CFP Complaints here!

[GASabresIUFan]

I don’t have any real complaints of who the CFP selected, except their lack of transparency regarding ND vs Bama vs Miami

 

I personally don’t think Bama or ND or Miami earned their playoff berths, but since only two slots were open because of the 5 conference champs rule, I thought Bama, with multiple CFP final ranking top 25 wins and Miami with their Head to Head win over ND “deserved” the slot over ND.  That said, the CFP ranking of ND ahead of Miami for weeks despite them both have the same record for a month was stupid.  
 

My biggest complaint was how was OSU ranked ahead of GA in the final poll? Both had the same record.  GA won their championship game and had more quality wins.  I’m also unsure how Oregon was ranked ahead of TexAM and Ole Miss.  Oregon’s best win was over USC.  The Aggies beat ND and Ole Miss Oklahoma.  I’d have ranked them Ole Miss 5, Texas AM 6 and Oregon 7.  
 

I also think the CFP ranked the teams a little bit for matchups.  Bama stayed 9 after getting killed by GA because the CFP wanted a Bama vs Okla rematch.  Go Sooners! 
 

Overall I think the CFP rankings are pretty straight forward.  If you are a Power 4 conference team and go undefeated or have only one loss, you’re in the playoffs.  If you have 2 losses, you are on the bubble. It’s really that simple. At that point head to head comes in and maybe other factors such as strength of schedule.  A third regular season loss is pretty much an eliminator.
 

Back to ND for a second.  They played two teams in the playoff and lost to them both.  BYU played one playoff team all season and got killed by them twice.  Vandy played two bubble teams, Bama and Texas and lost to both. Utah played one CFP team and one bubble team and lost to both.  
 

IMHO Texas is the hardest one of the bubble teams, except 3 losses should be an eliminator.  They beat CFP teams Oklahoma, Texas AM and bubble team Vandy, but lost to OSU, GA and a terrible Florida team.  If they had beat Florida they’d be the 8th seed.  
 

To me Bama is comparable to Texas.  They beat CFP team GA, and bubble Vandy, but got killed by GA when it counted, lost to Okla and lost to terrible FSU.  To me they also should have been eliminated from the playoffs, except they skate because only 2 of their losses were in the regular season and one was out of conference.  

Edited 2 hours ago by GASabresIUFan

[May Day 10]

I think Notre Dame should have to join a Conference or be ineligible.  They make things even more apples to oranges than they already are, and their fake rivalries are an advantage.  They game the schedule every year and it finally came back to bite them.

 

Seeding does annoy me though and I cant help but always suspect that they push certain match-ups or make easier roads for teams.

 

I believe that there should be hard slots for the teams.  Base it on a ranking, I would even go back to a quantified computer calculation.  Top 4 Conference winners get the first 4 spots, the next Conference winner gets an auto-bid, and the rest filled by the committee, but slotted based on the computer ranking.  This would put importance back into Conference championships.  It would also take a lot of the mystery out of it.  

 

And everything would be pretty fine right now, but Notre Dame's awful schedule has ruined everything.

[US Egg]

In the bizarro world of the CFP does sprinkling in a JMU, Tulane, Boise St., hurt sos?

[SCBills]

Notre Dame is on everyone’s last nerve. 
 

Somehow have a guaranteed spot next year if they’re ranked in the Top 12.  
 

Now today they’re crying about the ACC. 
 

So f’n leave!  Where are you going to go?   SEC/B1G don’t want you as a partial member.  

 

ACC should kick them out and all P4 conferences should boycott scheduling them. 
 

Have fun playing G5 schools and the service academy schools. 

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by SCBills

[GASabresIUFan]

8 minutes ago, US Egg said:

In the bizarro world of the CFP does sprinkling in a JMU, Tulane, Boise St., hurt sos?

Like all things there is politics.  It wouldn’t be politic to have 50% of all FBS teams to be ineligible for the Championship.  I honestly have no problem with JMU or Tulane in the playoff.  They were the best teams in their part of college football.  As IU fans, we realize how good JMU’s players have been in recent years.  (Cignetti brought many of his JMU players to Indiana).  
 

People are under the wrong impression that the goal of the CFP is to get the top 12 teams in college football.  It’s really the top 8 and plus 4 teams to expand opportunity.  
 

The only way to get a top 8 or 16 best on best tournament is to get ND in a conference and create a new top end end division of college football.  Essentially Division 1, Division 1A and Division 1B.

[May Day 10]

Just now, SCBills said:

Notre Dame is on everyone’s last nerve. 
 

Somehow have a guaranteed spot next year if they’re ranked in the Top 12.  
 

Now today they’re crying about the ACC. 
 

So f’n leave!  Where are you going to go?   SEC/B1G don’t want you as a partial member.  

 

ACC should kick them out and all P4 conferences should boycott scheduling them. 
 

Have fun playing G5 schools and the service acadamies. 

 

2026 schedule looks even worse than 2025 somehow.  

 

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