Football College Football Playoff Announcement / Bowl Games
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Coming in at No.1 is Alabama, Michigan at No.2
1. Alabama vs 4. Cincinnati - Cotton Bowl
2. Michigan vs 3. Georgia - Orange Bowl
1. Alabama vs 4. Cincinnati - Cotton Bowl
2. Michigan vs 3. Georgia - Orange Bowl
Committee fails, totally avoiding the SEC replay.
UMich’s Nov was much more impressive than ‘Bama’s.
Should have 1) UMich vs 4) Cincy
And 2) ‘Bama vs 3) Georgia
UMich’s Nov was much more impressive than ‘Bama’s.
Should have 1) UMich vs 4) Cincy
And 2) ‘Bama vs 3) Georgia
I agree with that. But did you honestly think the SEC kissasses (i.e. the Committee) would do anything different.
they lost to Cincy at home, which is even worse.
Well, in all fairness, it was more like a Cincinnati home game when all the ND fans sold their tickets to bearcat fans.
How is that different that a Georgia team that played a similarly weak schedule getting in right after an uncompetitive loss to Bama at seasons end?
The idiotic desire of some people to crown a true national championship has ruined the post season and significantly diminished the regular season while not actually succeeding in their primary mission. Should Cinci lose and Notre Dame win their game, they are a rightful co-national champion regardless of what anyone says.
You serious, Clark?
UGA would wreck Notre Dame. Absolutely wreck them.
Alabama would wreck Notre Dame.
Georgia beat 3 teams currently in the top-25. ND has beat ZERO teams currently in the top-25.
At least Georgia's loss came in championship weekend. How would ND have fared against Bama? Far worse than Georgia did.
LOL.
I think that’s because it’s basically still the old BCS system, just with a new name. We still have a committee using vague (?computer?) info to pick who goes.
They’ve kept picking the same few teams over and over which has allowed a handful of teams to collect all major talent to the exclusion of others. You’re a favored team and just lost? Don’t worry about it- you’re still in (but anyone else who loses- you’re out).
Open the playoff to 16 teams and a lot of the nonsense will work itself out. Win and advance. Lose and you’re out….. even if you’re name is Bama or Georgia or Oklahoma.
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Another issue that ruins the postseason are bowl tie ins for conferences. It’s always the same games. Go back to a non aligned system. It would allow a much greater variety in opponents and locations.
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It’s boring because it not really a playoff.
The top-25 is nonsense. Two of those three haven't beat a team with a winning record this year and the third has one win which means they are not legit top 25 teams.
ND needed a last second TD to beat TOLEDO! At home for God sakes...
Okay then.
If you honestly think Notre Dame is a better team than Georgia (or more "deserving"), I suspect there's little point in having a conversation because we're clearly not watching the same things.
UGA would beat them by 5 TDs. ND's one-dimensional run game would get ripped apart at the line of scrimmage. Alabama beat them by lightning strikes to elite playmakers on the outside. ND has none of that.
The desire for a true national champion hasn’t ruined the post season or diminished the regular season. ESPN’s idiotic invitational did that. A true playoff, with automatic qualifiers, might actually bring some significance back to conference titles. It might also allow for more competitive OOC matchups since an early loss wouldn’t eliminate/severely hamper title aspirations.
OT against a really bad Florida State team.
Late TD to beat Toledo.
3-point win over 6-6 VT.
And the benefit of USC, North Carolina, Stanford, and Wisconsin being worse than usual.
They played one legit team -- Cincinnati -- and lost at home. They played one other "good" team -- Purdue -- and that was a 4 point game in the 4th quarter.
Please.
BS, they are fairly evenly matched. You can't think they aren't but no objective measure supports that opinion. The best win by either team is Notre Dame's win over Purdue by a considerable margin.
Nonsense. Notre Dame is as deserving or more. Purdue is a better win that Georgia has on its record and a better win than any team Georgia has beaten has on their record. They played a soft as butter schedule. They ran up scores against 8 bad teams and four mediocre teams and got steamrolled by the one good team they played.
They lost in October to an undefeated team. Georgia lost in December, in what was effectively a home game (1 hr 21 mins drive time) vs. a team that lost to Texas A&M and should have lost to 6-6 Florida that gave up over 50 points to Samford. Also, ND beat Ga. Tech 55-0 a week before LSU beat them 45-0.
ND deserves to be in CFP about as much as Wallace deserves the Poster of the Year Award. Zilch!
That doesn't mean that I am wrong because...I am not. Objectively, Notre Dame is more deserving a playoff bid than Georgia, as are Ohio State, Oklahoma State and Baylor.
What objective measure? Every analytics ranking I’ve seen has UGA’s SOS and SOR better than ND.
Peach Bowl: Michigan State vs Pittsburgh
Fiesta Bowl: Notre Dame vs Oklahoma State
Rose Bowl: Ohio State vs Utah
Sugar Bowl: Baylor vs Ole Miss
Fiesta Bowl: Notre Dame vs Oklahoma State
Rose Bowl: Ohio State vs Utah
Sugar Bowl: Baylor vs Ole Miss
No sour grapes, honestly, but none of those games are overly compelling. Will probably watch the Rose Bowl, in large part because of the setting and because games from the Rose Bowl just look really good on TV. Not sure what it is. Must be the location of the cameras.
You're saying Oklahoma State is more deserving of a playoff bid than Georgia? The Oklahoma State that lost to Iowa State?
Dude.......LOL.
Georgia played the easiest schedule of any top 15 team not named Cincinnati. There is no denying it.
I think Ga's resume does leave a lot to be desired, but it still trumps ND's. If Oklahoma St. would have won yesterday, I would have put them ahead of UGA.
A big part of that is that I think the playoff should be used to make sure that anyone that has a legit claim to the NC should have had a chance to play for it during the regular season at least on a neutral field. I don't think it should be used to just put the "best" 4 teams in, that basically makes it the eye test.
Bama is in because it won the SEC with 1 loss, same with UM. Cincy gets in b/c it was undefeated, beat a top 10 team on the road, and the rest of the P5 champions pooped the bed. So it now comes down to who is 4th seed. ND didn't beat much of anyone this year due to usually good teams being historically poor, plus they lost on their home field, a major no no, and they lost to one of the 4 teams in the playoff, so they had their chance and lost it (if they would have lost at Cincy, a better case could have been made). Not to mention they didn't have to play a 13th game like UGA.
Normally I would be against UGA being in since they lost to Bama on a neutral field, there is nothing left to be gained from UGA being in. However, there really is no other team that deserves a legit shot at the playoff, so I am not offended they got it.
You probably feel the same as many college football fans. With few exceptions, most teams are very regional fan bases. I'll watch as many as I can, just because it's the end of the football and sports season for me. I don't watch the NFL. I hate basketball but will catch an occasional NHL Penguins game.
In other breaking news: Water is wet, the sun is yellow, and the sky is blue.
The water is wet but no yellow sun and very grey skies in Chicagoland today! 🤷🏻♂️
You're right. And I'm the same as you in terms of watching other sports so I'll likely end up watching at least parts of most of those games. But usually at least 1 or 2 of the NY6 games make me sit up and take notice. But nothing here.
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