College Football Playoff

Final 4 announced

1. Alabama
2. Oregon
3. Florida State
4. Ohio State

I don't see why they do these rankings every week... clearly they don't mean anything.

Guess I'm rooting for Oregon.

Alabama is going to kill Ohio State. The other game should be a very good game.

Midswat said:

Guess I'm rooting for Oregon.

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I think they're the best team. Could easily see them winning it.

I think TCU and Baylor got punished for not playing a conference championship.

Yeah and that's crazy too. It's not their fault the NCAA doesn't allow for a championship game for a 10 team conference. And it's not their fault the Big 12 doesn't have 12 teams or didn't ask the NCAA for an exemption to that rule.

As they should of.

Still think we will be at 8 teams within 2 years. No more, no less. Call it "The Elite Eight".

peplaw06 said:

Yeah and that's crazy too. It's not their fault the NCAA doesn't allow for a championship game for a 10 team conference. And it's not their fault the Big 12 doesn't have 12 teams or didn't ask the NCAA for an exemption to that rule.

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It was obvious conferences were scrambling to build their ranks. The Big 12 didn't (or couldn't) and this is the result. If I was the Big 12, I would make a huge play to get Miami, who's stuck behind Florida State in the ACC. I know there's talk of UCF and USF but they are the 4th and 5th best programs in Florida. They could also play the "big market" angle and just sign SMU and Houston. I know those aren't strong teams but it gets your numbers up to add the conference championship game and again, Dallas and Houston are huge TV markets.

They need to do away with the "power conferences." All D1 FBS teams need to be aligned geographically, forget these ridiculous alignments.

There are 128 FBS teams (pending UAB going defunct). Divide them up into 8 geographically aligned 16-team conferences. Each conference is divided into divisions, who all play each other. You can then have some cross-over games or inter-conference games. Each division puts its best team into the conference championship game, and each conference champion goes into an 8 team playoff.

Here's my rough groupings:

Northeast

1. Connecticut
2. Boston College
3. Syracuse
4. Pittsburgh
5. West Virginia
6. Penn State
7. Rutgers
8. Army
9. Navy
10. Buffalo
11. Massachusetts
12. Toledo
13. Kent State
14. Ohio
15. Temple
16. Cincinnati

Southeast

1. Alabama
2. Auburn
3. Florida
4. Florida State
5. Miami (FL)
6. UCF
7. South Florida
8. Georgia
9. Georgia Tech
10. Mississippi State
11. Ole Miss
12. Florida International
13. Florida Atlantic
14. Georgia Southern
15. South Alabama
16. Troy

Mid-Atlantic

1. Duke
2. North Carolina
3. North Carolina State
4. Wake Forest
5. Louisville
6. Kentucky
7. Virginia Tech
8. Virginia
9. Vanderbilt
10. Maryland
11. Appalachian State
12. Tennessee
13. South Carolina
14. Clemson
15. East Carolina
16. Georgia State

South Central

1. Baylor
2. Houston
3. LSU
4. Louisiana Tech
5. Louisiana - Lafayette
6. Louisiana - Monroe
7. North Texas
8. Rice
9. SMU
10. TCU
11. Texas
12. Texas A&M
13. Texas Tech
14. Texas State
15. UTSA
16. Tulane

Midwest

1. Akron
2. Bowling Green
3. Indiana
4. Central Michigan
5. Miami (OH)
6. Michigan
7. Michigan State
8. Ball State
9. Northwestern
10. Ohio
11. Ohio State
12. Purdue
13. Eastern Michigan
14. Illinois
15. Northern Illinois
16. Western Michigan

Central

1. Arkansas
2. Arkansas State
3. Middle Tennessee
4. UAB
5. Old Dominion
6. Southern Miss
7. Wisconsin
8. Missouri
9. Iowa
10. Iowa State
11. Notre Dame
12. Oklahoma
13. Oklahoma State
14. Tulsa
15. Memphis
16. Western Kentucky

Northwest

1. Washington
2. Washington State
3. Oregon
4. Oregon State
5. Idaho
6. Boise State
7. Nevada
8. Utah
9. Utah State
10. BYU
11. UNLV
12. Stanford
13. California
14. Wyoming
15. Minnesota
16. Nebraska

Southwest

1. Arizona
2. Arizona State
3. New Mexico
4. New Mexico State
5. USC
6. UCLA
7. San Diego State
8. UTEP
9. Colorado
10. Colorado State
11. Air Force
12. Nevada
13. UNLV
14. Hawaii
15. Fresno State
16. San Jose State


There will be conferences that are stronger than others, but I think it will create parity if the "lesser conferences" have a chance to get in the playoff by winning. Eventually good recruits will be divided up amongst the conferences pretty equally.

SportsCenter ‏@SportsCenter 56s57 seconds ago
New Year's 6 Bowl Matchups:
Peach Bowl: Ole Miss/TCU
Fiesta Bowl: Boise St/Arizona
Cotton Bowl: Mich St/Baylor
Orange Bowl: Miss St/Georgia

They put two SEC teams in the Orange? Wtf?

peplaw06 said:

They put two SEC teams in the Orange? Wtf?

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Yeah, if they were going to do that with any 2 teams in the same conference it should have been Baylor/TCU in the Cotton Bowl.

Iamtdg said:

SportsCenter ‏@SportsCenter 56s57 seconds ago
New Year's 6 Bowl Matchups:
Peach Bowl: Ole Miss/TCU
Fiesta Bowl: Boise St/Arizona
Cotton Bowl: Mich St/Baylor
Orange Bowl: Miss St/Georgia

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The Fiesta Bowl is one of my customers and they usually give me free tickets. I think I will pass this year.

Excited about the games tomorrow. Anyone planning on watching?

Lets make this the game thread...

Definitely excited even though I don't like any of the teams. I guess Oregon is the least of all evils, but still, not a fan at all.

Disappointed Ohio State doesn't have Barrett playing, because I think they'd have a great chance with him. But with a third string QB, I doubt it.

So much of this is a sham, though.

Put Florida State in the SEC West and they are just another 2 or 3 loss team. Put Arkansas in the Big 10 and they make the college playoffs.

I hate Ohio State

ZeroClub said:

So much of this is a sham, though.

Put Florida State in the SEC West and they are just another 2 or 3 loss team. Put Arkansas in the Big 10 and they make the college playoffs.

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Yep. They have to at least go to eight ASAP. Otherwise anytime it's close the committee is simply going to go with the biggest name, like they did this year.