'23 College Football season thread

[benefactor]

They should have made precise requirements to get into the playoffs instead of just some honks sitting in a room guessing who they think is best.

I think they should cap it at three teams per conference. That way you do give the smaller schools a chance to come there and shake things up. Look at the NCAA tournament. Everybody loves the Cinderella.

[Obstructed_View]

So what's your solution? You can sit here and play skeptic as much as you want but the fact is nothing has worked yet.

Like I said, the four team model was put in place specifically so the undefeated conference champs could play each other. The easy solution is to just follow the rules as they were originally made. As far as I know, nobody ever punished a team for losing a player to injury. That was never a factor before. Now suddenly it's bigger than being undefeated.

Ron Desantis is a ing moron, but maybe lawsuits from the schools will make a difference. ESPN and the committee have cost FSU millions of dollars. If I were head of the university I'd be considering sending just freshmen to play in the bowl game or something.

[FrostKing]

Don't be fooled into thinking the Playoff is expanding to make it more fair

It's expanding so that the SEC/Big10 can get more of their teams in

Saban raising the trophy as his inspirational 3-loss Bama defied all odds

[Obstructed_View]

They should have made precise requirements to get into the playoffs instead of just some honks sitting in a room guessing who they think is best.

But didn't they? Head to head was supposed to be a precise requirement, but they dinged Baylor despite beating TCU because they had a weak non conference schedule. They have these rules but then violate them to put their team in.

It's not guessing who's best, it's making as much money as they can.

[playblair]

Don't be fooled into thinking the Playoff is expanding to make it more fair

It's expanding so that the SEC/Big10 can get more of their teams in

Saban raising the trophy as his inspirational 3-loss Bama defied all odds

fsu fans r u had ur chance to be in the sec.........let us remember what ur administration said

"I felt that it was too difficult to win through the SEC to win a national championship," Bowden told Finebaum. "I felt like our best route would be to go through the ACC

[Blake]

Don't be fooled into thinking the Playoff is expanding to make it more fair

It's expanding so that the SEC/Big10 can get more of their teams in

Saban raising the trophy as his inspirational 3-loss Bama defied all odds

It'll be more fair if they make specific rules to get in like all power 5 plus group of 5 groups champions, two at large and then rank them in order based on BCS computer rankings

What they need to do though is to ditch about 64 teams from the FBS level and go power five only.

[playblair]

I think they should cap it at three teams per conference. That way you do give the smaller schools a chance to come there and shake things up. Look at the NCAA tournament. Everybody loves the Cinderella.

.the ncaa tournament works because basketball schools can only have 13 scholarships which spreads out the player base leading to parity.........football has 85 if ncaa used ur method there would be more tcu vs uga blowouts which would drive away viewers..............

[Biggems]

One idea I had a while back was have 16 eight team conferences made by teams in similar geographic regions.....like all the Florida schools in the same conference. 7 Conference games and 5 non.

16 Conference Champions make the playoffs. Have a live lottery to decide the seedings 1-16. 1 plays 16, 2 plays 15, and so on. Week 1 has 8 games. Week 2 has 4 games. Week 3 has 2 games. Week 4 is the National Championship Game.

[Blake]

One idea I had a while back was have 16 eight team conferences made by teams in similar geographic regions.....like all the Florida schools in the same conference. 7 Conference games and 5 non.

16 Conference Champions make the playoffs. Have a live lottery to decide the seedings 1-16. 1 plays 16, 2 plays 15, and so on. Week 1 has 8 games. Week 2 has 4 games. Week 3 has 2 games. Week 4 is the National Championship Game.

Sounds good but TV doesn't care. That's why USC and UCLA joined the big 10 and Stanford joined the ACC LOL

[Blake]

And lol at adding SMU.

[J.T.]

[Neo.]

Don't be fooled into thinking the Playoff is expanding to make it more fair

It's expanding so that the SEC/Big10 can get more of their teams in

Saban raising the trophy as his inspirational 3-loss Bama defied all odds

let's just be real now

Michigan Bama Georgia and Ohio State (and probably a few others who missed the playoffs) would all steamroll the noles without Travis.

it lets the clearly superior teams get their shot, along with the clearly inferior teams with misleading records

win win

[FrostKing]

let's just be real now

Michigan Bama Georgia and Ohio State (and probably a few others who missed the playoffs) would all steamroll the noles without Travis.

it lets the clearly superior teams get their shot, along with the clearly inferior teams with misleading records

win win

SEC Champion was going to be forced fed into the Playoff no matter what occurred elsewhere

We saw the narrative change on ESPN halfway thru the season, before Travis' injury. Why not? It's all hypothetical once you ignore W-L and plunge down the rabbit hole

[Blake]

let's just be real now

Michigan Bama Georgia and Ohio State (and probably a few others who missed the playoffs) would all steamroll the noles without Travis.

it lets the clearly superior teams get their shot, along with the clearly inferior teams with misleading records

win win

You mean like how Michigan was supposed to steamroll TCU last year?

[Neo.]

You mean like how Michigan was supposed to steamroll TCU last year?

wut

without max duggan yes they probably do rofl

[Neo.]

SEC Champion was going to be forced fed into the Playoff no matter what occurred elsewhere

We saw the narrative change on ESPN halfway thru the season, before Travis' injury. Why not? It's all hypothetical once you ignore W-L and plunge down the rabbit hole

I have always despised sec favoritism but tbh they (and bama in particular) have earned the benefit of the doubt

an undefeated team with a weak schedule and a number of struggles against lousy teams, and then lost their star QB and looked like total crap the last few games isn't going to get benefit of the doubt over a nick saban team that won the SEC by beating the undefeated defending champ.

an expanded playoff will prevent these kinds of conversations from even coming up. the arguments will in instead be among some 11-2 teams that didn't win their conference, which will be far less egregious than leaving out undefeated conference champs.

[Spurs Homer]

let it go already -

Texas is in - the rest of those kunts!

So predictions for the final 4?

[Blake]

wut

without max duggan yes they probably do rofl

They were supposed to beat them by more than a TD with him.

I guess we can just let Vegas pick the playoff teams then

[DMX7]

They were supposed to beat them by more than a TD with him.

I guess we can just let Vegas pick the playoff teams then

There were some really su ious things going on in that game TBH.

TCU apparently knew about Michigan’s sign-stealing habit ahead of their College Football Playoff matchup last New Year’s Eve, according to a report from Yahoo! Sports’ Ross Dellenger.

In order to mess with the Wolverines, the Horned Frogs changed their signs before kickoff. The coaches also used “dummy signals,” which were old plays that no longer ran with that signal. TCU players had to ignore these signals.

“Sometimes we froze a play before the snap,” a TCU coach told Dellenger. “We’d call a play and then we’d signal in another play with an old signal but we told players to run the original play.”

https://www.si.com/college/2023/10/2...playoff-report

I think the point is that Florida State is playing its worst football of the season now without its superstar QB. How can was gloss over that? I don't see any realistic chance of them beating any of the playoff teams (much less two of them).

[Blake]

There were some really su ious things going on in that game TBH.



https://www.si.com/college/2023/10/2...playoff-report

I think the point is that Florida State is playing its worst football of the season now without its superstar QB. How can was gloss over that? I don't see any realistic chance of them beating any of the playoff teams (much less two of them).

it'd be hilarious if the NFL or any other sport's playoff hopes were based on the eye test

[playblair]

fsu ur team couldnt score vs an fcs school with ur starting qb u wouldnt score vs michigan/alabama/texas/washington/uga............louisville held u to 3 points...........

[DMX7]

it'd be hilarious if the NFL or any other sport's playoff hopes were based on the eye test

Even before the College Football Playoff, the polls have played an important part in crowning the National Champion and the polls are largely based on the eye test. So it's nothing new.

[FrostKing]

fsu ur team couldnt score vs an fcs school with ur starting qb u wouldnt score vs michigan/alabama/texas/washington/uga............louisville held u to 3 points...........

For 1 quarter?

FSU beat LSU (on a neutral site) by more than Bama did at home

Our backup won at the Swamp. Bama hasn't even stepped foot there in 3 seasons

ACC had winning record vs SEC this season. FSU is on 4-game winning streak vs the SEC.

Our 3rd string true freshman beat the #16 team in the nation

[Blake]

Even before the College Football Playoff, the polls have played an important part in crowning the National Champion and the polls are largely based on the eye test. So it's nothing new.

Yeah it's been re ed for that long

[Neo.]

They were supposed to beat them by more than a TD with him.

I guess we can just let Vegas pick the playoff teams then

or we can just expand the playoffs. which is exactly what is happening.