forums

Another what the college football playoffs should be thread

LoyalCane24

LoyalCane24

Junior
Joined
Mar 6, 2017
Messages
1,895
I know this has been talked about a lot but this dude said what I think is the best solution.

[TWEET]941876612395565063[/TWEET]

Deejay retweeted it so im just passin it on.

I agree with everything he said except having two weeks between quarter final and semi final games.

What do you guys think?
 
Advertisement
People need to stop. We already arrived at the “solution.”

We don’t need Ohio State playing UCF and Auburn playing Miami for a shot at the title. None of those teams desereve a shot this year...so what exactly is this “solving” besides ruining the best regular season of any sport?
 
Think it diminishes conference title games too much. Though it’s Joel Klatt’s idea, I like the premise; each power 5 conference does away with divisions and the top 2 teams play a quarterfinal. The 5 conference champions are then up for the playoff and the worst team of the 5 is left out of the playoff.
 
Why do we need eight teams? Why do we need Auburn, USC, and Penn State playing for the title?

It really sucks because the playoffs will expand due to money and it will ruin college football. OOC games won’t matter, you can lose 2 to 3 games a year without major issues, teams will rest players, etc.

College football is the best because a single snap can end your season, even in September. Yet people are trying as hard as they can to convince themselves that a Clemson - USC playoff game is preferable to Miami and ND playing an elimination game in early November. Insane.
 
Last edited:
Conference champions, thats 5 of them, plus one wild card. 3 plays 6, 4 plays 5, 1 and 2 get byes.

Wild Card mandatory rules: If P5, You need a win over one of the 5 conference champs, a win over a team that beat one of said (indirect win), or a win or indirect over the highest non P5 contender.

This year: Clem, UGA, OU, OSU*, USC and UCF

Keeps integrity, doesnt penalize teams for playing big OOC games, prevents the BS Bama and OSU* automatic bid scheme.

Dont care if lousy PAC10 teams get in, or (the horror) a non glamorous SEC or B12 team gets in by winning its conference.

So simple. So fair.

Win your conference, or play and beat the best OOC teams, or you are fin.
 
Any talk beyond an 8 team Playoff (5 conf winners + 3 at large) muddies the waters and allows those against the perfect system to lump it in with nonsense like a 16 team field.

Let's make conference championship weekend the most exciting one all season prior to the Playoff and also be able to tell the UCFs and the Boise's of the world that they aren't necessarily playing for nothing every year. OOC scheduling will actually be even more important in an 8 team system too as it'd be a huge factor in the 3 at large spots.

Ohhhh but then we'd just argue about the 9th team being left out! Please. Any rational person views that potential unfairness as WAY less egregious than having 4 spots for 5 conferences.

Not to mention that as Canes fans with a justified persecution complex, we should absolutely want an objective and not subjective path into the Playoff every year. Win the ACC and be in no matter what. I NEVER want our fate to be 100% in the hands of whatever group of clowns is assembled in Grapevine, Texas that year. We're at least a decade away from their Bama Fever subsiding.
 
Last edited:
Tad Footeball said:
Any talk beyond an 8 team Playoff (5 conf winners + 3 at large) muddies the waters and allows those against the perfect system to lump it in with nonsense like a 16 team field.

Let's make conference championship weekend the most exciting one all season prior to the Playoff and also be able to tell the UCFs and the Boise's of the world that they aren't necessarily playing for nothing every year. OOC scheduling will actually be even more important in an 8 team system too as it'd be a huge factor in the 3 at large spots.

Ohhhh but then we'd just argue about the 9th team being left out! Please. Any rational person views that potential unfairness as WAY less egregious than having 4 spots for 5 conferences.

Not to mention that as Canes fans with a justified persecution complex, we should absolutely want an objective and not subjective path into the Playoff every year. Win the ACC and be in no matter what. I NEVER want our fate to be 100% in the hands of whatever group of clowns is assembled in Grapevine, Texas that year. We're at least a decade away from their Bama Fever subsiding.
Click to expand...

Conference champions? They already made the conference championship weekend not important. 2 times in a row now they've left out the winner of the conference championship game for another team in the conference. This year they have a 3rd placed team in the conference in there.

8 teams would be better.
 
Advertisement
so dumb

The auburn/georgia scenario of two teams playing three times would come up every year. The whole thing makes the conference titles and even winning your division pointless as long as you beat up on cupcakes.
 
A top 7 with the #1 team getting a Bye. That way the regular season still matters and we also allow for 2 wild card spots so everybody is represented to the fullest...every P5 conference can get in with the best group of 5 getting a wildcard spot if a team is worthy of it and if there’s close games that game down to a field goal or something in a conference game(Wisconsin)then that team could still have a chance to get in
 
Tony Perps said:
People need to stop. We already arrived at the “solution.”

We don’t need Ohio State playing UCF and Auburn playing Miami for a shot at the title. None of those teams desereve a shot this year...so what exactly is this “solving” besides ruining the best regular season of any sport?
Click to expand...

They won't listen. American's are playoff junkies and are fed that no one is a legitimate championship without one
 
I think an 8 team playoff scenario would be great. 5 conf winners with 3 at large teams.

That way OCC schedules can be as exciting because a non-conf loss would not drop out of the playoff
 
caneworld said:
I think an 8 team playoff scenario would be great. 5 conf winners with 3 at large teams.

That way OCC schedules can be as exciting because a non-conf loss would not drop out of the playoff
Click to expand...

Nobody would play big non conference games. Automatic qualifiers is a great way to kill the regular season.
 
Tony Perps said:
Why do we need eight teams? Why do we need Auburn, USC, and Penn State playing for the title?

It really sucks because the playoffs will expand due to money and it will ruin college football. OOC games won’t matter, you can lose 2 to 3 games a year without major issues, teams will rest players, etc.

College football is the best because a single snap can end your season, even in September. Yet people are trying as hard as they can to convince themselves that a Clemson - USC playoff game is preferable to Miami and ND playing an elimination game in early November. Insane.
Click to expand...

Agree with all of this.
 
Tony Perps said:
caneworld said:
I think an 8 team playoff scenario would be great. 5 conf winners with 3 at large teams.

That way OCC schedules can be as exciting because a non-conf loss would not drop out of the playoff
Click to expand...

Nobody would play big non conference games. Automatic qualifiers is a great way to kill the regular season.
Click to expand...

Why wouldn't you play big non-conf games when strength of schedule would be a huge factor in determining the 3 at large spots? Strength of schedule certainly isn't some big factor now or mighty Bama wouldn't be so universally considered mighty by the talking heads. If anything, an 8 team Playoff incentivizes teams to play MORE good OOC games as you're saying "Go ahead and win your conference if you want in but if not then you BETTER have a great resume".
 
Advertisement
Another thing—through three years of the playoff, there has been ONE competitive semi final game. The rest have been blowouts. There are really only usually 2-3 national title worthy teams. We don’t need to see USC, a team that lost by 35 to notre dame, having a shot at the title. What “problem” are you guys attempting to solve?
 
Tony Perps said:
Another thing—through three years of the playoff, there has been ONE competitive semi final game. The rest have been blowouts. There are really only usually 2-3 national title worthy teams. We don’t need to see USC, a team that lost by 35 to notre dame, having a shot at the title. What “problem” are you guys attempting to solve?
Click to expand...

You're playing a result vs an unknown here (the overall quality of Playoff games in an 8 team field).

The first "problem" we're trying to solve is putting teams in that didn't even qualify to play for their own conference championship. Talk about diminishing the value of the regular season right there. It's basically one step above having Vegas pick the teams.
 
4 teams work for me, although I saw a scenario with 6 that I liked.

Whatever the format, winning your division should be one of the selection criteria.
 
Back
Top