Conference winners can have three losses. Your rule goes out the window unless you want to eliminate conference winners too.
Playoff question for the board
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Conference winners can have three losses. Your rule goes out the window unless you want to eliminate conference winners too.
Most likely possible answer is the Big Ten and SEC go to 24 and split into 4 divisions. Top 3 or 4 in each division make the playoff. 12 or 16 teams
But if other conferences are included we'll never get something like this
Because of money. Wildcards are required to keep fan bases thinking, so you're saying there's a chance.
No...because in college football the majority of the top teams are in 2 conferences so you rewarding teams for not playing anything. It has nothing to do with "so you have a chance"
Accept reality. For the love of...
Reality Is that a 3rd or 4th place team has not earned the right to play for a national championship. Your reality is just wanting what you perceive to be entertaining games. You're the one that won't accept the reality that this tournament is not for a national championship. It's an entertainment designed to make the most possible MONEY.
Says who? Why is that not earning it? Because you said so?
My reality is what is actually happening not something I'd create in EA Sports
It's designed to make money and to include the beat teams. No one ever said deserving.
It's NOT the best. There are no rules so it's the best in the OPINION if a bunch of people behind closed doors. There opinion is no better than anybody else's.
You seem to love this system and think your opinion is better than anybody else's. How about you explain it to me what the criteria is for determining the "best"? Where are those criteria written down? What is the deterministic algorithm.?
Hey Lando. Still waiting. You have an answer for everything
"How about you explain it to me what the criteria is for determining the "best"? Where are those criteria written down? What is the deterministic algorithm.?"
No answer?? How come??
"How about you explain it to me what the criteria is for determining the "best"? Where are those criteria written down? What is the deterministic algorithm.?"
No answer?? How come??
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It is the "best". That's the stated objective.
I understand the system and why what you want doesn't work. There's two conference that consist of 80% of the best programs.
The best is based on SOR SOS margin of victory quality wins and quality of their losses. We don't need an algorithm. It should be basic. Are the rankings somehow confusing to you?
No. They are opinions. Any claim that they aren't is laughable.
So you agree there is no fixed algorithm which excludes human bias. If ther was you would list it.
Why would a P4 team leave a conference that prints money to go to a G5 conference? The money they'd get from making the playoff wouldn't offset the media deal money from being in a major conference.
At large berths would required some subjectivity, but in my imaginary world there would be scheduling rules that makes comparing teams between conferences a little bit easier. And if you have a field of 16 and only 5 spots are subjective I can live with it. Other sports have figured this stuff out and that's how they do things... lots of automatic berth spots. I don't know why CFB is so opposed to it but now they have given the Big 10 and SEC so much power and influence it will NEVER happen, because those 2 conference will view automatic berths for G5 conferences as taking a spot from one of their teams, and they will exert their influence to make sure it never happens.
