2024 College Football Playoffs

[Old Man Mike]

Also, I wonder, now that precedent has been set: Next year's squads having seen leverage in certain schools to have to be paid to even play at all --- how effective is the extra cash layout? and does it affect the lower paid or higher team-committed players? Are some "cultures", already teetering towards "grab-it-and-run" mindsets, fall apart into pure greed and ego sewage holes? This will be interesting to see.

It will also be interesting to listen to the apologists If this REALLY hurts college football.

 

[NorthDakota]

Also, I wonder, now that precedent has been set: Next year's squads having seen leverage in certain schools to have to be paid to even play at all --- how effective is the extra cash layout? and does it affect the lower paid or higher team-committed players? Are some "cultures", already teetering towards "grab-it-and-run" mindsets, fall apart into pure greed and ego sewage holes? This will be interesting to see.

It will also be interesting to listen to the apologists If this REALLY hurts college football.

OMM, I believe Saban has already answered this question and it is one of the reasons he retired when he did. If Saban was having trouble maintaining culture at Alabama, I imagine it's basically everywhere.

 

[stpeteirish]

Playoffs aren't over yet. We could see a few other "shouldn't be there's" before it's over.

If half the teams asked in, turn out to not really be qualified, then where does the debate go?

Not back to a four team playoff, that's for damn sure.

 

[FDNYIrish1]

 

[SeekNDestroy]

Would love to hear players on the teams that lost call out Lane, of course it would have to be very super professional or some would soak their Depends.

“Lane Kiffen? That n*gga a bitch.”

 

[TorontoGold]

“Lane Kiffen? That n*gga a bitch.”

You just gave some random 60 year old 3XL a heart attack

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

You just gave some random 60 year old 3XL a heart attack

They can have a heart attack just Not like that.

 

[Irish du Nord]

Kirk spending the last minutes of the broadcast talking about how impressed he was with Tennessee's resilience made me want to puke. Resilience? Bro they just lost 42-17. They are resilient in the same way that a dribbling basketball is resilient.

POTY nominee

 

[LifelongFan]

Tennessee gave up in the first quarter, the least resilience out of the 4 losers this weekend. The SECSPN media cartel works overtime.

 

[IRISHDODGER]

 

[IrishLax]

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

If you think the SEC chant is made up may I present you an actual text btw me and my Bulldog BIL after ND won:

 

[AdmiralBackhand]

If you think the SEC chant is made up may I present you an actual text btw me and my Bulldog BIL after ND won:
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[MKEagle]

If you think the SEC chant is made up may I present you an actual text btw me and my Bulldog BIL after ND won:
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The "But we beat Alabama... how do we look this bad against OSU!" texts were fun to read during the Tennessee game

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

The "But we beat Alabama... how do we look this bad against OSU!" texts were fun to read during the Tennessee game

This simply means a 9-3 Bama should have been in over Indiana. ( sarcasm)

 

[Old Man Mike]

Why not just add OSU into the SEC tournament, play all the teams, and crown immediately? Wouldn't that be more fair?

... (( I mean Texas is now in, Oregon is an obvious outlier, Notre Dame has never deserved anything, Dabo has lost it ... maybe add Penn State they kind of feel right don't they? ... wonder if FSU can come back? ....... seems pretty clear ........ ))

 

[wizards8507]

This simply means a 9-3 Bama should have been in over Indiana. ( sarcasm)

The weirdest thing is when they make strength of schedule arguments in favor of the team that scheduled Mercer and Western Kentucky.

 

[MacIrish75]

Why not just add OSU into the SEC tournament, play all the teams, and crown immediately? Wouldn't that be more fair?

... (( I mean Texas is now in, Oregon is an obvious outlier, Notre Dame has never deserved anything, Dabo has lost it ... maybe add Penn State they kind of feel right don't they? ... wonder if FSU can come back? ....... seems pretty clear ........ ))

 

[Ophiocordyceps]

Rylie Mills out for season with knee injury.

 

[ND87]

This didn't take long...

Alabama And South Carolina Deserved To Be In The Playoff Over SMU And Indiana

When the final College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings were revealed, two names stood out—and not necessarily for the…

fanrumor.com

 

[Irish du Nord]

This didn't take long...

Alabama And South Carolina Deserved To Be In The Playoff Over SMU And Indiana

When the final College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings were revealed, two names stood out—and not necessarily for the…

fanrumor.com

The authoritative “fanrumor dot com”, a conscience for the nation.

 

[ab2cmiller]

This didn't take long...

Alabama And South Carolina Deserved To Be In The Playoff Over SMU And Indiana

When the final College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings were revealed, two names stood out—and not necessarily for the…

fanrumor.com

Looks like it was written before the games ever took place by someone that nobody obviously knows on a web site called fanrumor. If we spent time looking, there probably hundreds of similar articles by people who are totally insignificant in the industry.

 

[Kingbish01]

Anyone have any experience with the CFP rsvp website....where you pay X dollars based on your team...and if they make it you can purchase tickets to the Natty at face value? I didn't see the link as I don't even know if it's legit.

 

[IrishLax]

We really did get shafted with our draw. Never should’ve been behind PSU in the first place and then they picked up a second loss.

 

[wizards8507]

This didn't take long...

Alabama And South Carolina Deserved To Be In The Playoff Over SMU And Indiana

When the final College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings were revealed, two names stood out—and not necessarily for the…

fanrumor.com

It's such a stupid argument and they're all guilty of it. Finebaum, Herbstreit, even McDonough.

In EVERY SINGLE model, Indiana was a top 12 football team. SP+, Sagarin, BCS, Anderson & Hester, Colley Matrix, AP, Coaches, all of them. It wasn't the committee. It was unanimous that Indiana was a top 12 team this year.

If there was an issue with Indiana in the playoff, it's not the committee's fault. It's that we shouldn't have a 12-team playoff in the first place.

 

[Pointman02]

It's such a stupid argument and they're all guilty of it. Finebaum, Herbstreit, even McDonough.

In EVERY SINGLE model, Indiana was a top 12 football team. SP+, Sagarin, BCS, Anderson & Hester, Colley Matrix, AP, Coaches, all of them. It wasn't the committee. It was unanimous that Indiana was a top 12 team this year.

If there was an issue with Indiana in the playoff, it's not the committee's fault. It's that we shouldn't have a 12-team playoff in the first place.

This article you linked has way more glaring faults than its stupid argument. It refers to Alabama’s two losses being against playoff caliber teams, except it had 3 losses, two of which were to very mediocre teams. It also mentions SMU’s AAC schedule. If they can’t get basic facts like record and conference membership of the main teams in the story right, I think we can just throw this particular article out.

 

[KPENN]

 

[Bishop2b5]

It's such a stupid argument and they're all guilty of it. Finebaum, Herbstreit, even McDonough.

In EVERY SINGLE model, Indiana was a top 12 football team. SP+, Sagarin, BCS, Anderson & Hester, Colley Matrix, AP, Coaches, all of them. It wasn't the committee. It was unanimous that Indiana was a top 12 team this year.

If there was an issue with Indiana in the playoff, it's not the committee's fault. It's that we shouldn't have a 12-team playoff in the first place.

I don't think you could've left Indiana out. They should've been in. SMU was the one that was borderline. Their SOS was suspect at best. They had a pretty resume, but hardly anyone who knows football thought they were actually one of the 12 best teams in the country. Should my guys have gotten that 12th spot? I'm not even going to argue they should have. They were certainly a stronger team than SMU and would've been a lot more competitive, but you can't ignore the 3 losses, 2 of which were just bad. Not sure who you put in that 12th spot. I just know that SMU was there for the wrong reasons.

 

[ColoradoIrish]

I don't think you could've left Indiana out. They should've been in. SMU was the one that was borderline. Their SOS was suspect at best. They had a pretty resume, but hardly anyone who knows football thought they were actually one of the 12 best teams in the country. Should my guys have gotten that 12th spot? I'm not even going to argue they should have. They were certainly a stronger team than SMU and would've been a lot more competitive, but you can't ignore the 3 losses, 2 of which were just bad. Not sure who you put in that 12th spot. I just know that SMU was there for the wrong reasons.

No way in hell should Alabama, Ole Miss or South Carolina have gotten in over SMU. All three have 3 losses, Alabama and Ole Miss had bad losses and SCar lost to both. SMU had one regular season lost and it was by 3 to a current top 20 team.

 

[InKellyWeTrust]

We will see, I still think the SEC was overvalued this year. If ND knocks out Georgia, nobody will be surprised. Texas losing would be an upset. There is a chance we see a semifinal without an SEC team. Maybe someday, if it continues, we'll see a world in which SEC fans don't act like spoiled children.