Andy Staples gladly seeded a bracket based off a recommendation from none other than Lane Kiffin.
This is intriguing, and given how the 2024 season ended, I have to say that I wouldn’t have wanted to face South Carolina given our tendency to struggle with mobile quarterbacks as well as how menacing Carolina’s defensive line would’ve been. We could’ve well taken an L in game one of this.
Other thoughts: Ole Miss beating Texas for many of the reasons listed above against Carolina. I think tOSU easily beats the Tide, but what about Indiana and Boise State? Imagine giving the B1G more stuff to crow about? Miami with a fully invested Cam Ward could’ve done in the Shittany Liars. I’m at a loss to predict how Tennessee and SMU would’ve played out, too, though a home crowd in Neyland may have been an advantage for any opponent not coached by a guy whose name rhymes with Furby Shart.
What do you think? Still tOSUs championship? I can see the Fighting Irish making it to the finals, but the right side of the board seems more competitive and a Georgia-Suckeyes rematch would’ve been interesting to see.
The imbalance of those two sides is staggering.
Until we are rid of the committee, this process is flawed. What we see as a flaw, Mickey sees as a feature.
I’m having a hard time caring about most of these games. Other than Georgia, wake me up when the semifinals get here.
how in the hell are all the sec teams on one side of the bracket
if this is ever the case, SEC needs to take the ball, go home, we just play teams in our conf, and the SEC champ is the damn college super bowl… hell with the rest of these douchebags… go dawgs
I probably sound like a broken record, but I am never going to be convinced that there are ever 16 teams that deserve an opportunity to play for a football national championship. You could probably sell me on 6 or 8 team formats, but this is just a raw money grab for TV money. Sooner or later, there will be a layer or two of play-in games to get the last 4 spots that will make it an even bigger joke.
Well, it gets back to whether we want a season champion or a tournament champion. I was under the mistaken assumption we wanted a season champion, but the playoff is for crowning a tournament champion. Mickey and casual fans call it a season champion.
Half don’t belong. Should have started with 8 using the big bowls and we might have avoided this mess long ago. The committee is a good idea gone bad. Needs better representation AND complete transparency with no rankings done until season end.
When the expansion discussions started, we had a power 5 + ND. 12 was the only solution that would keep all of the various constituencies happy. The problem is the selection method, and that’s been the problem since the beginning. The committee is the problem.
8 was never going to be workable because everyone except the SEC wanted conference champion automatic qualifiers, the Group of 5 was going to sue without a spot, and nothing was going to happen without ND’s participation (whether that’s warranted or not).
Four was always plenty. There was never a fifth team with a serious argument, in contrast to there being some third teams that had one in the BCS era (2004 Auburn being the strongest one).
The BCS was better than the ESPN Invitational. Rarely were there more than 2 teams that could legitimately claim to be the best team. Folks loved to complain about the selection process but it did have computer input that did not factor conference or regional bias, and the two human polls each had a lot of voters diluting the conference or regional influence.
We have this silly committee because in 2011 two SEC teams were in the game and the Big 10, Big 12, ACC and the PAC 12 wanted to have a selection process that they could control to prevent any of their conferences from winning the mythical national championship.