Folks, this is a mighty legitimate question:
So…Georgia and Texas Tech whip asses and move none. Ohio State loses and drops one, after a three point loss. Alabama loses by three scores and moves none. Miami sits idle while a 7-5 Duke wins the ACC. I did call it, they’d find a way to get one ACC team, but the moment at all levels makes no damned sense.
Add to it how lousy it is for JMU, Tulane, and Alabama (sort of) to know they played an extra game while their opponent got an extra week of rest and recovery?
Given that Georgia dropped to #6 from #1 when they lost by three to Alabama in the 2023 SECCG, after winning back to back national titles, make the Ohio State one point “well I guess we have to do it” drop make any more sense than the above?
Conference Championship games just lost relevance, which maybe was what the CFP Committee was going for, anyway. They just want the playoffs to start after the last scheduled game and do away with the championships so we can hurry to the NFL Lite version of conference realignment.
Welcome to the CFP West, East, North, and South.
As we have said, the committee is as useless as tits on a boar hog.
As useless as college universities administration & leadership.
Just rank them with a bcs formula & put in the top 12, excluding all p5 schools.
Even though the committee sucks I think it is an apples to oranges comparison because it is a 12 team vs. 4 team format.
The problem is the inclusion of the Group of 5 conference getting a guaranteed spot. Neither Tulane or JMU should be in, but the rules they set up to get everyone to the table force them to be. BYU, Vandy, or Notre Dame should be in if the system was better constructed. Now, they will just expand again to 16 to “fix the problem.”
Exactly. Expand playoff, create flawed playoff selection criteria whose flaws are only ‘fixed’ w/ further expansion. Rinse and repeat as often as Disney wants, until CFB is changed beyond recognition. What does Disney care? It’s in it only for the $$$$$.
The best thing they could do for everyone is to give the Group of 5 their own playoff and championship. I’m sure both JMU and Tulane would rather have that option, where they’d have a legit shot at a title, than the current setup. Honestly, giving these teams a spot is no different than picking the short, fat kid as your last pick for your basketball team in middle school gym.
You’d never get either of these coaches to admit it out loud, but they both have to know that they have no chance to win it all here. But we can’t expect the committee or Mickey or the lawyers or Jimmy Sexton or whoever the hell is making these decisions these days to make a logical decision.
The reason the “Top 5 conference champions” is in the rulebook is because it was a “backdoor” to let a G-5 in, without it actually being that bad. No one (surprisingly) ever expected the ACC to suck so bad that it would mean letting *2* G-5 conference champions in….
Honestly, I think they tried to avoid an early rematch between Georgia and Bama, so they kept both teams in place so that we’re on different sides of the brackets.
It’s all made up and flagellant anyway. 😉
It would be funny if, after all the expansion, CFP rankings, Notre Dame against Miami debate and other michegas, we wind up with a Dawgs v. Bama final anyway.
David Hale at ESPN has a great write-up on this. I still disagree that computer rankings are the solution, however. They generated some bizarre results, were shown to have bias programmed into their algorithms and some refused (Saragin) to reveal the formulas. You don’t need a computer, just a clear set of transparent rules that inevitably will have to use SoS and SoR which may not work best but you know the outcome without a smoke filled back room committee tampering with the results.
100%. Hale nailed it.
I hear all the noise about the conf championships games going away… but what i don’t hear is how are they going to determine WHO is the conf champ?
some of these conf have 20 teams? they aren’t even playing a « balanced » schedule in their own conferences?
If they move to an NFL format with divisions in lieu of conferences, there won’t be a conference championship game, but there would be a Division champ based on record, but it’s meaningless since it would just be positioning for a bye before the playoffs begin. I think they want to mirror the NFL model and reap the financial benefits from it.
You see Citizens, the Herbstreit Doctrine is a living, breathing document that adjusts to the times, not some relic created by old dead white AD’s 200 years ago that can only be changed by a rigourous, thoughtful process. Of course, by “the times,” we mean whatever helps anOSU and the B1G…