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Who should be the top 4?

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this is one of those years where a playoff isn't needed. if bammer beats gata today, they should be crowned national champs. far and away the best team....its really not even close.
 
I said for years, start with a 4 team playoff, show it works well, then move to 8. Little by little... Fans WANT playoffs, period. I'd ideally like to see 16 teams, and a slightly shortened regular season. Would be a HUGE money maker. Use bowls as playoffs.
Bird4um said:
Just go to 6 teams
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ThomasM said:
I said for years, start with a 4 team playoff, show it works well, then move to 8. Little by little... Fans WANT playoffs, period. I'd ideally like to see 16 teams, and a slightly shortened regular season. Would be a HUGE money maker. Use bowls as playoffs.
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I was with you until the end. If we were to go to 16 teams, there would have to be home sites for the first two rounds. Bowls would host the semi-finals and finals like they do now. There isn't a fan base in America that is going to travel to bowl games four times in five weeks in December and January.
 
Jaromir Jagr said:
rascani said:
6 teams make sense. The 5 conference champions and one wildcard to handle a situation like Ohio State. Make the non-conference championship path narrow to emphasis winning the conference, but still possible.
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The problem with five automatic conference champions and only one wildcard is that it doesn't account for upsets on the final Saturday. Can you envision a playoff in which Colorado and Virginia Tech were both in a six team playoff? No thank you.
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That's fine by me. It makes conference championship games de facto playoff games.
 
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rascani said:
That's fine by me. It makes conference championship games de facto playoff games.
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Not really. Florida isn't anywhere close to being a playoff contender, but one upset on one Saturday means you have 9-3 Florida in the playoffs. Same with Virginia Tech. They don't deserve a playoff spot for winning one game after winning a terrible division.
 
Devaluing the regular season is when a team loses two games and the rest of the season mean nothing. Of yeah, that was our season. How did we end up this year? I stopped watching in October because we were out of contention for the 4 team playoff.

And don't sell me on trying to make meaningless bowl games. Ask Graig Cooper and his knee what he thinks of meaningless bowl games. More teams need to be in the playoff and stop giving all this power to this clown of a committee making decisons based on tv ratings.
 
Every system is going to produce some form of ambiguity or bias. The first teams left out will always complain. If conference winner are automatic, stronger teams with less convenient losses will get snubbed. If a committee picks them, surprising teams with great records will be devalued in favor of traditional programs that "feel better." If the playoff becomes big, really good teams will have random losses, giving us a tournament winner like in basketball rather than a champion.

For my part, I like the 4 team model. We're really just trying to find the best 1 vs 2 game. We don't need to expand to 8 teams to learn that Colorado can't hang with Bama.
 
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JgDaCane said:
Psu is not a top 4 team. I actually think we'd beat them.
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And here comes the " but we are better than them" crowed despite PSU winning their division and conference over Mich, OSU and Wisconsin. But yeah, Miami is better while sitting at home watching VT play for the title from the crappiest division in football.
 
I think Wash is gonna get screwed, but I'm hoping it's OSU. Wouldn't mind seeing PSU left home anyway.
 
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Don't really care about winning conference all that much. Just pick the top 4 teams based on their entire resume. I don't think Penn State has a better resume even thought they beat them. Ohio State also blew out the Big 12 Champon their field. While Penn State lost its best OOC game to a mediocre Pitt team.

Top 4 should stay as is.
 
I think they should uphold the importance of conference championships, so....

The top 4 that I think is right:
1. BAMA
2. CLEM
3. WASH
4. PSU

Since conferences aren't being honored:
1. BAMA
2. CLEM
3. *'s
4. WASH
 
OSU has no business being in since they didn't win their conference and lost to the team that did.
It should be 1. Bama 2. Clemson 3. Washinton 4. Penn State . Period. Penn State as a the winner of the best conference in the world deserves to be in.
 
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BadCompany said:
JgDaCane said:
Psu is not a top 4 team. I actually think we'd beat them.
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And here comes the " but we are better than them" crowed despite PSU winning their division and conference over Mich, OSU and Wisconsin. But yeah, Miami is better while sitting at home watching VT play for the title from the crappiest division in football.
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And here comes DC Dog Nuts with his/her new handle.

Your posts are as useful as a used colostomy bag.
 
OSU has one loss. PSU has two.

OSU > Penn State.

But I still think Michigan is one of the four best teams in the country.
 
I have to go with PSU but would not be shocked if the committee selects O$U.

The way I see it is if you win your conference you should have priority over a team you beat and finished ahead in within divisional standings.

Why even play Conference Championships if winning them means nothing in the grand scheme of things????
 
rascani said:
Jaromir Jagr said:
rascani said:
6 teams make sense. The 5 conference champions and one wildcard to handle a situation like Ohio State. Make the non-conference championship path narrow to emphasis winning the conference, but still possible.
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The problem with five automatic conference champions and only one wildcard is that it doesn't account for upsets on the final Saturday. Can you envision a playoff in which Colorado and Virginia Tech were both in a six team playoff? No thank you.
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That's fine by me. It makes conference championship games de facto playoff games.
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I think the only problem with making conference championships a defacto playoff game is teams will quit worrying about non conference games. I could even see teams like Bama and OSU not even playing the starters in those games to prevent injuries which would make those games useless to play/watch.

I hate OSU just like the rest of us, but I'd rather see a one loss OSU in the playoff over a PSU team that lost 2 games - one being Pitt.
 
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