I think having at a possibility 2 or more expensive neutral site games all the way across the country for country is asking a lot of fanbases.
No, I'm relying on the playoff system we have to determine the best team. Which is the most robust system we've had yet. You and others, are doing mental gymnastics, to pretend that some other team, that has lost in the playoffs, or didn't make the playoffs, might be the 'best team'.
Georgia got $8,000,000 for their QF game. And they had expenses covered to the tune of $3,000,000. Can they clear $8M for a home game where they have to cover the costs?
You seem confused and not quite sure what you're arguing about.
Well, in that case...guys we've done it!
Soooo...Georgia - with their starting QB - is the better team. Especially since they won the SEC championship with their back-up QB. That question was settled exactly where you want it settled - on the field. Yet, now, those on field results don't matter? Texas is the "better team" because they made the semis and Georgia didn't?
Yeah, I'm less intrigued by how much they can make off of the bowl itself. But, the leverage that they have traditionally employed over alumni to extract donations, etc. in exchange for points, status, better seats, and the like is not something to be taken lightly as an indirect revenue impact.
LOL...you keep trying to conflate "champion" - an objective measurement - with "best team" - which, as noted above, is entirely subjective. It might be intentional on your part or you might just be dumb.
Yes, Texas is the better team right now. Because they made the semis and Georgia didn't.
They didn't play Georgia. They can't be better than Georgia according to your own metrics. Had they flipped opponents, it might have gone differently. Given the outcomes in the quarter finals, Georgia might have fared better had they lost the SEC championship and played a first-round game. Your entirely subjective opinion is that the team that wins the trophy is automatically the season's best team. You can have that opinion but that's all it is. Most people will disagree. What you will have is a true champion. They don't get a best team trophy.
Pointing out its boring, greed-driven and less compelling is merely observation.
We have finally found the one subject we are in total agreement on.
I don’t get this argument. College football for decades was able to crown national champions at every level besides FBS. Those lower levels are every bit as regional as any other, and this is frankly true of most sports until realignment screwed much of that up.
A game to determine the "best team" on a given day?
No one really has any major objections to how teams are selected/seeded in any other college sport. The problem here is 1) this is new, and 2) there’s no set list of objective criteria teams are selected by.
Those that are pointing out the flaws with the playoff aren't doing so because the want to crown their own champion based on different criteria they are just pointing out that winning the playoff doesn't necessarily mean the winner is the best team. It's no different from any other tournament. Winning the tournament requires skill, luck, and staying relatively healthy over the course of the tournament. If Texas would go on to win it all, one bad no call of targeting was the difference between being champion and going home in the quarter finals.
I guess I just don't understand the point you were trying to make in this paragraph:
You seem to be saying that Oregon should still be regarded as better than Ohio State or something. It really doesn't matter, only one team is playing another game. Oregon should have won when it mattered. Just like all the teams that lost.
Agreed. They had a chance. I'm saying the net was cast wide enough to find the best team this year.
Ok, I'm following you now. I agree, and most importantly, it was determined by actually playing a game.
I would argue that 12 is too many. If your regular season resume doesn’t clearly establish you as one of the top eight teams in the country then what right do you have to call yourself ‘national champion’ even if you get hot and pull off three or four straight playoff wins?
