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Post by terribletowel on Dec 9, 2013 0:04:31 GMT -5
So how the hell is that going to work? Seems to me like that will be just more of a clusterf***. I don't think its going to be long until we go to 8 or 16. 4 is only going to create more confusion.
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Post by JM on Dec 9, 2013 0:09:04 GMT -5
Basically They are going to seed Bama, Ohio State, and 2 others 1-4 every year.
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Post by TNCOWBOY on Dec 9, 2013 9:54:14 GMT -5
Bama will never not make it that is for certain.
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Post by MRM on Dec 9, 2013 10:06:32 GMT -5
If the playoff was this year, it would be Michigan State vs. Florida State in one game and Alabama vs. Auburn in the other game.
I fully expect it to expand to 8 teams within 2-3 years. There's too much money on the table for them not to expand. If you had an 8-team playoff this year, the first round would be Missouri vs. Florida State, Ohio State vs. Auburn, Baylor vs. Alabama, and Michigan State vs. Stanford.
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Post by TNCOWBOY on Dec 9, 2013 11:17:55 GMT -5
8 teams is way to many. If those 4 hypotheticals only one would have any uncertainty and it would be that way most every year.
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Post by Magnum on Dec 9, 2013 15:33:10 GMT -5
They could easily go to a 16 team playoff, and not skip a beat. But the problem is, and always will be, travel. FOR FANS.
Teams can easily travel week to week to their games. Fans can't travel 4 times if their team is a lower seed, and doesn't get the home games.
However, they would get huge TV ratings for those games.
It is going to happen folks. 100% lock solid fact it will happen in our lifetime.
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Post by TNCOWBOY on Dec 9, 2013 17:53:15 GMT -5
Its also obscenely too many games for college players. Worse, very physical games at that. I hate the pay the players crowd but their argument will be virtually unassailable by that point.
And while we are at it, the nine game conference schedule crowd can go straight to hell. 8 is more than enough within a divisional format. College football is 90% about scheduling anyway. So sure, lets make it worse by having an unbalanced home and away schedule to appease the TV executive gods. Lord knows CBS is taking a bath by televising these games people have to be begged to watch.
Fuck Mike Slive and the entire SEC office.
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Post by wolfgang on Dec 9, 2013 18:02:05 GMT -5
The only way this could get goofier is if you let the Feds run it.
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Post by perkins on Dec 9, 2013 21:11:47 GMT -5
Fuck Mike Slive and the entire SEC office. You'll need to drive to Birmingham to do that. |
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Post by 404whore on Dec 9, 2013 21:25:01 GMT -5
Fuck Mike Slive and the entire SEC office. You'll need to drive to Birmingham to do that. Fer enough money he'd let you do it...but get pissed off after when you tell him you paid Jim Delany more and he wasn't nearly as good |
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Post by TNCOWBOY on Dec 9, 2013 21:25:59 GMT -5
Thats another thing. Why is the SEC office in the Compton of the South? How do they keep it there with Nashville and Atlanta far more attractive options?
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Post by perkins on Dec 9, 2013 21:29:04 GMT -5
Eight teams, each a conference championship game winner.
Thats 7 games, 3 weekends, each in a Major Bowl.
Rose, Fiesta, Cotton, Sugar, Orange, Motor City, St Louis.
Other Bowls can fight it out for the crumbs.
Half of them are empty stadiums already.
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Post by Mauler on Dec 10, 2013 10:57:19 GMT -5
I for one will miss the drama of the BCS. Cowboy is right. All this is gonna do is insure an SEC champion many times over.
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Post by 404whore on Dec 10, 2013 11:48:31 GMT -5
I for one will miss the drama of the BCS. Cowboy is right. All this is gonna do is insure an SEC champion many times over. I've argued for years (to the point that I sound like a broken record) that the lack of a playoff is what makes every Fall Saturday special. I cannot dismiss the financial opportunity a playoff presents. (4 teams/8/16/the bigger the more $$$) It will come at the expense of the regular season if there is creep beyond 4 teams. Right now there is nothing like a Fall Saturdays; Even the NFL. |
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Post by TNCOWBOY on Dec 10, 2013 15:20:37 GMT -5
Maybe its me but pretty sure they have enough money. The drama of Saturday is very random though. You cut thru dozens of really bad games and weeks in exchange for two or three eyepopping weeks every year. Im good with that myself. Im also OK with the occasional scrimmage against WhoGivesAShitU.
Let me restate--college players should not be subjected to 16 wars like the NFL. People like Slive (or even Goodell wanting to go to 18 games) who want to add another slobberknocker game within the league confess themselves as bean counters who never had his hand in the dirt.
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