CFP Complaints here!

[HIT BY SPIKES]

You can cut the hate of the Irish in this thread with an Argentinian chainsaw.

 

If style points count in college in terms of size of victories, should style points not also count in losses?

 

Many of you seem to conveniently forget that Notre Dame lost their first and second game of the season against the #10 and #16 ranked teams by a combined total of 4 damn points.

 

'Bama who yes played a much more difficult schedule lost 3 games and two of those losses were by 14 and 21 points and one of those losses was to an unranked team.

 

So you can shove your jealousness of the Irish and fake outrage that ND is somehow favoured due to their history and non-conference alliance.

 

 

[GunnerBill]

16 hours ago, May Day 10 said:

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.

 

In principle like your model, the problem is in reality there are not four top conferences. There are two. The SEC and the BigTen. Eventually they will swallow the others up. The BigTen will essentially become the North & Western Conference and the SEC will swallow up everything in the south east (most of the ACC in particular). But that is going to take some time and in the meantime I don't know what the answer is. 

 

 

[GASabresIUFan]

1 hour ago, GunnerBill said:

But that is going to take some time and in the meantime I don't know what the answer is. 

The answer is both simple and impossible.  There are about 120 FBS teams.  Divide them into 8 15 team geographic divisions.  The top 2 teams in each division play for a division championship and the 8 champs make the  playoffs.  Settle it on the field.  No committee, no rankings, no BS.

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 12:40 PM by GASabresIUFan

[GunnerBill]

30 minutes ago, GASabresIUFan said:

The answer is both simple and impossible.  There are about 120 FBS teams.  Divide them into 8 15 team geographic divisions.  The top 2 teams in each division play for a division championship and the 8 champs make the  playoffs.  Settle it on the field.  No committee, no rankings, no BS.

 

 

 

Yea agree, that would work. 

[May Day 10]

2 hours ago, GASabresIUFan said:

The answer is both simple and impossible.  There are about 120 FBS teams.  Divide them into 8 15 team geographic divisions.  The top 2 teams in each division play for a division championship and the 8 champs make the  playoffs.  Settle it on the field.  No committee, no rankings, no BS.

 

 

 

I think it is morphing/going to morph into something like that as I described above.  However, I think itll get cut-off around 90 teams.  The rest will be some sort of I-AA/FCS type existence.  

[Mike in Horseheads]

10 hours ago, GASabresIUFan said:

The answer is both simple and impossible.  There are about 120 FBS teams.  Divide them into 8 15 team geographic divisions.  The top 2 teams in each division play for a division championship and the 8 champs make the  playoffs.  Settle it on the field.  No committee, no rankings, no BS.

 

 

Great Idea

[SirAndrew]

14 hours ago, GASabresIUFan said:

The answer is both simple and impossible.  There are about 120 FBS teams.  Divide them into 8 15 team geographic divisions.  The top 2 teams in each division play for a division championship and the 8 champs make the  playoffs.  Settle it on the field.  No committee, no rankings, no BS.

 

 

This is a good idea, because it avoids the committee nonsense. I don’t think it would stop the controversy. You’d end up with weak geographically based divisions, and excellent teams would be left out. How do you form a northeast division for example? No one is worthy is certain regions. I think the SEC and Big Ten need to form a super league, and the rest can compete in a separate playoff format. 

[Bill from NYC]

On 12/8/2025 at 9:03 PM, Shortchaz said:

As a fan of nd, I’m griefed they didn’t make it but don’t think they’re the caliber of the top 5, Alabama is an awful entry imo.

This was obviously not a good year for Alabama. That said, their schedule was brutal, and they had to play in a usesless, meaningless conference championship game. They were the only team to beat Georgia and then were forced to play them again.

 

Otoh, Notre Dame played all of two good teams and lost to both of them. The  rest of their schedule consisted of largely hand picked patsies. They would be just another team in the SEC. If they want to be taken seriously they should join the Big Ten.

 

At some point, hopefully the SEC and Big Ten will quit the NCAA and form their own leagie.

[frostbitmic]

I used to enjoy college football, not so much anymore.

 

When you have teams from California in the Atlantic Coast Conference ... When you have most of the PAC10 in the Big 10 (which has about 20 teams) Another 20 in the Southeast Conference, it has become silly.

Transfer Portals ? seriously ? ... They're ruining the game imo.

 

I still watch the occasional game but not nearly as many as I used to watch, not invested in it at all, they've kind of lost me.

[SinceThe70s]

Any team complaining about not making the field of 12 doesn't have my sympathy.  Oh wait, maybe if we expand the field to 16 these issues will go away.

[Mikie2times]

On 12/9/2025 at 4:27 AM, GASabresIUFan said:

The answer is both simple and impossible.  There are about 120 FBS teams.  Divide them into 8 15 team geographic divisions.  The top 2 teams in each division play for a division championship and the 8 champs make the  playoffs.  Settle it on the field.  No committee, no rankings, no BS.

 

 

Good idea from a fan perspective, but the game itself enjoys it's conference rivalry and most of all money. Controversy leads to exposure. They want to try and make it fair, but within a max profit structure and if some controversy comes along with it so be it. 

[GASabresIUFan]

52 minutes ago, Mikie2times said:

Good idea from a fan perspective, but the game itself enjoys it's conference rivalry and most of all money. Controversy leads to exposure. They want to try and make it fair, but within a max profit structure and if some controversy comes along with it so be it. 

I looked it up and there 136 FBS teams.  Odds are that college football eventually moves to something like my idea, but with about 80 teams in 4 20 team conferences.  The ACC is already at 17, Big 12 16, Big 10 18 and the SEC has 16.  That's 67 teams already in the Big 4.  That leaves 13 spots for ND and 12 other schools. Based on revenue and a program valuation, Oregon St, Wash St, Boise St, SDSU, UNLV, Fresno St, Colorado St, Wyoming, S Florida, and UTSA are the next 10.  I'd then add JMU and Tulane as two up and coming schools to complete the 80.   JMU is 119-28 over the last 12 seasons and Tulane is 43-12 over the last 4.