Yes, I know the committee says they are charged with putting the four "best" teams in the playoff and this isn't pro sports. But if we take a brief look at pro sports, not all conferences and divisions are equal, yet a better team may be left out of the playoffs while an inferior team gets in. Case in point, one year the Seahawks were 7-9 and made NFC playoffs while a 10-6 Giants team stayed home. In the NBA Western Conference, a team that might be 45-37 stays home while a 40-42 Eastern Conference team plays in the postseason.
Each college football conference should be its own bracket, period, as there are more conferences than spots available. An independent would still have a high bar to jump as it would have to be demonstrably better than at least two of the five conference champions.
I don't care if Alabama won it all last year; they didn't belong in the playoff. Putting two SEC teams in should not happen again.
Suppose LSU beats Bama, and Bama drops to #3, and LSU to #2. Then LSU loses a close SEC championship game to Georgia. Why not include all three? This is a conversation I had with LSU and Georgia alums I work with yesterday.
If ESPN has their way that is exactly what would happen.
Elevate UM higher in the rankings. Remember ND didn’t win that game, UM lost in.
Why is the perception that the sec can lose games but still be considered the most deserving teams? Nobody has any idea whether or not an LSU or Georgia would beat an 1 loss Oklahoma or Michigan or 1 loss ,if it happens, Notre Dame. Nobody. You can assume, but over the years I have seen many many many teams go down when nobody thought they would.. It use to be that if you lose at end of year you paid for it. Now they just try to revolve the top 2-3 sec teams around until they get the desired outcome. Several sec teams in playoffs. It’s absolutely a crock. If LSU or Georgia loses they deserve to drop below mich and Oklahoma if they refrain from a second loss. People need to stop pushing this sec is just better and even with multiple losses they deserve to be in over teams with better records. I will root for ucf to get in over a 2 loss sec team. Screw them.
Btw.. not only does ND have a better record than the LSU team they are fawning over, but we have beat that LSU program twice now in last 3 years including this past January. Every senior player down has played against and lost to ND, yet we are looked at as inferior in the eyes of ESPN and the committee. There is no place for perception in a non biased system. The only thing that should matter is on field results period.
Not that two SEC teams in the playoff isn't a travesty of some sort.
The system is designed to advantage the big money conferences. They can change the rules if any outsider happens to meet their "high bars".
Pretty much... Not many things that are not rigged.....Run the table.. Beat Northwestern...drop 40 on them...play a full 4 quarters...
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Exactly.... This Defense will not fail....