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  1. I’d do a week nine and a final reveal. But your solution is fine.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Franklin continues to kill it, hiring VT’s former HC to be DC again. Really amazing stuff and IMO speaks to the coach and the institution that Pry wants to stay around. VT closed out with at top 25 class, btw.
  7. lol letting retired football coaches and writers do the selection is a terrible idea. Hot take: a bunch of nerds who don’t watch football. Give them the principles and the advanced metrics they are allowed to consider and then have them do a 1/done selection meeting. Far better than letting Mack and RC Slocum pick.
  8. Those playoffs work well because the NCAA regulates them and does enforce a bit of equity to keep the divisions afloat. In FCS, every conference with six or more gets an auto-bid (11) and the remaining 13 are at large. Ironically it is the money that makes it possible, the stakes aren’t as high for getting left out and the fans aren’t as insane. They also play fewer OOC games and have real conference champions. College football boards and talking heads would melt down with a similar format for FBS even though it would really be the way to do a PO that was best for the sport. There is a loud, ESPN driven contingent that strongly believes the game will be better when about 40 teams play in two leagues with players as perpetual free agents. Maybe so, but I will contend that it’s not a sport I recognize as college football.
  9. Took my girls, they liked it and I thought it was poop from a butt. One distracting thing is that the love interest for both the witches is clearly super gay and plays the role that way. To the point I was expecting it to be a plot point for him to end up with a guy. Obviously plenty of leading men in Hollywood have been gay and played straight heartthrobs successfully but it’s just super distracting in this movie because he very clearly does not like women.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Where are you getting that Miami is favored from that tweet?
  17. Flip A&M and Ole Miss.
  18. 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?
  19. 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.
  20. 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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