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It is funny hearing ESPN analysts bashing uneven schedules because of inflated conferences. This was your doing! I think Booger even said that no conference has ever had even schedules....um the round robin Big 12 was and it was awesome. Then you guys blew it up.
Go to 16 teams. No byes. Every game is on a higher seeded campus until the championship. P4 conferences are split into divisions. Division winners are in. No conference title games. MWC and AAC winners get in. Or no divisions, and top two in each P4 get auto bids. Six at large teams. Seed it by ranking. 16 vs 1, 15 vs 2 and so on.
There’s a real chance there’s no SEC teams that make the semifinals. An ASU vs Boise State natty would be soooo funny. The SEC and BIG fans would lose their minds and lose all credibility moving forward.
That was going to happen because Boise St has been in their top 10 for weeks and decided not to downrank them for their close wins against Nevada and Wyoming like they should have. When they didn't choose to deflate an overinflated Boise St team then, you can't do it after they win their conference championship. In fact, I expected them to be bumped up to 3 when SMU lost.
Before they announced SMU I thought for sure it was going to be Bama and that they were getting an absolute cakewalk to the semis by putting them v. PSU and then Boise, leading to a rematch between Bama and Georgia. Still kind of shocked that didn't happen.
I actually have little issue with the bracket. Can't believe Bama missed out vs. SMU
And for those that said it was guaranteed the Big 12 would be playing in the Fiesta Bowl... NOPE - ASU is playing in the Peach Bowl.
And holy crap - if OSU beats Tennessee you get a near-traditional Rose Bowl matchup.
And holy crap - if OSU beats Tennessee you get a near-traditional Rose Bowl matchup.
My world outlook is a little less bleak today.
Damn, didn’t know people were getting drunk this early in the day.
I can, they only scored 3 points against the worst Oklahoma team in recent memory. That has to matter.
It was the bad losses. 3 losses in regular season is too many versus SMU’s lone regular season loss.
Alabama collapsed at the end of the season especially with the bad losses to OU.
KidSilverhair
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Isn’t this exactly what the playoff proponents wanted? To have the national champion actually prove themselves on the field? Well, here you go. Prove it.
Saban was crying about not scheduling tough out of conference games. Alabama lost 3 SEC games didn't they? Two bad losses as well. Can't have two bad losses Bama. Sorry. SEC was overrated anyway.
I tend to agree. I think we accidentally landed on something decent. I saw a very similar projection on Yahoo Sports this morning -only difference was SMU and Clemson were flipped (would have loved a Texas vs SMU game).
Hopefully they can fix the format in the future to make this a more likely outcome.
