2024 College Football Thread

[CRA]

9 minutes ago, Bama Panther said:

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. 

1 doesn’t play 12.  You do play in games with low seed vs low seed.  And you give byes to the top 4 teams.  You don’t award byes to conference champs.  So Texas and Penn get byes.  

[Martin]

If you have 3 losses, you should not be in the playoffs, no matter the conference imo.

[Shocker]

SMU is just overwhelmed right now.  They can’t handle this stage

[CamWhoaaCam]

I'm not even surprised. It's a joke we even have 2 ACC teams in the playoffs. I told y'all all season. 

[CamWhoaaCam]

8 minutes ago, Shocker said:

SMU is just overwhelmed right now.  They can’t handle this stage

Alabama not making it was a joke.

[CRA]

2 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

I'm not even surprised. It's a joke we even have 2 ACC teams in the playoffs. I told y'all all season. 

Bold take that 12 teams wouldn’t be worthy of competing for a natty when we could never find 4 worthy of such.   I think every has always acknowledged that 

[LinvilleGorge]

33 minutes ago, Bama Panther said:

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. 

Not sure of your point. Playoff blowouts are blowouts. There's been plenty of them. This isn't a new phenomenon.

[CamWhoaaCam]

20 minutes ago, Martin said:

If you have 3 losses, you should not be in the playoffs, no matter the conference imo.

Only in the SEC. There are just better teams in that conference and the competition is better than other conferences top to bottom.

 

The 6th best team in the SEC would still be better than the best team in most conferences.

 

They made a mistake not putting Alabama in the playoffs. 

[CamWhoaaCam]

1 minute ago, CRA said:

Bold take that 12 teams wouldn’t be worthy of competing for a natty when we could never find 4 worthy of such.   I think every has always acknowledged that 

The voters will learn from the 1st playoffs. This was a chance for the lesser conferences to prove they belong with the big boys. If Clemson doesn't stay competitive in the next game it's gonna make the voters look even more ridiculous.

 

I think they have to reward more teams in the best conference which is the SEC. Teams shouldn't be punished because they play in the best conference. We all know the SEC is king in college football. Reward more teams in that conference please.

[CamWhoaaCam]

NFL games on a Saturday is so stupid. Let college football have their moment for a day my goodness.

 

 

[Martin]

6 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

Only in the SEC. There are just better teams in that conference and the competition is better than other conferences top to bottom.

 

The 6th best team in the SEC would still be better than the best team in most conferences.

 

They made a mistake not putting Alabama in the playoffs. 

Disagree, if you’ve lost 3 games you have not earned the right to play for the championship. 

[Bama Panther]

48 minutes ago, CRA said:

1 doesn’t play 12.  You do play in games with low seed vs low seed.  And you give byes to the top 4 teams.  You don’t award byes to conference champs.  So Texas and Penn get byes.  

Gotcha. Where you said “no byes” threw me off. You mean no automatic byes for conference champs? Top 4, whoever they are, get byes, right?

[Bama Panther]

17 minutes ago, Martin said:

Disagree, if you’ve lost 3 games you have not earned the right to play for the championship. 

In most seasons, multiple top 12 teams have 3 losses. It’s a nature of the 12-team format. You can’t say losing 3 games means you haven’t earned the right to be in the playoffs if you are still one of the top 12-ish teams (given auto bids for conference champs.

[UnluckyforSome]

1 hour 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. 

I completely agree with that, on the other hand, specific to this year, a 3 loss SEC team still has 3 losses and I am not convinced they should be in a conversation about a "National Champion."