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Your solution to fix the College Football Playoff (Pic Thread)

YellowSnow
YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club


    No, this take us in the wrong direction. The CFP is worse than the BCS. 8 teams is worse than 4. I never want to play Bama again unless it’s a home and home in Sept.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,725 Founders Club
    We could have the conference champions meet in a bowl game then take the top two and play it off a week later

    The Pac 12 could play the B1G in say, the ROSE BOWL

    The Big almost 12 and the ACC could play in the Orange Bowl

    The SEC and Notre Dame could play in the Sugar Bowl
  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,643 Founders Club
    Abolish the conferences and hold a 128 team tournament every year.
  • Rubberfist
    Rubberfist Member Posts: 1,373
    The ONLY solution is a 64 team playoff with two play in games.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,017
    I'd also like to see about half the bowls disappear. They're stupid. I'd like to get back to a time when you could say, "hey, fuck you. we played 8 bowl teams last year" and have that mean something of an indication that you played good teams.

    Forgot the one-tie Cotton in the above list.

    Limit bowls to Rose, Orange, Sugar, Cotton, Fiesta, Peach, Holiday, Sun, and maybe one more. I know it's new and that Miami just "played" in it (if that's what you can call it), but the Pinstripe (stupid name) bowl is interesting in that it involves the Big Apple in bowl season. Cool place to go, and they actually make Yankee stadium work well for the game.

    But all these other shit bowls should just go away.

    But they won't.
  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,643 Founders Club

    The ONLY solution is a 64 team playoff with two play in games.

    I have 128. Everyone gets a shot. Plus it has round robin. Do you have round robin? I thought not.
  • Baphomet
    Baphomet Member Posts: 1,511



    I like it except I think the 5 P5 champs should get spots 1-5, and then 3 at large get spots 6-8. There should be some reward to winning your conference championship game, which should be one of the spots at 5 or higher.
  • whuggy
    whuggy Member Posts: 2,088
    If you are a fan of college football then an 8 team playoff is clearly the best solution. Every conference plays an 8 game conference schedule and the regular season is dialed back to 11 games. This allows you three out of conference games
    with absolutely no pressure to win or lose because they would have somewhat limited input into whether you make the 8 team playoff. Imagine the UW actually getting back to an A-B-C schedule where we as fans wouldn't have to watch North Dakota or Eastern Washington. Our schedule could be Michigan, OK State and Minnesota. Go 0 and 3 and it doesn't matter because you can still make the playoff by winning your conference. Screw this bullshit regular season patsy scheduling that you have to do now to improve your chances of being selected to a final four.
  • whuggy
    whuggy Member Posts: 2,088

    The problem is that our sport is being ruined my mouth breathing, booger eating, NFL losers. The old Bowl system was fine. All that needed to happen was the AP #1 and AP #2 (or by some selection committee) play 2 weeks later in the @Dennis_DeYoung Cherry Bowl. When we gave up the Rose Bowl we ceded a huge amount of power and prestige to the SEC. Before the BCS the Rose paid out double that of the Orange or Sugar.

    Don't agree. Winning matters. Full stop. Win and you're in. We don't need to keep trying to overcome long standing biases from old men in conference rooms. Win and there's no discussion. You can always get blown out in the final eight but at least you earned the right to be there. This ain't hard. Settle it on the field.
  • ApostleofGrief
    ApostleofGrief Member Posts: 3,904
    Either go back to the old traditional bowls or have real playoffs. The problem is that hybrid structures are unsatisfying. The bowls as they stand now are virtually all semi-interesting but usually not worthwhile non conference games. A real playoff would be much, much more fun, but less money probably.
  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208

    We're either going to get a playoff with enough teams so it won't matter getting rid of the bowl games

    But then the champ and runner up will play 4-6 games to win it

    So the non play off teams play an 8 game schedule and like it?

    It's fucked up. Let college ball be college ball and watch your 9-7 team lose in the wild card and fuck off

    Almost. Leach''s plan is to play 10 games then seed 64. Those who don't get in get 2 more games vs other dreck. The remainder playoff with the higher seed hosting to ensure big crowds.
  • AtomicDawg
    AtomicDawg Member Posts: 7,330

    You guys who compare wanting a playoff to waiting to turn this into the NFL are hilarious. Literally every other team sport has some sort of a playoff to determine a true champion. All of them. Including every other division of college football. You don't have to love the nFL to want a playoff, you just have to love sports.

    I get that you guys are college football purists and that's cute and all but the past is for doogs and you're all living in it.

    This. The players don't give a shit about the bowls any more. College football as we knew it is dead. Expand the playoffs to 6 or 8 and just get rid of the bowls. Power five champs qualify with the rest at large.
  • Rubberfist
    Rubberfist Member Posts: 1,373
    PurpleJ said:

    The ONLY solution is a 64 team playoff with two play in games.

    I have 128. Everyone gets a shot. Plus it has round robin. Do you have round robin? I thought not.
    My play in games have a gun in the middle of the field that nobody is allowed to touch. Beat that you dumb bitch.
  • ntxduck
    ntxduck Member Posts: 6,114

    You guys who compare wanting a playoff to waiting to turn this into the NFL are hilarious. Literally every other team sport has some sort of a playoff to determine a true champion. All of them. Including every other division of college football. You don't have to love the nFL to want a playoff, you just have to love sports.

    I get that you guys are college football purists and that's cute and all but the past is for doogs and you're all living in it.

    This. The players don't give a shit about the bowls any more. College football as we knew it is dead. Expand the playoffs to 6 or 8 and just get rid of the bowls. Power five champs qualify with the rest at large.
    95% of bowl games never meant anything, even pre-playoff.
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    It’s a really complicated issue. But somehow the FCS came up with something. I’m not sure how they figured it out, but it’s genius.


  • ForeskinWalletDawg
    ForeskinWalletDawg Member Posts: 238

    I'd also like to see about half the bowls disappear. They're stupid. I'd like to get back to a time when you could say, "hey, fuck you. we played 8 bowl teams last year" and have that mean something of an indication that you played good teams.

    Forgot the one-tie Cotton in the above list.

    Limit bowls to Rose, Orange, Sugar, Cotton, Fiesta, Peach, Holiday, Sun, and maybe one more. I know it's new and that Miami just "played" in it (if that's what you can call it), but the Pinstripe (stupid name) bowl is interesting in that it involves the Big Apple in bowl season. Cool place to go, and they actually make Yankee stadium work well for the game.

    But all these other shit bowls should just go away.

    But they won't.

    Like herpes
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club

    I'd also like to see about half the bowls disappear. They're stupid. I'd like to get back to a time when you could say, "hey, fuck you. we played 8 bowl teams last year" and have that mean something of an indication that you played good teams.

    Forgot the one-tie Cotton in the above list.

    Limit bowls to Rose, Orange, Sugar, Cotton, Fiesta, Peach, Holiday, Sun, and maybe one more. I know it's new and that Miami just "played" in it (if that's what you can call it), but the Pinstripe (stupid name) bowl is interesting in that it involves the Big Apple in bowl season. Cool place to go, and they actually make Yankee stadium work well for the game.

    But all these other shit bowls should just go away.

    But they won't.

    Like herpes
    That shit will stick with you.
  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,041 Standard Supporter
    I think I mentioned this in another thread but I DGAF about how the playoffs are structured right now because of how poorly regular seasons are being handled. With the SEC and ACC playing fewer in conference games than the Big 12, Pac-12 and Big Ten, the BAMAs, Georgias, and Clemsons of the world are always going to be stacking the deck in their favor regardless of if we keep the existing 4 game playoff, go to a 8 team playoff, or return to the traditional bowl system.

    Of course no one in a position to change this will do anything about it because they’re getting richly paid (hi Larry!), and seem happy with getting the chance to *maybe* beat Saban every few years.