2024 College Football Thread

[mrcompletely11]

This is an embarrassment to the committee 

[CRA]

6 minutes ago, Bama Panther said:

These playoffs are a joke so far. Strength of Schedule should really be a consideration in the future. 

Not saying that Bama should be in, but South Carolina or Ole Miss would have absolutely had better showings. 

I think people, not saying here, suddenly have forgotten how routinely teams got smashed in the 4 team format though 

[Shocker]

8 minutes ago, Bama Panther said:

These playoffs are a joke so far. Strength of Schedule should really be a consideration in the future. 

Not saying that Bama should be in, but South Carolina or Ole Miss would have absolutely had better showings. 

They will get better at this but SMU and Indiana had no business being here IMO.  Any one of those teams u mentioned would completely dominate either of them.  

Edited December 21, 2024 by Shocker

[UnluckyforSome]

1 minute ago, mrcompletely11 said:

This is an embarrassment to the committee 

It could be. There will certainly be something for the Alabama crowd to gripe about. There has been a real emphasis on trying to create the same excitement for this that is a part of the basketball tournament. The thing is, we have seen the little guys in college football already fail repeatedly to knock off the big programs, so I am not sure why expanding the field to officially include them would necessarily bring different results. There's already talk here and there about expanding it further to 16, and there is no good reason for that either.

[Bama Panther]

2 minutes ago, CRA said:

I think people, not saying here, suddenly have forgotten how routinely teams got smashed in the 4 team format though 

Valid point, but those blowouts were at the hands of the teams that would go on to play in the NCCG. These blowouts have been at the hands of teams that may very well lose in the quarterfinals. That’s not the same thing. 

[Bama Panther]

4 minutes ago, UnluckyforSome said:

It could be. There will certainly be something for the Alabama crowd to gripe about. There has been a real emphasis on trying to create the same excitement for this that is a part of the basketball tournament. The thing is, we have seen the little guys in college football already fail repeatedly to knock off the big programs, so I am not sure why expanding the field to officially include them would necessarily bring different results. There's already talk here and there about expanding it further to 16, and there is no good reason for that either.

The issue is the notion that all conferences and conference champs are created equally, when that just isn’t the case. 11-2 in the ACC is not the same as 9-3 in the SEC or B1G. The highest ranked G5 champion is very rarely going to be on the same level as the 3rd or 4th place B1G/SEC team. 

[CRA]

4 minutes ago, Bama Panther said:

Valid point, but those blowouts were at the hands of the teams that would go on to play in the NCCG. These blowouts have been at the hands of teams that may very well lose in the quarterfinals. That’s not the same thing. 

Well that’s true as well, most of that thrashing were by teams that played for the natty and often won it.   Now maybe you could argue Notre Dame is going to handle teams but I don’t think this Penn St team is. 

SMU doesn’t have the OL to play in these games nor the QB. 

[CRA]

3 minutes ago, Bama Panther said:

The issue is the notion that all conferences and conference champs are created equally, when that just isn’t the case. 11-2 in the ACC is not the same as 9-3 in the SEC or B1G. The highest ranked G5 champion is very rarely going to be on the same level as the 3rd or 4th place B1G/SEC team. 

Well also, none of these teams not showing up thus far were even conference champs.    I’m also not sure the BIG and SEC should be talked about so comparably either though.   There is the SEC and 4 weaker power 5s of different varieties 

[LinvilleGorge]

11 minutes ago, Bama Panther said:

Valid point, but those blowouts were at the hands of the teams that would go on to play in the NCCG. These blowouts have been at the hands of teams that may very well lose in the quarterfinals. That’s not the same thing. 

And these very well could be too.

[UnluckyforSome]

3 minutes ago, CRA said:

Well also, none of these teams not showing up thus far were even conference champs.    I’m also not sure the BIG and SEC should be talked about so comparably either though.   There is the SEC and 4 weaker power 5s of different varieties 

Then it becomes, as Finebaum has a bit sarcastically said, the Alabama Invitational. 

[CRA]

5 minutes ago, UnluckyforSome said:

Then it becomes, as Finebaum has a bit sarcastically said, the Alabama Invitational. 

I think they should just rank them 1-12.  No byes for champs .  And then you let the lower seeds basically have play in games.  

SMU and Indiana and the likes really should be playing Boise State, ASU, Clemson, etc.  

[Bama Panther]

7 minutes ago, CRA said:

Well also, none of these teams not showing up thus far were even conference champs.    I’m also not sure the BIG and SEC should be talked about so comparably either though.   There is the SEC and 4 weaker power 5s of different varieties 

I’m an SEC homer, so I was trying to be unbiased. Haha

[Bama Panther]

4 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

And these very well could be too.

I doubt ND and PSU will both be playing the NCCG. It could happen but it’s unlikely. 

Additionally, the past blowouts were against teams that were supposedly the #3 and #4 teams in the country. These were against teams ranked #8 and #10 who each struggled mightily in their regular season games against legit opponents. 

[Bama Panther]

3 minutes ago, CRA said:

I think they should just rank them 1-12.  No byes.  And then you let the lower seeds basically have play in games.  

SMU and Indiana and the likes really should be playing Boise State, ASU, Clemson, etc.  

if you seeded 1-12, SMU and Indiana wouldn’t be playing teams like Clemson and ASU. They’d be playing teams like Oregon and Georgia. Those games would be even worse.