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  1. An expanded field of 12 is already a charity case except for programs that don’t need it, it’s going to be stocked with teams that don’t really have a chance. Last year only two games in the CFP were wins by less than double digits. We also got two games in the playoffs by fewer than double digits in both 2023 and 2024, out of only 3 games. The idea that the CFP is going to deliver great football games is untested at best.
  2. It is New Year’s Day 1991. Your eyes are blurry as you come to in your buddy’s S-10 in the parking lot of the Cotton Bowl. ”Hey man, you kind of overdid with the beers in there, I know the game sucked. What the hell were you talking about? ‘Private equity’ buying the Big 10? ‘Venmoing’ a ‘collective’ to get a seventh year senior DT from Middle Tennessee in a ‘portal’? Just recline the seat and chill out.” The future must not come to pass. The SWC must be saved.
  3. Super cool to see something that belongs to taxpayers (the Ute brand) get sold to PE and it’s somehow mitigating that if it all goes sideways a taxpayer owned institution has the right to buy it back.
  4. It was also really fucking boring to watch Alabama get meticulously dismantled by UGA and BYU look like dogshit on toast against Tech for the second time. And yet one of them got in and the other would be under these rules. If anything the lower half of the at-large bracket is equally capable of looking inept against the real class of CFB. JMU’s run is creating new college football fans for life and that’s more than a worthy trade off for yet another P4 second-tier team that is only a bit less of a charity case sitting out one year. The rules and selection committee get tweaked every year even more in favor of the helmet schools after some program with stacks of hardware and lauded recruiting classes and all the resources like ND or Bama or FSU melts down, and it’s beyond unseemly. The deck is already stacked one way, and it ain’t for the G5 programs.
  5. A detente with the ACC is most likely, the ACC is a tenuous conference that needs ND quite a bit. As noted today— most ACC games are well under capacity but 90 percent of games with ND are sold out. The highest watched ACC tilt was an OOC game with ND. GameDay only came to the ACC for an ND matchup. And this year the ACC needed that win over ND to even get a team in the playoff. Very well could have been Vandy or Texas if Miami didn’t have the signature non-conference win. And the media rights of an ACC with this agreement are worth quite a bit more with ND than without. Likely the message has landed that in future years the league can toot its own horn but has to be careful of the framing.
  6. The G5 is not the enemy and kicking them out to make way for the sixth place SEC team that doesn’t need the cash infusion to stay afloat is short sighted and makes college football worse, not better .
  7. You’ll be able to link your CC to place a prop on whether you have to crack the seal before midway through the seconds quarter. Diamond Piss Partners enjoy line cutting privileges and priority access when the other team’s band is playing.
  8. Or the bean counters come with a proposal to move the CFB season to the spring.
  9. They will install pay toilets or some shit at the stadium. The fan experience is about to plummet. Hope Utes enjoy another DraftKings FIRST DOWN!
  10. LOL it’s so over for this sport. Great job all around.
  11. Love is the best player but Mendoza will win. Rodriguez reminds me of another Tech linebacker who just made plays and won all the awards and was undervalued by the NFL.
  12. The Notre Dame AD is unseemly and has pretty single-handedly turned me from a mostly ND fan to a mostly fed up with them observer. You have a point but any playoff is going to have to sort the unsortable and someone gets left out. It happens, buck the hell up man. In lots of European countries there is a “pre-election silence” when no polls are released and campaigning stops. I’d like to see that for this. No CFP polls after week 10 and no school officials lobbying in the media. Just shut up for a bit.
  13. I messed that up real bad, mixed up UofA and ASU locations.
  14. I am secure enough to enjoy a decent musical for what it is even if it isn’t the flick I’d choose first. That is where this fails, a musical isn’t doing it right if I exit the theatre and am not humming one of the numbers. Music was forgettable and boring.
  15. And look at Miami: they are in the playoffs BECAUSE of playing ND, if they had played Stanford then they’re at home and Texas, Vandy, or BYU is in. All it will take is one less than blueblood sneaking in cause they scheduled boldly and the pendulum will go back.
  16. ND has significant leverage with the ACC. ND-Miami was the highest rated game involving any ACC team and I’m pretty sure if all, but not most ACC teams that played them saw their highest or second highest ratings of the year for that game. And a lot of those schools will want to play them anyway. That’s BCs only shot at a sellout. GameDay is never at Pitt without the Domers. The top tier of the SEC and Big Ten can tell them to fuck off but the Rutgers and Cincis and Kansas’ of the world are gonna take that call. And eventually this whole mania not to schedule good OOC teams will die down and good programs will realize you can’t just put a dollar sign on having the spotlight on you all spring and summer as you get ready for a great OOC tilt. Being the first GameDay of the season. Someone will get bold and schedule a good series, ans maybe get rewarded with a CFP berth and things will swing the other way. Media partners will start griping too if it becomes a pattern of the most valuable properties ducking each other on purpose, it’d be like the Yanks and Mets pulling down the Subway Series and expecting no one to react. A single-program cancellation won’t move the needle, but no one in the SEC or the Big Ten FO wants to be renegotiating the rights and get shown shitty, declining ratings for the first 2-3 weeks of the season.
  17. We don’t need AI for that, the math and formulas have always been there. The real issue is that sports guy talking heads, conference reps, and fans will not like doing it that way and will melt down when the math doesn’t work their way.
  18. I think that byes need to remain in the format, and that’s as someone who wants to leave a G5 team in. That’s the FCS and DII standard. I don’t need a PO to tell me IU beats Duke. True last thing anyone needs is an OT falling on Mendoza’s ankle and ending their run early in a game against Duke or JMU. The process needs to be put on hold a bit with the exception of the weekly release. Let things work for a while. These massive demands for overcorrection are emotional and pointless. In five years, after IU, OSU, or UGA hoists the hardware, everyone will see how silly it would be to change everything just so a few multiple loss teams could get an extra game and a “CFP Participant” ribbon.
  19. The blind bit is a good tweak, too. You can hand them blind resumes with a star for the conference champs and say they have to include five of them for the final pool.
  20. I’d do a week nine and a final reveal. But your solution is fine.
  21. There is a three loss team in this year and was last year too. If the field goes to 24 I GUARANTEE there will be the best 8-4 SEC team bitching about getting bumped. The worst part about the playoffs is teams with multiple losses, sometimes to the same opponent, huffing like they’re 2003 USC or 2004 Auburn getting left out of the NC shot. We have actually solved that problem.
  22. Yeah, if we aren’t doing the weekly check-ins there is some grumbling but not full-bore meltdowns. The final pool is justifiable and defensible— but the committee had to make some WTF individual movements week to week to get here.
  23. Tucson is like over a hundred miles from Phoenix man. Granted its got heat, but its a real different vibe than Phoenix as a big college city.
  24. He was only ever a WR coach and he struck out to get his own HC job in 2010, when Saban was still just a great coach and not the GOAT. He wasn’t one of Saban’s anointed assistants, just a journeyman assistant who had done some good work there and at NCST.
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