Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

[Horror Child]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

I agree that three loss teams should not be touched and I'm sure there's an exception where a 4 loss team has won a first or even second round game but I just believe that a 2 loss team from a tough region is more deserving than a 4 loss team from another region. The earned access rule is kinda arbitrary so how about we tweak such that:

If a 7th place team in any region has 4 losses and has not earned placement by earned access, such a team is superseded by a team from another region ranked 8th with 2 or less losses.

A tiebreaker would have to be established for instances where there are more than one such teams.

This doesn't really support your "R1 & R2 are weaker" perspective. In fact, in probably hurts it more than anything. SR1 has a good chance of having 8 teams with 1 or fewer losses.

[UNALions]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

Some say "weaker", I say more competitive.

But, that has nothing to do with the horrors of regionalization.

[BillyGV]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

WAY WAY better than FBS 4 team crap.


Seriously after the talent UCF put in the draft last year folks dont think those boys could not have had a legit shot at beating Bama?

NO, they wouldn't have - blowout

[Ian Carlson]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

NO, they wouldn't have - blowout

Maybe, maybe not. The transitive property is pretty useless, but the fact that UCF beat Auburn who beat Bama by double digits suggests it might not be such a forgone conclusion that it would be a blowout. A 16 team playoff could have let it all be known on the field.

[Boohaha]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

Maybe, maybe not. The transitive property is pretty useless, but the fact that UCF beat Auburn who beat Bama by double digits suggests it might not be such a forgone conclusion that it would be a blowout. A 16 team playoff could have let it all be known on the field.

As good a shot as the other top 4.

[Brandon]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

What if all the other teams have five losses?

[boatcapt]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

Maybe, maybe not. The transitive property is pretty useless, but the fact that UCF beat Auburn who beat Bama by double digits suggests it might not be such a forgone conclusion that it would be a blowout. A 16 team playoff could have let it all be known on the field.

Aren't the advocates of no regionalization using a version of the transitive property to build their case? Teams from SRX have won the championship x of the last x years so that proves that every team from SRX is better than teams from every other SR.

[boatcapt]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

Maybe, maybe not. The transitive property is pretty useless, but the fact that UCF beat Auburn who beat Bama by double digits suggests it might not be such a forgone conclusion that it would be a blowout. A 16 team playoff could have let it all be known on the field.

Unless, of course, you are a fan of the 17th or 18th ranked team that has a better record than the 16th team.

[ForeverGreen]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

What if all the other teams have five losses?

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

[ShirtedBearcat]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

Ah, yes, but how many pancakes does it take to shingle a dog house?

[UFOILERFAN]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

Ah, yes, but how many pancakes does it take to shingle a dog house?

Size matters.

[Boohaha]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

Size matters.

Michael scott, "Thats what she said!"

[GWolf]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

Ah, yes, but how many pancakes does it take to shingle a dog house?

Fourteen. Footballs don't have feathers!

[Runnin' Cat]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

35 point margin vs high school teams..... Humbolt and simon fraser are not d2 programs.....UTPB beat humbolt by 21 utpb is going to win 2 maybe 3 games this year.

If CWU doesnt make it they have no one but themselves to blame, they should have known as weak as their schedule is they had to win ALL their games.

In the GLVC Miss S&T has played a much tougher schedule has 1 loss to a 1 loss team in conference and they arent even top 10 in their region. With several 2 loss teams ahead of them.

CWU is lucky to even have a chance, and if they get in without another midwestern or Commerce loss it will be because the committee does not want to leave a conference out.
Only reason CWU is even going to be able to claim wins vs a +.500 program is cause Azusa is not hot garbage (not at all humbolts fault) like most the rest of Gnac.

Seriously you guys amaze me how effectively you all pick up the victim banner despite playing the least challenging schedule in the history of D2. You get 2 games this year vs a team that is in its last season, 2 more vs a team that has yet to win a d2 game, despite the fact that they get to play humbolt twice this year also!

Humboldt dropped football this past spring, well after the 2019 schedule was set. As a result, they lost about twenty kids, effectively dumping their program. But HSU and SFU are HS programs? There is not a HS program in the country that would beat either of them. They still have scholarship athletes. Certainly the GNAC is down, and CWU's schedule is weaker. Weakest of all time? I think that is your super bias against CWU. CWU can only play the schedule they have; that is it. Had teh AD had the prescience to know that HSU would drop football and not be good CWU would still have to play them. SW Baptist is not good at all, and CWU plays them next. I am sure they will wax the Bearcats, and then you can state "but they are a HS team" again. You can only play your schedule. CWU still has a 35+ margin counting all DII games.

As well, no one has played the victim role more than you have since the Hounds got "denied" a playoff spot last year.

[Boohaha]

Re: Shouldn't 4 losses disqualify a team from the playoffs?

Humboldt dropped football this past spring, well after the 2019 schedule was set. As a result, they lost about twenty kids, effectively dumping their program. But HSU and SFU are HS programs? There is not a HS program in the country that would beat either of them. They still have scholarship athletes. Certainly the GNAC is down, and CWU's schedule is weaker. Weakest of all time? I think that is your super bias against CWU. CWU can only play the schedule they have; that is it. Had teh AD had the prescience to know that HSU would drop football and not be good CWU would still have to play them. SW Baptist is not good at all, and CWU plays them next. I am sure they will wax the Bearcats, and then you can state "but they are a HS team" again. You can only play your schedule. CWU still has a 35+ margin counting all DII games.

As well, no one has played the victim role more than you have since the Hounds got "denied" a playoff spot last year.

Hmmm....I do recall it was the GNAC posters that were railing on the RMAC. I was upset yes but understood my team didnt make it cause the lost 2 out of 10 games. At least the 2 we lost to were both playoff teams and 1 was the eventual national champs. They also had a good SOS.

35+ points to teams that are not good at all.

Your AD maybe should have thought about things before cancelling the Kingsville game.

Dont worry the Wildcats will probably get in at the mercy of the committee.

Nobody cares how good a team was last year. This year is what matters.