Running CFB playoff thread

The Steelers won a Super Bowl as a No. 6 seed and the NFL still managed to keep the lights on.

 

Which is why I said 10th

 

Yeah, but a 6th seed in a conference = 11th or 12th seed overall.

 

I think 12 teams is fine. They need to make the common sense tweak to do straight seeding and go NFL-style where the lowest seeds meet highest seeds in each round. Apart from that, I like it.

 

We love UMBC over Virginia in the basketball tournament while failing to acknowledge that most of those games are butt tunings.

 

The return of Australian Rules Football!

 

Do they keep the conference champs getting the higher seeds like the NFL does with division champs?

While I don't totally mind rewarding conference champs, that was a subtopic here yesterday on the importance of winning a championship, and honestly I could see the quarterfinals playing out similarly if teams were seeded by actual ranking, it just doesn't seem right to have such big gaps in the rankings. Even in the NFL it can seem dirty when a team one game over .500 is hosting a 12-5 team. Heck, the loser of the Lions-Vikings is going to be on the road at 14-3.

But the NFL has stuck to that for eons. It probably would be best for college to not tweak this thing too much every year, but I would be OK updating the seeding.

Overall this has worked so far in a small sample. Penn State and Ohio State, blue bloods that they are, would not have been in the semifinals without this setup. Teams like Boise State and Arizona State got legitimate chances to make it that far. It's what we all wanted.

 

I feel fortunate that I've covered the Rose Bowl a couple dozen times, including all three years when I attended USC -- plus the Army-Navy game there. And I get the see the sunset every day.
My biggest memory of Army-Navy was not Napoleon McCallum, but the four soldiers who carried their drunken fellow soldier out of the stadium in his barf-stained uniform.

 

Since everyone is working from home… an afternoon game of the day. M-F

Pro baseball and basketball could fill the year.

 

As I've said probably a dozen times, there's going to be controversy in any major college football playoff system - bowls only, 2-team playoff, 4-team playoff, 12-team playoff, 48-team playoff. College football loves it. They love the speculation about who is deserving and who is not. It keeps the story going long after games on the field are done.
After each playoff loss this season, I have read many stories about why that losing team deserved to be in the 12-team field. Hell, even Oregon seemed to have to defend its position.