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2024 College Football Thread

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17 minutes ago, Shocker said:

I am going to admit that I thought the Big 1G was overrated all season but that was way wrong.  Best conference especially those top 3.  Illinois and Michigan also with big wins.

Super conference SEC not so much

After OSU lost to Michigan I wondered if they were overrated, too - turns out the B1G or whatever is just good.

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19 hours ago, cookinbrak said:

No, 4 conference champions got a bye. The wrong 4, obviously.

Who else could you give the bye to?  Oregon beat Ohio State.  Georgia beat Texas twice. Arizona State was a conference champ, and probably would have beaten Texas had the ref's got the targeting call right.  I suppose one could argue that Boise State didn't deserve it, but I like seeing the little guys get something like that.  And they arguably played as well as any of the other top seeds did, except for Arizona State.

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1 hour ago, Davidson Deac II said:

Who else could you give the bye to?  Oregon beat Ohio State.  Georgia beat Texas twice. Arizona State was a conference champ, and probably would have beaten Texas had the ref's got the targeting call right.  I suppose one could argue that Boise State didn't deserve it, but I like seeing the little guys get something like that.  And they arguably played as well as any of the other top seeds did, except for Arizona State.

I'd like to see the byes go to the top teams regardless of if they won their conference or not, personally, with home field based on those rankings 

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25 minutes ago, mav1234 said:

I'd like to see the byes go to the top teams regardless of if they won their conference or not, personally, with home field based on those rankings 

There was no way that Boise State and Arizona State should've been top four seeds. They earned their right to be in the field. Absolutely. But getting byes? Nah.

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1 hour ago, mav1234 said:

I'd like to see the byes go to the top teams regardless of if they won their conference or not, personally, with home field based on those rankings 

The flaw in that is best teams is just an opinion.  But is there anyone who thinks that Georgia and Oregon didn't deserve #1 seeds?  And both teams got their arses kick. 

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1 minute ago, Davidson Deac II said:

The flaw in that is best teams is just an opinion.  

 

How is that different from the current system? Rankings the conference champions above everyone else doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Just take the last playoff rankings and roll with them.

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1 minute ago, mav1234 said:

How is that different from the current system? Rankings the conference champions above everyone else doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Just take the last playoff rankings and roll with them.

Well, the difference is that with conference championships, the teams actually won something, thus earning the right.  

But then, I think they should break up the Mega Conferences anyway.  

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My proposal would be the top four ranked conference champions get a bye. However, a reseeding would occur after the first round.

This rewards four of the five conference champions with a week of rest, but it also ensures actual 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, and 4-5 matchups in the quarterfinals. In many cases, the third and fourth conference champs will be reseeded lower than some of the at large teams, which is where they should be. 

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13 hours ago, mav1234 said:

How is that different from the current system? Rankings the conference champions above everyone else doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Just take the last playoff rankings and roll with them.

Yep.  Auto byes wreck the logic.  

12 - Clemson

11 - ASU

10 - Boise State 

9 - Indiana 

8 - Tenn

7 - OSU

6- ND

5 - PSU

those are the teams that should of played first round.  I mean all you have to do in theory was have ASU have a worse record while winning their conference (everything else being the same) and suddenly they would have been forced to give #12 Clemson a first round bye.  Makes no sense.  Imagine that playing out.  Conference titles should count in terms of wins and losses that impact ranking of the 12 but the byes just don’t make sense

 

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9 minutes ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

The only solution is to expand to 16 teams and eliminate the bye lol

And when complaints occur regarding that, the solution will be to expand to even more teams.  Just as they have done with the NCAA tournament.  

I think the solution is to play well for the entire season and then let the cards fall where they will.  But it might be a good idea to eliminate a team playing at home and have all the games played at neutral sites.  

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