CFB Playoffs

[supafreak84]

Great game last night with Bama coming back to beat Oklahoma. Miami and A&M in a dogfight this morning. I still think Notre Dame would have beaten any of these four teams if they would have been let in to the playoffs, but that's another conversation. Ole Miss and Oregon should roll later

[StickierBuns]

Watching the Miami-Texas AM game now, pretty good so far although very low scoring. Good CFP games and Green Bay at Chicago tonight.

[supafreak84]

Like I said earlier this year, Malachi Toney is Tyreek Hill 2.0

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Also, to jump back on the selection process, if the goal is to get the very best teams in the playoffs, then how can you justify having some conference winner that's not even ranked in the top 20 teams in the playoffs over a team like Notre Dame who could legitimately have won it all? Tulane is en route of getting curb stomped by Ole Miss and James Madison is just a sacrificial lamb that will probably lose by 4 TD's at Oregon tonight. Does anybody really want to see that happen in these games? I know I don't regardless of what happened to Notre Dame. College football needs to once again tweak things and I don't think continuing to add more teams is the right answer. 12 teams is fine, just take the best 12 teams regardless on if you did or did not win some bum ass conference title. Automatic qualifiers needs to come with some kind of caveat, like while you may have won your conference, if you aren't ranked as a top 15 team at seasons end, too bad. Nobody can say with a straight face that Tulane or James Madison are better teams than Notre Dame or BYU

[JimmyinSD]

Like I said earlier this year, Malachi Toney is Tyreek Hill 2.0

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Also, to jump back on the selection process, if the goal is to get the very best teams in the playoffs, then how can you justify having some conference winner that's not even ranked in the top 20 teams in the playoffs over a team like Notre Dame who could legitimately have won it all? Tulane is en route of getting curb stomped by Ole Miss and James Madison is just a sacrificial lamb that will probably lose by 4 TD's at Oregon tonight. Does anybody really want to see that happen in these games? I know I don't regardless of what happened to Notre Dame. College football needs to once again tweak things and I don't think continuing to add more teams is the right answer. 12 teams is fine, just take the best 12 teams regardless on if you did or did not win some bum ass conference title. Automatic qualifiers needs to come with some kind of caveat, like while you may have won your conference, if you aren't ranked as a top 15 team at seasons end, too bad. Nobody can say with a straight face that Tulane or James Madison are better teams than Notre Dame or BYU

A complex power points system is the only logical answer. I'm not sure how to fairly weigh the power conference teams higher than the good teams from weaker conferences without unfairly disqualifying strong teams from those weaker conferences,  but im sure there is a better option than what gave us this years mess.

[JR44]

For March Madness when you have a 64 team field, it makes sense to have automatic bids and create some excitement for some of the smaller schools. For a 12 team field, you can't afford to be giving away spots. Tulane and James Madison cannot compete with these teams, not fair to anyone. They both should have gone to a bowl game they would have had a chance of winning. Imagine it will help them with recruiting, but the two games today were a complete waste.

[Canthony]

Like I said earlier this year, Malachi Toney is Tyreek Hill 2.0

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Also, to jump back on the selection process, if the goal is to get the very best teams in the playoffs, then how can you justify having some conference winner that's not even ranked in the top 20 teams in the playoffs over a team like Notre Dame who could legitimately have won it all? Tulane is en route of getting curb stomped by Ole Miss and James Madison is just a sacrificial lamb that will probably lose by 4 TD's at Oregon tonight. Does anybody really want to see that happen in these games? I know I don't regardless of what happened to Notre Dame. College football needs to once again tweak things and I don't think continuing to add more teams is the right answer. 12 teams is fine, just take the best 12 teams regardless on if you did or did not win some bum ass conference title. Automatic qualifiers needs to come with some kind of caveat, like while you may have won your conference, if you aren't ranked as a top 15 team at seasons end, too bad. Nobody can say with a straight face that Tulane or James Madison are better teams than Notre Dame or BYU

Or Texas

[JimmyinSD]

For March Madness when you have a 64 team field, it makes sense to have automatic bids and create some excitement for some of the smaller schools.  For a 12 team field, you can't afford to be giving away spots.  Tulane and James Madison cannot compete with these teams, not fair to anyone.  They both should have gone to a bowl game they would have had a chance of winning.  Imagine it will help them with recruiting, but the two games today were a complete waste.

James Madison hasn't been winning FCS championships,  not sure why they suddenly go to the big leagues and deserve a shot at the big trophy over perennial power houses that had respectable records.

[StickierBuns]

For March Madness when you have a 64 team field, it makes sense to have automatic bids and create some excitement for some of the smaller schools.  For a 12 team field, you can't afford to be giving away spots.  Tulane and James Madison cannot compete with these teams, not fair to anyone.  They both should have gone to a bowl game they would have had a chance of winning.  Imagine it will help them with recruiting, but the two games today were a complete waste.

Agreed. These aren't the best teams in the CFP, that's the bottom line, regardless of what the corporate mouthpieces at the Mothership (ESPN) yammer on about.

[Still Hurtn]

Allowing those two high school teams in was new level of stupid.

[purplefaithful]

Back to the drawing board...

At what point did common sense go out the window when constructing that system?

Cant be allowed to happen next season.