2023-2024 NCAA Football Thread

[Bruce]

A .500 record should not give you a bowl.

I do not think 7-5 should either.

 

[Derwin0]

I do not think 7-5 should either.

Just get rid of all of them and go to a 16 team playoff using neutral (bowl) locations.

8 minor one's in round one, with the others being how they are going to be next year for the quarter, semi, and final.

 

[Derwin0]

Math does not work, if 8 plays, 8 do not, leaves 12 teams at the end of round one.( the 4 who won plus the 8 who did not play)

Round two then would have 6 games ( the 12 left from round one), leaves 6 teams at the end of round two.

Round three then is 3 games (6 teams), which at the end is 3 teams left.

Then what?

8 minor bowl games, which would be 16 teams.

The 4 quarter finals and 2 semi finals can still be the 6 they have now for the CFP, and the final be out to bid as they also now do.

 

[Bruce]

Just get rid of all of them and go to a 16 team playoff using neutral (bowl) locations.

8 minor one's in round one, with the others being how they are going to be next year for the quarter, semi, and final.

Do you mean the #1 team playing the #16 team, 2 play 15, etc, like March Madness?

If so , should we put everyone in that has won championships, even the MAC, then have 6 at large teams in, or just the top 16.

Either way, will be complaints happening.

 

[Bruce]

8 minor bowl games, which would be 16 teams.

The 4 quarter finals and 2 semi finals can still be the 6 they have now for the CFP, and the final be out to bid as they also now do.

I fixed it, see above.

 

[Derwin0]

Do you mean the #1 team playing the #16 team, 2 play 15, etc?

yes

If so , should we put everyone in that has won championships, even the MAC, then have 6 at large teams in,

yes, same as is done for basketball and the other football divisions. Have all the conference champions and make the other slots the top at-larges

Either way, will be complaints happening.

agreed

 

[Jimbo]

The Bowl Committee should be allowed to shuffle teams after Player Transfers and Declarations for NFL Draft if the whole point is to determine a National Champion. Wasn’t the reason FSU wasn’t in the Final Four due to injuries so the Star Players weren’t able to play in the Bowl? Well, same logic applies to all the Bowl Games. OSU isn’t the same OSU without their QB or WR. They should be in the “Pop-Tart” Bowl, not the Cotton Bowl.

Notre Dame surprised me by not being negatively impacted with Hartman’s and other key players’ absence. They had some depth to the roster, 3rd string at the end and still scoring on Oregon State.

The system as-is is flawed. Colleges should go back to being educational learning institutions, and establish a Football Clubs organization whose purpose is to train the NFL players of the future while paying them for their performance. Or, admit money corrupts the Student Athlete equation and go back to the 1960s era of amateur athletics programs where you didn’t make money until you graduated, much like the rest of us.

(okay, maybe I shouldn’t have had so much coffee this morning…)

OK, heres the Tooth Paste Tube, you start trying to put it back in it ....

 

[Jimbo]

A .500 record should not give you a bowl.

As I've mentioned previously, I think you should be at least 2 games over .500 to get to a bowl game ...
However, now,,they wouldn't have enough teams to fill all the games, so that will never happen.

 

[Jimbo]

Just get rid of all of them and go to a 16 team playoff using neutral (bowl) locations.

8 minor one's in round one, with the others being how they are going to be next year for the quarter, semi, and final.

That is only a few more years down the road.

 

[Jimbo]

yes

yes, same as is done for basketball and the other football divisions. Have all the conference champions and make the other slots the top at-larges

agreed

We'll have to start the playoffs in October then.

 

[Jimbo]

A .500 record should not give you a bowl.

At least its better than what we have now.

We really need to go back to 20 games ... tops like it use to be, where you had to actually have a decent year to get offered.

The Big Ten use to be that the same team couldn't go to the Rose Bowl in back to back years ....

 

[Mr Tony]

As I've mentioned previously, I think you should be at least 2 games over .500 to get to a bowl game ...
However, now,,they wouldn't have enough teams to fill all the games, so that will never happen.

They didnt have enough 6 win teams this year. Minnesota got in as "the smartest" of the bunch at 5-7 (I forget the exact verbiage but that is pretty much what it was)

 

[Bruce]

At least its better than what we have now.

We really need to go back to 20 games ... tops like it use to be, where you had to actually have a decent year to get offered.

Too much money involved, I actually expect a few more soon.

 

[Jimbo]

They didnt have enough 6 win teams this year. Minnesota got in as "the smartest" of the bunch at 5-7 (I forget the exact verbiage but that is pretty much what it was)

Thats been happening the last few years, and will continue as long as ESPN continues making these stupid bowl games.

 

[Jimbo]

Too much money involved, I actually expect a few more soon.

Your right about the money ... then again, somewhere down the way, we'll see a report of how many teams actually LOST money by going to the Bowl game.

 

[Mr Tony]

Thats been happening the last few years, and will continue as long as ESPN continues making these stupid bowl games.

There were 3 teams that got in to fill the bowls. The other 2 were on their ‘probation’ from moving up to 1A but they got in to help fill out the field. Normally it’s like 2 or 3 years from the time they move up from FCS (1AA) before they can play in bowl games

 

[Yespage]

Just get rid of all of them and go to a 16 team playoff using neutral (bowl) locations.

8 minor one's in round one, with the others being how they are going to be next year for the quarter, semi, and final.

The only way to do it would be a 10 team super college league. Each team plays each other once (nine games, allowing the 10th special regional games). Top four in a playoff. The Internet hub traffic drops 97% because SEC and B10 fanboys stop whining about conference BS.

What I mean is, the only definitive way to know who is the actual best team. But College Football is about revenue and gates, not competitive supremacy.

 

[Don in CT]

The only way to do it would be a 10 team super college league. Each team plays each other once (nine games, allowing the 10th special regional games). Top four in a playoff. The Internet hub traffic drops 97% because SEC and B10 fanboys stop whining about conference BS.

What I mean is, the only definitive way to know who is the actual best team. But College Football is about revenue and gates, not competitive supremacy.

The college game will get to a super league. Top 40 teams play each other.

Relegation should be a thing. Play in and out of the league.

 

[Yespage]

The college game will get to a super league. Top 40 teams play each other.

Relegation should be a thing. Play in and out of the league.

I might actually start caring at that point. A ten team super league, with the bottom four dropping out and the top four from the other league via some auto/playoff qualification make it. I imagine, the biggest problem is that the cartels might be worried if a few too many small schools decide to Leicester City it and the Super league becomes 4 or 5 not large revenue schools. Of course, lower level bowl games would become relevant as playoffs to the top level.

 

[Don in CT]

I might actually start caring at that point. A ten team super league, with the bottom four dropping out and the top four from the other league via some auto/playoff qualification make it. I imagine, the biggest problem is that the cartels might be worried if a few too many small schools decide to Leicester City it and the Super league becomes 4 or 5 not large revenue schools. Of course, lower level bowl games would become relevant as playoffs to the top level.

The SEC wants this already. They don’t want the ACC to be a part of the super system. These big schools will ditch the bowl system and start their own league. Then you will see the conferences revert back to regional geography. It will all reset to the way it was.