There’s always crappy teams in the NFL playoff too. The problem is it can’t be the SEC college football playoff. So you’re going to get this. It’s either this or back to 4 teams and everyone complaining that their one lose team or undefeated weak conference team doesn’t get in.
They were still a 1 loss B1G team. So what ya gonna do? Can't put a 3 loss Alabama team in over a 1 loss B1G team just because they are 'bama.
Alan
They have to fix the unbalanced schedules of these super conferences or account for them. Through flukish luck, Indiana essentially had a Group of 5-caliber schedule. Nobody thinks they are better than South Carolina let’s say. I personally think they could have some sort of inter-conference week on conference championship weekend to fix that problem (how to evaluate title game losers).
They were still a 1 loss B1G team. So what ya gonna do? Can't put a 3 loss Alabama team in over a 1 loss B1G team just because they are 'bama.
Alan
They have to fix the unbalanced schedules of these super conferences or account for them. Through flukish luck, Indiana essentially had a Group of 5-caliber schedule. Nobody thinks they are better than South Carolina let’s say. I personally think they could have some sort of inter-conference week on conference championship weekend to fix that problem (how to evaluate title game losers).
Exactly. When you had 12-team (or even 14-team) conferences, you could play everyone in your division, and the division winners went to the title game. Conference schedules weren't always perfectly balanced, but to win a conference championship, you had to earn it.
Now you could easily have a conference with three one-loss teams that played totally different schedules and you have to figure out a fair tiebreaker, and then the playoff committee has to figure out how to evaluate those teams.
They have to fix the unbalanced schedules of these super conferences or account for them. Through flukish luck, Indiana essentially had a Group of 5-caliber schedule. Nobody thinks they are better than South Carolina let’s say. I personally think they could have some sort of inter-conference week on conference championship weekend to fix that problem (how to evaluate title game losers).
Exactly. When you had 12-team (or even 14-team) conferences, you could play everyone in your division, and the division winners went to the title game. Conference schedules weren't always perfectly balanced, but to win a conference championship, you had to earn it.
Now you could easily have a conference with three one-loss teams that played totally different schedules and you have to figure out a fair tiebreaker, and then the playoff committee has to figure out how to evaluate those teams.
Couldn’t agree more. Not sure how it’s done, but the strength of schedule has to be reassessed at the end of the season because these one-loss flukes can absolutely happen. Also, they need to look at how teams are playing at the end of the season, not the two losses they may have incurred at the beginning. An exponential moving average as it were.
This thread went really quiet as Penn State was steamrolling the Vols. Penn State had just as weak a schedule as Indiana, or Tennessee. IU didn’t drop any disaster games like Oklahoma. They were consistent all season with the exception of a few plays at Ohio State and most of the Notre Dame game. But SEC whiners gonna whine…
This thread went really quiet as Penn State was steamrolling the Vols. Penn State had just as weak a schedule as Indiana, or Tennessee. IU didn’t drop any disaster games like Oklahoma. They were consistent all season with the exception of a few plays at Ohio State and most of the Notre Dame game. But SEC whiners gonna whine…
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