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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs

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  • RecoveringAlcoholic
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    It's not a playoff, it's a brand name invitational when teams with more losses are being campaigned for and included based on the brand name while excluding and campaigning against other schools with

  • are some of y’all trying to be “good fans” or “objective” or something when you say that it’s the florida loss that’s keeping us out? cuz y’all know that’s not true right? it’s only been repeated 10,0

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    Sarkisian went on the SEC morning show today and doubled down on both Texas deserving to be in the playoffs and reconsidering the OOC schedule going forward. He basically said, with the SEC going to 9

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59 minutes ago, BigHornedLurker said:

what if Kirby goes NFL style and just rests his first string, at some point someone will be the first to do it 

 


Each conference needs to evaluate their CCG and make it a conference play in game.

If that happens to be your championship game, great…. Looking at you G5.

But what about ACC? Do they have Virginia play Miami for their play in? Or do they rest Virginia as the champion and allow Miami to play Gtech or something to boost resume? Somewhat of a river boat gambling situation. Oh the intrigue! 
 

What I imagine a conference could do was give the highest finishing team in the conference the option play in the game. They can pass and then the option goes down the line. Another intrigue as what if a team that will assuredly make the playoffs chooses the extra game to improve their seed which fucks over someone who COULD have played for a chance?! More fuckery! More intrigue!

It would be pretty cool to get to whoop that smug ass Pavia again for an SEC play in game. If we adopted something like the play in game 
 

For P4 This week would likely be something like:

ACC: Virginia vs. Miami or Miami Vs Georgia Tech (Eh to very eh but better than Smart kids vs the rich smart kids bowl)

Big12: BYU vs Utah (Morman Massacre 2, electric boogaloo)

Big 10: Michigan vs. USC (rose bowl light)

SEC: Texas vs Vandy (Manning v. the fight in’ Stacy’s mom has got it going on)

 

Now that’s some fucking juice.

Edited by Dnaguy

28 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

If Bama wins and jumps up in the CFP and Aggy falls to the #8 seed, they could play #9 seed OU in Collie.

That would be interesting or at least ironic. I know the meteor rooting interest will be mentioned. 

Barring that do you just watch and not care who wins?

Id rather they play the worse match ups possible and both lose first round myself 

Tech vs A&M 

OU vs Georgia 

1 hour ago, mdmost said:

 

This makes the most sense if he means the next 2 seasons because we have both of those games at home. We also probably won't be contending in 2027 with a new QB. 

Everything after that should be canceled the minute the playoffs are announced and Texas isn't in it citing the committee choosing record over SOS when they had previously said otherwise. 

0u didn't have the money to go a year early

the tosu game had already been moved twice

we flipped the years for tosu so fox would get it this year

the michigan games were flipped so fox would it last year

this paid for 0u's early exit, iirc $50Mish

it was for 'this year and last year' but only for the michigan and tosu away games

disney blipvert sales people now get to feast on what will be the highest rated regular season games each of the next 2 years

I get how its fun for fans like me, but honestly how is this good for Texas ? 

maybe it makes sense to keep until the next media revenue deal, but its not like otherwise we get some ratings boost, the committee doesn't care , where's the incentive ? 

After playing Michigan on the road last year, couldn't we at least got to start the OSU series at home instead of at Columbus.

Might have made a difference.

I know it was for Fox and they have the Big 10 contract, but they could have gotten the game next season.

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2 minutes ago, BigHornedLurker said:

I get how its fun for fans like me, but honestly how is this good for Texas ? 

maybe it makes sense to keep until the next media revenue deal, but its not like otherwise we get some ratings boost, the committee doesn't care , where's the incentive ? 

the incentive is this: if we cancel sankey has a huge fucking hole to fill for disney ad revenue

26 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

I completely forgot but can one of the realignment nerds refresh my memory that those Ohio state and Michigan games were part of the big 12 buyout? Or was that only for this year and last year?

Just the away games that Fox covers (so this year and last).

1 minute ago, NBHorn7 said:

After playing Michigan on the road last year, couldn't we at least got to start the OSU series at home instead of at Columbus.

Might have made a difference.

then disney would have owned this year's game, not fox, who had to be bribed as part of the rig12 faction blocking our early exits

9 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

the incentive is this: if we cancel sankey has a huge fucking hole to fill for disney ad revenue

So for instance in 27 just move the Bama or UGA game up to week 2 and park the directional school in November, SEC style.  Give them a huge game up front and a guaranteed W late.  Problem solved.

It's not us that needs to change.

Playoff selection needs to change, and everyone else needs to change.  There's no reason to race to the bottom.  No one wants this.

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4 hours ago, The Dog said:

 

Herpstrasse and ESPN are merely generating cover for a back-stabbing . Not buying these comments as legitimate.

and what other team has shown any evidence it can with the schedule they have played ? georgia maybe , no one else has shown they could hang with multiple top 15 teams 

To be fair, Georgia was a red fucker away from losing to Florida too.

Move the playoffs to 16 teams so we don’t have totally shit non conference games to watch.  Every big team will start doing this, especially with a 9 conference games schedule.  

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3 minutes ago, JBJ said:

It's not us that needs to change.

Playoff selection needs to change, and everyone else needs to change.  There's no reason to race to the bottom.  No one wants this.

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How about a system that eliminates selection.

 

I mean, let's be honest.  SEC teams scheduling anything other than the most embarrassing of cream puffs in non-con is relatively new.  The mouse will survive if things revert to the mean.  That guy who created the fake school for Alabama to pad their schedule has to still be floating around somewhere. 

3 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

How about a system that eliminates selection.

We are moving inevitably toward a system where all the B1G and SEC teams with 7 conference wins will be in, and remaining seats will be invitational after that.  Which is fine with me honestly. It would have been the top 7 SEC teams with the top 5 B1Gs this year which would be a badass tourney and rating extravaganza.

Edited by JBJ

6 minutes ago, El Squared said:

Herpstrasse and ESPN are merely generating cover for a back-stabbing . Not buying these comments as legitimate.

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2 hours ago, mdmost said:

 

Since message boards are generally not reality- based, I suggest the interesting timing of Sark’s “clarification” implies : ( why now?)

- TV pimps pressure on Texas to make sure OSU, Michigan happen as ordained 

-the cabal told the committee there will be a favorable ranking Sunday for Texas (since there are no real rules) —-on condition the TV Pimps are not upset. 

1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

How about a system that eliminates selection.

 

I'm all for that, though I don't know how you can truly turn college football into an actual sport when it's been a glorified beauty pageant for most of its existence.  And the more college football looks like a minor league NFL league, the lower the ratings will get (and they've already been sinking for a while).

1 minute ago, Samson's Wig said:

I'm all for that, though I don't know how you can truly turn college football into an actual sport when it's been a glorified beauty pageant for most of its existence.  And the more college football looks like a minor league NFL league, the lower the ratings will get (and they've already been sinking for a while).

Haven't all live sporting events' ratings been sinking due to the many streaming options now available?

6 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

I'm all for that, though I don't know how you can truly turn college football into an actual sport when it's been a glorified beauty pageant for most of its existence.  And the more college football looks like a minor league NFL league, the lower the ratings will get (and they've already been sinking for a while).

If it's going to selection based, then expand the field to 24 teams like FCS. 

28 minutes ago, El Squared said:

Since message boards are generally not reality- based, I suggest the interesting timing of Sark’s “clarification” implies : ( why now?)

- TV pimps pressure on Texas to make sure OSU, Michigan happen as ordained 

-the cabal told the committee there will be a favorable ranking Sunday for Texas (since there are no real rules) —-on condition the TV Pimps are not upset. 

My thinking was he needed to clarify for croots before early signing day

1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

This makes the most sense if he means the next 2 seasons because we have both of those games at home. We also probably won't be contending in 2027 with a new QB. 

Everything after that should be canceled the minute the playoffs are announced and Texas isn't in it citing the committee choosing record over SOS when they had previously said otherwise. 

Especially Notre fucking Dame the singular team who has found a way to benefit in the BCS era, the 4 team era, the 12 team era, for jack shit other than being Notre Dame. 

 

Everything that haters hate about us being Texas is actually what Notre Dame has gotten away with for 25+ fucking years. 

1 hour ago, DFW Horn said:

Haven't all live sporting events' ratings been sinking due to the many streaming options now available?

Live sporting events are the most valuable "TV" inventory left since (i) the most popular 'shows' are now on various streaming services and (ii) anything else can be recorded to skip ads.  People still want to watch sports live.   This is the backdrop for the Disney/YTTV negotiations (and Fox before that) with contracts always expiring during football season.  Broadcast rights for live sports keep going up and thus prices sold to streamers etc. keep going up.

Notre Dame could be in big trouble; Miami is just looming so close and could get closer in the CFP poll.

Don't know how they can keep Miami below them if they are side by side in that poll, with the Miami win head-to-head.

2 hours ago, Dnaguy said:


Each conference needs to evaluate their CCG and make it a conference play in game.

If that happens to be your championship game, great…. Looking at you G5.

But what about ACC? Do they have Virginia play Miami for their play in? Or do they rest Virginia as the champion and allow Miami to play Gtech or something to boost resume? Somewhat of a river boat gambling situation. Oh the intrigue! 
 

What I imagine a conference could do was give the highest finishing team in the conference the option play in the game. They can pass and then the option goes down the line. Another intrigue as what if a team that will assuredly make the playoffs chooses the extra game to improve their seed which fucks over someone who COULD have played for a chance?! More fuckery! More intrigue!

It would be pretty cool to get to whoop that smug ass Pavia again for an SEC play in game. If we adopted something like the play in game 
 

For P4 This week would likely be something like:

ACC: Virginia vs. Miami or Miami Vs Georgia Tech (Eh to very eh but better than Smart kids vs the rich smart kids bowl)

Big12: BYU vs Utah (Morman Massacre 2, electric boogaloo)

Big 10: Michigan vs. USC (rose bowl light)

SEC: Texas vs Vandy (Manning v. the fight in’ Stacy’s mom has got it going on)

 

Now that’s some fucking juice.

One of the arguments for the guaranteed 4 slots for the B10 and SEC in the CFP was that the top 2 teams would be in the playoff automatically and on what used to be CCG weekend they’d have a day/night twin bill between 3/6 and 4/5 to decide the other two slots…

10 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

Notre Dame could be in big trouble; Miami is just looming so close and could get closer in the CFP poll.

Don't know how they can keep Miami below them if they are side by side in that poll, with the Miami win head-to-head.

Why they would rank them behind ND just to jump them after neither play this weekend would be a mystery 

17 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Why they would rank them behind ND just to jump them after neither play this weekend would be a mystery 

Because the committee just uses their magic 8 ball after they finish polishing off an 8 ball 

Champions league style qualification (kind of). The strength of your conference from the previous year determines how many bids you get for the following year. The smaller conferences are fighting for 1 bid. All other small conferences that didn't win the 1 bid? Win more this year, try again next year. 

Conference tie breaker rules determine the top teams that win the bids. 

No CCG. 

Fuck ND. Join someone.

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1 minute ago, dieucla98 said:

Champions league style qualification (kind of). The strength of your conference from the previous year determines how many bids you get for the following year. The smaller conferences are fighting for 1 bid. All other small conferences that didn't win the 1 bid? Win more this year, try again next year. 

Conference tie breaker rules determine the top teams that win the bids. 

No CCG. 

Fuck ND. Join someone.

Expand to 16 teams, Notre Dame and all the non-power conferences fight for two spots. The two power conferences get 7 spots each. 
 

Simple. If you want a better chance to get in the playoff, join a real conference or go undefeated. 

23 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Why they would rank them behind ND just to jump them after neither play this weekend would be a mystery 

If BYU loses to Tech, Miami goes to the #11 seed from 12, with Notre Dame at #10.

2 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

If BYU loses to Tech, Miami goes to the #11 seed from 12, with Notre Dame at #10.

They will re-evaluate strength of schedule after championship games and put Notre Dame and Miami behind us where they belong. 
 

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1 hour ago, BurgleBro said:

Everything that haters hate about us being Texas is actually what Notre Dame has gotten away with for 25+ 100+ fucking years. 

fixed .

5 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

If BYU loses to Tech, Miami goes to the #11 seed from 12, with Notre Dame at #10.

I get that. Them then jumping Miami over ND for h2h because now they are next to eachother when they could have just done it this week would be fucking regarded.

Leaving them side by side would be worse when Miami has the head-to-head win.

1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

How about a system that eliminates selection.

 

The real problem is that we live in a biological system that has programmed us to compete against each other in factions, rather than work together on the same team

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2 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

I get that. Them then jumping Miami over ND for h2h because now they are next to eachother when they could have just done it this week would be fucking regarded.

What else is new?

4 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

Leaving them side by side would be worse when Miami has the head-to-head win.

The logic is ridiculous. If they value the head to head then jump them yesterday not a week later because now one team is out of the way and they touch each other on a graphic. 

2 hours ago, David Dennison said:

How about a system that eliminates selection.

 

Without schedule parity that’s pretty hard. Bids based on conference standings makes a ton of sense until you look at schedule parity.

SEC won’t agree to 2 auto bids for ACC and Big 12 and those shit conferences won’t agree to 4+ autos for SEC.

the real problem is you probably have to go 16 deep before the Big 12 has a legit argument for 2 and in that case the SEC is at 6.

schedule parity is how the NFL gets to auto bids across the board. Humans schedule the season and the results schedule the post season. 

CFB is so far away from schedule parity it’s impossible to have a legit post season selection. 

Edited by scramblyn

1 hour ago, Zeus said:

 

I don’t think this is getting enough love

The matchups can all be debated.

But the concept of “why do all the top seeds have to play an extra game?” asks a question that makes a ton of sense

2 hours ago, El Squared said:

Since message boards are generally not reality- based, I suggest the interesting timing of Sark’s “clarification” implies : ( why now?)

- TV pimps pressure on Texas to make sure OSU, Michigan happen as ordained 

-the cabal told the committee there will be a favorable ranking Sunday for Texas (since there are no real rules) —-on condition the TV Pimps are not upset. 

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2 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

Move the playoffs to 16 teams so we don’t have totally shit non conference games to watch.  Every big team will start doing this, especially with a 9 conference games schedule.  

Watching Texas lose in a marquee game is less appealing to me than beating up on San Jose State or Rice. I don't mind the early season cupcakes if it gets us ready for the conference gauntlet without major injuries.

2 hours ago, BurgleBro said:

Everything that haters hate about us being Texas is actually what Notre Dame has gotten away with for 25+ fucking years. 

Texas to Notre Dame

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3 hours ago, JBJ said:

It's not us that needs to change.

Playoff selection needs to change, and everyone else needs to change.  There's no reason to race to the bottom.  No one wants this.

LOLz that's what Texas does.  3 different conferences in 29 years, only to trip on your own dicks by bigtiming the schedule( not the SEC way, BTW)

 

How does UT get some rules in there for them?  The gotta choose a perfectly matched set of rules...
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2 hours ago, BurgleBro said:

Everything that haters hate about us being Texas is actually what Notre Dame has gotten away with for 25+ fucking years. 

Nah.  Notre Dame doesn't even claim to be benevolent.

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