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I don't know if it was the best college football game I've ever seen, but it certainly was one of the most exciting.
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Yesterday was about as good of a football viewing day as I can remember. The UCF/Auburn game was almost as good as Oklahoma/Georgia. The SC/Michigan game came down to the last drive, and while I can't stand Notre Dame or the fact that they won, the finish was exciting.
I didn't stick around long enough to hear Riley's explanation for why Mayfield didn't throw a pass in either OT. The guy won the Heisman, it would seem like you might want to give him a chance to make a play.
The worst of the 5 games was Bama/Clemson, and only because it really wasn't close.
I'm holding out hope that this year's finish might prompt a revisit of the playoff system. I'm not saying UCF would beat Alabama, but a team shouldn't be able to go 13-0 and not win a championship. Expand it to 8 teams: the Power 5 conference champs and 3 wild cards (with any team that goes undefeated automatically receiving a wild card spot). Sure, someone is going to be team #9 and still bitch they didn't get in, but 4 spots just isn't enough.
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"Expand it to 8 teams: the Power 5 conference champs and 3 wild cards (with any team that goes undefeated automatically receiving a wild card spot)."
And it would be so easy to do. I would even suggest increasing the field to 16 teams, but that would mean scrapping the conference championship games, which aren't generally that exciting anyway but I assume exist because they make money. Although there were about 30,000 empty seats for the Pac 12 championship game at Levi's Stadium, which you would think would have sold out because Stanford was in the game.
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Keep the conference championship games. With the exception of the Big XII (-2), teams in the other conferences don't play each school. The conference championship game provides an equalizer to the unbalanced schedule.
Between UCF going undefeated and players starting to refuse to play in meaningless bowl games to prepare for the NFL, I wonder if we'll see the end of the bowl system. If the only reason to watch the Belk Bowl is the opportunity to watch a kid who might be the #1 pick in next year's draft and that kid decides to sit out the game, will the sponsors really continue to shell out the money?
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Tonight's game has a bit more of a defensive flavor.
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Very entertaining game. Ballsy move by Saban to switch to the freshman to start the 2nd half, but it worked.
After watching Atlanta shit the bed last year against New England in the Super Bowl and last night's game, I can't imagine what a Georgia football fan has to feel like. Losing 2 championship games in overtime after pissing away huge leads. Yikes.
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I believe myself that the playoffs should include the conference championship games. The winners of the power 5 roll on, and you get another 6 teams to choose from who will play each other on conference championship week to get the other 3 (these can include any team, Alabama, UCF, a great independent). It only excludes any team playing for a conference title. That leaves you with 8, rolling into the typical bowl weeks. The Conference Champions were decided on the 12/1 weekend.... You have plenty of time between then and yesterday to run 8 teams together to get to 4, 4 to 2, and then play yesterdays game. And in doing so, you're really working with a 16 team field, not 4.... That's the logical landing point to me, but we'll see what happens.
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forsberg_us wrote:
Very entertaining game. Ballsy move by Saban to switch to the freshman to start the 2nd half, but it worked.
After watching Atlanta shit the bed last year against New England in the Super Bowl and last night's game, I can't imagine what a Georgia football fan has to feel like. Losing 2 championship games in overtime after pissing away huge leads. Yikes.
The second half and overtime was terrific. I don't feel all that badly for Atlanta fans. They've lost two NHL teams because of lack of support, and they don't sell out playoff NBA and MLB games, never mind regular season games. I know UGA football fans are a heck of a lot more loyal than the typical Atlantan, but I suspect there were a lot of people who hopped on the bandwagon after UGA won the Rose Bowl.
Besides, the Atlanta airport sucks.
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I believe myself that the playoffs should include the conference championship games. The winners of the power 5 roll on, and you get another 6 teams to choose from who will play each other on conference championship week to get the other 3 (these can include any team, Alabama, UCF, a great independent). It only excludes any team playing for a conference title. That leaves you with 8, rolling into the typical bowl weeks. The Conference Champions were decided on the 12/1 weekend.... You have plenty of time between then and yesterday to run 8 teams together to get to 4, 4 to 2, and then play yesterdays game. And in doing so, you're really working with a 16 team field, not 4.... That's the logical landing point to me, but we'll see what happens.
My issue with something like that is it gives a team that finishes 3rd in its conference an advantage. Since the top 2 conference teams have to play each other, you'd likely end up with 2 teams that finished 3rd in their conference playing each other. Take this season as an example, the Power 5 match-ups were
ACC- Clemson/Miami
Big XII- Oklahoma/TCU
Big X- Ohio State/Wisconsin
Pac XII- USC/Stanford
SEC- Auburn/Georgia
Use the playoff rankings to pick the other 6 and you get
Alabama/Michigan State
Penn State/Notre Dame
Washington/UCF
You'd have Alabama playing a team that finished 4th in the Big X. On paper, at least, that's a much easier match-up than any of the teams in the championship games would have.
I don't care if it's 8 or 16 teams, but however it's done, it has to include the conference champions and any team that goes undefeated.
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I guess we'll never know how much of an advantage Alabama got by not making it to the SEC championship game, but that defense had an extra week off to get healthy, and they certainly looked fresher in the second half on Monday than a Georgia team that had to play Auburn and then an overtime game in California.
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I guess we'll never know how much of an advantage Alabama got by not making it to the SEC championship game, but that defense had an extra week off to get healthy, and they certainly looked fresher in the second half on Monday than a Georgia team that had to play Auburn and then an overtime game in California.
I hear what you’re saying, but the SEC Championship game was played a month before the semi-final games. Sure, it’s possible an Alabama player could’ve gotten injured and missed the playoffs, but that’s pretty speculative.
That’s kind of like saying that if NE’s bye week was Week 10 and Pittsburgh’s was Week 9 that the Patriots would have an advantage.
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I guess we'll never know how much of an advantage Alabama got by not making it to the SEC championship game, but that defense had an extra week off to get healthy, and they certainly looked fresher in the second half on Monday than a Georgia team that had to play Auburn and then an overtime game in California.
I hear what you’re saying, but the SEC Championship game was played a month before the semi-final games. Sure, it’s possible an Alabama player could’ve gotten injured and missed the playoffs, but that’s pretty speculative.
That’s kind of like saying that if NE’s bye week was Week 10 and Pittsburgh’s was Week 9 that the Patriots would have an advantage.
Fuck New England. I hope Mariota throws 16 touchdown passes on Saturday.
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I guess we'll never know how much of an advantage Alabama got by not making it to the SEC championship game, but that defense had an extra week off to get healthy, and they certainly looked fresher in the second half on Monday than a Georgia team that had to play Auburn and then an overtime game in California.
I hear what you’re saying, but the SEC Championship game was played a month before the semi-final games. Sure, it’s possible an Alabama player could’ve gotten injured and missed the playoffs, but that’s pretty speculative.
That’s kind of like saying that if NE’s bye week was Week 10 and Pittsburgh’s was Week 9 that the Patriots would have an advantage.Fuck New England. I hope Mariota throws 16 touchdown passes on Saturday.
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