The CFP is just a pathetic format

OK, hopefully this year, it won't matter and CU will stay in the top 4. I get that. I do get that.

But, if everyone wins out (some won't, but some will) Baylor, Okie State and Iowa won't get in, and that's just wrong for their players, coaches, and fans. All you can ask a team to do is win. The players don't formulate the conference nor the schedule. CFP just has to go to 8 teams or this is just going to be painful, and more painful, each year.

What makes matters worse, is that a 0 or 1 loss Notre Dame is just about always going to be a lock. That's just the politics of CFB, and Alabama has nearly the same guarantee. Today's top four proves my point. It's all about money, and Bama, ND and Ohio State are just huge money programs.

Honestly, I don't think it is an absolute lock that CU stays in. Our SoS really hurts from here on out. IMHO - Bama, Ohio St and Notre Dame are locks (assuming they win out).... so there's going to be real pressure on the committee to put Baylor in if they win out. Waco will burn itself to the ground if they get left out 2 years running. The system is flawed. 8 teams.

In '83, Miami jumped 4 spots from nowhere to win the NC on the day of their bowl. There's no chance for cinderella magic anymore. That's bad for CFB.

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Re: The CFP is just a pathetic format

Nov 10, 2015, 8:15 PM

If Iowa wins out, they're in. It's a "meh" selection but they'll have to do it by beating Ohio State, which would knock the Buckeyes out.

The Big 12 hosed themselves. They schedule cupcakes every year - their OOC schedules are an embarassment - and to top it all off, they don't just not have a Championship Game, they also keep playing while other conferences are playing their championship games, which gives their teams an extra bye week. Oh, and the conference with the motto of "One True Champion" then tried to get greedy and declared co-champions last year in an effort to get both TCU and Baylor in...and ended up getting in neither.

To add to the fun, their refs are bent. That Oklahoma State/Texas matchup this year - which Texas assuredly should have won, and by 20 - was absolute highway robbery, a fixed match, a shining example of a conference protecting their unbeaten team at the expense of a team that had no chance of making the playoffs. The refs were actually inventing phantom calls, as was shown on SBNation...film doesn't lie. The Committee saw it, clearly; they are not treating Oklahoma State like an unbeaten team...which in reality, they are not, whatever their record says officially.

It's hard to feel sorry for the Big 12. Basically they allowed Texas to run roughshod over the conference at the expense of conference harmony, which led A&M, Nebraska, Missouri, and Colorado to all bolt...losses they have not been able to make up. They grabbed TCU and West Virginia - West Virginia! - to make up for those losses and tried to roll with just 10 teams and a round-robin format. The real irony was that Texas, their flagship and Golden favorite...then proceeded to tank and is now terrible, and even Oklahoma hasn't been that impressive the last 3-4 years.

Even with that TCU/Oklahoma State game last week, none of the "unbeaten" Big 12 teams have a true strength of schedule of stronger than 75 per S&P+. The bottom line is that these Big 12 teams are just not that good. Their most-impressive OOC win thus far...Oklahoma beat 5-4 Tennessee at Rocky Top, which required a miracle 4th-quarter comeback and some serious boneheaded game-management from Butch Jones to accomplish. We saw ourselves how terrible Big 12 defenses were last year...when Oklahoma made Cole Stoudt look like a Heismann Candidate in his last outing as a Tiger.

They could have goosed up their schedules...instead they went "All In" for schedule-fixing, front-loading their schedules with even more cream puffs in the hopes of getting an unbeaten through in what amounts to 4-game back-loaded schedules at the end for their contenders...none of whom, in all honesty, look remotely like Top-15 programs if you analyze their talent on a position-by-position basis.

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Re: The CFP is just a pathetic format

Keep an eye on Baylor

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First off , do you know what you're saying ?

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Baylor, Okie State, and Iowa are all going to lose at least

i see your point but we are a lock if we win out.

At this point ,

watch Baylor

If Baylor won out,

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TCU went to Minnesota and OU went to Tennessee

Tell 'em coot!***

don't worry. Everybody has 3-4 games left. Maybe 1-2 will

let's see, Bay plays Okie St, OSU plays Iowa, not sure I get

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