It was a no win situation for the playoff committee

Turns out the entire Big10 was overrated. Ohio State gets crushed while Michigan and Penn State lose to teams that weren’t even in the playoff conversation. Wisconsin beating WMU by 8 is the marquee win for the top 4 members.

That will be a good reason why, if they expand to 8 teams, no conference should have more than 2 entries. I think the fairest to all teams would be for the playoffs to include all conference champions ranked 12th or higher with the rest of the spots being filled by the highest ranked non champions with a maximum of one at large per conference. The NY6 would guarantee spots to all conference champs between 13th through 20th with the rest being filled with conference obligations and highest ranked teams left over.

In the almost impossible event that 9 conference champions or more are ranked in the top 12, the 8 highest ranked champions would go.

This process will be slow. It took what, 100 years for a playoff to even be created? I say the next go-around will be an 8 team playoff. 5 P5 conf champs and 3 at-large bids. I’d like to see a true 16 team playoff; 11 conf champs and 5 at large, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon, if ever.

my next post has my belief about the next go-round of the playoffs.

Sorry, I hit the reply button too quickly. It should be SEC West 2, SEC East 1, BIG 2, ACC 1, and the PAC 1 and a wild card which will be the highest ranked #2 from the ACC or the PAC. This also allows for the pipe dream of the G5 that one of their teams will be the wild card.

Why wouldn’t you want to make it more equitable for the G5?

If playoffs go to 8, they would be hard pressed not to include best G5. NCAA doesn’t want Congress to intervene again.

1 Like

Which is why ESPN is pushing the G5 making their own playoffs narrative. The G5 killing themselves off saves them a lot of explaining when the field expands…both to advertisers about why their field always has one unmarketable team and to the G5 and their backers as to why they still can’t access the playoffs.

1 Like

Bingo

One problem with that, the G5 team would be very marketable. People love an underdog.

3 Likes

G5 underdogs may be marketable for a time but blue bloods bring guaranteed audiences. Even this year Ohio State got picked up over its own conference’s champion because they’re one of the biggest names.

Not much different than the WWF running some tired wrestler out there for years in a row.

Untrue. Penn St is also considered a blue blood. OSU was picked because they only had one loss and PSU had two. If the Lions had had only one they would have been in the playoff.

1 Like

I agree. They should not have lost to Pitt. Win that game and they are in.