Cincy got shafted by the CFP Committee

At this point they should just call it the "Power 5 CFP." Watch them pick 2 SEC teams and 2 Big 10 teams when Oregon chokes in the PAC-12 title game and Ohio State and MSU win out.

Another thread on this already. Yep Cincy got shafted. No surprise. It's indeed a Power 5 invitational. The way the committee tries to spin it reminds me of politicians. The process is evidently very political and driven by money. The power 5 conference schools attract more fans who buy more merchandise, thereby generating more revenue--which is what this is truly about. It is a business first and foremost, unfortunately. Too bad the system is corrupt and driven by greed. What a joke.

If Alascama finishes with 2 losses, they will still get in ahead of Cincy. They can essesntially do no wrong. But if it ain't Bama, it will be a 1-loss Oklahoma/Baylor/Oklahoma State jumping Cincy. You watch.

Wtf are u talking about they get in before a 2 loss bama or if any of the teams besides Georgia and maybe MSU lose. Gonna be one big 10, one sec team(unless bama beats Georgia) maybe pac12 if ducks win out and then cincy. Only way cincy doesn’t make it in is if bama beats Georgia

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^""""""""'"--';"- wrote:

If Alascama finishes with 2 losses, they will still get in ahead of Cincy. They can essesntially do no wrong. But if it ain't Bama, it will be a 1-loss Oklahoma/Baylor/Oklahoma State jumping Cincy. You watch.

A lot would have to happen for a 2 loss team, even a 2 loss Alabama, to get into the playoffs.

It shouldn't really be surprising SEC/ACC are rated higher than other conferences... And I'm a Big 12 guy.

Look at the last 7 years. It's all Alabama, Clemson, and LSU.

Oklahoma has been selected 4 times for the CFP. Notre Dame twice including during their "12-0" season. Ohio State 4 times. All have been routed. OU and Notre Dame have never even made it out of the semifinals. It's laughable. The committee tried to shake things up with Washington once, Oregon once, even an FSU. All disasters.

You have high school teams playing NFL calibre teams and this is the result.

brien evans wrote:

It shouldn't really be surprising SEC/ACC are rated higher than other conferences... And I'm a Big 12 guy.

Look at the last 7 years. It's all Alabama, Clemson, and LSU.

Oklahoma has been selected 4 times for the CFP. Notre Dame twice including during their "12-0" season. Ohio State 4 times. All have been routed. OU and Notre Dame have never even made it out of the semifinals. It's laughable. The committee tried to shake things up with Washington once, Oregon once, even an FSU. All disasters.

You have high school teams playing NFL calibre teams and this is the result.

Ohio State won it in the first year, 2014.

Unfortunately, some legitimate teams are going to have to get shafted in the 5 amd 6 spots before anything will ever change.

Football should be settled on the field in an expanded playoff system that gives every team a legitimate chance to earn their way into the CFP.

hard facts wrote:

Football should be settled on the field in an expanded playoff system that gives every team a legitimate chance to earn their way into the CFP.

Here is one way to do it. The top 32 teams play. This would be broken into two parts. Upper Bracket teams ranked 1-16. Lower Bracket teams are ranked 17-32.

The main reason for having a Lower Bracket is to appease the bowl game setup. 32 teams playing in four rounds means there are 15 games played in each bracket, so 30 total games. There are more bowls than 30. But the lower level bowls can still feature teams ranked lower 33rd and lowe.

Cincy beat a not very good ND team. Most of their competition is a cut below others who are ranked ahead of them. They would get rolled by Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, and most probably OU and UO. The AP always likes to rank a Cinderella every year and Cincy is their story this year.

I agree totally with the CFB standings. You guys are runners and never played D-1 college football like I did. You don't understand strength of schedule and power conferences vs weak conferences. Cincinnati is in the American Athletic Conference - a cheesy non-power 5 conference (go look up the teams in that conference. Lol).They're playing push overs every week. If Cincinnati were in the SEC or Big 10, they would have easily 3 losses by now. Power 5 conferences rule, especially the SEC, in this day & age of college football.

Undefeated Georgia definitely is #1 & controls their own destiny. Bama is deserving of #2 having beaten 3 rank teams in the top 15 including 2 from the SEC (Florida & Ole Miss). Undefeated Michigan St's win over #7 ranked Michigan last week was monumental. Oregon beat #3 Ohio St earlier in the year and has so far taken care of business in the Pac-12. Don't forget Michigan St still has to play Ohio St & Penn St. Bama still has to play Georgia in the big one. Oregon controls needs to win out convincely tomaybe hold on to that 4th spot.

stan the corgi wrote:

Cincy beat a not very good ND team. Most of their competition is a cut below others who are ranked ahead of them. They would get rolled by Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, and most probably OU and UO. The AP always likes to rank a Cinderella every year and Cincy is their story this year.

This. ND is overrated every year and always gets routed when in the playoff. That is not a signature win. Cincy still has to win out, which is going to be tough. To pretend that Cincy wouldn’t get blown out by an Alabama is wishful thinking. ND sure would.

Having said that, we need to expand to 8 teams to allow for a non power 5 team, and I’m all for that.

As a graduate of UC, I can objectively say that there is no way the Bearcats deserve a no. 2 ranking. UC barely squeaked past Navy and IU, two pretty terrible teams. The odds of UC being undefeated at the end of the regular season are pretty slim. And if UC is able to slide past SMU and probably UH in the conference final, they do not deserve a top seed in the championships and should have to work their way up from the bottom. Their conference schedule was incredibly weak compared to the Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC teams.

Things are always skewed in favor of SEC teams, but if you look this year, some teams have been whooping on quality opposition (Alabama, Georgia), while others have barely gotten by pretty good opposition (Oklahoma, Michigan State; Ohio State has whooped medium opposition for the most part) and others have beaten up on mostly very low quality opposition (Cincy). Oklahoma's arguably the major problem with the most legitimate grievance but many close wins don't help.

SOS wrote:

This. ND is overrated every year and always gets routed when in the playoff. That is not a signature win. Cincy still has to win out, which is going to be tough. To pretend that Cincy wouldn’t get blown out by an Alabama is wishful thinking. ND sure would.

The problem is that these predictions are often wrong. How many times have we seen a team that was supposed to win big end up losing. Or barely getting the win. Just because ND got blown out by Alabama and Clemson in prior years doesn't mean anything as far as this year goes.

For what it's worth, I actually think the committee is going too far out of their way to try and include non-power 5 teams in the rankings. Cincinnati might be ranked a tad too low, but there's no way Fresno St. or San Diego State should be ranked at all.

Despite the win in Columbus, Oregon is horribly overrated, and I'm not sure what business Mississippi State has being ranked other than to try and bolster Alabama's resume.

How naive do you have to be to believe the CFP was ever or ever could be anything other than a beauty pageant? C'mon, grow up.

Let’s be honest.

The best team from conferences that are not the SEC would probably only be the 4th or 5th best team in the conference if they were in it lol.

#1 and #2 teams in the SEC playing for the natty is a better game that any other team in the entire country.

It will all make sense when Notre Dame gets creamed on NYD and everyone realizes Cincy has no quality wins.

one if by land wrote:

It will all make sense when Notre Dame gets creamed on NYD and everyone realizes Cincy has no quality wins.

2021 Peach Bowl January 2021

GEORGIA 24 CINCINNATI 21

Cincinnati led after 3 quarters. What do the goal post movers say? "oh well Georgia wasn't taking it seriously."