Final 4 - Bama, Oregon.....

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

I agree with Lefty. Play it out on the field. If that means a "less than" team wins their conference once in a while, so be it. This is how we do it in all the other major sports, and nobody ever questions the final results.

I'm tired of the beauty pageant system and all the non-stop bickering that comes with it. With a clear and structured system, we could just get back to enjoying the games without worrying about all the other stupid shit that comes with a system based purely on subjectivity.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Yep. Those are the breaks. The whole idea is to be your best when it matters most. If you can't do that...you ain't one of the best. That's how it works in the NCAA basketball tournament. The "best" team doesn't always win, rather, the team that can play their best when it matters most wins.

A slew of injuries is another matter, but if you're that banged up, then you probably shouldn't be in the playoff anyway.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

However, if we had an 8 team playoff, I'm assuming there would be three at-large teams selected, so a 12-1 MSU team would still probably be in.

[Left Seater]

This is like the Falcons winning the NFC South with say...a 7-9 record and the Cowboys or whoever being left out at 11-5. It's wrong.

Conference championship games are a joke. If an undefeated Alabama has several major injuries or just a bad night and loses to a 4 loss Tennessee in the CCG, should UT go to the playoffs?

Listen, I tend to agree with you on CCGs. They are nothing but a cash grab. Problem is for most of the conferences there is no other way to determine a champion without one. That or you create a beauty contest within the conference.

So would it suck if Mizzou knocked off Bama and went to a playoff? Depends on who you ask. Plenty of people would be excited about it.



If you expand and don't take the champions of each of the P5 then there is no point in having any conferences. Just line up a schedule you think will win you one of the beauty contest slots and away we go.

[L45B]

Michigan State goes 12-0, steamrolling every team on their schedule. They're ranked #1 in the country. They get beat 21-20 by 4 loss Iowa in the B1G CCG.

While we're on this hypothetical path, is it safe to assume that Iowa's losses would be to Iowa State, Northern Iowa, Northwestern and Minnesota? But with wins against Penn State and Michigan along with a nice salary bump?

Sorry, just my drive-by Ferentz-ian blast for the day.