OFFICIAL CFP TOP 4 SET

klemman

Junior
Jan 31, 2002
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It’s a fair decision. I’ve said on multiple conversations that the system is set up as a subjective system, so the final decision based on the system is just a decision. Not a right decision and not a wrong decision. Just a decision.
 

Max_Power

Senior
May 29, 2001
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Let’s be honest - Iowa is not good and that loss is the only loss this year more out of character for a team than nu losing to Duke
 

Catslash

Redshirt
Aug 28, 2001
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Why did the Big 12 petition the NCAA TO allow a championship game with only 10 teams?
 

GlideCat

Senior
Jan 19, 2013
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It’s a fair decision. I’ve said on multiple conversations that the system is set up as a subjective system, so the final decision based on the system is just a decision. Not a right decision and not a wrong decision. Just a decision.
No. It was wrong. Because Alabama is evil.
 
Sep 15, 2006
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I was never sold on OSU. Hard to argue 1 loss Bama over 2 loss OSU.


Agree about OSU. I'm intrigued, though, that it is automatically assumed that a 12-1 Wisconsin team that played for its league title and lost to two-loss Ohio State is a worse choice than an 11-1 Alabama team that didn't play for its league title and lost to three-loss Auburn. The SEC was not all that great this year, especially the Eastern Division where Georgia was about the only team with a pulse. Either get a real playoff system or go back to picking the national champions with the wire service polls and revert to the traditional bowl system.
 

Aging Booster

Freshman
Apr 10, 2014
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#1 Clemson vs #4 Alabama
#2 Oklahoma vs #3 Georgia
I think that this decision undermines the importance of winning one's conference, and therefore of the entire regular season. I would have preferred USC, OSU, or even CFU to Alabama. After an exciting year, this is a shame for college football.
 

Alaskawildkat

Senior
Dec 28, 2005
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No teams from the Midwest, West, Northeast. Its the SOUTHERN College Football Playoff.

Agree about OSU. I'm intrigued, though, that it is automatically assumed that a 12-1 Wisconsin team that played for its league title and lost to two-loss Ohio State is a worse choice than an 11-1 Alabama team that didn't play for its league title and lost to three-loss Auburn. The SEC was not all that great this year, especially the Eastern Division where Georgia was about the only team with a pulse. Either get a real playoff system or go back to picking the national champions with the wire service polls and revert to the traditional bowl system.

Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't a majority of the Committee members from the South and of those most from SEC country?
 

corbi2961

Senior
Sep 9, 2005
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I think that this decision undermines the importance of winning one's conference, and therefore of the entire regular season. I would have preferred USC, OSU, or even CFU to Alabama. After an exciting year, this is a shame for college football.

It also should cause the Big ten to rethink the 9 conference game schedule and the no FCS opponents on the schedule. The SEC has no such limitations and you could argue that contributed to Alabama edging out OSU.
 

NJCat

All-Conference
Mar 7, 2016
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klemman

Junior
Jan 31, 2002
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The other deciding factor was that Alabama is .... Alabama.

I think that this decision undermines the importance of winning one's conference, and therefore of the entire regular season. I would have preferred USC, OSU, or even CFU to Alabama. After an exciting year, this is a shame for college football.

From the beginning, when the Playoff Committee determined there would be 4 spots to be filled among 5 Conference Champions, the importance of a CC to the decision was made secondary. I said that last year when it benefitted OSU, and I say it again this year when it benefitted Alabama.
 
Sep 15, 2006
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I think that this decision undermines the importance of winning one's conference, and therefore of the entire regular season. I would have preferred USC, OSU, or even CFU to Alabama. After an exciting year, this is a shame for college football.

That was undermined last season when Ohio State went without even winning its division, and now it just got undermined again this year. Conference tournaments long ago destroyed the value of winning conference championships in basketball.
 
Sep 15, 2006
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It also should cause the Big ten to rethink the 9 conference game schedule and the no FCS opponents on the schedule. The SEC has no such limitations and you could argue that contributed to Alabama edging out OSU.

Or perhaps the playoff committee should judge strength of schedule as it's actually supposed to do.
 

LACatFan

Freshman
May 29, 2001
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That's fine. Always satisfying to see Bama get curb stomped. Although the TV network will be pissed when viewership (and ratings) of the Sugar Bowl begin to drop off the cliff. I'd guess around mid-3rd qtr.
 

LACatFan

Freshman
May 29, 2001
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I was never sold on OSU. Hard to argue 1 loss Bama over 2 loss OSU.

I've never been sold on the SEC. Not until they play a nine game conference schedule, like the rest of the Power Five. Until that changes, then it should be acknowledged that their is a defacto bias in the system that unfairly favors that conference down South.
 

Cincy Cat

Redshirt
Nov 4, 2006
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It also should cause the Big ten to rethink the 9 conference game schedule and the no FCS opponents on the schedule. The SEC has no such limitations and you could argue that contributed to Alabama edging out OSU.

Would have helped if the 9th game OSU could have dropped was Iowa.
 
May 29, 2001
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I believe now all 8 FBS Conference Champs should play in an 8 game playoff seeded by a certain criteria

SEC
B1G
PAC12
BIG12
ACC
Sun Belt
American
MWC

My Oops I forgot

MAC
CUSA

Something similar to FCS Playoffs. Now there must be two bye’s
 
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