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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
A lot of college football purists don’t want this. The committee has received a ton of flack even when it proved the right choice when they’ve done it in the past, like leaving FSU out. They want every loss to matter, making your CCG to be an accomplishment and for the eye test to be the last tiebreaker all things being equal.
Yes this punishes the super conferences but that’s their problem. If they wanted to finish 11-1, they shouldn’t have stolen all the best teams from other conferences.
College football is damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Every choice is controversial.
But this has always been the way. The pendulum swings every year based on previous choices. FSU “deserved” to be in but got left out and that influenced this years choices. Next year we may see it swing back where they’ll take SEC or B10 teams and put them in with more losses than an ACC or B12 team.
Except ND. Everyone hates ND and regardless of record or SOS wants them left out. I hope they beat Georgia and finally get that monkey off their back. I want a ND/Oregon NC. Then everyone is pissed off no matter what happens.
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Definitely truth to this. But I just want to see the best teams in the playoff.
The idea of number of losses being a bright line for participation doesn’t work for me. I’d rather say if your SOS isn’t in say the top 50, you’re not getting an at large bid.
I’m fine with Clemson, Boise and AZ State playing. But SMU and Indiana should not have received invites.
I also agree that the SEC creating a super conference isn’t the best for college football but that’s how it is. Maybe the SEC should have their own playoff and they can play the winner of this one.