It’s silly to complain that the first-round games were lopsided. Lopsided games are the norm early in any single-elimination tournament (e.g. the NCAA basketball tournament). What we all look and hope for are upsets.They are rare. Which is exactly why they are exciting. 90% if the time the top seed will beat the 12th seed. But ten percent of the time they won’t. That’s how Cinderella stories are born. And it’s what keeps us watching.
I don't think 12 or 16 is bad outside of these stupid bowl tie-ins. With 16 teams, you're not likely to find a team in 15 or 16 who is going to win it all, but it does at least give some leeway to teams who had a refereeing incident ruin a game, or a team who had a major injury early to drop a few games only to get hot late in the season. The overreactions to the blowouts is a bit much. Out of the 16 BCS games, only 6 were one-score games and most of those weren't actually that close. There were 8 that were 14+ point differentials and some massive blowouts (55-19 anyone? which was 55-10 in the 4th quarter). So these first round games weren't great, who cares? At least these teams had a chance.
You had a 17.8 point average with a 4 tea and everyone is shocked there is a 19.2 average with a 12 team? Oh and it's easy to fix, but the SEC and certain leagues will never do it, they would rather cry. Here is your answer. Do all the butthurt SEC not think about when the 12 team was set up? Then Texas would have been the BIG12 championship, Oregon the Pack 12 championship, Ohio state the BIG 10 championship, Georgia the Sec championship. Being the 1 thru 4 with bye. Clemson the ACC championship and Boise as the G5, this would have seen most likely Tennessee, Notre Dame having home field. Also pretty easy to fix SOS debate, SEC plays only 3 out of conference games. Every league plays 1 power 4 team in the 3 out of conference games , 1 G5 team and 1 scrub. This gives a better way to compare leagues and actually look at data. BUT OH YA MOST OF THE SEC ONLY WANTS TO PLAY 4 Out of conference scrubs and then claim they are the hardest league top to bottom, when it really looks like there just top heavy like the BIG10
The NCAA tournament has had it right for decades: Win your (Top Four + highest-ranked 5th) conference tournament, and you get an automatic bid. But seed the tournament based entirely on final rankings. If you must have first-round byes, give them to the four highest-ranked teams. Above all, get rid of all the meaningless bowl games, which mean less now than they ever have. Which would make room for a 16-team playoff, and bring the television viewership to (playoff) games that actually mattered.
every year it will change the big 12 could have a juggernaught you just never know players move around know with the nil so the underdog could be a tough out but it has to be based on a schedule that is not easy!!!
The ONLY reason the SEC won multiple championsips the last decade was they GOT MOST TEAMS in the playoffs no matter the record due to BIAS and INFLUENCE its not hard to win the most when you have the MOST TEAMS in and usually TWO & keep the Pac 12 & BIG 12 teams down to one or NONE ina 4 team playoffs now the SEC want 5-6 teams in
The lawyers don’t need to make 20%. This isn’t personal injury contingency. The judge should cut the fees down. Like anything financial, the bigger the number, the smaller the % cut in fees.
Cant pick and choose which games count and which dont. Saban and bama got blown out 44-16 to clemson in the finals yet no one said they didnt belong 😂🤡🤦🏼♂️these hypocrites are ridiculous
Big Ten and SEC expanded to 24 teams each. Each conference has four divisions of six teams. Division champs play a conference playoff - as part of the CFP. Conference champs play in a national championship. That’s an 8-team playoff with divisional rounds home games. Do the same for the ACC and Big 12, but as a Tier II league. Then create a Tier III for two consolidated mid-major conferences.
The playoff words exactly how it is intended to work you fools. The higher ranked team with home-field advantage three out of four of them playing in the cold or the other teams. Haven’t seen the cold before won…. It worked perfectly. It would be rare to get an upset and that’s exactly how it’s supposed to work …. Wake up people.
the problem is they should use strength of schedule like boise st and Arizona st should have all played in the first 8 teams they should have had Penn st. should have gotten a bye the bye's should have been OREGON GEORGIA NOTRE DAME PENN ST. THEN rank them as so the rest!!
Stop the bs. You think you are smarter than the selection committee? The committee made the right choices. Strength of schedule unmarried from the, eg, bad bad losses of many SEC teams is absolute bs Idiocracy. They need to get rid of the home games for favorite teams and only a few media personalities have mentioned that so far, especially with ESPN trying to grandstand for their $$ SEC media rights.
ITS NOT March Madness these LOW teams have NO chance to win ! there are TOO MANY weak teams as it is eight is all we need !!! clearly the last 4 teams IN ,had NO chance , you think MORE will make it better ? its NOT march Madness there are NO UPSETS
The G5 needs to be removed from a National Championship Tournament. Go to six! B1G and SEC get first round byes. Big 12 champ hosts the B1G runner up from the conference championship in the Fiesta Bowl. ACC champ plays SEC runner up from the conference championship in Orange Bowl. Winner of the former plays the SEC Champ in the Sugar Bowl and winner of the latter plays the B1G champ in the Rose Bowl. This way everybody plays in a conference championship. Notre Dame would then need to go to a conference. G5 can do their own system. If one does really well I'm sure they would be invited to join the table eventually, which is exactly how TCU, Utah, and SMU got to the table. Creating more games within the academic and NFL schedules is a mess and nobody can credibly argue that a G5 team is going to win a national championship in college football.
It’s silly to complain that the first-round games were lopsided. Lopsided games are the norm early in any single-elimination tournament (e.g. the NCAA basketball tournament). What we all look and hope for are upsets.They are rare. Which is exactly why they are exciting. 90% if the time the top seed will beat the 12th seed. But ten percent of the time they won’t. That’s how Cinderella stories are born. And it’s what keeps us watching.
Yep, 5 of 6 games in last year’s NFL wildcard round were blow outs. But the optics of the first run of this could have been better.
Exactly. People need to settle about this
The ratings over this weekend will be higher than previous bowl weekends. It’s still a net positive.
I don't think 12 or 16 is bad outside of these stupid bowl tie-ins. With 16 teams, you're not likely to find a team in 15 or 16 who is going to win it all, but it does at least give some leeway to teams who had a refereeing incident ruin a game, or a team who had a major injury early to drop a few games only to get hot late in the season. The overreactions to the blowouts is a bit much. Out of the 16 BCS games, only 6 were one-score games and most of those weren't actually that close. There were 8 that were 14+ point differentials and some massive blowouts (55-19 anyone? which was 55-10 in the 4th quarter). So these first round games weren't great, who cares? At least these teams had a chance.
You had a 17.8 point average with a 4 tea and everyone is shocked there is a 19.2 average with a 12 team?
Oh and it's easy to fix, but the SEC and certain leagues will never do it, they would rather cry. Here is your answer.
Do all the butthurt SEC not think about when the 12 team was set up? Then Texas would have been the BIG12 championship, Oregon the Pack 12 championship, Ohio state the BIG 10 championship, Georgia the Sec championship. Being the 1 thru 4 with bye. Clemson the ACC championship and Boise as the G5, this would have seen most likely Tennessee, Notre Dame having home field.
Also pretty easy to fix SOS debate, SEC plays only 3 out of conference games. Every league plays 1 power 4 team in the 3 out of conference games , 1 G5 team and 1 scrub.
This gives a better way to compare leagues and actually look at data.
BUT OH YA MOST OF THE SEC ONLY WANTS TO PLAY 4 Out of conference scrubs and then claim they are the hardest league top to bottom, when it really looks like there just top heavy like the BIG10
The NCAA tournament has had it right for decades: Win your (Top Four + highest-ranked 5th) conference tournament, and you get an automatic bid. But seed the tournament based entirely on final rankings. If you must have first-round byes, give them to the four highest-ranked teams. Above all, get rid of all the meaningless bowl games, which mean less now than they ever have. Which would make room for a 16-team playoff, and bring the television viewership to (playoff) games that actually mattered.
every year it will change the big 12 could have a juggernaught you just never know players move around know with the nil so the underdog could be a tough out but it has to be based on a schedule that is not easy!!!
The ONLY reason the SEC won multiple championsips the last decade was they GOT MOST TEAMS in the playoffs no matter the record due to BIAS and INFLUENCE its not hard to win the most when you have the MOST TEAMS in and usually TWO & keep the Pac 12 & BIG 12 teams down to one or NONE ina 4 team playoffs now the SEC want 5-6 teams in
Exactly!
Is Pat wearing a Fisher Beer hat from Salt Lake City? I have raised a pint there in my travels.
The lawyers don’t need to make 20%. This isn’t personal injury contingency. The judge should cut the fees down. Like anything financial, the bigger the number, the smaller the % cut in fees.
Without lawyers this doesn’t happen. That takes money
The Athletes should make 20%!
Which fan base is nuttier: Ohio State or Texas A&M. Interesting the AD common thread. Poor guy.
There is no why 30k Tennessee fans were in the horse shoe. I think this is a bad stat.
Cant pick and choose which games count and which dont. Saban and bama got blown out 44-16 to clemson in the finals yet no one said they didnt belong 😂🤡🤦🏼♂️these hypocrites are ridiculous
Nobody cares about views. It’s a playoff. News flash #5 will usually beat #12 team. Duh
some of the underdogs are good but not all that is why they should never get a bye unless they have better competition
Go back to BCS.
You'd have to close the portal. there's too much parity now. The problem is some teams getting to play at home.
the problem is the Boise st and acc dont play anyone they should have to play other teams that are not in the division!!!
They need to get rid of home games for the favorite teams. Neutral fields.
Big Ten and SEC expanded to 24 teams each. Each conference has four divisions of six teams. Division champs play a conference playoff - as part of the CFP. Conference champs play in a national championship. That’s an 8-team playoff with divisional rounds home games. Do the same for the ACC and Big 12, but as a Tier II league. Then create a Tier III for two consolidated mid-major conferences.
Notre Dame is not an ACC team. ND will be the first ones to say that.
The playoff words exactly how it is intended to work you fools. The higher ranked team with home-field advantage three out of four of them playing in the cold or the other teams. Haven’t seen the cold before won…. It worked perfectly. It would be rare to get an upset and that’s exactly how it’s supposed to work …. Wake up people.
the problem is they should use strength of schedule like boise st and Arizona st should have all played in the first 8 teams they should have had Penn st. should have gotten a bye
the bye's should have been OREGON GEORGIA NOTRE DAME PENN ST. THEN rank them as so the rest!!
Stop the bs. You think you are smarter than the selection committee? The committee made the right choices. Strength of schedule unmarried from the, eg, bad bad losses of many SEC teams is absolute bs Idiocracy. They need to get rid of the home games for favorite teams and only a few media personalities have mentioned that so far, especially with ESPN trying to grandstand for their $$ SEC media rights.
😂🤡
ITS NOT March Madness these LOW teams have NO chance to win ! there are TOO MANY weak teams as it is eight is all we need !!! clearly the last 4 teams IN ,had NO chance , you think MORE will make it better ? its NOT march Madness there are NO UPSETS
The G5 needs to be removed from a National Championship Tournament. Go to six! B1G and SEC get first round byes. Big 12 champ hosts the B1G runner up from the conference championship in the Fiesta Bowl. ACC champ plays SEC runner up from the conference championship in Orange Bowl. Winner of the former plays the SEC Champ in the Sugar Bowl and winner of the latter plays the B1G champ in the Rose Bowl. This way everybody plays in a conference championship. Notre Dame would then need to go to a conference. G5 can do their own system. If one does really well I'm sure they would be invited to join the table eventually, which is exactly how TCU, Utah, and SMU got to the table. Creating more games within the academic and NFL schedules is a mess and nobody can credibly argue that a G5 team is going to win a national championship in college football.