Virginia Tech freshman linebacker charged with murder.
https://www.wsls.com/news/local/202...degree-murder-charge-against-18-year-old-man/
https://www.wsls.com/news/local/202...degree-murder-charge-against-18-year-old-man/
Virginia Tech freshman linebacker charged with murder.
https://www.wsls.com/news/local/202...degree-murder-charge-against-18-year-old-man/
I’ll start by saying it’s ridiculous to build a playoff system around including teams that lost their conference championship games. They had a chance to get in and lost. I don’t think we’d be better off with teams who just lost playing a different conference champ or playing each other for a chance to get a rematch. The CFP already feels like worthless exercise to get to Alabama vs. Clemson or maybe a different team.
But if they want to do this, there are ways to get around the Rose Bowl with a reasonable format.
The NFL has 4 team divisions, not 12-16 team conferences. NCAA Basketball has a 6 round tournament, not a 3 or 4 rounds like a large playoff would. The conference championships are mostly division champs playing against each other. It's already the de facto opening rounds of a tournament.
I'm gonna be the asshole here, but there are not 12 good teams in college football every season. This is a dumb idea.
I'll watch it (and bet on it), but it is a dumb idea.
There aren't even 4 teams that usually deserve a shot at a national championship every year. I could deal with an 8 team playoff so that all of the P5 conferences get in, along with 1 group of 5 and then 2 at-large... It'd still be too many teams, but I'd get the rationale. 12 teams is a joke and a bunch of unnecessary extra games.
OK, Grandpa.
12 teams would be smaller than the FCS, D2 and D3 tournaments, and smaller than just about every HS State Championship tournament. There are 130 FBS teams. Fewer than 1 out of 11 FBS teams qualifying for the playoff is pretty exclusive comparatively. With more games, there will be more upsets. My guess is that this is going to be hugely popular and probably expand to 16 and then 24 over the next twenty years.
Except it never has been. UGA lost to Bama in the SEC Championship in 2018, and then Bama played UGA (in a great game) for the Natty a month later. That was with just a 4 team playoff.
FWIW, the 12 team tournament will add the emphasis on the Conference Championship games. For many if not most of the conference championship games, winning the CG doesn't get you in (see the Big 12, Pac 12 championship game this past year); with a 12 team tournament, schools can actually play there way in for winning. Winning the 2006 ACC title was an all-time highlight for me, had it gotten WF into a 12 team playoff that would've only heightened the excitement for that game.
Except it never has been. UGA lost to Bama in the SEC Championship in 2018, and then Bama played UGA (in a great game) for the Natty a month later. That was with just a 4 team playoff.
FWIW, the 12 team tournament will add the emphasis on the Conference Championship games. For many if not most of the conference championship games, winning the CG doesn't get you in (see the Big 12, Pac 12 championship game this past year); with a 12 team tournament, schools can actually play there way in for winning. Winning the 2006 ACC title was an all-time highlight for me, had it gotten WF into a 12 team playoff that would've only heightened the excitement for that game.
I'm pretty sure this was the year Alabama lost to Auburn in the finale, then Georgia beat Auburn in the SEC Championship game, and Alabama snuck in as an at-large 4th seed, right? And it was the 2017 season, not 2018 (Clemson won the title in 2018, the January 2019 title game).
A 12 team playoff is stupid. Go to 16 teams and make everyone win four games to secure the championship.
The perceived problem with the four team playoff has been the lack of Pac 12 and Big 12 participants. Solve the problem with an 8 team playoff comprised of the five FBS champions and three at large teams.
In reality, there are seldom more than six legitimate contenders for the championship. Everyone else is making excuses or prefacing their statements with "If only..."