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If they wanted an actual champion, they'd do what every other NCAA sport does, including all other levels of gridiron besides I-AA (the 127 D1A/FCS, 320 D2, 450 D3 schools). Play a tournament.
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I do not like the SEC. It is over hyped, over marketed and there are, as you know, 893 Colleges football programs. each with players and fans who enjoy the game as much as fans of SEC. However, the 12 teams of the SEC Get 98.9 Percent of the media coverage and always at least 50% of the playoff positions! not at all a FAIR system.
1. the SEC has 14 teams.
2. If you averaged the top 25 recruiting classes over the last 5 years, they are as follows
#1 Georgia #2 Alabama
#3 Ohio State #4 LSU
#5 Clemson
#6 Oklahoma #7 Texas AM #8 Florida
#9 Texas
#10 Michigan
#11 Oregon
#12 Notre Dame #13 Auburn
#14 Penn State
#15 Miami #16 Tennessee
#17 FSU
#18 USC
#19 Washington #20 South Carolina
#21 Nebraska #22 Mississippi State
#23 Va Tech #24 Ole Miss #25 Arkansas
11 of 14 in the top 25
Kentucky is #33
Missouri is #38
Vandy is #59
3., 893 teams are not eligible for the College football playoffs, only 129 are.
4. the SEC has only gotten 2 teams in the CFP once, 2017, and Clemson was clearly not the best team that year
every other year, the committee has selected 4 conference champions or 3 champs plus 12-0 /10-1 Notre Dame
Your anger has to be that Alabama wins(not even the SEC, just Bama)
Regardless of the system in place it will never be enough. The BCS was created to put to rest the national championship ties that only occurred every so often (in fact rarely occurred).
The playoff system was created because the BCS was flawed because well as recent events have shown people don't trust in science.
The playoff system has shown that in fact a room full of people can not in fact be trusted with even getting a 4 team college football playoff correct.
Going to 8 or 12 teams in a playoff will be followed by cries for 16 and eventually a 32 team playoff.
In the end the college football season will begin in mid August and end some time around March Madness in the future.
Lastly I'll point out that people moan and complain about the lack of oversight when it comes to the NCAA. Well where's the oversight for the playoff committee? Who serves to keep them in check? Since there is no set criteria of boxes to check the playoff is in reality simply an "invitational". An unchecked body offers invites to four schools who may or may not be worthy to compete for a championship that is well literally Unsanctioned.
The college football playoff system is in essence a cartel.
Your anger has to be that Alabama wins(not even the SEC, just Bama)
You have some good points, but it has nothing to do with Alabama, which I do not want to watch any more or less than the other 13 teams you mentioned. I just do not like following that conference, which is a shame for me because IF I turn on a sports show like ESPN Sports Central in America today, they mostly talk about the SEC.
I had proposed a playoff system that would allow conference champions and at large runners up (which would probably be from the SEC and Notre Dame) to play a playoff tournament, and to shorten the regular season by one game. I seem to be the only cat who thinks it is a good idea.
In regards to the poor announcing of the SEC, I recently discovered the SAP Button on the remote....push it, and the program is overdubbed in Spanish. No more listening to losers like Gary Danielson or Beth Mowins. And it works on the NFL too Goodbye Troy Aikman and Brent Muscberger.
Either way, the Bowls start Friday and I will enjoy watching as many as I can. We 2 1/2 full weeks of Bowls on the slate....some of them are going to be really good games.
The payoff is indeed an invitational. One example is bowl games. Look at G5 vs P5 access to New Years and playoff bowl games, and also look at the payout of New Years and playoff bowl games... G5 has to meet EXTRA criteria just to get a whiff of those bowls. Then look at the 2nd best AAC team paired off in a bowl game with the worst bowl eligible team in the SEC. Really? But but but the SEC is so big and powerful, it's only fair... No it's not. Fair is same access to bowl games, same media exposure, fair rankings with no brand inflation, etc. We are a far cry from that.
Actually, I was fine with the old system.
To me, it became all about the money.
Tim, good post.
I'm with you, I'm a big college football fan, and was never bothered by the shared national championship years. I think most people didn't really care (but I can't prove/cite that). But college football saw the popularity of March Madness, and realized the additional money making potential of league championship games, and a Final Four of their own. I don't begrudge them for wanting to make $, but it's an insult to intelligence to frame it as if they were desperately seeking fairness. All the same poll biases still exist thru the regular season. And for the most part, who cares.. It's a fun spectacle, and national pastime. I've grown to hate the staged hand-wringing around college football's imperfections. I just wish the institution of major program college football would stop pretending its about anything other than a business endeavor at this point.. TV revenue & developing NFL talent.. their supposed pursuit of fairness is a charade.
The purpose of the BCS is to give other teams a chance to see how they stack up against the top SEC teams.
This year, it didn't go so well for the other teams.
Looking at the recruiting classes for 2021 & 2022, I don't see anything changing anytime soon.
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