God almighty, we need real football to start ASAP, because the offseason just got more absurd. Apparently, according to Andy Staples, Tech DID just make the CFP.
This really is more of a statement about the relative crappiness of the ACC than it is about Tech’s prowess. Or at least I hope it is.
Something that would be entertaining though…if this held true, watching Alabama eviscerate them in their first CFP game a la Georgia versus Florida State last year. The conference might have to close shop after that. At the very least they might need to change the CFP design immediately as well, because an automatic bye for finishing first in the lousiest conference shouldn’t be rewarded with a bye week.
Yes, I know the season “started” with Week 0, but I stand by my opinion. The real season starts this week.
”Week zero” is dumb. Thst is all.
According to LK Josh Pate week zero will be week one in the not too distant future. The time of the 16 team playoff. BTW, I have a new drinking game guaranteed to get you wasted by halftime. When watching a game on ESPN/ABC every time the mention the 12 team playoff era, drink.
What you talking about, you’ll be drunk by the end of the 1st quarter!
Yeah, you are right about that. Maybe drunk by the first commercial break. It sounds like that are on a mention it 200 times per game quota.
Maybe a lexicon entry for when the college football power structure/media gaslights the fans=Week Zero.
Any one who is surprised at this B.S. needs to come on down bay side for a few adult beverages and lets discuss, these fuck wads have passed the season headed straight for the hen house, can’t wait for the field of 32 to evolve…GO DAWGS!!
I really hope not, but the suits who could give a shit about the true fans and running this shit show.
LOL!!!! FTMF!
The most Fech thing ever would be for Dell McGee to bring his guys up the street to beat them.
It’s too bad we can’t all go from MBS to Richt-Smart Field at Vince Dooley Stadium on Saturday night to cheer for the Panthers.
Would that make it “Chantastic”…
Such a great word
This has been what it’s all been about. Now the marketing machine sports writers & broadcasters have their precious brackets to slobber over even before the season begins. Las Vegas is giddy with their own anticipation of new sports betting. The kids got paid, the administrators are getting back control of the money and we get better season games while throwing traditions into the dustbin of history. Good times. GO DAWGS!
Oh and FTMF this is fucking stupid!
The 5th seed will be the best seed in the playoff. The best non-conference champion is likely to be one of the top three or four teams in talent most years. Maybe they lost the title game by 3. Maybe they lost a three-way tiebreaker and didn’t even play for the conference title. That team gets a home playoff game against G5 and a bowl game quarterfinal against the worst conference champion. It’s practically a cakewalk into the semis.
The 1 seed will have it harder even with the bye. The 8/9 are probably both better than the 4th conference champion most years, especially if there is an upset in a conference title game. Then they get the best non-conference champion in the semis. Congrats on that 1 seed, I guess.
The 2 seed is likely the best seed. That team gets a first round bye, the winner of 7/10 in quarters, either the third best conference champion or the 6/11 seed (who has played two games already) in the semis, and avoids the best team until the final.
Meh, just makes it more likely it will be ALL sec teams in the final 4.
They should just rename the Playoff “The College Football Death March presented by ESPN”. The team with the most available starters left will be the Championship. The poor Group of Five team may not have any starters left. That they are still going to have The Committee to do the selections just means more ESPN, CBS, and Fox talking heads time. It’s going to be too much to listen everyday. This will last until the Committee screws the B1G or the SEC out of their 3 or 4 teams each, then the Super League will split off.
Given what happened last year, it’s clear the committee is going to be taking depth charts and injury updates into the room to evaluate who is “worthy” of being in the playoffs. I suppose Georgia would have been excluded in 2018 because STETSON.
Tech even making the playoffs is a super long shot (maybe worth a 5-dollar bet). The odds of Tech making the playoffs and being a top 4 seed is less than the chances of me winning the Power Ball Lottery 5 weeks in a row.
Week Zero Brackets, lol. Prove you know less about football than you do about fornicating.
Being an old developer, I’m conditioned to always think of 0 as the first index. Which makes this week the real week zero and last week an IndexOutOfBoundsException.
Could it be that it’s called week ZERO because we had two ZEROS playing each other in the feature game?