Playoff system worked this year

[dannyripms]

Neither of the teams playing for it all would have been in it if it were the old system. It would have been fsu and bama. I'm not sure if I would like to expand it. I do believe tcu should have gotten in over fsu and that's why they need to take a closer look at opponents played and how they won. Fsu sqeeked by several teams this year. That tcu and Oregon matchup would have been awesome

 

[121Josey]

The bracket could have just as easily been Oregon/OSU and Bama/FSU.

TCU deserved to be there more than OSU. No way a team goes from 3rd to 6th on the final week. They could have named their score against TSUN - but thats not saying much.

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

If the goal was to get the 4 best teams, Then what the committee wanted to do would have been right. They had TCU ahead of FSU and really was hoping they would have lost that GT game. But they messed it up by going undefeated. I agree a TCU v Oregon matchup would have been cool.

With that said I prefer to do the 4 most deserving teams, meaning what their record was during the year. Problem is you can easily argue for TCU, OSU and Baylor to be 4. So I guess this is what we have for awhile.

 

[LTblows]

It didn't work. Ohio State shouldn't be in the playoffs. If we're looking at the body of work, their loss to Virginia Tech at home was terrible. Really bad. That should disqualify them. TCU should have been included, and they had to settle to blowing out the not-great black bears. To get it right, expand it to 8.

 

[mrbinsdog]

I would like to see 6

1&2 get a bye

It didn't work. Ohio State shouldn't be in the playoffs. If we're looking at the body of work, their loss to Virginia Tech at home was terrible. Really bad. That should disqualify them. TCU should have been included, and they had to settle to blowing out the not-great black bears. To get it right, expand it to 8.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

TCU looks like the 2nd best team in the country, and didn't make it in

over an (admittedly surprisingly good) ohio state team that had no business getting in over them.

However, after Oregon wins it all, nobody can be that mad. They deserve it this year. The craziest part is that the 2 teams playing for it this year would not have been in the championship under the BCS.

 

[patdog]

No doubt TCU deserved to be there. But the team they should have replaced is Florida St. Ohio St. proved they belonged. I can't imagine any other team in the country doing what they've done down to their 3rd string QB.

 

[patdog]

I think we're going to be at 4 for at least the next decade. And if/when it does expand, I think it'll go to 8. Bye's leave 2 teams sitting around when they could be making money.

 

[MSUDC11]

I don't know how you can say OSU wasn't deserving after last night.

It's plain as day to me that their best wins (Michigan State and Wisconsin) were better wins than Bama's best wins (us and Auburn).

This was a bad defense for Bama's standards, and I think anyone in the playoff would've exposed them. They would've beaten FSU, but it would've been a shootout unless the Noles fumbled 2000 times like they did against Oregon.

Oregon-TCU would've been an incredible championship, but Ducks-Bucks will be very fun to watch.

 

[Hammer Down]

It is because their resume was not as good as TCU's resume. I do not care what they did last night, that is hindsight. Strange things happen in bowl games.

 

[FlotownDawg]

And why do you believe that?

Because of preconceived notions that the Big 10 is not very good? The Big 10 might not be as deep as the SEC, but it looks like the top tier teams in that conference are better than the top tier teams in the SEC. The team that didn't deserve to be in the playoff was Florida State, but you couldn't keep them out because they were undefeated. After lucking through close win after close win, I wasn't surprised to see them get blown out by Oregon. TCU should've had their spot.

 

[Hammer Down]

You do the best with the information you have at the time. Hindsight is 20/20. Ohio State got into the playoffs due to politics (committee sending a message to the Big 12).

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

It's still a ridiculously small pool of teams that get in. It's the equivalent of selecting the champion of any of the major sports leagues by a committee at the end of the regular season (4/128 = 1/32). We don't need an NBA level of playoff teams, but more would be better. Eight would make it about the equivalent of the pre-LCS era of MLB and Sixteen would be like the pre-90s expansion in baseball. The only knock on an expanded playoff is that it will destroy interest in the other bowl games, but, honestly, who really cares.

 

[aTotal360]

Do you let in the 4 "most deserving" or the 4 "best" teams? BTW, the "least deserving" just beat the "best". Until the committee has a written set of criteria for their rankings, this argument is moot. They will continue to manipulate their rankings for maximum financial success. This committee craps needs to fall to the wayside. Use the BCS rankings to decide the top 4 and call it a day.

Either way, the milk is spilt.

 

[Hammer Down]

No doubt about that. But to me, you simply line up the resumes to determine the theoretical 'best'. It has to be based on the field results.

 

[WrapItDog]

The only knock on an expanded playoff is that it will destroy interest in the other bowl games, but, honestly, who really cares.

Were any of the bowl games other than the playoff games a sell out? Most of the bowl games I watched appeared to be played in half empty stadiums.

 

[LTblows]

I don't know how you can say OSU wasn't deserving after last night.

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Virginia Tech loss. You're welcome.

 

[121Josey]

Maybe Bama didn't belong if you want to play that game. The FSU game might have been a different game if it were played in New Orleans. It was a 25-20 game before FSU started fumbling.

 

[patdog]

Bama was competitive at least. FSU got blown the 17 out.

 

[RocketDawg]

Not that I saw. As for the BCS-level bowls, the Fiesta was close, but it was because Arizona was there. Boise State fans had a loooong way to travel, and they don't have that many fans anyway (home stadium is only 30K or so); The Orange is never sold out because of geography ... it's only nearby for the University of Miami, and they don't support their team anyway; The whole upper deck in the Peach was virtually empty ... TCU had a long way to travel; The Cotton seemed almost full but once again they had a local team playing.

Bowls are just getting too expensive. It costs about as much to go to a bowl game as it does attend the entire home season, and those are high enough. It's getting to the point that only the upper income fans will be able to go to games.

 

[WrapItDog]

SEC Bowl Attendance/Capacity

Independence Bowl South Carolina vs. Miami Independence Stadium 38,242 65,000
Liberty Bowl Texas A&M vs. West Virginia Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium 51,282 61,008
Texas Bowl Arkansas vs. Texas NRG Stadium 71,115 71,500
Music City Bowl LSU vs. Notre Dame LP Field 60,419 68,798
Belk Bowl Georgia vs. Louisville Bank of America Stadium 45,671 73,298
Peach Bowl Ole Miss vs. TCU Georgia Dome 65,706 71,228
Orange Bowl Miss. State vs. Ga. Tech Sun Life Stadium 58,211 76,100
Outback Bowl Auburn vs. Wisconsin Raymond James Stadium 44,023 65,857
Citrus Bowl Missouri vs. Minnesota Florida Citrus Bowl 48,624 70,000
Sugar Bowl Alabama vs. Ohio State Mercedes-Benz Superdome 74,682 72,003
TaxSlayer Bowl Tennessee vs. Iowa EverBank Field 56,310 67,164
Birmingham Bowl Florida vs. East Carolina Legion Field TBA 71,594