When we are 75% through the NCAAM BB regular season, let me know.
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I know, but it still goes on our programâs resume so to speak. Good for marketing.
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If ND was our next game I promise you weâd be ranked lol
At least the committee got JMU out of the T-25.
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I didnât know Mack Rhoades was part of the CFP chair along with Hunter Yurachek.
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They both clearly hate us
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EXACTLY this. Pitt being ranked, but not us, is about as obvious as it gets. They pulled the same crap last week with Iowa. They heard all the noise about Oregon not having an impressive win, so they gave Iowa a #20 ranking they clearly did not deserve, just so they could continue to justify Oregon as a top 10 team. This crap is so rigged itâs not even funny 
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ESPN has basically a monopoly over the college football playoff. All the games are on ESPN ABC Networks. This wont stop until schools not the Big10 and SEC start threatening anti-competition/anti-trust lawsuits. There are supposed to be rules against one entity hoarding all the money which ESPN is doing with the playoffs. I do not understand how Fox and CBS let ESPN weasle there way into basically owning the whole playoff system. ESPN is dying and their lifeline is college football. CBS and Fox could of have hurt ESPN more if they had gotten some of the tv rights for the playoffs as well.
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As of right now itâs
5 from SEC
3 from B10
Notre Dame
Texas Tech
Georgia Tech
USF
Rigged.
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You think the CFP is rigged now, what if the SEC gets their way and they expand the playoff to 24 or 28 teams with no automatic qualifiers? The B1G and other conferences are pushing back on that idea, because they know the result.
Asking again
Why is Notre Dane in the top 10?
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They shouldnât push back on that. Only way other leagues will ever be able to put themselves on the same level with the SEC is to beat them in playoff games. Therefore the more opportunities you get against them the better. Right now the problem is the SEC gets about as many teams in the playoffs as all the other conferences combined. Expanding would get more high level from other power conferences and more mid level teams from the SEC, meaning more easy wins.
The only thing is, thatâs EXACTLY what happened in the last TWO playoffs.
The SEC didnât play for the natty in either one.
2023 was B1G v. PAC-12 (now also B1G)
2024 was B1G v. ND
Were it not for a blown targeting call, the SEC probably wouldnât have even had a team in the Final Four last year. A lot of SEC teams got their booties kicked by non-SEC teams in last yearâs playoffs.
In summation. the SEC has done NOTHING to show that its teams are more âplayoff readyâ than any other conference, and their teams donât deserve special consideration on that basis.
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I mean the only SEC teams that got blown out, got blown out by Ohio State and ND and look where those two teams are ranked. #1 in the country and #1 among 2 loss teams despite not having done much this year.
Like it or not the SEC dominates the rest of the country in the non-conference. They have a much higher win% than anyone else. Thats why theyâre much higher in the rankings. You could argue theyâre still overinflated but theyâll stay that way under this format because they can guarantee themselves half the field. Expand to 24 and theyâll be forced to start putting in some very beatable SEC teams. If those teams consistently go in and lose itâll help the perception of the schools that beat them.
But again, ND and Ohio State werenât exactly unbeatable last year.
ND lost to an absolute MAC NOBODY at home (Northern Illinois; they were only 4-4 in MAC action last year).
Ohio State lost to a Michigan team that was only 5-4 in the B1G. I know itâs a rivalry game, but still.
The SEC didnât even prove it could do what Northern Illinois and non-playoff Michigan were able to do, and got blown out by comparison.
The SEC simply hasnât shown that their teams are more playoff ready than anybody else.
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Again though they have by far and away the higher win%. If you want to get as many teams in, youâll either have to outperform them in the non-conference or beat them in the postseason and have that carry over to the next season and land you then benefit of the doubt. Those are your two options. Expanding the playoffs afford you more opportunities to beat them in the postseason so itâs the best choice imo, since beating them in the non-conference is pretty damn difficult.
Should put that in NIL contracts that they must play the bowl games or they will be required to forfeit some amount of their NILâŠ
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The players will definitely pay back the few thousands easily lol.
Few thousands⊠90% of $22 million is way more than a few thousandâŠ
Assuming 100 players on the football team split the 90% of $22 million theyâd each get $198kâŠ
Iâd only put those sort of stipulations on playing in the playoff games. The regular bowl games are ultimately meaningless.
Assuming a 13 game schedule that includes a bowl game, 1/13 is not enough of an incentive. If the reason not to play is injury risk, simply take out an insurance policy.