It's adorable how special you people think your regular season is. It's utterly meaningless for all but like 8 teams. Don't get me wrong, the games are entertaining, but like 98% of games are exhibition games. Stop pretending it's different than pro sports; you're not fooling me.
It's adorable how special you people think your regular season is. It's utterly meaningless for all but like 8 teams. Don't get me wrong, the games are entertaining, but like 98% of games are exhibition games. Stop pretending it's different than pro sports; you're not fooling me.
Because it is. That Ohio State-Michigan game was everything this year. With a 12-team playoff, Ohio State is like the the 7th seed. Really makes that game less important.
Like for you, if Josh is not Raw tonight and beats the Pats, you can do this:
I think 12 would be great. 4 weeks, 4 byes, run it through traditional bowl season. What's not to love, the devaluation of the regular season? I think it would still be massively important to get the bye and only have to play 3 games. Players getting paid now so no teeth to the "too many games for student athletes" argument. Also having just 4 byes for conference champs gives 1 conference a fun disrespect angle (spoiler: it's the pac12)
(until it's the Big XII)
They're getting contracted eventually anyway.
I don't get the devalue thing, especially in the context of OSU/MICH. Yeah, you ohio guys would definitely be chill after losing that game with a 7 seed in your back pocket. The GA/AL game is a perfect example, GA was in no matter what and it still felt/feels like desperation time to me. Outside of a huge playoff of 25+ teams I think expanded playoffs only makes the regular season better because the top 4-5 teams of each major conference feel like they have something to play for a lot deeper into the season. OSU might be playing for seeding but Miss/msst would have been a play in game.
I don't get the devalue thing, especially in the context of OSU/MICH. Yeah, you ohio guys would definitely be chill after losing that game with a 7 seed in your back pocket. The GA/AL game is a perfect example, GA was in no matter what and it still felt/feels like desperation time to me. Outside of a huge playoff of 25+ teams I think expanded playoffs only makes the regular season better because the top 4-5 teams of each major conference feel like they have something to play for a lot deeper into the season. OSU might be playing for seeding but Miss/msst would have been a play in game.
The Alabama/Georgia game is a good point. I think Georgia would have loved to eliminate Alabama so as to not have to face them again. Alabama knew if they lost, there was a good chance they were out. If there are 12 teams, that game has a lot less significance.
It's adorable how special you people think your regular season is. It's utterly meaningless for all but like 8 teams. Don't get me wrong, the games are entertaining, but like 98% of games are exhibition games. Stop pretending it's different than pro sports; you're not fooling me.
Because it is. That Ohio State-Michigan game was everything this year. With a 12-team playoff, Ohio State is like the the 7th seed. Really makes that game less important.
Like for you, if Josh is not Raw tonight and beats the Pats, you can do this:
And beat him in the playoffs.
That doesn't disprove my point in any way. The regular season mattered for those 2 teams until one of them had 2 losses. It never mattered for almost everyone else. Individual regular season games have huge implications when there's no real "postseason" like they ahve in pro sports. But every team knows that as soon as they have 2 losses, they're playing for nothing. The vast majority of teams are completely out of contention long before the season is over. Yes, that makes for a handful of games that matter more than pretty much any individual NFL regular season game, but it also means almost every game played by almost every team means nothing. Maybe at the end of the day I'm playing a semantics game here with the value of the regular season. But I fail to see how it's "better" that if a team that's obviously one of the best in the country has one slip up they're just out of the national title picture in favor of Cincinnati or Boise or TCU or USF or something.
Pitt - Georgia (winner plays Utah) Michigan State - Cincinnati (winner plays Baylor) Oklahoma State - Notre Dame (winner plays Michigan) Ole Miss - Ohio State (winner plays Alabama)
Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday? - Joy Behar
Pitt - Georgia (winner plays Utah) Michigan State - Cincinnati (winner plays Baylor) Oklahoma State - Notre Dame (winner plays Michigan) Ole Miss - Ohio State (winner plays Alabama)
That's all I've been trying to say this whole time.
Pitt - Georgia (winner plays Utah) Michigan State - Cincinnati (winner plays Baylor) Oklahoma State - Notre Dame (winner plays Michigan) Ole Miss - Ohio State (winner plays Alabama)
yeah. and this makes both Michigan State & Ole Miss's final regular season games huge instead of just deciding whether they're going to the Citrus or the Outback.
Pitt - Georgia (winner plays Utah) Michigan State - Cincinnati (winner plays Baylor) Oklahoma State - Notre Dame (winner plays Michigan) Ole Miss - Ohio State (winner plays Alabama)
Why wouldn't Cincinnati get one of the conference championship byes? Does the proposal say the four byes are reserved only for power 5 conference champs?
Pitt - Georgia (winner plays Utah) Michigan State - Cincinnati (winner plays Baylor) Oklahoma State - Notre Dame (winner plays Michigan) Ole Miss - Ohio State (winner plays Alabama)
Why wouldn't Cincinnati get one of the conference championship byes? Does the proposal say the four byes are reserved only for power 5 conference champs?
That seems to be where most takes on twitter fall....no auto-bye for G5
Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday? - Joy Behar
Pitt - Georgia (winner plays Utah) Michigan State - Cincinnati (winner plays Baylor) Oklahoma State - Notre Dame (winner plays Michigan) Ole Miss - Ohio State (winner plays Alabama)
That's all I've been trying to say this whole time.
Nah, you're our high school football expert. Stay in your lane.
And this model is exactly what a 12 team play-off should look like.
