Anonymous #1 1d

On the flip side a larger playoff system helps smaller schools, not to mention with these past few playoffs where we’ve seen lower seeds make it to the natty. The ranking system in CFB is inherently flawed and often favors certain conferences (like the SEC) so having more teams in the postseason balances that out (especially with last year where the 10 seed ACC team made it further than the 5 SEC teams)

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Anonymous OP 1d

And if a team with a perfect regular season loses to a 2-loss team in the postseason, maybe they really weren’t that good. I do agree that fans make college football more special than the CFP does, but at the same time the playoff system we had in the past was inherently flawed if 13-0 teams weren’t making it.

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Anonymous OP 1d

I don’t see how a larger playoff system helps smaller schools. The committee has gotten it right both years in the 12 team format. Expanding the playoff this year would’ve given you two more SEC teams, ND, and BYU, so I don’t see what impact that would have on any conference bias in the polls, it’d just be bias towards worse teams. Missing on the bubble sucks but the solution isn’t expanding, it’s doing better next year.

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Anonymous OP 1d

Most of the time upsets after 3+ months of football have a lot less to do with talent and a lot more to do with availability. CFB fans have this fixation with the quality of a team because of the way polls and playoff selections work but at the end of the day it’s about who wins on the grass. Ohio State has what, a half dozen first round prospects this year? They were a better roster than Miami, they didn’t lose because their team was worse on the whole.

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Anonymous OP 1d

This has also only happened once in the 12 team, and it’s not like Ohio State hadn’t already played Oregon very close in the regular season

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Anonymous OP 1d

And a 13-0 P5 team missed one singular time because their QB had a career ending injury. Jordan Travis is retired from football completely. You can’t say “we need to let teams with worse records have a shot against undefeated teams” and then say “undefeated teams are automatically unimpeachable”

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Anonymous #1 1d

Conference bids + expanded field lowers the dominance of blue chip programs. 2 of the teams that would’ve gone in (BYU and Vandy) aren’t exactly blue chip schools. The main reason I’m in favor of expanding to 16 is because it removes the bye week (while teams should be rewarded with a week of rest, 25 days in between games is objectively too much, that’s why they’re 1-7 in the 12 team format). I’m not saying expansion should be a solution to losing, I’m saying it just shouldn’t be selective

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Anonymous #1 1d

It is about who wins on the grass. Thats why it should be expanded to see if these teams were really battle tested throughout the season instead of being selective to a small group of 4 teams out of 138.

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Anonymous #1 1d

Yes… I can… teams shouldn’t be punished for not losing any of their games. I was making this argument with Auburn fans during March madness that were trying to argue they deserved to be in over a team that went 31-0. Miami OH definitely should’ve been a lower seed but not snubbed completely for something that had only happened 3 other times in cbb. It’s different cause mbb is 68 teams, but the same principle still applies.

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