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Topic: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large

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bayareabadger

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Re: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large
« Reply #28 on: June 09, 2021, 12:22:55 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on June 09, 2021, 12:06:54 PM
They might end up at six, which would be "OK" with me, to the extent that is relevant.

I know some of the UGA teams ranked 5-8 simply were not all that good, no chance to beat a real team aside from a TO fiasco event.
Out of curiosity, which UGA teams in particular?

I only ask because the spots right outside the big ones tend to be weird moving targets.
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Re: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large
« Reply #29 on: June 09, 2021, 12:29:30 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on June 09, 2021, 11:58:14 AM
I’ll say this, the taking it back to two isn’t all that appealing to me. The long stretch of counting off losses and such holds no romance for me.

if you could get people to stop caring about winning overall large trophies, the original system would probably suffice. But people everywhere can’t seem to quit the national dialogue.
the 2-team one game at the end of the season for the large crystal football had it's issues for sure, but I'd rather have those issues than a 12-team
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Re: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large
« Reply #30 on: June 09, 2021, 12:34:50 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on June 09, 2021, 12:06:54 PM
They might end up at six, which would be "OK" with me, to the extent that is relevant.

I know some of the UGA teams ranked 5-8 simply were not all that good, no chance to beat a real team aside from a TO fiasco event.

Anything with byes is unacceptable to me. Powers of two only, please and thank you.
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Re: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large
« Reply #31 on: June 09, 2021, 12:40:44 PM »
yup, if yer gonna have byes, just limit it to those few that have "earned" them
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Re: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large
« Reply #32 on: June 09, 2021, 01:11:57 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on June 09, 2021, 09:41:57 AM
2 at-large would be better, with an 8-team playoff
I agree.

I would even rather go to 12, with 10 auto-bids.  Just to have a reason to care about mid-major conference races.  Then those 4 other Go5 champs get slaughtered in a true road game that first week.  And if once every few years a 9-12 beats the worst P5 champ, or a Big XII runner-up, before losing in the quarterfinals anyway, does that really matter?

I do think to get to this the current conference structure needs to be drastically changed.  You can't have a team sneak into a CCG after an 8-4 (5-3) type season, based on tiebreakers to win a 3 way tie, and then pull one upset.

That will never happen, but what if you got rid of divisions, then saved the final week for 1 vs. 2, 3 vs. 4, etc...  Don't even call it a conference championship.  Just call it the final regular season game.  If the #1 team is somehow 2 games clear of the field, cool for them.  But it will generally be a de facto championship game.  Granted if those teams already played, and the reverse team won the second time, then you clear H2H tiebreaker, and that could lead to it not being a conference championship.

But either way, if you are going to guarantee that the top two teams play, I'm ok letting that winner in no matter what.
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Re: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large
« Reply #33 on: June 09, 2021, 01:28:18 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on June 09, 2021, 12:22:55 PM
Out of curiosity, which UGA teams in particular?

I only ask because the spots right outside the big ones tend to be weird moving targets.
The 2019 team comes to mind.  They struggled to score on just about anybody with a pulse.  The 2018 team was better, did compete with Alabama, lost to Texas. 2020 was a weird year of course, but again, they struggled to score and keep up with elite teams.

2017 was the only time I thought the were a complete team, and they could well have won it all.


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Re: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large
« Reply #34 on: June 09, 2021, 01:29:06 PM »
Needs to be 8 teams

5 from P5

3 at large
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Re: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large
« Reply #35 on: June 09, 2021, 02:40:07 PM »
The byes should add some juice to the regular season. Everyone will be fighting over those top four spots. Particularly if they get a home game.
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Re: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large
« Reply #36 on: June 09, 2021, 04:34:33 PM »
I bet in a couple weeks someone writes an article about how this was not real, beyond some discussion by a few folks on the side, not serious.

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Re: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large
« Reply #37 on: June 09, 2021, 04:50:58 PM »
kinda like the Huskers thinking about dropping the Sooner game this Sept

fake news
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Re: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large
« Reply #38 on: June 09, 2021, 04:56:00 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on June 09, 2021, 04:34:33 PM
I bet in a couple weeks someone writes an article about how this was not real, beyond some discussion by a few folks on the side, not serious.


While there are cases where anonymous witnesses, particularly with substantiating evidence, are valuable.  Just saying "sources say" with zero accountability has jumped the shark years ago
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Re: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large
« Reply #39 on: June 09, 2021, 04:58:01 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on June 09, 2021, 08:27:09 AM

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Re: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large
« Reply #40 on: June 09, 2021, 05:00:56 PM »
Quote from: ELA on June 09, 2021, 04:56:00 PM
While there are cases where anonymous witnesses, particularly with substantiating evidence, are valuable.  Just saying "sources say" with zero accountability has jumped the shark years ago
People are now getting their news from twitter and it's far, far worse than that.  Zero accountability would be a step up for twitter.
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Re: SI Says 12 Team Playoff Likely w/ 6 At-Large
« Reply #41 on: June 09, 2021, 05:05:50 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on June 09, 2021, 11:20:08 AM
leak to test the waters of public opinion and see what way the wind is blowing

probably much ado about nuttin
Should have asked the players that will be bolting rather than risk injury because of an extended season.And how deep do they think the fans pockets are to travel to these games?
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