Pods for all!
(I actually really liked the pod schedule Connelly came up with for the SEC this past off-season.)
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Cxllege Fxxtball 2016 Week Thirteen: Whx gets the best lxss?
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(I actually really liked the pod schedule Connelly came up with for the SEC this past off-season.)
If it's a good enough system to give them a big conference champion trophy then it's a good enough system to put them in a playoff. Not every conference can do round robin.
Assuming you mean this it still has the balance problem. Somebody still gets Alabama as an every-year opponent and somebody else gets Vanderbilt.
Yep. That comment sounds like more of an indictment of the conference than of auto bids for conference champs.
MugiwaraCole
Member
Kiffin to UH makes sense (though I wish the man would stay and get Jalen a Heisman). Kiffin to LSU sounds
well, dumb.
Purple Cheeto
Member
"Teams should decline CCGs if Michigan and Ohio State make the playoff"
http://thebiglead.com/2016/12/01/te...if-both-ohio-state-and-michigan-make-playoff/
http://thebiglead.com/2016/12/01/te...if-both-ohio-state-and-michigan-make-playoff/
I came up with one for the ACC if ND is ever added and brings Navy with them as a thought experiment.
Pod A- Navy, ND, BC, Pitt
Pod B- VT, UVA, Louisville, Syracuse
Pod C- North Carolina schools
Pod D- Miami, Clemson, GT, FSU
8 conference games, play your pod + that year's pod + cross pod rival (there's an alternate for years when cross pods rivals are in the same pod)
Pod D is a little unfair to GT but they've had recent success.
ND gets three of its traditional rivals in conference play which frees up the noncon games. They can keep the Stanford and USC games, play a Big 10 team, and still have a cupcake. Probably the best conference offer that they would get.
Couple of the crosspod rivals are easy- UVA/UNC, Clemson/State, BC/Syracuse, VT/Pitt.
GoldenEye 007
Member
Scott Frost just gave his Saban "I'm not going anywhere" speech. I expect him out of here within 48 hours!
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
Who would take him?! LOL. Wait until he actually has success there before putting him in the ranks of desired coaches.
GoldenEye 007
Member
It was a joke. He's not going anywhere anytime soon. But he did have a winless team at least going bowling. And his name has been coming up mainly with the Oregon vacancy. Although I think it is just writers throwing names at a wall.
Which is a pretty good feat. But he needs a few more years of improving performance before he starts attracting more programs.
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
That's because they were playing Iowa State
Squirrel Killer
Member
That's like the blonde joke about moving after she heard most accidents occurring within five miles of home.
(Or, what jstevenson said.)
Kevin Wilson out at Indiana, press conference at 6 PM tonight
Have to think there's another shoe to drop here as IU's been to back to back bowls and people are generally pretty happy with what's been going on (and Wilson just got a big extension last year). Might be firing him for cause.
Have to think there's another shoe to drop here as IU's been to back to back bowls and people are generally pretty happy with what's been going on (and Wilson just got a big extension last year). Might be firing him for cause.
bucknuticus
Member
Yeah IU would be stupid for firing him for nothing, hes one of the best coaches IU has had.
Depending on the stadium, being on the west side gets you out of the sun earlier. Important for 3:30 ET games, but that's about it.
Purple Cheeto
Member
Didn't he almost beat OSU twice except for a couple of questionable calls?
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
that's good in Sept, not as good in November
Battlezone
Member
Now imagine Florida upsets Alabama. Only one of the playoff teams would be a conference champion, and they'd likely be underdogs agains the other three teams.
That would be interesting.
Also, can you imagine how BamaGAF would be if they ran through two B1G teams on the way to another title.
can you imagine
Oh I can.
If Tom Allen takes over he's probably going to be a better HC anyway, he was a miracle worker for the defense. He just needs to hire a good OC.
That's the joke.
An interesting point that was brought up is that the press box is on the west side, so now other teams will have a slightly tougher time reading our signals.
Yikes.
timetokill
Banned
1. Have every conference have a mandatory CCG
2. Winner of each CCG gets in
3. +1 wild card based on rankings
Seeds are determined by rankings. 1 and 2 get a first round bye, and then play the winner of the 3vWild and 4v5 matchups. Winners of those games get into championship game.
Boom. Rankings still matter so the rankings tv show gets to stay (yay $$), even teams in the playoff want to compete to get the first round bye, teams that look dominant but don't win their CCG have one shot, and not too many games are added. Plus we don't go to an 8-team (or worse) number of entrants.
2. Winner of each CCG gets in
3. +1 wild card based on rankings
Seeds are determined by rankings. 1 and 2 get a first round bye, and then play the winner of the 3vWild and 4v5 matchups. Winners of those games get into championship game.
Boom. Rankings still matter so the rankings tv show gets to stay (yay $$), even teams in the playoff want to compete to get the first round bye, teams that look dominant but don't win their CCG have one shot, and not too many games are added. Plus we don't go to an 8-team (or worse) number of entrants.
bucknuticus
Member
@furrer4heisman
kevin wilson becomes the third former stoops oc forced out from his hc job for mistreatment of players. wow.
kevin wilson becomes the third former stoops oc forced out from his hc job for mistreatment of players. wow.
Leach and Mangino being the first two, I think.
If it were up to me, I would use your idea but with an 8 team playoff. Winning of 5 power conferences get in, one Group 5 team gets a guaranteed spot, and then three wild cards.
Regular season would matter because it is important for seeding.
If you are okay with 6, not sure what's the issue with 8. It's the same amount of weeks. Also think 8 is ideal as you get conf champs in but also have enough room to be fair if wonky stuff happens.
Note that this video was post-game, after a victory, to an 8-4 team (which was a slightly above average regular season under him). He was fired about a month later.
There's also the "God Squad" video from that season where he's berating some of the more religious guys on the team after a 42-21 win.
Your idea is 9 teams, not 8.
Azwethinkweiz
Member
No one cares about the big 12
bucknuticus
Member
WHERES OUR CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK THREAD I THOUGHT YOU SECSECSEC FOLKS WERE FAST.
Purple Cheeto
Member
This would never happen if Karakand or BlueMax were still alive.
Oh fuck, former USC RB Joe McKnight shot and killed in road rage incident.
No it's not because conferences operate off strict rules and the Playoff committee doesn't nor should it otherwise there'd be no point in having a group of people deciding who the 4 best teams are. It would just be a rule sheet. That's interesting. That's exciting.
Holy shit.
timetokill
Banned
I was just going to let this thread stand for another week, since the games are laegely meaningless anyway.
Jesus. Fucking people. Thoughts to his family.
Ugh. Awful.
Transitive football property:
Pittsburgh > Philly > Pitt > Penn State > Ohio State > Browns
bucknuticus
Member
Indiana hires DC Tom Allen during the same press conference in which it fired Kevin Wilson.
Did they make them pose chin to chin like it was a boxing hype conference?
yep, sounds like Wilson got paid $500k to resign and for the IU AD not to trash him over whatever happened. He's in super lawyer mode right now.
What you're talking about here is like the definition of the "it's not a defect, it's a feature!" meme.
Picking a champion shouldn't be primarily about being "interesting" or "exciting," that's why no other sports league on earth has a postseason that is 100% decided by opinion. Even the other college sports in the US with committees (eg basketball, baseball) have auto-bids and the opinion part only fills in the shoo-ins and the fringes.
Nothing is for sure yet, of course, but they're very likely about to put one team in the playoff over another team that not only beat them out for the conference championship but also beat them on the field. There is literally nothing in place that keeps them from putting 1-11 Fresno State into the playoff. That's a terrible system.
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FFS, in their official criteria document this is an actual paragraph that talks about why the new system will be better than the old BCS -
FloydtheFathead
Member
Baron Browning commits to Ohio State..
Hippopuncher12
Member
Baron Browning commits to Ohio State..
Yaaaassssss!
FloydtheFathead
Member
And.. Trey Smith is supposedly going to flip to Ohio State..
Christmas is here early..
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
I don't really follow recruiting but a glance at Bama's commits has me confused. Only 1 DT, despite being maybe the thinnest position on the roster and losing at minimum half the current 2-deep at the end of the season?
Hippopuncher12
Member
I can only be so erect.
Wait I just said that about some college dudes........fuck it lets go!