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BCS "Status Quo off the table"

  • Playoff is now extremely likely for the 2014 season..and yes i wills ay it again, this moves ND one step closer to the ACC.

    BCS officials work on whittling postseason options - NCAA Football - SI.com

    HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- When Bowl Championship Series officials leave the beachside hotel where they've gathered to hammer out the future of college football's postseason, they want to have the choices narrowed down to two or three.

    cnnsi.com

    Pbenuncensored26482

  • The most important part of these talks is how they choose the 4 teams for the playoff. I haven't heard or read anything on that topic. I'm curious how they will weigh the value of being a conf champion.

    Jadaway

  • Let me gues how they pick the four playoff teams:

    1.SEC East Champion
    2.SEC West Champion
    3.At-large SEC school
    4.A weaker team from a slow conference that would get smeared by an SEC team. Further confirming the SEC as college football almighty jerk-offs.

    Tomahawk311

  • Tomahawk311 said...

    Let me gues how they pick the four playoff teams:

    1.SEC East Champion 2.SEC West Champion 3.At-large SEC school 4.A weaker team from a slow conference that would get smeared by an SEC team. Further confirming the SEC as college football almighty jerk-offs.

    Exactly why I would not want a committee. Let's get an 8 team conference champ playoff. Not sure how else to get around the SEC bias.

    Legio mihi nomen est, quia multi sumu [My name is Legion, for we are many.]

    Cuthbert

  • Big issue if they take only conference champions is that Notre Dame gets left out. It also dilutes your non-conference schedule even further. One approach may be to take big four conference champions but only if they are in the final top six of the current BCS ratings poll. If not then you take who is next in the pecking order. They will figure it out.

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    ffnole

  • Just do the 4 highest ranked teams. It's not like any other schools deserve a shot outside the top 5.

    tricknole

  • ffnole said...

    Big issue if they take only conference champions is that Notre Dame gets left out. It also dilutes your non-conference schedule even further. One approach may be to take big four conference champions but only if they are in the final top six of the current BCS ratings poll. If not then you take who is next in the pecking order. They will figure it out.

    I thought the opposite in regards to non-conf games. If the biggest factor in getting included in the NC hunt is winning your conf then non-conf LOSSES would mean much less than they do now...thus giving the school more inclination to schedule compelling matchups. It would be a great boost to CFB if this would happen. The way it is now the chances of seeing the Noles play the Southern Cal, Oklahoma, Michigan, Bama's are a thing of the past because neither team wants to chance a non-conf loss that excludes them from NC hunt.

    If polls are the major factor like they are now then the pussification of the schedules will continue. Goodbye Oklahoma hello Savannah St.

    If conf champs don't mean a thing then ND and the Big 12 have a competitive advantage. Why would ND join a conf and why would the Big 12 add a CCG?

    Polls blow. Conf championship games should be the 1st round of the playoff system.

    Jadaway

  • Anything other than the 4 best overall teams is a complete and total sham. If each conference gets 1 team college football is ruined.

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  • They need to add some benefit for having a conference Championship game otherwise your penalizing teams for playing in them.

    Hard to do under only a 4 team playoff.

    bwhnoles

  • Jadaway said...

    I thought the opposite in regards to non-conf games. If the biggest factor in getting included in the NC hunt is winning your conf then non-conf LOSSES would mean much less than they do now...thus giving the school more inclination to schedule compelling matchups. It would be a great boost to CFB if this would happen. The way it is now the chances of seeing the Noles play the Southern Cal, Oklahoma, Michigan, Bama's are a thing of the past because neither team wants to chance a non-conf loss that excludes them from NC hunt.

    If polls are the major factor like they are now then the pussification of the schedules will continue. Goodbye Oklahoma hello Savannah St.

    If conf champs don't mean a thing then ND and the Big 12 have a competitive advantage. Why would ND join a conf and why would the Big 12 add a CCG?

    Polls blow. Conf championship games should be the 1st round of the playoff system.

    Notre Dame will no longer get their "auto at large" like they currently have, you will have to be a member of a conference, I think thats going to be written in stone.

    I did hear an interesting solution to the NBC contract thing, or an option, ND keeps that then the espn/abc acc conf balances out the other conf schools, once they are all even, then ND gets to share in that for football.

    Pbenuncensored26482

  • tricknole said...

    Just do the 4 highest ranked teams. It's not like any other schools deserve a shot outside the top 5.

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  • Joe Schad says ND feels no need to join a conference.

    fsufsu

  • fsufsu said...

    Joe Schad says ND feels no need to join a conference.

    Well, if they are in the top 4 then I suppose there is no need.

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  • bwhnoles said...

    They need to add some benefit for having a conference Championship game otherwise your penalizing teams for playing in them.

    Hard to do under only a 4 team playoff.

    That "benefit" comes in SOS (Strength of Schedule) and improved BCS statistical rankings.

    Until all conferences are created and balanced, and even HAVE a champ-game.... there's absolutely no basis for having the championship game be a requirement.

    If Oklahoma wins the Big12, but doesn't even play in a champ game because they don't HAVE one... how's that fair?

    Is Bubba State equal to LSU because both won their respective conferences?

    Why should the Big East be allowed to put in a crappy team in the playoffs at the cost of leaving out a better team from a better conference just because they were #2 in that conference. Are you stating that the #1 from the Big East is always better than the #2 from the SEC?

    I could go on.. but I think you get the picture/problem.

    Play the BEST 4, period.

    satexas

  • fsufsu said...

    Joe Schad says ND feels no need to join a conference.

    Already known. There are some ACC fans that were desperately hoping ND would join the ACC to basically save it from it's subpar TV contract. Will not happen.

    55Nole

  • I think you need to give some extra consideration to conference champs. I think the way to pick the teams is to say the top 4 ranked conf champs are guaranteed a spot if they finish in say the top 6. If you have the top 4 conf champs ranked 1,2,4,5 all 4 make it in (sorry #3 - you're out). If the top 4 champs are ranked 1,2,4,9 then #3 makes it in as a wild card with #9 sitting it out.

    Poncherello

  • I don't know much about all of this but it seems to me that you can't go by the rankings because the rankings are inherently flawed. Wasn't there talk of coaches not actually filling out their own ballot, and not voting according to who is best but according to who they wanted to see higher i.e. the SEC coaches voting OK St. purposefully low? And the computer algorythms that don't weight a win over a cream puff differently than a win over a strong opponent? Just some thoughts.....

    This post was edited by Nole_87 on 4/27/2012 at 10:03 AM

    Nole_87

  • Or Top six with the #1 and #2 teams getting bye...

    3v6 - if 6 wins, then one meets 6. If 3 wins, then 2 meets three.
    4v5 - same concept as above.

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  • 55Nole said...

    Already known. There are some ACC fans that were desperately hoping ND would join the ACC to basically save it from it's subpar TV contract. Will not happen.

    Want to put money on that?

    You think ND is going to come out and say "Oh dear God in heaven, we need to join a conference ASAP or we are screwed!"

    This post was edited by Pbenuncensored26482 on 4/27/2012 at 11:09 AM

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