FreshFromATL
Self Made
Just getting Colorado into the playoffs should suffice (once they switch to the top 8 or 12 team format). Him being at Colorado is transitory, I think the ultimate goal is him coaching an SEC school, or FSU.
Can they cancel the plans to EXPAND COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS?
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Just getting Colorado into the playoffs should suffice (once they switch to the top 8 or 12 team format). Him being at Colorado is transitory, I think the ultimate goal is him coaching an SEC school, or FSU.
The Pac12 doesn’t fit.
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
Its funny cuz 2 loses was the breaking point. Well when they expand it it will be 3 and 4 loss teams in there.
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
So what is it y’all exactly want? Parity or the Big 10/SEC challenge?
Add in USC choking in the Pac 12 chip.
Bama with one less loss
Clemson with one less loss
USC not losing in the Pac 12 Chip
Tennessee only having one loss
They all blew their chance.
That's why you play the game.
There's a reason the best team "on paper" doesn't win all the time in sports and that's what makes it great.
I agree. Clemson was top tier SEC level on the defensive line for years. Shaq Lawson, Dexter Lawrence, Christian Wilkins, Clelin Ferell etc
Whips-n-Chains
Chi
Is this the most active thread in the coli?
The 2022 thread was like 3x the posts of the nfl thread.
Edit: nba thread will lapse
The 2022 thread was like 3x the posts of the nfl thread.
Edit: nba thread will lapse
Godless Socialist CEO
Superstar
If TCU didn't belong Michigan didn't either
Teams that don't belong will be in an we'll see more ass whooping like tonight.
TCU clearly didn't belong.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
While I think you're right about caution, I just don't believe that stops the premier talent from pooling in the same places, which has given us the same results for the last decade plus. Bama, Georgia, Clemson, Oklahoma, LSU, 1-2 Texas schools, Tennessee, etc. Ohio State does very well but overall It's always gonna be a sport where southern (black) talent predominantly goes to schools below the Mason Dixon line. And I don't really need to see 12 teams when there's no reason to believe there will be more than 5-6 teams who can objectively win a championship. What we're going to get is the playoffs essentially becoming another SEC championship, plus OSU/Michigan/USC/Oklahoma.
NIL makes this worse IMO because there will always be a program that decides to spend big with no real path to competing. Miami has a top 5 class this year due to boosters handing out checks. Last year it was Texas A&M. So while NIL spreads some talent around it also re-enforces the dominance Georgia/Bama/LSU/etc will have. There was a story last month about Ohio State realizing they can't even afford the level of recruits Georgia is getting for 2mil.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
I think you are short-sighted.
If more teams are able to make the playoff and compete, over time, schools won't be able to stack five-star recruits at the same position as they can do now. More conferences will get lucrative TV contracts because those schools will be able to compete for a national title, etc.
I am not saying the top and premier schools won't win a big share of the titles, but I started watching college football when the SEC wasn't shyt Clemsoning wasn't even a thing because Clemson was not a major program, LSU was a joke, etc while Penn State, Notre Dame, the Florida schools, Nebraska and Colorado as the premier programs in college football. Nothing is fixed and this tournament will create more parity among the Power Five schools over time.
Also, NIL is a big-time game changer for smaller programs too. We saw Deion Sanders get a five-star recruit to play in FCS for an HBCU through a NIL and his charisma, and he pulled in four-star players.
This thread is in reaction to TCU getting their asses handed to them in the National Title Game. TCU was a middle-tier WAC/Mountain West school for most of the last 30 years. If you can't see that as progression and how nothing is fixed, then you are not paying attention.
Nothing stays the same.
PortCityProphet
Follow me to the truth
Some folks been trying to tell yall this for years.
An expanded playoff is not what you want.
Football aint basketball. There's levels to this shyt. Small schools do not have the depth or coaching staffs and never will. Cinderella don't exist in college football only death star jedis or whatever is the equivalent to some dominating powerhouse.
Small schools aint gon rise or get boost in players and coaches cause they'll always be poached by the big dogs with the big bucks.
If in the end game we still e d up with the same group of teams in the finals whats the point of them other squads making it? There's never more than 4-5 championship level teams in any given season.
We see it year after year but folks wanna ignore it and pretend like this is a sport where you only need 3 goods and 5 decent ones to get hot instead of what it is my best 20-30 vs your best 20-30
An expanded playoff is not what you want.
Football aint basketball. There's levels to this shyt. Small schools do not have the depth or coaching staffs and never will. Cinderella don't exist in college football only death star jedis or whatever is the equivalent to some dominating powerhouse.
Small schools aint gon rise or get boost in players and coaches cause they'll always be poached by the big dogs with the big bucks.
If in the end game we still e d up with the same group of teams in the finals whats the point of them other squads making it? There's never more than 4-5 championship level teams in any given season.
We see it year after year but folks wanna ignore it and pretend like this is a sport where you only need 3 goods and 5 decent ones to get hot instead of what it is my best 20-30 vs your best 20-30