College Football Playoff 24-25: The Dirty Dozen

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Mystic Merlin

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I don’t think they are putting Bama in over SMU. I think they sort of cornered themselves by ranking SMU 8th heading into the conference championships.
 

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I don’t think they are putting Bama in over SMU. I think they sort of cornered themselves by ranking SMU 8th heading into the conference championships.
I think this is right. The only way they can put Alabama in is to change their approach completely from last week.
 

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they’re really talking about Clemson over Az St or Boise? Now THAT would be criminal
 

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Oregon went 12-0 and won the Rose Bowl last night to finish 13-0. Season is over. Good luck to everyone next year.
 

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Every single sports league in America does this with division championships and preferred seeding. Besides, the conferences have all the power. The CFP will be dissolved before the conference championship games are.
Obviously not a fair argument. those leagues have 64+ team playoffs?
 

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Is this one of those things where they talk to correspondents for 52 minutes and then release the bracket just before 1PM?
 

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ESPN is just such assholes. They are the mountain top removal coal extraction of sports. I fucking despise their business. Hostage taking motherfuckers.
 

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ESPN is just such assholes. They are the mountain top removal coal extraction of sports. I fucking despise their business. Hostage taking motherfuckers. 4 hours to release a bracket, fuck them.
That's not what that quote says.
 

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Played in the conf title game!

It’s a joke, they don’t ever beat a big dog.
Well but for real, that’s the logic. Conference game loss doesn’t hurt you. Ohio state has better wins but an ugly loss, much like how Bama has better wins than SMU but an ugly loss. We’ll see if they maintain the same logic
 

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Requiring all the byes to be conference champions is a bad idea. Auto qualification for winning a conf title game, sure, whatever, but this is too much. ASU sticks out like a massive sore thumb.

Anyways, these games will be fun, which is ultimately what matters.
 

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Requiring all the byes to be conference champions is a bad idea. Auto qualification for winning a conf title game, sure, whatever, but this is too much. ASU sticks out like a massive sore thumb.

Anyways, these games will be fun, which is ultimately what matters.
They’re trying to disincentivize the conference consolidation. If Texas didn’t go to the SEC they’d be number 1 or 2.
 

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Requiring all the byes to be conference champions is a bad idea. Auto qualification for winning a conf title game, sure, whatever, but this is too much.
They all had to play games yesterday while everyone else rested. If we want to get serious, we can mix conference championship weekend with wild card bowl games. Tennessee and Ohio State could have played yesterday.
 

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They’re trying to disincentivize the conference consolidation. If Texas didn’t go to the SEC they’d be number 1 or 2.
Ah, I hadn’t thought about that.

It would seem Notre Dame being ineligible for an auto-berth or a top four seed is also in keeping with any conference politics/management considerations.
 

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The only way you see a significant change is if the SEC and B1G completely break away into a separate league where they don’t play anybody else.

I think that’s a long way off.
 

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Curious about how they will allocate tickets for the away teams in the playoffs. Will Indiana fans have an opportunity to fill half of the ND stadium?
 

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MOV in CGmatters I guess
you can’t tell me Arizona State is better than Clemson
ASU lost to TTech and Cincy
Has 2 maybe 3 impressive games all season
 

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Clemson @ Texas
That's about as good a draw as we could have gotten. Clemson in Austin then Arizona State if we win. The Oregon which at this point is probably psychologically better than Georgia if the seeds play out.

Better than it could have been, considering how yesterday went.
 

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didn’t see this in the thread so-


  1. Oregon
  2. Georgia
  3. Boise State
  4. Arizona State
  5. Texas
  6. Penn State
  7. Notre Dame
  8. Ohio State
  9. Tennessee @ OhioU; winner v Ducks
  10. Indiana @ ND; winner v GA
  11. SMU @ Penn; winner v Boise
  12. Clemson At Texas; winner v ASU
  13. poor bama geico bowl
    Pretty sure Paul Finebaum will be losing it tomorrow.
 
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Glad SMU made it. They lost two games by a combined 6 points. Alabama losing at Vanderbilt was the killer for them and glad it was held against them.
 

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12 teams was one too many. Neither SMU nor Bama (or Ole Miss) deserved a spot.

Pretty sure Penn State is happy the Committee picked SMU, which of course suggests they got it wrong. But that’s not the same as saying Bama or the SEC was wronged; they weren’t.
 

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12 teams was one too many. Neither SMU nor Bama (or Ole Miss) deserved a spot.

Pretty sure Penn State is happy the Committee picked SMU, which of course suggests they got it wrong. But that’s not the same as saying Bama or the SEC was wronged; they weren’t.
I agree with this completely. Four was clearly too few. I thought six or eight made the most sense but this is OK. But while I probably will whine hypocritically when my team ends up just missing the cut, nobody should actually be complaining about being ranked 13/14 instead of 11/12. You lost on the field, not in the committee.
 
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