The Big 12 may not even have one team worthy of being in the National playoffs. The loser of the Big 12 championship game should not be considered for the playoffs.
But here's the fallacy of the whole thing, it's not intended to be the top 12 teams in the country. If that's the case then why involve conference play? And we all know that an SEC team is at a disadvantage from other conferences due to schedule strength.
I think we are in agreement. It should be the 12 most deserving teams. The 4 power conferences should not have automatic bids and first round byes.
Agree
. At least the first statement. Lol
Logically, only 6 or 7 of the 12 playoff teams will even play in a conference title game, so your gripe should be with the conference at-large invitees who don’t play in their conference title game, not independents who are not afforded an opportunity at a Top 4 seed.
There’s plenty for gripe to go around for both. No one is forcing Independents to stay independent.
Everyone should go independent. The conference sizes are to the point that they’re no longer conferences anyway.
If conference affiliation ended at sports you’d have an excellent point.
Agreed
Even though they are not relevant … that is a lot of eyes you are eliminating … the one thing I have learned about with all the conference reshuffling … TV ratings matter.
TV ratings would go up if the big boys didn’t spend so many weeks playing glorified scrimmages against tomato cans.
Agreed. The SEC really needs to brandish Chicken Shi+ Saturday.
I agree but too much money involved. Like someone else posted all conferences should be playing the same number of games. It's a joke UGA is playing UMASS, and Bama Mercer at the end of the year.
That’s one thing that needs to go away for sure.
Unless they are playing OSU or Michigan, then they’ll be happy.
If you get rid of Rutgers, Illinois, NW, and say Minnesota … and so on … why would those areas watch the games in this new conference … they wouldn’t … there was a reason the B10 took Rutgers into the conference … large population area … gave them a vested interest in watching all B10 games
So with this logic, are you claiming that cities and states without an NFL team don’t watch the NFL?
Talk about an apples to cucumber comparison there, AEW.
The cities without NFL teams don’t have a team playing in another league … Cincinnati doesn’t have a pro basketball team … big difference … and yes some fans will still watch … but more will watch if they are part of the league.
Ironically, Indiana probably would not had even made the cut on the first 40-48 teams a year ago.
If Oklahoma hadn't blown out the Crimson Pachyderms. I think that the selection committee would have left Georgia OUT in the COLD, once again! Even though every time MIGHTY Tejas sees a bulldog, they piss in their panties. WE SHOULDA put BEVO on a STICK, and ROASTED his butt, after their LAST loss. They're gonna regret trying to make that mad cow gore my boy UGA!
Or THIS year. They couldn't beat ANYBODY in the SEC!
SOOOOO, put yourself in OUR place for a minute. Say you have fourteen teams, worthy of the playoffs. Yet they cannibalize each other like the NFL. And on the outside looking in, NOBODY to the necked eye, seems worthy of a TOP TWELVE ranking, with two or more losses. Look at the SEC THIS season, a little more parity than most seasons, BUT! GENERALLY speaking, we have at LEAST 6-8 teams, who are playoff worthy. THIS season, EVERYBODY, short of Mississippi State, would give ANYONE in the playoffs, a run for their money. Can you imagine Boise State having an even chance, against the likes of Mississippi, South Carolina, and Alabama? And as wildcards, throw in Vandy, LSU, Missouri, Florida, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. CONVERSELY, by FAR the second best conference is the Big Ten! And you go only FOUR maybe FIVE deep. And most seasons, it's two or three. But IF the committee, in a given season, had the audacity to put HALF of the playoff teams in from the SEC. I can hear the chirping and screaming ALLLL the way from Nittany Mountains, to the cesspool they call the Pacific Ocean. So I say, conference champs from the SEC, the Big Ten, and the ACC. And the remaining top nine in the rankings. WHAT say YOU?