4 Team College Football Playoff

[star seed 7]

 

[sys]

four teams isn't enough.  that was obvious from the very first time some dumbass ever mentioned four teams.  four teams is stupid.

[steve dave]

This isn't basketball or baseball or hockey or some other pud sport. Just throwing another game or two onto the end has a lot of issues. It would become a war of attrition and least spaghetti brained players. You'd have to start shortening everyone's regular schedule in order to get two teams another game. Maybe not at 8 but maybe.

[CHONGS]

8 is easily workable. 

9 conference games + 2 OOC + 3 Rounds of playoffs

easy

[star seed 7]

8 is ideal imho

[MakeItRain]

This isn't basketball or baseball or hockey or some other pud sport. Just throwing another game or two onto the end has a lot of issues. It would become a war of attrition and least spaghetti brained players. You'd have to start shortening everyone's regular schedule in order to get two teams another game. Maybe not at 8 but maybe.

College football has the shortest post season in the sport by far, asking for 8 isn't some superhuman test of strength. Middle schools and pee wee football have longer post seasons.

[scottwildcat]

the system with 4 is fine. Someone is always going to be left out.

[scottwildcat]

8 is easily workable. 

9 conference games + 2 OOC + 3 Rounds of playoffs

easy

Taking a home game away from everyone will not happen.

[Mr Bread]

This isn't basketball or baseball or hockey or some other pud sport. Just throwing another game or two onto the end has a lot of issues. It would become a war of attrition and least spaghetti brained players. You'd have to start shortening everyone's regular schedule in order to get two teams another game. Maybe not at 8 but maybe.

The blue bloods get the better of good old-fashioned attrition-offs far more often than not I imagine.     

[steve dave]

This isn't basketball or baseball or hockey or some other pud sport. Just throwing another game or two onto the end has a lot of issues. It would become a war of attrition and least spaghetti brained players. You'd have to start shortening everyone's regular schedule in order to get two teams another game. Maybe not at 8 but maybe.

College football has the shortest post season in the sport by far, asking for 8 isn't some superhuman test of strength. Middle schools and pee wee football have longer post seasons.

Yes, and shorter regular seasons. That was the point. And I wasn't saying 8 was the number you'd have to start shortening seasons. But at some point you would. And nobody involved in making the decision is going to ever allow that.

[steve dave]

the system with 4 is fine. Someone is always going to be left out.

Agreed.

[Mr Bread]

8 is easily workable. 

9 conference games + 2 OOC + 3 Rounds of playoffs

easy

Taking a home game away from everyone will not happen.

Yes, definitely not.  Nobody is taking away games from everybody to make it easier on a measly eight teams at the end of the year. 

[Mr Bread]

the system with 4 is fine. Someone is always going to be left out.

Agreed.

It's more interesting with the people getting left out story lines and buildup/fallout.   

[wetwillie]

the system with 4 is fine. Someone is always going to be left out.

Even if it was 8 there would have been massive butt hurt today. 

[steve dave]

the system with 4 is fine. Someone is always going to be left out.

Agreed.

It's more interesting with the people getting left out story lines and buildup/fallout.   

Yep

[SdK]

Don't give playoff teams a month off before games? Two weeks. Game. Two weeks. Game. Etc.

[kim carnes]

8 teams would give us a lot better chance at ever making the playoffs.  same for the rest of the non-blueblood teams.

[MakeItRain]

the system with 4 is fine. Someone is always going to be left out.

Even if it was 8 there would have been massive butt hurt today.

No there wouldn't be, there would be discussion but few would meltdown over Michigan State and Mississippi State getting picked over Arizona and K-State.

[catastrophe]

I enjoy that the BCS (that every dumbass hated) had the same 4 teams as the new playoff committee (that every dumbass now hates)

Are they still even doing the Harris Poll? At either rate, to be fair most people clamoring for a playoff just wanted more than two teams to have a shot. Also, I would take the committee's opinion over the Coaches' Poll no matter what.

I will continue complaining about the system until (at a minimum) the power 5 champs get auto bids. At that point we can debate about the positioning of other teams, but it sucks to call it a "playoff" and shut out a major conference (perhaps the strongest conference statistically).

[michigancat]

I enjoy that the BCS (that every dumbass hated) had the same 4 teams as the new playoff committee (that every dumbass now hates)

IIRC I said they would copy the coaches poll and they almost exactly matched.

[Pete]

I enjoy that the BCS (that every dumbass hated) had the same 4 teams as the new playoff committee (that every dumbass now hates)

IIRC I said they would copy the coaches poll and they almost exactly matched.

Earlier in the year the Committee's rankings were different than the polls....I think the polls started voting like the Committee.

[michigancat]

I enjoy that the BCS (that every dumbass hated) had the same 4 teams as the new playoff committee (that every dumbass now hates)

IIRC I said they would copy the coaches poll and they almost exactly matched.

Earlier in the year the Committee's rankings were different than the polls....I think the polls started voting like the Committee.

Yeah, kind of a weird feedback loop happening.

[KST8FAN]

This isn't basketball or baseball or hockey or some other pud sport. Just throwing another game or two onto the end has a lot of issues. It would become a war of attrition and least spaghetti brained players. You'd have to start shortening everyone's regular schedule in order to get two teams another game. Maybe not at 8 but maybe.

FCS and Division II teams play 10-11 game regular seasons then embark on play-offs.  FCS and DII both have 24 team brackets.  If you are in an opening round game and win out that's five games from end of November thru mid-January.  I don't think FBS needs a 24 team bracket, but eight seems very do-able in the context of what the NCAA does at lower levels.

Tom

[catastrophe]

No, he's right. For the sake of player safety they shouldn't even be playing these games at all.

We need to establish a separate playoff games committee now to vote on who should win the semifinal games and then who should win the championship. Takes the risk of injury out of actually playing.

[Katpappy]

Welp the committee went with the chickenshit decision and elevated tOSU.

I could deal with Baylor jumping us but putting tOSU over both of us makes it clear that TCU and bible aggie got punished for being small schools.

You're taking this pretty well for just getting mumped in the a**. Ts & Ps, man. Of course, the whole conference got screwed as a result, but I gotta feel for you guys. "Leaped Frogs." Ouch.

This affects ksu like under 1%.

 edit did math
Say we get a resume good enough. That's like 1/10 years. Get screwed 1/5 times. Win natty 1/4 times. That's .005%

Either you don't know how big money works, or you're just a rough ridin' idiot.