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Football Playoffs expand to 12 teams

Post by D-train » Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:27 pm

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Re: Football Playoffs expand to 12 teams

Post by Sibelius Hindemith » Sat Sep 03, 2022 11:34 pm

Way too late on that one. NCAA needs to go away.

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Re: Football Playoffs expand to 12 teams

Post by D-train » Tue Sep 06, 2022 7:31 pm

Huskies involved in the ridiculous split national title due to idiotic polling in 1992 and it took them 34 years to finally come up with a playoff with a reasonable number of teams.
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DeBoer was asked his opinion of the recently approved 12-team College Football Playoff, which includes the six highest ranked conference champions and six at-large bids, and will be implemented no later than 2026. “It’s great,” said DeBoer, who played and coached in numerous playoff games at NAIA Sioux Falls. “You get a chance to get in the playoffs, and anything can happen. I love the ‘win or go home’ kind of games. I’m just used to that over so many years in my career. That’s when it gets really fun. It gets special. You prepare all year long for those moments, rather than just a bowl game you’re going to where if you win so many games you’re in it. There’s something special to that. I think it’s going to be cool for college football. It gives more teams an opportunity, and obviously we’re looking forward to being a part of that.”
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Re: Football Playoffs expand to 12 teams

Post by Michael K. » Wed Sep 07, 2022 12:42 am

A buddy of mine also said that the four first round byes will go to the four highest ranked Conference Champions. Maybe BYU and Notre Dame will finally decide that Independent isn't the way to go?

You mention 1991, 1984 was worse, IMO. BYU escapes a .500 Michigan team in the Holiday Bowl, but wins a NC because they played a bunch of nobodies and went undefeated? They would have lost to every team that played a NYD bowl game that year. At least in 1991 we got a share of the title.

BYU's only game against a ranked opponent that year was Pitt. They were, at the time, ranked 3rd. They lost to BYU 20 to 14. The next week they were ranked 17th and lost to Oklahoma 42 to 10. Pitt finished the season 3-7-1. The next marquee win, as I said was against a Michigan team the Huskies beat by 10 earlier in the season. It really is a joke. Has to be the worst strength of schedule to ever win a NC.
BYU's 1984 opponents went 61-85-3, placing their schedule 96th amongst 98 division 1A schools. And yet their performance was as weak as their schedule. They won five games by a touchdown or less, from a 20-14 win at 3-7-1 Pitt in their opener to a 24-17 win against 6-6 Michigan in the Holiday Bowl-- by far the worst bowl opponent ever faced by a so-called "national champion." How bad was Michigan? They finished 6th in the Big Ten, and the Big Ten was a horrid 12-15 against nonconference opponents and 1-5 in bowl games. The only conference in the country that was as bad as the Big 10 was the WAC itself.
https://tiptop25.com/fixing1984.html

Sorry, but read that slowly. THAT is your 1984 National Champion! Sorry, as upset as I was about 1991, I will NEVER get over 84.

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Re: Football Playoffs expand to 12 teams

Post by Captain 97 » Thu Sep 08, 2022 8:33 pm

BYU is already scheduled to Join the Big 12 starting next season.

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Re: Football Playoffs expand to 12 teams

Post by D-train » Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:27 pm

Michael K. wrote:
Wed Sep 07, 2022 12:42 am
A buddy of mine also said that the four first round byes will go to the four highest ranked Conference Champions. Maybe BYU and Notre Dame will finally decide that Independent isn't the way to go?

You mention 1991, 1984 was worse, IMO. BYU escapes a .500 Michigan team in the Holiday Bowl, but wins a NC because they played a bunch of nobodies and went undefeated? They would have lost to every team that played a NYD bowl game that year. At least in 1991 we got a share of the title.

BYU's only game against a ranked opponent that year was Pitt. They were, at the time, ranked 3rd. They lost to BYU 20 to 14. The next week they were ranked 17th and lost to Oklahoma 42 to 10. Pitt finished the season 3-7-1. The next marquee win, as I said was against a Michigan team the Huskies beat by 10 earlier in the season. It really is a joke. Has to be the worst strength of schedule to ever win a NC.
BYU's 1984 opponents went 61-85-3, placing their schedule 96th amongst 98 division 1A schools. And yet their performance was as weak as their schedule. They won five games by a touchdown or less, from a 20-14 win at 3-7-1 Pitt in their opener to a 24-17 win against 6-6 Michigan in the Holiday Bowl-- by far the worst bowl opponent ever faced by a so-called "national champion." How bad was Michigan? They finished 6th in the Big Ten, and the Big Ten was a horrid 12-15 against nonconference opponents and 1-5 in bowl games. The only conference in the country that was as bad as the Big 10 was the WAC itself.
https://tiptop25.com/fixing1984.html

Sorry, but read that slowly. THAT is your 1984 National Champion! Sorry, as upset as I was about 1991, I will NEVER get over 84.
Good point so it took them 42 years after that Debacle...
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Re: Football Playoffs expand to 12 teams

Post by Michael K. » Fri Sep 09, 2022 3:47 am

Anyone that had BYU #1 in that poll should have been punlicly flogged and stripped of any voting right ever again.

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