Back in September Penn State beat Temple in a game that was meaningless at the time. Now that Temple has won the AAC they will be ranked in the top 25. So now the PSU non-quality win suddenly retroactively becomes a quality win. So was it or is it then or now?
I say again. The playoff sucks. Any playoff sucks Why does only one team end with a win? On the scale of life it is meaningless. Remember the days of the big four bowls. It was like the best eight got to play, and four of those ended with a win. The world continued to turn. Striving for the single best is feckless, and an exercise in futility. I am amazed more people do not see it this way. This is not the pros (well not officially) It is college!
How can you even say this. The whole premise of A champion is to be single best. Playoff is the only way to go but we need 6 teams not 4. Give 1 and 2 a bye.
Don't let em sit around and do nothing,.. what fun are byes?.. play some football, make it an 8 team playoff.
I have often wondered, why not just make every season a giant playoff? You could have each conference in a tourney format with a championship game at the end that sends each champ into a bracket that eventually decides a single champ. There would be no pre set schedules other than home/away from week to week but it would be easy to see who could play who, once the brackets are set at the start of the year. The seedings could be based on the previous years result. This would work especially well for basketball. Edit: They would probably have to drop the 2 out of conference cupcake games each year but who would really care if it ended in a big playoff. But this might make too much sense.
So now Penn St has 2 top 10 wins osu 3. 3 top 25 wins osu has 3. They also won the conference and beat osu straight up. Washington has 1 only after beating Colorado. I think Washington is gonna be left out. Plus it's urban Meyer over the mromon Chris petersen. Michigan has no shot. This will simply show that the cfp poll means absolutely nothing til the final week.
Using the rankings here: http://collegefootballnews.com/2016/college-football-playoff-rankings-top-25-what-will-they-be How I think it should be... Eight team playoff A. Top 2 teams. B. Any top 15 conference champion. C. Any top 10 at large whose conference isn't represented. D. Any top 10 at large whose conference is only represented once. E. Highest rated remaining teams. 1 01 Bama (SECC) 2 02 Clemson (ACCC) 3 04 Washington (P12C) 4 05 Penn St (B10C) 5 07 Oklahoma (B12C) 6 03 Ohio St (B10-1) 7 09 USC (P12-1) 8 10 Florida St (ACC-1) This means Michigan and Wisconsin will be left out in favor of spreading invitations across the conferences to reduce the impact of ranking inflation (when highly ranked teams play each other in the same division/conference, thus boosting each other's rankings artificially).
