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956 Worldwide last won the day on April 17
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I think that you can’t tie NIL to actual playing football which is just another example of how incredibly dumb this game has gotten.
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It was actually fine and better, it was awesome to win the Cotton Bowl back when there wasn’t a Kirk Herbstreit to tell you it didn’t really matter.
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This was a bone thrown to ND by SEC/Big Ten to get them to join in. Hot tip, anything making college football shittier is coming from a mix of the SEC, Big Ten, and ESPN. Its also meaningless, did you not just watch the selection? The committee will just drop whoever they want to 13 with no explanation.
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Putting Miami over ND is completely justifiable, I think ND is a more complete team that could have made a deep run but they are using their own criteria. No issues with that, although they need to stop doing this weekly. It’s stupid and they end up with indefensible individual movements that in the aggregate are OK. The seeding is really stupid when you have three one loss teams, Bama, and Miami that can easily be shuffled with no controversy. Switch A&M with Ole Miss or Ole Miss with Oregon and swap Bama and Miami (who can complain about that) and you have zero first round rematches.
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Duke did this, the rules say “five highest ranked conference champions.” By beating VA for the ACC with five losses, that meant two G5 leagues got a bid.
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Getting two regular season rematches in the first is some brain genius work, a mild and defensible reshuffle of 5-10 could have avoided that. They need to stop releasing these iteratively.
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Where are you getting that Miami is favored from that tweet?
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Flip A&M and Ole Miss.
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I asked ChatGPT to create this for me in keeping with the zeitgeist of making college football as shitty as possible. I’ve been thinking a lot about how we choose college football playoff teams, and honestly, we’re overdue for a smarter, fairer, more transparent system. Here’s my pitch: use AI to process end-of-season data and run massive simulations in which every team plays every other team thousands of times under varied conditions. Then select playoff teams based on the statistically strongest performers across those simulated matchups. Why is this better? 1. It removes human bias. Committee members—no matter how qualified—are still human. They carry regional preferences, conference assumptions, and subconscious leanings. With large-scale simulations, teams are evaluated solely on measurable performance. No human bias or controversy—just data. 2. It’s far more comprehensive than polls or committee debates. Right now, we use a small sample of actual games to infer who’s best. But football schedules are uneven, conferences vary dramatically, and season-long narratives often overshadow the numbers. Simulations allow us to explore every hypothetical matchup, not just the handful that happened in real life. 3. It gives us probabilistic truth, not guesswork. Instead of “eye tests” and résumé comparisons, we’d know how often a team would beat each of its contenders across thousands of scenarios. That makes playoff selection not only more accurate, but more defendable. 4. It makes strength of schedule and injuries more realistic. Simulations can weight for missing players, venue effects, weather, and late-season improvement. The result: a nuanced picture of a team’s true quality—something that the current system struggles to capture. 5. Transparency becomes a feature, not a problem. Publish the simulation model, publish the inputs, publish the results. Fans can argue about model parameters, sure—but at least the process is consistent and openly documented. We already use analytics and machine learning in recruiting, game planning, and sports betting. It’s time the playoff selection process caught up. Let the games be decided on the field—but let simulation-backed evidence decide who reaches that field. I know it’s unconventional, but so was expanding the playoff—and look how that turned out. Curious what others think: is it time to take the biggest decision in college football out of the committee room and into the data lab?
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Man, fuck these conferences for getting themselves into a totally predictable situation by expanding too big and then trying to fix it by further marginalizing the half the CFP universe. A playoff is better when it allows for a Cinderella moment. College football is more fun when the mid-majors have that shot at a magic moment. Having auto-bids for a conference champ is the standard in all the other sports. The NIT isn’t a good analogy. The Horizon League gets a bid and it’s the power league “not as good as the top” that gets shunted off to NIT. Thats why it’s cool. Fuck Bama, they’ve lost to 1/6 of the CFP field and FSU. I’d rather see the G5 get their crack.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
956 Worldwide replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Dropping Bama seems to solve a lot: - No forcing of ND/Miami question - Avoids 1st round rematches and first round intra-conference games The big problem is the “punishing for a CCG.” Bama made it easier by getting smoked.
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