

It won't change until a true division/conference style setup with a true playoff system like the NFL is in place. 

They could use the Texas state high school playoff as a go-by as well...take a conference champ plus the 2nd place team per conference.  Then every conference in the nation could be represented.  And include at-large selections for independents.  And all the bowls can be used as playoff sites. It can be fixed and satisfactory to crown a true national champion if the ones in power truly want it.  Which they don't...

 

[joeywa]

It can be fixed and satisfactory to crown a true national champion if the ones in power truly want it.  Which they don't...

This says it all. 

 

[Epictetus]

On Cowherd this morning, in the second hour after "Kristine With the New" Joel Klatt summed it up first ten minutes of that half hour segment.

The committee is a joke and makes excuses for what it wants, which isn't "which teams are deserving?"  -- making this kind of selection not what the college football fans deserve.

He pointed out that the two conferences that have three teams in, play only 8 conference games, the other three Power 5 conferences play 9.

Bama played a shit schedule non-conference while -- as pointed out in posts above -- USC played Texas and Notre Dame. I think Klatt mentioned that all USC's games were against Power 5 teams. Or 11 of them were.

The SEC keeps playing non-Power 5 cupcakes the week before Thanksgiving, to insure they don't wreck their record or standings. That conference is being rewarded for playing 4 non-Conf nothing-burger games, with only a few of the teams (have to say A&M is one) actually play anybody.

Klatt added a breakdown of the changing "criteria" for several of the years. They get who they want and make excuses not explanations.

Klatt proposed eliminating divisions. Each conf puts their top 2 teams in a conf title game and winner advances. Of the five P5 conferences, then, one gets left out based on (whatever), but no one earns their way in unless they deserve to be in by playing it on the field.

I think the 14-team conferences can eliminate divisions but still create a year-to-year rotation, and should play TEN conference games, playing each of those 10 home-and-home. Then alter the schedule for the next two years. And so on. And stop playing 7 home games. Which, I believe, aggie does.

 

[java]

7 home games brings more re-ven-ue.