Is this a serious question? What about the results of the 4 ( that is 4 times as many games) games that the theoretical 8-4 team lost. You subjectively decide which single game is important and ignore results of many games.
With comments like 8-4 deserves to be treated equally to undefeated or one loss teams, I agree about why have a regular season if actual results are meaningless.
No, the idea was to determine the most successful/best team in cfb by eliminating possibilities like 2004 with 3 major conference champs with perfect records (and toss in Utah), or the years where there were questions over who was #2 and #3 before the bowls.
The rest of the season would not be meaningless because you still have to win your division to get into the championship game.
At least the NFL makes an attempt at parity for the league by giving the worst teams first choice in the draft. College football is just the rich getting richer.
When the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA have their playoffs, do the teams that win those series advance, or do they ignore those playoff games and take the teams that had the best regular season records, instead?
National championship means all games in the nation should count, not just regional ones.
I want to see the team that wins based on a measurable set of criteria, I don’t care if it’s the “best” team according to the eye test or what Kirk tells me. The “best” team almost never wins the basketball tournament, does that devalue their national championship trophy? Step #1, win your conference. Step #2, win however many games needed to get into the championship game. Step #3, win the championship game. I don’t see anything in that list where it says “win over a group of biased people to get them to allow you into the playoffs”.
Go watch those sports instead, don’t try and change cfb to be them.
Elimination by multiple failures on you own part is pretty measurable. Cross you fingers if you are only that good that the rest of cfb is as lacking as you.
Please don’t let cfb approach anything close to cbb.
I’ll give you specific examples since generalities were too complicated for you.
If you lose games but still win your conference, you should get in the playoffs. Pretty much like every sport in the world.
It’s the only way to get the subjective “eye test” out of the equation and make college football like every other sport on the planet.
Steve Deace of the Michigan Podcast (hardly a friend of OSU) stated that Brandon Brown of the Wolverine Digest who covers recruiting stated that when the list of cheaters came up OSU was almost never brought up. See 9:33 of this
Well that seems pretty definitive. Some guy has an opinion. That definitely trumps a couple of decades of Ohio St players actually being caught taking impermissible benefits since basically the days of Maurice Clarett right up to Chase Young's girlfriend being flown to your bowl game last year that was passed off as some sort of loan that the player somehow paid off immediately and therefore was immediately eligible.
I’m fine with that especially if they could come up with some type of objective way to pick who is the best G5....maybe a play in game of some sort.
There are 10 conferences and 10 conference champions. Seed the 10 teams as if it's a 16 team tournament where seeds 1 - 6 get a first round bye. This completely eliminates the "Eye Test". Further, Independents can not be part of the playoff. If they want to have the opportunity to be included they have to join a conference (see ND this year as part of the ACC).
One, cfb has the best season and I don’t want to see it become as unimportant as some other sports. I’m glad the decision makers don’t think as you.
Wait...how would you determine who would participate in the play in game? Would that qualify as your overused catchphrase of “eye test”?
When you only play 12 games and you have to win your conference, then there’s no way the season becomes unimportant. And how important is the season to teams nowadays once they lose their second game even if they’re undefeated or only have one loss in their conference?
Well they obviously want it more than anyone else, and that type of dedication should be rewarded. And are you really going to tell me that Harvard, Stanford, Texas or Texas AM can’t outbid Clemson or the others if they put all their money raising expertise into the cause? Hell they could bankrupt the whole state of Alabama if they were serious. Plus as I said no more whining eye tests, and conferences thinking their champion should be in just because they exist.
