12 Team Playoff

[chum1]

While I still firmly believe that one way of selecting a national champion is just about as arbitrary as any other, I do have to admit that I'm personally finding the 12 team playoff to be more entertaining and engaging than anything prior to it. Which I guess is the real point of it all.

[_33]

This could speak to my general waning interest in college athletics more than anything else but I've only watched one playoff game (Tex/ASU). And most of the others I didn't even know had been played until after the fact.

Like people watched Penn State/SMU? Or Notre Dame/Indiana? I can't imagine sitting down and watching either of those games.

[Rage Against the McKee]

This could speak to my general waning interest in college athletics more than anything else but I've only watched one playoff game (Tex/ASU). And most of the others I didn't even know had been played until after the fact.

Like people watched Penn State/SMU? Or Notre Dame/Indiana? I can't imagine sitting down and watching either of those games.

I watched all of the games until they just got too lopsided to take anymore. Texas/ASU was the only game I watched all the way to the end, but Penn State/SMU was also a lot closer than the final score indicated.

[star seed 7]

I watched OT, that's all. No other games. I'm so much smarter and cooler than 33.

[MakeItRain]

Dan Lanning is a clown

I can't stand that dude

[pissclams]

as a college sports fan, i’ve watched every game in the cfp along with many other bowls too.

although I t’s no surprise to hear about the lack of interest from so many of the casuals that post here given the “takes” some of you post.

[MakeItRain]

I'm sorry but it's so silly that these prelim rounds are still called bowls.

Ohio State wearing Rose Bowl Champion hats is super dumb.

I don't get this take at all, one of you please explain it to me? 99% of Rose Bowls played and won had far less stakes than this one had. Why is it dumb now, but not dumb when they were CFP semi-finals, or better yet, not even part of the CFP?

Going to the Rose Bowl is absolutely #1 on my bucket list. Watching my team win the Rose Bowl is significantly lower, but it's still there. Those players are just as happy winning the Rose Bowl, in the CFP Quarterfinals, as another team winning a bowl not in the CFP.

[michigancat]

Dan Lanning is a clown

I can't stand that dude

didn't notice him until this which is still hilarious coming from the coach of oregon

Which bull junk made it personal this week?

Funny enough Dan Lanning was talking crap over the summer when Colorado was accepted to the Big 12, he essentially called them irrelevant but that hasn't been much of a talking point this week.

I think Colorado being 3 TD underdogs is crazy disrespectful.

they showed a clip of his pregame speech and he led with "we're rooted in substance, not flash", which was certainly something coming from Oregon's coach

[michigancat]

I'm sorry but it's so silly that these prelim rounds are still called bowls.

Ohio State wearing Rose Bowl Champion hats is super dumb.

I don't get this take at all, one of you please explain it to me? 99% of Rose Bowls played and won had far less stakes than this one had. Why is it dumb now, but not dumb when they were CFP semi-finals, or better yet, not even part of the CFP?

Going to the Rose Bowl is absolutely #1 on my bucket list. Watching my team win the Rose Bowl is significantly lower, but it's still there. Those players are just as happy winning the Rose Bowl, in the CFP Quarterfinals, as another team winning a bowl not in the CFP.

IMO it was pretty dumb when they were semi-finals too, but the pre-CFP games made sense. It was the appropriate closure of what the teams were fighting for all season. Now it's just a neutral site game. which is fine!

[MakeItRain]

I'm sorry but it's so silly that these prelim rounds are still called bowls.

Ohio State wearing Rose Bowl Champion hats is super dumb.

I don't get this take at all, one of you please explain it to me? 99% of Rose Bowls played and won had far less stakes than this one had. Why is it dumb now, but not dumb when they were CFP semi-finals, or better yet, not even part of the CFP?

Going to the Rose Bowl is absolutely #1 on my bucket list. Watching my team win the Rose Bowl is significantly lower, but it's still there. Those players are just as happy winning the Rose Bowl, in the CFP Quarterfinals, as another team winning a bowl not in the CFP.

IMO it was pretty dumb when they were semi-finals too, but the pre-CFP games made sense. It was the appropriate closure of what the teams were fighting for all season. Now it's just a neutral site game. which is fine!

It still has stakes though. They celebrate, cut down nets, and get trophies for making the final four in basketball and we think nothing of it. Winning the Rose Bowl to get to the semi-finals is way more prestigious than winning the elite eight in some NBA stadium or domed football stadium to win the right to play in another dome.

[michigancat]

It still has stakes though. They celebrate, cut down nets, and get trophies for making the final four in basketball and we think nothing of it.

this is the equivalent of doing it for teams getting out of the round of 32 and calling it something like the "Madison Square Garden Classic". And also calling it the "Madison Square Garden Classic" If it's the Final Four or Regional or round of 32.

Winning the Rose Bowl to get to the semi-finals is way more prestigious than winning the elite eight in some NBA stadium or domed football stadium to win the right to play in another dome.

Is it though? Do you think this matters more to Ohio State than a potential win at AT&T next week? I don't even know where the final is and no one really cares.

I think in the end what I don't like is that calling a quarterfinal the "Rose Bowl" feels very inauthentic/insincere. Like, you all threw away the tradition - just own it and stop trying to pretend it's what it was before the BCS. (I also know it doesn't really matter).

[pissclams]

yes, rusty, mrs clams was perplexed by the fact that these playoff teams are going to multiple bowls

[EMAWzifried]

SEC needs to get over itself. Big 12 fugitive is the only life it has.

[wetwillie]

Didn't see big 10 overtaking the SEC as the dominant conference but here we are.

[EMAWzifried]

conference championship irrelevant in playoffs.

[michigancat]

Didn't see big 10 overtaking the SEC as the dominant conference but here we are.

overtaking?

conference championship irrelevant in playoffs.

they will still be very relevant to me, a KSU Cats fan

[EMAWzifried]

Rust Belt football is king!

[DaBigTrain]

Georgia sucks

[EMAWzifried]

When I say  SEC; you say sucks

[michigancat]

Didn't see big 10 overtaking the SEC as the dominant conference but here we are.

overtaking?

what I was getting at here is the SEC was protected by the 4-team CFP and are exposed by the 12-team one.

Also, the seeding in this thing is ridiculous

[Rage Against the McKee]

Didn't see big 10 overtaking the SEC as the dominant conference but here we are.

overtaking?

what I was getting at here is the SEC was protected by the 4-team CFP and are exposed by the 12-team one.

Also, the seeding in this thing is ridiculous

I like the seeding. I'm sure they will fix it so that anyone outside of the SEC or Big 10 has to win a road playoff game to get to the second round, though.

[wetwillie]

Not a single conference champ won a playoff game this year, that is pretty interesting.

[michigancat]

I like the seeding. I'm sure they will fix it so that anyone outside of the SEC or Big 10 has to win a road playoff game to get to the second round, though.

You don't think it's messed up that the top 2 seeds arguably played tougher quarterfinal opponents than two teams that didn't even get a bye?

[pissclams]

sankey wants to reseed after each round, which seems insane that anyone would agree to this but I understand why he would propose the idea

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10149383-sec-commissioner-greg-sankey-absolutely-wants-change-to-cfp-bracket-format-for-2025

[cfbandyman]

Didn't see big 10 overtaking the SEC as the dominant conference but here we are.

overtaking?

what I was getting at here is the SEC was protected by the 4-team CFP and are exposed by the 12-team one.

Also, the seeding in this thing is ridiculous

Don't really care about the seeding, realistically having the big 10 and SEC champs be 1 and 2 was always going to happen. It's just more odd Boise if anything leaped into the top 4. I guess I enjoy having winning conferences matter.

I also agree. SEC especially this year is not very good. I think the big 10 was dealt a pretty favorable hand though. I think the only thing I wish in this playoff so far is Zona State won so no SEC and even with Texas still in ESPN to me has to keep trying to remind everyone about them.