Additional Game for Non-Championship Game Participants

[NationalTitles18]

no.

 

[Elefantman]

Simple solution, eliminate conference championship games. Go to 8 team playoff with first round being played on first week of December. Top 4 teams play at home.

 

[PitMaster]

The op raises a good point

 

[B1GTide]

The op raises a good point

Not really. The only way that we could equalize schedules would be to equalize the level of competitive games that each team faces each season. Adding another game doesn't do that. Example - even without the extra game, Ohio State played a more difficult schedule than Washington, and a schedule equal to Clemson - and they both played an extra game. We played fewer cupcakes along the way.

It is about the quality of opponents played, not the number of opponents.

What if a weather event washes out a game and it cannot be rescheduled? Does that team have to play another game, even if they are an undefeated conference champion? I mean, they played one less game than the other conference champions. It isn't "fair".

This is silliness.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

We are seriously arguing over 4 weeks
to prepare versus 5?

I can understand the advantage during the season of ATM being off while we play the Vols. That's tough.

But once you're past a few days there's no real advantage. Both teams well rested maybe even rusty.

 

[PitMaster]

Ask Shaun Dion Hamilton

 

[B1GTide]

Ask Shaun Dion Hamilton

He would argue for fewer games, not more.

 

[PitMaster]

He would argue for fewer games, not more.

the case is about equity

 

[B1GTide]

the case is about equity

I addressed that. You threw out this straw man instead of responding to my post about scheduling equity.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

the case is about equity

So now Tide fans play "if Colt hadn't got hurt..."

 

[grlindsey08]

If anything like this ever did happen, I say the highest ranked team in the match-up should host it on campus. All this traveling to neutral sites is getting ridiculous financially. If Alabama takes care of business against washington, the fans would have traveled to Texas, Atlanta, Atlanta again (where other years it could be as far as Glendale or Pasedena), and Tampa. That's expensive and surely people are noticing that Bama is no longer packing out its games, not even the iron bowl or the SEC championship game. If you take four teams that didn't make their championship games a chance to make the playoffs, then the bottom two of those four should at least have to battle through a hostile environment to prove they deserve to be in the top 4. I think it's a creative idea. Not sure of the implications it would have on college football, but it's still outside-the-box thinking. It doesn't help Bama this year (and neither has any of the CFPs so far), but it might the next time we drop a 9-6 OT game to #1 LSU, but Okie State doesn't lose to Iowa State.

 

[B1GTide]

Imagine that this is happening this year and you are Washington. You probably get left out of the playoff, because it is highly likely that 2 teams with better resumes win their "extra" game. Instead of Washington getting in because they won their conference championship game while Michigan sat idle, they get left out because Michigan plays a team like USC, wins, and bumps them from the playoff.

This makes a lot less sense when you look at it more closely. It further damages the relative resumes of conference champions from weaker conferences.