Which is why I'm so strongly against conference champs getting the automatic bid. It would punish Mich for going 12-1 and beating better teams but reward average teams like Purdue going 8-4 with no good wins. Toss that right out the window.
I could use others if you want. Many years I could argue 4 was too many because 1 and 2 were that much better. My point was conference championships are garbage, all conferences aren't equal, and automatic bids are trash. As is a 12 team playoff.
Stnd brought up Purdue. I didn't. No 8-4 team in college football should be in any playoff format of any kind. We're just lowering the bar here, fellas.
That’s not how it works really in terms of an EIR but just the general design and permitting process could take several years for a major faculties upgrade/replacement.
A 4 loss team almost never wins a CCG. Looking at the Power 5 conferences this is how often it has happened:
If it's such a crazy outlier scenario why bother with the conference auto bids? Those only ensure that an 8-4 Purdue team would make the playoffs if they somehow lucked out and won the CCG.
I’m sure the conferences wanted to make sure they weren’t left out. A 4 team playoff when you had 5 major conferences was never going to work.
you asked if purdue should make the playoff. i said hard no. thats it.
Ackshually.... Notre Dame, 2022 ACC champs.
And they didn’t.
The door shouldn’t be open for them to do so, however crazy the scenario would be, just so conferences can feel better about themselves
“The door shouldn’t be open to them…”
If Notre Dame was 8-4 none of us would be expecting us to make the playoffs.
Yeah but a shitty conference champ can happen, and if for whatever reason they wouldn’t make the playoff after they win a CCG, why should they get an automatic bid? It makes no sense to give automatic bids, period.
Notre Dame chooses to do things differently than 99% of college football and then we complain when we’re treated a little differently. If we joined a conference then we could get a 1st round bye or have a chance to get in at 8-4. We choose a different path. I like it but understand there will be some negatives with that.
I have, but suppose that happens, how would an automatic bid help anything? If they are deserving they’ll get in without the automatic bid. The only way an automatic bid helps the conferences is if it’s a bubble or undeserving team. We see conferences do things to favor getting their teams in the playoffs all the time, aren’t you even slightly concerned that they’d try to game the system with an auto-qualify conference champ?
Michigan would still get in though as an at large had they lost last night. This would just eliminate one of the auto-bid slots ND could be going for.
My complaints don’t really have anything to do with ND. I most don’t want the playoffs watered down with shit teams because they happen to pull off a miracle upset.
