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High School football playoffs are over and the private/ public debate is tiring.

I hope therefore it's OK to talk about another playoff, College Football. It's the first one in the new format.

Hope it's OK with you Edgy? I want to talk more playoff football.

Do we have any IHSA players on these teams and what high school did they attend?

Who are you taking?

What is your upset pick?

 
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Pretty cool Indiana is playing at ND.

Intrigued to see how an SEC (Tennessee) coming north for a cold weather playoff game is going to perform (at OSU).

Oregon looks unstoppable.
 
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colin2229 said:
Pretty cool Indiana is playing at ND.

Intrigued to see how an SEC (Tennessee) coming north for a cold weather playoff game is going to perform (at Penn State).

Oregon looks unstoppable.
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Tennessee plays OSU.
 
doctor_d said:
I’m putting $50 on the Longhorns. I like the odds on a payout.
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Oh my., Whenever I see them play I wish Manning was their QB over Ewers.

Half way through the season I was convinced Oregon was the top team. I'm a big Dillon Gabriel fan and Tez Johnson fan.
 
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colin2229 said:
Pretty cool Indiana is playing at ND.

Intrigued to see how an SEC (Tennessee) coming north for a cold weather playoff game is going to perform (at OSU).

Oregon looks unstoppable.
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Oregon D is the weakness. If the O gets off schedule, it's anyone's game
 
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PowerI66 said:
Oregon D is the weakness. If the O gets off schedule, it's anyone's game
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They give up a lot, but have come up with a few key late-game interceptions to preserve victory, including in recent games. Too many 3rd down & long conversions to Penn State last night and at other times.
 
Wassup13 said:
Do you think the bracket is top heavy?
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No doubt. 12 was always going to be too many. In this bracket, I would say exactly half the teams have any realistic chance to win 3 or 4 in a row and win the title. The other half of the bracket would need some kind of miracle to run off that many wins in a row. The two ACC teams, Boise, ASU, Indiana, and probably Tennessee just flat out are not winning the title.

4-8 was always the magic number. ACC getting two teams is dumb and only happened because they put out weekly rankings and backed themselves into a corner by not being able to punish SMU after losing their bonus game.

SEC going to continue to be big mad as they get fewer teams than they feel they deserve. It's somewhere between 2 and 6 years until the Big Ten and SEC break away and form their own playoff. They have the most eyeballs and revenue and right now they are playing nice in trying to give off the appearance of a legitimate playoff. They will either have written into bylaws that they each get four qualifiers or they will just break away and form their own combined playoff.
 
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I have not checked the rosters but I know Cam Williams is a freshman WR from Glenbard South on ND but I don't think he is getting playing time yet.



Any IHSA guys at Indiana?
 
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CFP is Flawed.
The NCAA should allow a “Seeded” 32 team national playoff with no byes.
Reduce the regular season to 9 conference games only.
To qualify, you need to rank in the top 5 of your Power 5 conference. This will also force Notre Dame to join a conference.
If you get to the championship, you would play 5 additional games.
The first round byes are screwing up the playoff.
Power 5 x 5 teams = 25 out of 32
The remaining 7 spots will be at large for the smaller conferences to have a chance.
The brackets would bring in a staggering amount of money.
Furthermore, you will eliminate the “NFL opt outs” for the Bowl games. Who wants to travel to a Florida bowl game to watch your team play without their star athletes since the fear an injury before the NFL combine. The NCAA can “set aside” some of the money generated from the tournament and buy insurance policies for injury for the NFL prospects who fear injury in these games. (Slippery Slope?)
This would eliminate all the bs.
Kick 10% of the revenue “sharing”to the bottom tier of the D-1 schools who depend on the revenue for their ass kicking of the major schools.
IU 77-3 Western Illinois
IU 52-14 Charlotte
Ole Miss 76-0 Furman
Ole Miss 52-3 Middle Tennessee State
No one wants to pay to see those games nor risk injury against these pansies
Since Ole Miss has no chance, GO IU!

If the IHSA can facilitate a 32 team playoff, I think the NCAA can facilitate the playoffs 100 times better.
 
danlavalle23 said:
CFP is Flawed.
The NCAA should allow a “Seeded” 32 team national playoff with no byes.
Reduce the regular season to 9 conference games only.
To qualify, you need to rank in the top 5 of your Power 5 conference. This will also force Notre Dame to join a conference.
If you get to the championship, you would play 5 additional games.
The first round byes are screwing up the playoff.
Power 5 x 5 teams = 25 out of 32
The remaining 7 spots will be at large for the smaller conferences to have a chance.
The brackets would bring in a staggering amount of money.
Furthermore, you will eliminate the “NFL opt outs” for the Bowl games. Who wants to travel to a Florida bowl game to watch your team play without their star athletes since the fear an injury before the NFL combine. The NCAA can “set aside” some of the money generated from the tournament and buy insurance policies for injury for the NFL prospects who fear injury in these games. (Slippery Slope?)
This would eliminate all the bs.
Kick 10% of the revenue “sharing”to the bottom tier of the D-1 schools who depend on the revenue for their ass kicking of the major schools.
IU 77-3 Western Illinois
IU 52-14 Charlotte
Ole Miss 76-0 Furman
Ole Miss 52-3 Middle Tennessee State
No one wants to pay to see those games nor risk injury against these pansies
Since Ole Miss has no chance, GO IU!

If the IHSA can facilitate a 32 team playoff, I think the NCAA can facilitate the playoffs 100 times better.
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who do you count as the 5th "power" conference?
 
I don't like byes at all but 32 teams seems like too many. For now 16.
 
danlavalle23 said:
ACC
Big 12
Big 10
SEC
Mountain West ( Washington State and Oregon State to be included)
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I wish, but I don't see the MW being much different than the AAC or most of the other non power leagues.

The sad reality is that this is likely heading to a 12 team tournament with 4 Big Ten and 4 SEC guaranteed spots, one group of five champion, and three at large (likely ACC and Big 12 champ plus one more).

Either that or the more dramatic proposition (and most likely ending point for all this) where the Big Ten and SEC stop sharing the revenue entirely and create their own 8-16 team internal playoff, relegating all others to an NIT type event of their choosing.
 
To everyone complaining that the bracket is "top heavy", have you watched any other playoffs in sports history? That's pretty much all sports. How many classes in IHSA this year did most people here have narrowed down to 2 or 3 contenders before a single regular season game had even been played?

To me, 16 teams would be good. Eliminate the byes, and top 8 host the first weekend. Or, like I think other levels do, 24 teams, with 8 byes and first 2 rounds are hosted at higher seed. I would like more conference champions to be given a shot though, similar to March Madness. I don't need an expanded playoff so the 6th place SEC team gets a chance to do what they couldn't manage to do throughout the regular season.

The unfortunate reality though, is no matter what 'perfect' playoff system that could happen, the constant change of conferences/"Power 2"/transfer portal will just make things messy. I've already seen posts today of players on current playoff teams (Georgia and ASU, might be others) announcing they are in the portal. I'm sure they are low on the depth chart players (but maybe not?), but still leaving a playoff team.
 
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Notre Dame -7.5
Penn State -9
Texas -11
Ohio State -7.5

I would say Vegas thinks its top heavy.

Should be 8 team bracket with no byes.
 
Upsets happen all the time, and there have been a bunch this year. Look at the first couple years of 4 team playoff. There were so many blowouts in the 1st round. It can go either way
 
Wassup13 said:
High School football playoffs are over and the private/ public debate is tiring.

I hope therefore it's OK to talk about another playoff, College Football. It's the first one in the new format.

Hope it's OK with you Edgy? I want to talk more playoff football.

Do we have any IHSA players on these teams and what high school did they attend?

Who are you taking?

What is your upset pick?

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Esl has Patterson at smu, Lovett at UGA, and Spraggins at UT.

ND has a bunch of guys from the Chicagoland area.
 
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I don't think just because a team wins their conference they get in the playoffs. Not all conferences are equal and the ACC is a joke. You have teams ranked ahead of the conference winner. Why have rankings?
 
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LTHSALUM76 said:
I don't think just because a team wins their conference they get in the playoffs. Not all conferences are equal and the ACC is a joke. You have teams ranked ahead of the conference winner. Why have rankings?
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One spot for a top 5 conference isn't changing anything, and the autobid helps balance out some of the bias in the rankings. I completely admit that the SEC is the best conference. However, all of the "the 7th place SEC team would run the ACC/Big12 arguments drive me crazy. That same thinking influences the rankings. Just part of the SEC being undefeated in hypothetical games.
 
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Indiana played 2 top 25 teams all year. I believe it’s 65-26 against for them so far.

With the giant conferences, it’s going to happen every year. Decent teams will draw the cupcake schedule for that year, and go on an 11-1 run. Other teams that might be better, will draw the gauntlet, and finish 9-3.
 
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Indiana played 2 top 25 teams all year. I believe it’s 65-26 against for them so far.

With the giant conferences, it’s going to happen every year. Decent teams will draw the cupcake schedule for that year, and go on an 11-1 run. Other teams that might be better, will draw the gauntlet, and finish 9-3.
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How many did ND face?
 
We will see what happens in the last 2 games today, but it looks like stopping at 8 qualifying teams could have been enough this year. Will revisit this post in a several hours?
 
I think Notre Dame will prove out to be their usual fraud. But IU was just so inferior.

Similarly, SMU has been totally exposed today.
 
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