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CFP Committee Rigging the System Almost Complete

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LeanMeanOrangeGreen said:
I wish I had this belief but we’ve gotten the short end of the stick in every game this year. Why they’d all of a sudden change anything doesn’t make much sense to me
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I do agree we’ve been shafted up to this point. But the ACC is staring at the possibility of missing the playoffs entirely. Odds are if we win out and chalk happens we could rise to at large status. They need us to be in that conversation or the ACCCG. If they miss the playoffs entirely the league will look bad. Really, really bad. They’ll care about those optics over ****ting on us. I guarantee it.
 
section9 said:
Mark this down: the Committee wants Miami and Notre Dame in the Playoffs because of the revenue that a Catholics vs. Convicts playoff game would bring. If Cristobal doesn't f**k things up and both the Domers and ourselves run the table, the Committee will find a way to ***** Vandy and some other team to make sure that they have a Prime Time Night game with both teams.

People are thinking this through too much and forgetting that the Committee are errand boys for the networks, especially DisneyESPN.
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I tend to agree. Not only do they want both Miami and ND in the playoff, they want a rematch.

Keep in mind that Miami opens at Notre Dame next season.... on ABC. They get a two for one marketing event.
 
SFbayCane said:
I tend to agree. Not only do they want both Miami and ND in the playoff, they want a rematch.

Keep in mind that Miami opens at Notre Dame next season.... on ABC. They get a two for one marketing event.
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Miami doesn’t open next year against ND. The game will be in October or November and it will be on NBC.
 
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aelmiami said:
I do agree we’ve been shafted up to this point. But the ACC is staring at the possibility of missing the playoffs entirely. Odds are if we win out and chalk happens we could rise to at large status. They need us to be in that conversation or the ACCCG. If they miss the playoffs entirely the league will look bad. Really, really bad. They’ll care about those optics over ****ting on us. I guarantee it.
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I guess they should have thought about that before picking up that obvious DPI call, or not reversing what was an obvious fumble against SMU, or not calling roughing the passer when our defender let up when it was what, 4th and 8 with the game on the line? Again, any one of those three calls they actually get right, we win.
 
LeanMeanOrangeGreen said:
I guess they should have thought about that before picking up that obvious DPI call, or not reversing what was an obvious fumble against SMU, or not calling roughing the passer when our defender let up when it was what, 4th and 8 with the game on the line? Again, any one of those three calls they actually get right, we win.
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I’m not disagreeing with those calls. But at that time UVA and Louisville gave them a CFP participant. Now the ACC has a problem, albeit a small and unlikely one, but one that could happen where the league eats itself alive and due to their dumb *** scheduling we could miss the ACCCG, even winning out.

The ACC doesn’t want to get left outside the club and have two G5 champs get in because Duke backs into winning the ACC. Realistically if we win out we’d probably make it as an at large participant. So it behooves the league to do their part and get us to 10-2.

My whole point is from here on out the ACC will probably be more favorable to us to either get us into at large status or into the ACCCG. Not because they want Miami to make it but more because the league doesn’t want to miss it entirely. If there’s one thing that I’ve realized is this conference cares more about the optics of the conference than it’s teams.
 
flips said:
We'd be ahead of Utah and Vandy if that were the case. I don't understand why we aren't ahead of both of those teams right now. Vandy already has a thread about them. Utah beat Jeff Sims led ASU and Cincy, while getting blown out by TTU at home.

I do think we will get in if we win out, but they will probably have to leapfrog us over other teams we are currently ranked below. Since the CFP comittee just makes **** up week to week, shouldn't be an issue for them.
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I take pride in starting that Vandy thread because they are the most phony of the phonies and it’s comical these E$ECPN pundits watch them play and think “oh yeah, that’s a Top 10-15 team right there”. According to Kirk Herby these SEC teams pass “the eye test” and that’s why they’re ranked so high. I really wonder how closely he’s watched Vandy’s games and what E$ECPN/Disney would do to him if he actually told the truth.
 
DTP said:
Conference expansion has done far more to kill the sport than NIL and the transfer portal combined.

First they put so many teams in each conference that nobody plays the same opponents in conference. One team can literally play the top 8 teams and another can play the bottom 8. At least when the ACC had divisions, everyone in the division played each other. You didn’t lose a shot at the conference championship game because you had to play tougher teams than the guy who gets a shot.

Now they’re expanding conference schedules to nine games which means SEC schools can just drop any non-conference game they have a shot at losing. They get over rewarded for conference wins so what’s the point in scheduling a good non conference opponent when you can just get three cupcake games and make the playoffs based on your perceived conference strength.

ACC/Big XII teams have no shot because their conference wins get ignored and the SEC won’t schedule against you in a non conference game so you have no chance get a “good win” in the eye of the committee.

As long as the committee values SEC wins and ignores SEC losses, there’s no reason for an SEC team to play anyone else.
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This is one of the best posts I’ve seen on this board. Everyone and their mother claims NIL and the portal are apparently ruining CFB. While some aspects of those need to be retooled, you can make a compelling argument that NIL/portal have made CFB better. More power to players who’ve been exploited and giving us more parity. The only dopes who disagree are whiny coaches like Saban because they can’t retain a loaded roster and pay players under the table.

Conference realignment is basically a bunch of programs taking the ball home with them when they’re losing out, claiming superiority while trying to make their league exclusive so they don’t actually have to prove they’re the best conference. I’m hearing the SEC/BIG want 4 auto bids in an expanded CFP next year when they make it 16 teams. This is literally participation trophies for big money leagues who are buying playoff spots. It goes against EVERYTHING coaches preach about winning and on-field results being most important. I want to say a lot of coaches in the SEC/BIG don’t fully support it because of this but I’d have to research that. Regardless they’ll get the favorability they’re already getting.

Probably worth mentioning how realignment has essentially killed programs like Washington State and Oregon State who did nothing on the field to get downgraded to G5. They just lost the game of realignment musical chairs. I’d be livid if I were a fan of those programs.

One thing I wonder is the future of FCS games and if they’re in jeopardy of being eliminated so teams can maybe try and schedule more OOC games. It would seem now would be the time to finally get rid of them although there’s probably not enough interest to do so at this point in time. Personally I’d love to see them go.
 
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