2021 Miscellaneous College Football Thread

[madbad2000]

I fully agree that you shouldn't be able to play for a title if you don't win your own conference championship. Why not go with just conference champions? SEC, Big 10, ACC, PAC 12, Big 12, AAC, Mountain West, Sun Belt/Conference USA/MAC?

 

The main driver that I like about putting the playoff appearance on conference championships is that it opens up better non-conference matchups. As it is now, very few teams want to schedule ranked opponents early since one loss can submarine your chances. If all that matters to get to the playoff is to win your conference, non-conference losses don't matter.

[DuWayne Steurer]

The problem with the 4 team playoff (as it stands now) is we never get to see if a zero loss team like Cincinnati is the "best" team, because they effectively have no chance of getting in. I don't think they ARE the best team, but they aren't even being given a chance to prove it on the field, and that sucks.

[owbc]

I like the 4-team playoff as well. In my view the CFP isn't "real" college football, it's just a spectacle for making money like the rest of the bowl system. Bowl games are not "real" college football games, they are made-for-TV exhibition games played at neutral sites in nice weather. It's still fun, but nobody gets excited about NY6 games anymore and the Mayo bowl and others are basically a joke, at least for teams that began the season with playoff ambitions.

 

If they are going to do 8 teams, I want the first round played at campus stadiums. Otherwise the whole thing will just be another round of meaningless bowl games with the Big Ten team being the road team every time while the SEC teams treat the games as warm ups for the semifinals.

[wildcat83]

When the line came out with OSU at -20 I thought it was high for a top 10 matchup, then they cover in the first quarter and looks like it’ll be about 50 by halftime. Yikes

[OldHeidelberg]

When the line came out with OSU at -20 I thought it was high for a top 10 matchup, then they cover in the first quarter and looks like it’ll be about 50 by halftime. Yikes

 

Excellent. Will be that much sweeter when the Badgers tear their hearts out in Indy.

[stoutdude04]

When the line came out with OSU at -20 I thought it was high for a top 10 matchup, then they cover in the first quarter and looks like it’ll be about 50 by halftime. Yikes

 

I have watched some MSU this year...they have not impressed me. I'm gonna clean up today unless something wild happens.

[wildcat83]

When the line came out with OSU at -20 I thought it was high for a top 10 matchup, then they cover in the first quarter and looks like it’ll be about 50 by halftime. Yikes

 

I have watched some MSU this year...they have not impressed me. I'm gonna clean up today unless something wild happens.

 

A lot of pregame talk was the MSU weaknesses aligned directly with the strengths of OSU. It was pitched as a bad matchup, and proven to be the case.

[owbc]

Results like this show why the playoff is the same rotation of teams every year.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Results like this show why the playoff is the same rotation of teams every year.

 

Also should show why this year's Bama team has no business being in front of OSU or Oregon if those two programs with much better schedules don't lose another game....but thats not going to happen

[PinaMadness]

Can anyone explain to my why, after three quarters of football, ESPN only has OSU's win percentage at 99.8?

[owbc]

Results like this show why the playoff is the same rotation of teams every year.

 

Also should show why this year's Bama team has no business being in front of OSU or Oregon if those two programs with much better schedules don't lose another game....but thats not going to happen

 

We’ll see. This is the kind of result that gets the committee’s attention. Plus they can pad their resume again next week, although Michigan will probably put up more of a fight. A tough road game is the only way OSU ever loses a conference game.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Can anyone explain to my why, after three quarters of football, ESPN only has OSU's win percentage at 99.8?

 

They just haven't updated that percentage since the game started....probably went from 99.8 to 99.9 after they dropped a half dollar on Sparty in the 1st half.

[yourout]

Results like this show why the playoff is the same rotation of teams every year.

 

Also should show why this year's Bama team has no business being in front of OSU or Oregon if those two programs with much better schedules don't lose another game....but thats not going to happen

 

Oregon will be out of the equation after this one.

[yourout]

So if Nebraska beats Iowa is Bucky going to Indianapolis no matter what happens tomorrow?

[young guns]

Doesn't look like it. First tie breaker would be winning percentage between the 4 would be both wisconsin and Minnesota at 2-1 and Iowa and Purdue at 1-2 which would eliminate Iowa and Purdue and then it would go to head to head which Minnesota would then win.

 

If Purdue loses to Indiana knocking it to 3 teams, it would be 1-1 across the 3 so the next tie breaker is division winning percentage, which wisconsin would win with only 1 loss compared to 2 for Minnesota and 3 for Iowa.

[stoutdude04]

Wisconsin wins and is in(obviously). Wisconsin loses then needs Iowa AND Purdue to both lose.

[OldHeidelberg]

I don’t think I could take the Gophers beating us to get to Indy after last Sunday.

[yourout]

I don’t think I could take the Gophers beating us to get to Indy after last Sunday.

 

That probably would be the worst possible outcome.

Although it probably doesn't matter who goes to Indy from the West the buckeyes are probably going to curb stomp them.

[yourout]

You just know Nebraska is going to gag this one away.

[OldHeidelberg]

Of course losing to the Gophers, having Fleck and the rest of the team run around the field with the Axe only to look up at the jumbotron and see Indiana win on a last second field goal to send Bucky to Indy would be the all time greatest comedy. How did Indiana get so bad so fast again?

[adambr2]

Moot point as Iowa is going to pull it out.

[OldHeidelberg]

That was one of those plays where you kind of doubt it was possession before the toe came up but officials on the review generally rule it as a catch once it hits the hand, probably the easiest way to call it.

[yourout]

Iowa made hay on a pretty soft schedule.

 

Then again the B10 West as a whole is pretty bad.

[OldHeidelberg]

Iowa made hay on a pretty soft schedule.

 

Then again the B10 West as a whole is pretty bad.

 

YEs, I don't feel bad for them but Nebby football turning into Indiana is not good for the big West.

[owbc]

We’ll see how Michigan looks today but my hunch is that there isn’t much, if any, of a gap between Michigan/Michigan State/Penn State and Wisconsin/Iowa/Purdue.