News Article: College Football Is a Convoluted Mess—Again

[VirginiaTide57]

My apologies to Kyallie if this is in the news thread, but I didn't see it . . .

A Wall Street Journal article about the playoffs:

Two years ago, major-college football finally adopted a playoff system, a historic move that would surely end the annual bickering over who should get to play for the national championship.

Shockingly, the arguing goes on.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/college...XWQquWn2aIxmse6rSaqSF1h7t8N7mh6HGGO0TA2Ap/Lxw

 

[Elefantman]

The solution is quite simple. Have an eight team playoff to see who gets to play Bama for the championship.

 

[RammerJammer14]

The solution is quite simple. Have an eight team playoff to see who gets to play Bama for the championship.

No! That is what they have been pushing from day one. What we have this year is 3 teams that don't deserve to be #1. No need to add additional undeserving teams.


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[rtcjny]

I love the "Plus, as always, Alabama"

 

[Elefantman]

Maybe should of used blue font. I want to see the other eight fight for the privilege of loosing to Bama in a championship game.

 

[Ole Man Dan]

Expansion never works...
There will always be a team that didn't quite make it...

 

[mdb-tpet]

The solution is quite simple. Have an eight team playoff to see who gets to play Bama for the championship.

I'm in favor of a 13 team round-robin playoff the week before the playoffs start to select the team to play Alabama.

 

[TideEngineer08]

I saw something on another site that made a lot of sense. Play only conference games. Eliminate conference championship games. Then have a 128 team playoff that runs through February. That would end all controversy.

 

[JBama_in_PCOLA]

You think this is a mess? Try adding an 8 team playoff and the positioning for it.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Win your damn games or shut the hell up.

Problem solved.

 

[J4Bama]

An 8 team playoff would discount the regular season. You might have a 3 loss team playing for the national title some years.

 

[PA Tide Fan]

I was a bit disappointed to see #2, 3, and 4 lose because the playoff teams were so obvious before those losses and the system would have worked perfectly. It would have been great to have a playoff of unbeatens. Now with 1 and possibly 2 loss teams making it in there will be teams with identical records left out. This will just put more pressure on the NCAA to expand the playoffs. Four teams is enough for me.

 

[teamplayer]

The solution is quite simple. Have an eight team playoff to see who gets to play Bama for the championship.

Yeah, because basketball decided 16 wasn't enough, and then 32 wasn't enough, and then when it looked like 64 was just right they made it really, really, really, really, really stupid by adding the other four or eight and many people realized how stupid that was and quit caring.

 

[Elefantman]

Yeah, because basketball decided 16 wasn't enough, and then 32 wasn't enough, and then when it looked like 64 was just right they made it really, really, really, really, really stupid by adding the other four or eight and many people realized how stupid that was and quit caring.

I don't want to expand the play offs, it was a joke. The article was going on about how there are so many teams with similar records. So my suggestion was to let them battle it out to decide who gets to be the sacrificial lamb and play us in the championship game. As long as we have CNS, the post season will be about who gets to be #2.

 

[Bazza]

I don't see a problem.....

 

[Elefantman]

I don't see a problem.....

The problem is that stupid Gus bus.

 

[bama2112]

Bring back the BCS. We dont need a playoff. College football is what it is because of the system. You want it to be as boring as the NCCA basketball playoffs and let the NZAA manage the games.

 

[JDCrimson]

It's funny how they abandoned the BCS because they had a national champion that wasn't a conference or division champion. Usher in the man-selected playoff and they are confronted with the same issue times 3 but now they are trying to legitimize taking one or more non-conference champions.

I think it would be interesting to see how former BCS calculations would have ranked the teams. This committee has gotten themselves in a real fix do you value conference champions more or the best teams the best resume throughout the season? I think you go with the best teams over conference champions because ultimately how each conference has wisely or unwisely divided their teams between divisions can severely impact whether a team makes it into the CFP.

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[Redwood Forrest]

Lets play this game for a minute.

Pick Four: Alabama. Clemson. Ohio State. Washington. Louisville. Michigan.

Pick Eight: Alabama. Clemson. Louisville. Ohio State. Michigan. Penn State. Wisconsin. Oklahoma. Oklahoma State. W Virginia. Washington. Washington State. Colorado. USC. Utah. Houston. Boise.

Oh yeah, eight is much easier! No need to whine about who is number nine.

 

[RWBTide]

To bite or not to bite, that is the question.....hmmmm

Ok bite it is.

4 Power conferences each with either 14 or 16 members split into 2 divisions.

56 or 64 teams who at the start of the season are allowed to win the National Championship, the remaining 72/64 cannot. I don't know but I don't 56 different schools have been crowned National Champions since college football began.

4 Conference winners play semi and final for the marbles.

Its not the number of teams in the playoffs that causes the debate and complaints, it's the fact that opinion plays a part in the process.