12 Team Playoff

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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.

The Rose Bowl is awesome. "The Grandaddy of them all" as Keith Jackson famously said. The Rose Parade, the southern California setting, etc. Going back to a Final Four or the Cats winning a CFP (probably never going to happen) are about the only wins that would be better.

[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.

The Rose Bowl is awesome. "The Grandaddy of them all" as Keith Jackson famously said. The Rose Parade, the southern California setting, etc. Going back to a Final Four or the Cats winning a CFP (probably never going to happen) are about the only wins that would be better.

sorry the rose bowl no longer exists

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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.

The Rose Bowl is awesome. "The Grandaddy of them all" as Keith Jackson famously said. The Rose Parade, the southern California setting, etc. Going back to a Final Four or the Cats winning a CFP (probably never going to happen) are about the only wins that would be better.

sorry the rose bowl no longer exists

Pac 10 vs Big 10 classic and this incredible scene:

[Houstoncat93]

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).

This is exactly my feeling on it.  The Rose Bowl doesn't really exist anymore (along with all the other ones that are now playoff games).  It is now a playoff and should be treated as such. 

[Rage Against the McKee]

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?

It's not at all messed up. Oregon got smoked by a team that lost a home game to Michigan and Georgia got smoked by a team that lost a home game to Northern Illinois.

[chum1]

I think it's cool that the quarter-final is the Rose Bowl. Why not both?

Though, I'm not one of those people who ever thought that winning the Rose Bowl was an end in itself.

[Rage Against the McKee]

I'm sure that playing in the Rose Bowl took some of the sting off of that ass whipping that the Ducks took. Just imagine how terrible it would have been if they had to play that game in Memphis or something.

[KST8FAN]

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.

The Rose Bowl is awesome. "The Grandaddy of them all" as Keith Jackson famously said. The Rose Parade, the southern California setting, etc. Going back to a Final Four or the Cats winning a CFP (probably never going to happen) are about the only wins that would be better.

Rose Bowl was on our bucket list. We went when the Cats played UCLA during Snyder 2.0.  It was great.


Tom

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[kim carnes]

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?

It's not at all messed up. Oregon got smoked by a team that lost a home game to Michigan and Georgia got smoked by a team that lost a home game to Northern Illinois.

Osu is the last team that any other team in the playoff would want to play, hence why they were favored over Oregon.  But if you want to ignore reality then go ahead.

[Rage Against the McKee]

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?

It's not at all messed up. Oregon got smoked by a team that lost a home game to Michigan and Georgia got smoked by a team that lost a home game to Northern Illinois.

Osu is the last team that any other team in the playoff would want to play, hence why they were favored over Oregon.  But if you want to ignore reality then go ahead.

Maybe we should have given them a first round bye for losing 2 games and finishing 3rd in their conference.

[Cats-aholic]

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.

And thank God the SEC had their pocketbook open in the booth to make sure Texas wasn't called for targeting!!  Otherwise there'd be ZERO SEC teams in the semifinals.

[Rage Against the McKee]

I'm guessing Texas beats OSU and Notre Dame beats Penn State, then Texas beats Notre Dame.

[kstate4life]

I'm guessing Texas beats OSU and Notre Dame beats Penn State, then Texas beats Notre Dame.

OSU and former cat William Howard winning the whole thing.

[Rage Against the McKee]

I'm guessing Texas beats OSU and Notre Dame beats Penn State, then Texas beats Notre Dame.

OSU and former cat William Howard winning the whole thing.

I hope so. Going to be really hard to not have a letdown after that game against Oregon, though.

[cfbandyman]

Yeah rn this feels like tOSU's to lose. I think it's Ohio State V ND in the final and Ohio State wins like 35-17. I just don't think Texas is that good either, same with Penn State.

[pissclams]

ohio state is balanced on both sides of the ball, great offense and defense. if the headworms don’t get to will, they should cruise past texas, whose pass defense is suspect

penn state - notre dame is an interesting matchup, both play good defense. this one will be a coin flip, whichever team can handle the moment.

clams call: osu will beat notre dame and will howard will be beloved by buckeyes fans for eternity.

[chum1]

I'd really love to see a matchup between Will Howard and his former offensive coordinator James Franklin.

[CHONGS]

National championship game brought to you by Kansas State

[nicname]

The Final Colley Matrix  (Pre-Playoff).
Note Colley is not a predictor or how good a team is looking forward, but ranking of a team’s accomplishments thus far.

1. Oregon
2. Notre Dame
3. Texas
4. Ohio St
5. Penn St
6. Georgia
7. Boise St
8. Arizona St
9. Indiana
10. Alabama
11. SMU
12. Miami
18. Clemson

13. BYU
16. ISU
26. Colorado
34. Kansas State
35. Texas Tech
38. Baylor
42. TCU
61. Kansas
66. West Virginia
76. Cincy
87. Utah
92. Houston
95. UCF
101. Arizona
107. Oklahoma State

[Pete]

Sankey tried to get Notre Dame an extra day of prep before the Penn State game to do anything he could to avoid big 10 dominance. What a rough ridin' petty $!#*.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/43271886/cfp-flip-dates-semifinals-sec-request

[wetwillie]

He's just concerned for Notre Dame, Pete. Nothing to see here.

[Powercat84]

Team Will or Team CTR bros???

[wetwillie]

I think I'd like to see tOSU win this contest

[EMAWzifried]

Team Will all the way. I want to hear him thank CKs for making him the qb he is when he wins the NC.