Yeah, but a vetting process means you come up with a ranking, period. The vetting process had nothing to do with who got the top 4 seeds, which is the problem.
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Yes. You want to know why? Because that is the only way you can build to compete with those teams. You need to show players that you have a legitimate chance at winning a title. You have no chance if you never make that top group. That is part of the reason there is so much spread between the haves and have nots in college football. The top programs pull all of the 5 star talent. They had kids sitting on the bench that would play at other schools because that is seen as the way to get in. With the right coaching an Iowa (or an Indiana) can get into that playoff. Indiana just landed what looks like a pretty good QB from Cal in the transfer portal. That kid is likely not looking our way if we weren't playing that game on Friday.
I absolutely wouldn’t. I’d have given my left nut to be in the shoe. Leaving tomorrow for Orlando and really don’t have any juice for the game.
Last year the Pop Tart bowl had a huge audience.
A trip to Florida in December/January and I hear the Pop Tarts will be distributed freely. Sounds pretty awesome. Bring a toaster. 😋
Yea, and in the 4th quarter of the pop tart bowl you'll be offering your right nut for a win.
We'll know when the NIL is truly in force when someone out of the blue, say Kentucky (or Iowa) suddenly rises out or the ashes and wins the whole thing, as opposed to awarding the title to one of the usual suspects.
Interesting Missouri is 5-3 inconference and Iowa 6-3. Does the SEC only play 8 conference games?
Conference strength will fluctuate from year to year but all P4 conferences should play 9 games in conference. To be in the playoff the P4 conferences need to play two crossover games against different conferences (this allows for rivalry games) each year. No FCS games allowed. One game against a lower level conference (MAC, etc.).
That would help balance the competition played.
Just a few thoughts.
Conference strength will fluctuate from year to year but all P4 conferences should play 9 games in conference. To be in the playoff the P4 conferences need to play two crossover games against different conferences (this allows for rivalry games) each year. No FCS games allowed. One game against a lower level conference (MAC, etc.).
That would help balance the competition played.
Just a few thoughts.
I like your thinking. This would help to get to a true, FBS playoff, whereby solely conference winners playoff. One of the remaining conundrums is what sense does it make for a CFP, conference champion to play a same-conference team they’ve already beat in earning their conference championship, in the CFP (i.e. Oregon already beat fOSU & PSU; further they already beat Boise as well)?
If they could get to a true playoff, a tournament of champions, it would be so much more enjoyable, and so would the remaining bowl games, outside of the tournament of champions. I find this year’s invitational tournament boring so far but am looking forward to some bowl games.
The only issue with your argument is Oregon beat OSU and Boise at home. PSU at a neutral site. SEC, Big 12 and ACC can say they didn't beat anyone in our conference. In theory though, if they beat #2 they should win it all.
And the way to solve that, between conferences, is to line the conference champions up, in rank-balanced seeds, and let them have at it. No byes. Neutral sites.
Being in the Shoe getting your ass kicked is no big deal. Been there, done that numerous times. Neither is the entire country laughing at your football team. The only thing ISU would have gotten out of a trip to the Shoe would be a crippled QB and a 50 point loss. You would have given up half of your manhood for that?
You need to tone down your expectations and enthusiasm. ISUBryce started life out at the bottom and it was all down hill from there. amiright?
It’s been rough start, but yes I still think Bama is much better than SMU and Indiana. Even as bad as it has been a couple TDs and it’s a game due to Michigan kicking FGs instead of scoring TDs.
