Agreed 1000% on this! Gruden should take over as the head of the CFP to fix this crap!
he makes a good point about the best teams being at a possible disadvantaged by playing an extra game while everyone else sits. But the rest is effectively just adding an additional half round to the playoffs.
he makes a good point about the best teams being at a possible disadvantaged by playing an extra game while everyone else sits. But the rest is effectively just adding an additional half round to the playoffs.
exactly
and those games are high drama....winner is in, loser goes home.
much better than a bowl game that nobody gives a sh!t about anymore
Sounds great Jon - so we have you decide each year right before the playoff, on which teams match up? That James Madison plays Ole Miss or whoever?
As soon as you try writing everything that sounded great this year, into rules, "this league champion plays that league 3rd place team" ...then the next year turns out completely different and you still get teams on the fringe who seem like they may be better than someone who's in.
"OK, well this year we need XX to play YY to make this fair."
It never changes, until we have a massive bracket that includes far too many.
No conference chanpionship games, top 12 teams get in ... period. If that means 8 SEC and 4 B1G, so be it. If I hear one more time that the 12 best teams get invites, I will lose my shit. In no world is Virginia, Tulane, North Texas, or JMU top 12. #13 Texas is still overrated, but they would wipe the floor with those teams.
In this scenario, everyone's season is over so...
12 Miami @ 5 Oregon (winner meets 4 Texas Tech)
9 Alabama @ 8 Oklahoma (winner meets 1 OSU)
11 BYU @ 6 Ole Miss (winner meets 3 Georgia)
10 ND @ 7 Texas A&M (winner meets 2 Indiana)
Boise State's win over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl back in the day is responsible for this G5 nonsense. The Broncos proved a little guy could beat a big dog, and that game still seems to resonate. I'm too lazy to look it up, but I'm guessing the G5 win percentage against P4 (in all games) has to be less than 20%. The G5 hasn't earned this special treatment (nor has conference bastard ND, but that's a different story).