Oh well, we're moving from crowning a national champion to crowning a tournament champion. Maybe the AP can regain relevance by crowning a regular season champion.
So? They lost two games, they lost the right to claim to be the best.15th ranked Texas A&M beat us....
Of course it does, you're talking about allowing 2-loss teams compete against teams that won them all in order to claim they're better. Playoffs yield games where starters sit entire games (or most of them) because the team can 'afford a loss'. Playoffs yield less need to be at the top of your game every week as you only have to 'make the cut'.A playoff does not cheapen the regular season, in a playoff system the regular season earns you a spot in the playoff and doing well gives you the best shot of winning it all by giving you a higher ranking and allowing you to play easier games.
Putting any restrictions on a playoff or BCS for participation is the only problem we have right now and may have in the future. Fix that, and any system can work, as long as we don't get ridiculous with lengthy playoffs that favor teams from lesser conferences that don't have to endure the wear and tear that the teams in the SEC have to endure. The TOP TEAMS should be seeded in ranked order, no matter the system, WITHOUT ANY RESTRICTIONS (e.g., no conference limits, no regard to "conference championship", etc.).
You don't see the contradiction in this? Think about it for a minute and I'll give you a hint of where I'm going with it. San Antonio Spurs and David Stern getting mad.15th ranked Texas A&M beat us....
*A playoff does not cheapen the regular season, in a playoff system the regular season earns you a spot in the playoff and doing well gives you the best shot of winning it all by giving you a higher ranking and allowing you to play easier games.
In football, anyone can get beat on any given Saturday. *With a large playoff system Bama could possibly lose 3 games in the regular season and still be in the playoffs. I find that much more to playing in the meaningless music city bowl any day.
Why conference champs? Why not the highest ranked teams? Does an 8-5 Big10 Champion deserve to get in before any of the top 10 SEC teams?I think this is optimal:
Champs of the SEC, Pac12, Big12, Big10, ACC
and
3 highest ranked other teams.
I NEVER want to see a playoff where a 7-5 Wisconsin team can get hot at the right moment, and win a BCSNC...16 team playoff? Seriously? When has there ever been a team ranked 16th that had a legitimate claim to being the best in the country?
Top4 is plenty, if they want to push it to 6 I can possibly see it, but there's never been a 7th ranked team (rarely even a fourth ranked team) that can legitimately lay claim to being the best.
Top8+ just cheapens the regular season.
Your comment contradicts itself...15th ranked Texas A&M beat us....
A playoff does not cheapen the regular season, in a playoff system the regular season earns you a spot in the playoff and doing well gives you the best shot of winning it all by giving you a higher ranking and allowing you to play easier games.
In football, anyone can get beat on any given Saturday. With a large playoff system Bama could possibly lose 3 games in the regular season and still be in the playoffs. I find that much more to playing in the meaningless music city bowl any day.
I agree. If we took a sixteen team playoff it would guarantee a two-three game cushion teams would have to manipulate. In other words you'd have teams use the line of thinking that they are not going to make it to their conference championship but we have enough wins to make into the playoff. So to prepare for the playoffs we can start resting players, maybe not put as much emphasis on winning the last one to two games because we already know we're in.I NEVER want to see a playoff where a 7-5 Wisconsin team can get hot at the right moment, and win a BCSNC...
what would that do for the college game?
This isnt pro football, every game counts, and I want to keep it that way...imperfect or not!
the day a 7-5 team wins would be a sad day no matter what conference they're from...would cheapen the championship.The dumb luck 7-5 teams that win a playoff would be SEC teams.
just depends on what you think the game should be about...A playoff would also allow room for a team to improve over a season's time. Some may call this "getting hot", but it can also be due to young players maturing.
I agree. As it sits right now, the most important game in my eyes, we just played and won. The SEC Championship. To me, the Notre Dame game is just another game that i want us to win. The National Championship as it is now is so subjective it's not even worth arguing about. I mean, who's to say that any combination of Notre Dame, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Oregon, Texas A & M, Kansas State, LSU, or Stanford would hold any more or less value as a measure of a true National Championship game as the ND/Bama game will provide?What's so wrong with what he's saying? A 16-team playoff would be way better than what we have now. We'd have a clear winner at the end of the season. Currently it's just who has the best record, arguably, at that.
woudl it sit better with you if in a 16 team playoff if a 5 loss team beat us to win it all, just because they got hot on a saturday...even after we had went 13-0 during the season?I agree. As it sits right now, the most important game in my eyes, we just played and won. The SEC Championship. To me, the Notre Dame game is just another game that i want us to win. The National Championship as it is now is so subjective it's not even worth arguing about. I mean, who's to say that any combination of Notre Dame, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Oregon, Texas A & M, Kansas State, LSU, or Stanford would hold any more or less value as a measure of a true National Championship game as the ND/Bama game will provide?
Don't get me wrong. I love Alabama and want us to crush ND. I'm just not one of those who beats his chest saying we're the best team in the country when we all know that we have a current system that doesn't ever give anyone the chance to really prove it. We just play the hand we're dealt. 14-0 is my goal for Bama every year. If we went undefeated and they voted us #6, who cares. All we did was win our games, the only thing we could control.
Agree. An SEC team would play 12 regular season games, one (13) SEC Championship game and 4 (17) playoff games if they won out. 17 games? Welcome the 2,000 yard running back and 5,000 yard quarterback. That is a lot of pounding on a kids body also.16 team playoff? Seriously? When has there ever been a team ranked 16th that had a legitimate claim to being the best in the country?
Top4 is plenty, if they want to push it to 6 I can possibly see it, but there's never been a 7th ranked team (rarely even a fourth ranked team) that can legitimately lay claim to being the best.
Top8+ just cheapens the regular season.