** 'Cept you, Nebraska.
NO Bowl Game for YOU!!!!
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** 'Cept you, Nebraska.
NO Bowl Game for YOU!!!!
Nebraska really has to feel snubbed. They are the most unbeatable 7 loss team in in football.
Usually I would say that the system now is just great, but looking at the top 16 in the CFP rankings this year, I’d totally be on board for 16.
You'd have all the power conference champions, the Group of 5 champ, and a couple of at large teams. It's the perfect number.
Usually I would say that the system now is just great, but looking at the top 16 in the CFP rankings this year, I’d totally be on board for 16.
I see what you did there....
Usually I would say that the system now is just great, but looking at the top 16 in the CFP rankings this year, I’d totally be on board for 16.
Kirk is on record saying he likes four. I don’t get it. We’ll never get in.
Set the expectation that Iowa will never get in, and fans won’t get pissed if we don’t make it. Kirk sets very lows bars, it’s brilliant really.
yuck, I don't want to spend the last three weeks of the season seeing watching good teams just play for seeds.
Four is perfect. Every regular season game still means something. And Kirk remembers that we would have been in in 2002.
Unless you're in the Group of Five. Win all your games and you still can't get to the playoffs.
Iowa was #5 that year. They would have been left out.Four is perfect. Every regular season game still means something. And Kirk remembers that we would have been in in 2002.
I was thinking of the AP/Coaches Polls, but that’s true of the BCS. Hard to know what the CFP would have had us at that year. Probably 4 and in.
Depends on what criteria they prioritized. The 2002 BCS standings emphasized strength of schedule over margin of victory and gave bonus points for wins over teams that finished in the Top 10. USC played a brutal schedule that year. Their non-conference slate was Auburn, Notre Dame, Kansas State, and Colorado. That’s why they were ranked ahead of Iowa even with 2 losses.
But we were ranked ahead of Georgia in the human polls. And the CFP is a human model at the end of the day. I would say that BOTH USC and Iowa would have gotten in over Georgia. That is, if the powers that be could bear to part with an SEC school.
There’s no way the CFP takes two Big Ten teams and leaves a 12-1 SEC champion out. Georgia was #3 in the BCS rankings. They weren’t going to fall all the way to #5 regardless of what the human polls said.But we were ranked ahead of Georgia in the human polls. And the CFP is a human model at the end of the day. I would say that BOTH USC and Iowa would have gotten in over Georgia. That is, if the powers that be could bear to part with an SEC school.
I feel this is a more legit point to be sold.
If you have 16 games, then Georgia v LSU, Alabama vs Auburn, The Big 12 Championship, Ohio St - Michigan, Alabama v LSU etc are all basically irrelevant. The loser can just go ah well, I guess we'll get them in the playoffs. We might get a couple extra good games in the playoffs that we might not have otherwise seen, but how many are we losing?
Basically, set up the last 2 games of the season to be a set of 4 "Regionals", 4 teams each (16 total).
- Conference championships in the Power 5 (SEC, B10, B12, PAC12, ACC) comprise 5 of the Regional semifinals
- Set up 3 other games (6 teams) for at-large and independents (any Independents or non-Power 5 teams in the top 20 get an automatic Regional Semi bid
- Power 5 teams not in their conference championship get a bid in remaining slots, based on rankings - so this year Penn St or MN might have made that list
- Play the Regional Semi games (Conf championships) the week before we play them now
- The last "regular season" game becomes the Regional Finals for the BCS bowl play ins
Cut out all but one of the 'early season' non-conference games to make room for it.
Tack on another end of season non-conf game for teams if you want, when the Regional Semis are going on.
16 team field, whittled down to 4 for Bowl Season by the 1st week of December.
Usually I would say that the system now is just great, but looking at the top 16 in the CFP rankings this year, I’d totally be on board for 16.
LOL...Of COURSE someone in the media had to come up with this graphic...
I am telling you and this is proven out by years of data: he doesn't want in. he wants 7-8-9 wins every year, year in and year out. consistently
We need a few "pigtail" play-ins, so that we can get that college FB schedule up to 16 games for some teams....
