ND vs Bama Who you got? (Page 5)

Well its all said and done and by all accounts the best ND can hope to be is the 4th best team........

...............in the S.E.C........................

...............East Division.

Sorry, that spot belongs to my Commodores.  The leprechauns can have fifth.  

That was embarrassing last night.  My favorite comment I've read today is "We heard that ND had an SEC caliber defense.  Who knew they were talking about Tennessee?"  

So if the playoffs started today, 4 teams, who would it be?

Bama, Georgia (again), Oregon, A&M?

That makes sense to me, but look at that... 3 SEC teams.  

Would Clemson argue to be in there?

South Carolina has a good argument to get into that mix as they beat Clemson and Georgia...

Interesting.  So there's still one sitting out that is just as deserving ("Hey, we won a BCS game!").

Before someone chimes-in here with "Well the 4 teams in the 'playoff' will meet in the bowl games." We know that.  We're just saying what 4 teams would you put in a playoff right now.  Hypotheticals is all we got.

DanielG - 2013-01-08 8:59 AM

GomesBolt - 2013-01-08 9:44 AM

DanielG - 2013-01-08 8:37 AM

GomesBolt - 2013-01-08 9:30 AM

dsand97 - 2013-01-08 8:20 AM

Well its all said and done and by all accounts the best ND can hope to be is the 4th best team........

...............in the S.E.C........................

...............East Division.

So if the playoffs started today, 4 teams, who would it be?

Bama, Georgia (again), Oregon, A&M?

That makes sense to me, but look at that... 3 SEC teams.  

Would Clemson argue to be in there?

South Carolina has a good argument to get into that mix as they beat Clemson and Georgia...

Go with all BCS winners 'Bama Vs Louisville Oregon Vs either Stanford or FSU Which would probably (note probably, "oops" games happen) end up with Oregon Vs 'Bama.

Interesting.  So there's still one sitting out that is just as deserving ("Hey, we won a BCS game!").

Before someone chimes-in here with "Well the 4 teams in the 'playoff' will meet in the bowl games." We know that.  We're just saying what 4 teams would you put in a playoff right now.  Hypotheticals is all we got.

Sub-genre with records: Alabama 7-1 13-1 Florida State 12-2 Stanford 8-1 12-2 Oregon 8-1 12-1 Louisville 11-2 I guess that would kick Louisville out. So AL FSU Stanford OR That would work

I wouldn't want to see two teams from the same conference in a 4 team playoff.

DanielG - 2013-01-08 8:59 AM

GomesBolt - 2013-01-08 9:44 AM

DanielG - 2013-01-08 8:37 AM

GomesBolt - 2013-01-08 9:30 AM

dsand97 - 2013-01-08 8:20 AM

Well its all said and done and by all accounts the best ND can hope to be is the 4th best team........

...............in the S.E.C........................

...............East Division.

So if the playoffs started today, 4 teams, who would it be?

Bama, Georgia (again), Oregon, A&M?

That makes sense to me, but look at that... 3 SEC teams.  

Would Clemson argue to be in there?

South Carolina has a good argument to get into that mix as they beat Clemson and Georgia...

Go with all BCS winners 'Bama Vs Louisville Oregon Vs either Stanford or FSU Which would probably (note probably, "oops" games happen) end up with Oregon Vs 'Bama.

Interesting.  So there's still one sitting out that is just as deserving ("Hey, we won a BCS game!").

Before someone chimes-in here with "Well the 4 teams in the 'playoff' will meet in the bowl games." We know that.  We're just saying what 4 teams would you put in a playoff right now.  Hypotheticals is all we got.

Sub-genre with records: Alabama 7-1 13-1 Florida State 12-2 Stanford 8-1 12-2 Oregon 8-1 12-1 Louisville 11-2 I guess that would kick Louisville out. So AL FSU Stanford OR That would work

So you're saying the PAC12 is better than the SEC? 

Why would FSU or Stanford (both 2 loss teams) have more ability to stay in than Louisville?

But aren't we doing this wrong?  You don't pick the top 4 from now.  You pick the top 4 BEFORE the bowl games.  The point is the big bowl games ARE the playoffs.

If that's the case then it's

ND, AL, FL & OR

(granted FL choked BIG time against Louisville but I honestly think they would have put up a better fight against AL than ND)

Conference champions.....period.

So ND never makes it in.  I'm OK with that.

And there it is.  The person talking about how it would've ended up...

TRS, we were just saying if they held it after the bowls what would it look like.  

That is exactly right.

If I were king there would be four 24 team conferences .....each with four 6 team divisions.  The playoffs would start at the division level (minor bowl games), move to the conference level (mid bowl games), and then to the championship series. (major bowls).....have a third place game to make it 4 majow bowl games. 

Yeah, it looks alot like the pro format only with more teams and games, but you need that to keep the bowl game people happy.

If you want to keep the same number of schools in Div. one than make the conferences/divisons larger.

I know it's not goiung to happen, but it'd be pretty simple.

Right, but they wouldn't hold it after the bowls.  So I'm not sure what the point was.

And for the record even Louisville would have given a better game than ND.  I'm not trying to argue FL into the NC game this year.  They did not deserve it.  But neither did ND.

Texas High School Football Players end-up playing 16 games to get to the championship.  There are at-least as many schools in each TX high school division as there are in CFB and yet every year, they crown a champion.  

FBS college football is all about programs getting to win their last game and calling themselves "champion" of something at the end of the year "GoDaddy.Com Bowl Champion!!!"

We were at an Aggie's house with an Auburn grad this weekend and we came-up with a great idea.  SEC should kick one team out per year and allow one team in each year.  "Sorry Kentucky, you gotta go play in the Sun Belt conference. Welcome in Louisville!"  

European Soccer style.