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Originally posted by Matt Burglund View Post
But Shepherd didn't even win its division this year, let alone its conference. By your plan, Shepherd could have been left out.
ESPN has broadcast rights to the entire CFP.
My point about ESPN is that they have so much at stake with the current system. Its not just about the broadcast rights for the little dinky 4 team playoff. They also own many of the newer junk bowl games, so its in their interest to keep the system as is.
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Originally posted by Matt Burglund View PostWhat does that have to do with anything? The media doesn't pick the teams.
So teams with the best records should be in the playoffs, not necessarily those deemed to be the best teams?
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Originally posted by Ship69 View PostNo. I'm assuming a larger, FCS-style playoff as I said in my original post, which would mean a dozen or more teams after the conference champions. I also said that never will happen. Since they've already talked about a 12-team playoff, for that I'd include the P5 champions, reserve at least one spot for the highest ranked Group of 5 team, and then select the highest-ranked teams for the final six spots. They're always going to argue over who gets left out. They have 68 frickin' teams in the basketball playoff, and some want to expand it again.
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Originally posted by Matt Burglund View Post
That sounds easy enough in theory. But if there are two at-large spots, there's likely to be more than two teams in the mix, and then you're back to the same problem we started with, just further down the line.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostYes, and I'd argue both Shepherd and Ferris deserved to be there.
Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostSince they own a couple dozen bowls, ESPN has a lot of money to potentially lose if a playoff flops.Last edited by Matt Burglund; 12-14-2021, 07:06 AM.
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Originally posted by Ship69 View PostPut in all the league champions and then select the top-ranked teams after that.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostYeah but how much time would media heads be beating down their SOS?
Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostThere's a 13-0 football team that almost didn't make it.
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Originally posted by Ship69 View Post
Yep, I'd like to see a Division I playoff something along the lines of the FCS. Put in all the league champions and then select the top-ranked teams after that. Never will happen though due to the money factor in big-time college football. In the lower divisions, people don't tend to worry as much about the TV factors and blowouts in playoff games. There were plenty of routs in the Division II playoffs this year, including the Shepherd-Ferris semifinal.
Since they own a couple dozen bowls, ESPN has a lot of money to potentially lose if a playoff flops. Its profitable to have the Daytona Beach Big Johnson T-Shirt Bowl on a Tuesday afternoon. So their talking heads will always be against it. You had CGD guys questioning Cincinnati up through the end of the season. You don't see anything like that in basketball.
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Originally posted by Matt Burglund View Post
While you're eagerly awaiting Ohio's 27-24 upset of Michigan, you're going to have to wait through 20 straight years of Michigan 62, Ohio 14. The gap between P5 and Go5 schools is so wide that the upsets would be extremely rare. That leaves a series of first-round blowouts that only a few people would make appointment TV. After enough of that, people lose interest.
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Originally posted by Matt Burglund View Post
That's not the same. There are 68 teams in the basketball tournament. A 27-4 hoops team would make it into a 68-team tournament every time, regardless of what league they're in.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post
I get that - but without providing equal access, basketball wouldn't have Gonzaga right now. They'd be relegated to the NIT every year or something as irrelevant as those preseason tournaments in the Bahamas.
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Originally posted by Matt Burglund View Post
While you're eagerly awaiting Ohio's 27-24 upset of Michigan, you're going to have to wait through 20 straight years of Michigan 62, Ohio 14. The gap between P5 and Go5 schools is so wide that the upsets would be extremely rare. That leaves a series of first-round blowouts that only a few people would make appointment TV. After enough of that, people lose interest.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post
I think the NCAA should run a playoff with all FBS conference champions. That's 10 teams - I think the committee can choose the final 2 (includes independents).
I know this really pees in the corn flakes of those who long for the annual Camping World Bowl and those who are willing to engage in fisticuffs over their assertion that the 6th-best SEC team is better than the MAC champion.
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