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Jun. 5—***
The idea of click bait works on every time I see a reference to "CFP."
The College Football Playoff fascinates me because A) I was worried it was never going to happen and B) I remain worried that someone is going to mess it up.
Right now, college football is in an excellent place when it comes to deciding its national champion. There are 12 qualifiers (16 is on the way soon), home gmes and byes. All good stuff when handled properly.
And in the current format, only the top five conference champions are guaranteed bids. The remaining seven are picked by a selection committee. Mark me down as pro selection committee. It works just fine in all the other NCAA sports.
But thanks to an excellent article in The Athletic by Ralph Russo, we know that the big two conferences — that's you Big Ten and SEC — don't like the committee.
The leagues are wrong. Or actually, more to the point, selfish. All they want is more ... for themselves.
Ohio State coach Ryan Day, who just won his first national title, said the Big Ten deserves four automatic berths into the CFP. Why?
He pointed to the depth and talent in the 18-team conference. It's a fair point. But if he is believes in the league, he should want the teams to earn their CFP spots based on merit, not mandate.
IMHO, no conference should get more than one automatic bid with it going to the conference champion of the five highest-rated leagues. Period.
If the field expands to 16, then the next 11 spots go to at-large teams. Selected by a committee of college football experts And yes, I would like to be on the committee.
With this format, it is possible one conference could land a many as six or seven bids. No problem with that as long as they aren't awarded based simply on where you finish in a conference race.
To Day, I would ask does a 9-3 Big Ten team that lucked into an easy conference schedule and finished fourth automatically deserve a bid? I hope his answer would be no.
I've got different issues with the SEC, in particular its unwillingness to play nine-game conference schedules. I'm hoping the folks with the checks at ESPN can make an offer the SEC can't refuse. Money talks, thankfully.
All I'm looking for is the best possible CFP field to be assembled each year. Let the teams determine the winners in the games without the Big Ten and SEC getting more than they earn.
Continue reading...
The idea of click bait works on every time I see a reference to "CFP."
The College Football Playoff fascinates me because A) I was worried it was never going to happen and B) I remain worried that someone is going to mess it up.
Right now, college football is in an excellent place when it comes to deciding its national champion. There are 12 qualifiers (16 is on the way soon), home gmes and byes. All good stuff when handled properly.
And in the current format, only the top five conference champions are guaranteed bids. The remaining seven are picked by a selection committee. Mark me down as pro selection committee. It works just fine in all the other NCAA sports.
But thanks to an excellent article in The Athletic by Ralph Russo, we know that the big two conferences — that's you Big Ten and SEC — don't like the committee.
The leagues are wrong. Or actually, more to the point, selfish. All they want is more ... for themselves.
Ohio State coach Ryan Day, who just won his first national title, said the Big Ten deserves four automatic berths into the CFP. Why?
He pointed to the depth and talent in the 18-team conference. It's a fair point. But if he is believes in the league, he should want the teams to earn their CFP spots based on merit, not mandate.
IMHO, no conference should get more than one automatic bid with it going to the conference champion of the five highest-rated leagues. Period.
If the field expands to 16, then the next 11 spots go to at-large teams. Selected by a committee of college football experts And yes, I would like to be on the committee.
With this format, it is possible one conference could land a many as six or seven bids. No problem with that as long as they aren't awarded based simply on where you finish in a conference race.
To Day, I would ask does a 9-3 Big Ten team that lucked into an easy conference schedule and finished fourth automatically deserve a bid? I hope his answer would be no.
I've got different issues with the SEC, in particular its unwillingness to play nine-game conference schedules. I'm hoping the folks with the checks at ESPN can make an offer the SEC can't refuse. Money talks, thankfully.
All I'm looking for is the best possible CFP field to be assembled each year. Let the teams determine the winners in the games without the Big Ten and SEC getting more than they earn.
Continue reading...