Agree. That horse is a quarter horse moving at a rapid pace.
Glad to see the playoffs will still be about opinion rather than on field results. The more things change the more they stay the same.
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This is EXACTLY right. 9 or 10 of the top 12 teams ranked preseason will be BIG/SEC. I looked at 4 different main stream websites just now and all 4 had either only 2 or 3 non-BIG/SEC teams ranked in the top 12 preseason for 2024. BIG/SEC will have to LOSE their way out of holding those 8 or 9 playoff spots I keep proclaiming are a near certainty. Short of a Clemson, FSU, Notre Dame, and whoever the hot preseason flavor (or possibly 2) of the year is in the Big 12, every other ACC/Big 12 team will have to WIN their way into the playoff. This is a fundamental issue for the ACC/Big 12 in trying to get a 2nd or 3rd team from each conference in the playoff.
You couple this with the fact that a relatively small 13 person committee will all meet and essentially form a single agreed upon ranking approach (as opposed to something like the AP poll where a bunch of reasonably knowledgeable independent people will separately make a judgement that is then averaged) there will WITH CERTAINTY be bias towards the BIG/SEC in rankings. We are used to hearing how the SEC is so difficult week in and week out - that will only continue and we will hear it coming from the BIG now too. Something like this is imminently predicable from the CFP committee: âPenn State at 9-3 and is more deserving because they played 5 ranked teams including Oregon, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio State, etc⊠and a 10-2 Kansas State only played 2 ranked teams all yearâ.
BIG/SEC will NEVER have fewer than 7 in the playoff. They will hover between 7 and 9. If they number jumps to 14 then they will hover get 9-11 in. You can book that.
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I wonât book it.
Some of those teams will have too many losses to be in the conversation.
Pre-season rankings donât indicate how teams will finish.
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Agree and the way these same media outlets ridiculed FSU it sure spells trouble. Fundamentally the cfp is wrong. They come up with a decision behindâŠclose doors. Is there anything equivalent that decides who competes?
How is it wrong?
It is not how I would draw it up. But it is pretty good and in my mind has crossed the reasonable threshold. Every team has a chance now. Undefeated AAC teams like UCF wonât be left out. It is hard to imagine a team that is left out having a case that they are the best team.
Heâs using liberty as an ex but we beat Fla st, Ucf beat aurburn and Cincy played well.
Itâs different each yr as to which g5 can compete and I want their 1 team in it.
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cfp committee and everybody else:
What is the definition of a closed door meeting?
Why is it behind close doors?
What does the cfp have to hide behind closed doors?
Why is it that we have 10 DIV I FBS Championships but only a very few are represented in the cfp?
Then what is the point of having 10 ncaa DIV I FBS leagues?
We do not know yet how the cfp 5+7 is going to be like.
Realignment and the cfp is not based on sports merits but about money.