The "Conference Champ" thing will be used to make sure the SEC has no more than one representative - just wait. Cannot believe there is so much faith in this system by our fanbase
I'm not quite sure how you get the idea that we have faith in the system.
A large number of people here are against different aspects of it.
A large number are also voicing fears in advance with varying degrees of legitimacy.
And a large number are also saying, "Let's just wait and see - let's actually LET IT HAPPEN before we have any reaction."
The last group is the most rational of the bunch.
One part I really don't understand is the repeated expressions of fear of things like "well they're not gonna let two SEC teams in." I mean, so what if that's true? Many of these same folks are the EXACT SAME PEOPLE who - five years ago and even more recent - did not want this playoff because "it's not fair that we would have to beat Florida twice" (when they were unbeaten in 2009). Many of these same people have suddenly jumped on the other side of the boat and said, "It's not fair if we DON'T get two SEC teams in there."
Make up your minds folks!!!!!
I realize krAzy3 and I spar respectfully but he has been consistent as have I. He was one of the few fans here that in 2011 - even if it meant we couldn't go - was a die-hard and adamant defender of the BCS. He still is, and he has pointed out (correctly, might I add) what will be lost from the season as the number of teams in the "playoffs" increase. But he HAS maintained his consistency and that part I respect from anyone.
I think it's B1G who is continually pointing out for everyone to just take a chill pill - wait and see.
Let me be blunt: Alabama is going to be fine whatever system is chosen, ok? We have won national titles when the bowls didn't count, won them when they meant everything, won the Bowl Alliance version (1992), won the BCS three times - we are the ONLY school that has managed to adjust and win under ALL sets of circumstances. People got mad at how we won in 1964 so they opted to include the bowl games - and then we turned around and won it BECAUSE they were mad at the old system. We have been dealt TWO severe injustices - 1966 and 1977, and BOTH of those would be rectified with this new system because we would have made the playoffs both years (Notre Dame would NOT in 1977) and then crowned an undisputed champion.
This defeatism of "they'd keep 2011 Alabama out" is based on assumptions. Now granted - Jim "Big Mouth" Delaney has given the SEC cause for concern. Quite frankly, I wish the Big Ten would be told where to stick their Rose Bowl because that crap about "tradition?" Well, Big Ten teams not named Ohio State flopping on New Years Day with shots at the championship is a longstanding tradition. I feel about the same folks here do - Delaney is shooting his mouth off both ways, trying to demand the Big Ten-Pac 12 Rose Bowl while insisting on a conference champion over a non-champion.
The first ruckus is going to happen the first year a team NOT in the top four makes it. But the seediest aspect of it all is this "blue ribbon panel" (to use a Tim Brando hackneyed cliche). This seems like an attempt to guarantee no Boises make it. But Delaney does not control the committee (and to be fair - he IS looking out for what he deems the best economic interests of his conference) so let's wait and see.
But no, nobody is just buying into this. Most of us are simply saying let's see what happens.