If Arizona State gets smoked today…

[RagnarLothbrok]

Should these automatic byes be reconsidered? I am fine with automatic bids. But why do Boise State and Arizona State deserve a first round bye?

Frankly, it’s the same issue the NFL is facing right now with the loser of the Detroit/Minnesota game not only losing a first-round bye but having to go on the road for a wild card game.

Anyone want to defend the current format?

 

[Birky]

Regardless of the outcome today, they need to go away.

I’m guessing the end game of the playoff will be 16 teams anyway, so it will be moot.

 

[hawkedoff]

Should these automatic byes be reconsidered? I am fine with automatic bids. But why do Boise State and Arizona State deserve a first round bye?

Frankly, it’s the same issue the NFL is facing right now with the loser of the Detroit/Minnesota game not only losing a first-round bye but having to go on the road for a wild card game.

Anyone want to defend the current format?

Yes. 3 sec teams and 1 big ten team getting a bye every year sucks

 

[Tom Paris]

Should these automatic byes be reconsidered? I am fine with automatic bids. But why do Boise State and Arizona State deserve a first round bye?

Frankly, it’s the same issue the NFL is facing right now with the loser of the Detroit/Minnesota game not only losing a first-round bye but having to go on the road for a wild card game.

Anyone want to defend the current format?

I want a 16 team playoff and couldn’t care less if the first round has blowouts. I do not like the byes either which adds to my opinion that it should be 16 teams.

 

[RagnarLothbrok]

I want a 16 team playoff and couldn’t care less if the first round has blowouts. I do not like the byes either which adds to my opinion that it should be 16 teams.

I agree with 16 teams.

It’s a huge disadvantage having to play an extra game.

 

[Max_Rebo]

I want a 16 team playoff and couldn’t care less if the first round has blowouts. I do not like the byes either which adds to my opinion that it should be 16 teams.

16 teams. First two rounds on campus sites.

 

[RagnarLothbrok]

Yes. 3 sec teams and 1 big ten team getting a bye every year sucks

Why would it have to be 3 SEC and 1 Big Ten with byes?

That still doesn’t address why two teams, one of whom isn’t even in the top 10, gets a first round bye.

 

[ASUHawkeye]

lol you guys really rooting for that?

 

[ASUHawkeye]

Some insecure fans in here

 

[hawkedoff]

Why would it have to be 3 SEC and 1 Big Ten with byes?

That still doesn’t address why two teams, one of whom isn’t even in the top 10, gets a first round bye.

Are you really this dumb?

 

[jonesy5960]

Should these automatic byes be reconsidered? I am fine with automatic bids. But why do Boise State and Arizona State deserve a first round bye?

Frankly, it’s the same issue the NFL is facing right now with the loser of the Detroit/Minnesota game not only losing a first-round bye but having to go on the road for a wild card game.

Anyone want to defend the current format?

This isn't going to be the case going forward.

 

[Hawk_4shur]

Should these automatic byes be reconsidered? I am fine with automatic bids. But why do Boise State and Arizona State deserve a first round bye?

Frankly, it’s the same issue the NFL is facing right now with the loser of the Detroit/Minnesota game not only losing a first-round bye but having to go on the road for a wild card game.

Anyone want to defend the current format?

Agreed. I like automatic bids, but not automatic byes.

 

[BioHawk]

Should these automatic byes be reconsidered? I am fine with automatic bids. But why do Boise State and Arizona State deserve a first round bye?

Frankly, it’s the same issue the NFL is facing right now with the loser of the Detroit/Minnesota game not only losing a first-round bye but having to go on the road for a wild card game.

Anyone want to defend the current format?

I will be surprised if there are any byes next season. Hosting a playoff game >> than a bye week. Also it is far more $$$, which is really the only factor that matters.

 

[ASUHawkeye]

I agree with automatic byes

 

[RagnarLothbrok]

Are you really this dumb?

Lol. Nice response.

Never mind. You obviously don’t have an answer beyond your feelings.

 

[Mitch122]

Yes, already time to rethink the byes. This is pathetic

 

[Max_Rebo]

This game so far:

 

[hawkedoff]

Lol. Nice response.

Never mind. You obviously don’t have an answer beyond your feelings.

I have an answer and it was in the initial post. Thus the question about whether you are dumb.

It will never not be weighted by ESPN to the sec. Every year. At every opportunity. ESPN has had the say and want to continue to have the say and it needs to end.

If we do it your way this is just an ESPN script and nothing more.

 

[Mitch122]

And lol (again) at Iowa state getting destroyed by this team.

 

[RagnarLothbrok]

The rout is on.

The Big XII champion looking like they don’t belong on the same field with the second best team in the SEC right now.

 

[Easthawk1062]

I felt all year BIG 12 receiving first round bye was trash. I think Auto bids is how it should be but then seed it by CFP rankings once you get your qualified teams. ASU going from unranked to automatic first round bye in less than a month playing in a conference that at times looked like a mess.

 

[RagnarLothbrok]

I have an answer and it was in the initial post. Thus the question about whether you are dumb.

It will never not be weighted by ESPN to the sec. Every year. At every opportunity. ESPN has had the say and want to continue to have the say and it needs to end.

If we do it your way this is just an ESPN script and nothing more.

Lol.

Keep digging that hole.

Show us on the doll where ESPN hurt you. 😝

 

[mvhomerl]

Alabama should be in... lost Miami should be in lost. Shit happens. It's not like ASU is playing Wartburg.

 

[RagnarLothbrok]

Alabama should be in... lost Miami should be in lost. Shit happens. It's not like ASU is playing Wartburg.

The argument isn’t that ASU shouldn’t be in the CFP. The argument is they, like Boise State, do not deserve an automatic bye just because they won their conference.

 

[Easthawk1062]

Alabama should be in... lost Miami should be in lost. Shit happens. It's not like ASU is playing Wartburg.

ASU should be in over Miami and Bama. Going from unranked mid November to first round bye is the issue. Probably will eventually be ironed out.

 

[Greenway4Prez]

BRING BACK THE BCS!

 

[9and4]

Agreed. I like automatic bids, but not automatic byes.

Mid-major conference champs (Big XII and ACC) should not get preferential treatment.

 

[Mikefontenot27]

I’m for automatic bids just to keep non power 2 teams interested. 16 teams, seeded with higher seeded team hosting first round. After that bowl games or whatever

 

[RagnarLothbrok]

BRING BACK THE BCS!

I love what Mike Ditka said about it. “The BCS stands for bull crap system.”

 

[LetsGoHawks83]

I'm no Oregon fan, this is another game where a team that a lower seeded team gets an easier path to the championship.

Seeding was terrible, because or the stupid automatic byes.

Auto bid them in the future, NOT auto bye. It's not that difficult

 

[Slappy Pappy]

16 teams. First two rounds on campus sites.

No, they should go down to 8.

There's no way the #12 or #16 team in the country is secretly the best one that's going to March past 3 Top 10 teams in a row to win it all.

Once you get past the top 6ish teams it's just participation awards.

 

[Greenway4Prez]

I love what Mike Ditka said about it. “The BCS stands for bull crap system.”

Ditka is a god, but he’s wrong.

 

[grayhair81]

Expand to 16 teams and eliminate the CCGs. They serve no purpose except to make money for the conferences.

 

[rfgiowa]

I know I'm in the minority, but I like the current system. I believe the conference champions should be rewarded with a bye. It's an incentive to win your conference and not rely on a room full of "committee" members.

 

[mvhomerl]

The argument isn’t that ASU shouldn’t be in the CFP. The argument is they, like Boise State, do not deserve an automatic bye just because they won their conference.

Agree, expand and get rid of byes? So we can more blow outs? As long as networks can get the ad money, because that's all college football has become $$$$.

 

[jonesy5960]

I know I'm in the minority, but I like the current system. I believe the conference champions should be rewarded with a bye. It's an incentive to win your conference and not rely on a room full of "committee" members.

It doesn't work because of how unbalanced the conferences are today. The inequality will only continue to grow in the coming years. OSU and Oregon should not be playing each other today. It's dumb. Guarantee the conference champions a bid, not a bye.

 

[Ronman]

Some insecure fans in here

Says the Sun Devil fan who is on this board while Texas schools his football team. Oh the irony!

 

[jonesy5960]

Lol.

Keep digging that hole.

Show us on the doll where ESPN hurt you. 😝

Ideologically impaired conspiracy theorists drive me ****ing crazy anymore.

 

[ASUHawkeye]

lol I grew up in Iowa as a huge Hawkeye fan. I went to asu and enjoyed my time there. Sorry if I find Iowa fans rooting for the SEC weird

 

[DropitlikeitsHawk]

Should these automatic byes be reconsidered? I am fine with automatic bids. But why do Boise State and Arizona State deserve a first round bye?

Frankly, it’s the same issue the NFL is facing right now with the loser of the Detroit/Minnesota game not only losing a first-round bye but having to go on the road for a wild card game.

Anyone want to defend the current format?

They should have been beforehand. Regardless of what happened to Boise and what’s going to happen to ASU.