12-Team Playoff On the Way; 14-Team to Follow

Enhance said:
I realize it's a very niche scenario, but in 2011 or 2012, Ohio State was ineligible to win the conference and Wisconsin won the B1G championship game. They were barely bowl eligible that year. Imagine a team like that getting a first round bye... just gross. And again I realize that's a niche example, but it's not an impossible one.
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Yes, that year is an outlier.  OSU went 12-0 (8-0) and Penn St went 8-4 (6-2), but both were ineligible for post season play.  Next up was Wisconsin who went 7-5 (4-4).

And I am going to say that is impossible nowadays.  First, because the NCAA doesn't really do post season bans anymore (because you are penalizing the current players for something a they didn't do), they just hit the coaches with penalties.  Second, in the super conference era you are not going to have a 7-5 team sneak into a CCG (you would need 4 or 5 teams to be hit with post season penalties to get down that far in the pecking order).

 
hskrpwr13 said:
I thought most fans' complaint was about the lack of reseeding, not necessarily giving byes to the top4 conference champions.
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I think the biggest flaw is giving byes to the conf champions. I like that the top 5 ranked conference champions are automatic bids but they should not get byes.

 
MLB 51 said:
I wasn't happy that Texas got to play in Arlington. That's basically a home game for them.
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The SEC Conf Champ Game has been held in Georgia every year since 1994.  Georgia has played in that game 6 out of the last 7 years.   They've won 3 times.  Plus, the winner of those 7 SEC Conf Champ Games went to the CFB playoffs.  Practically a home game since 1994 and all they have to do is make it to the game.

And yet, nobody ever "at least talks about it" or brings it up.  

 
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admo said:
The SEC Conf Champ Game has been held in Georgia every year since 1994.  Georgia has played in that game 6 out of the last 7 years.   They've won 3 times.  Plus, the winner of those 7 SEC Conf Champ Games went to the CFB playoffs.  Practically a home game since 1994 and all they have to do is make it to the game.

And yet, nobody ever "at least talks about it" or brings it up.  
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Well, if Nebraska was or had ever been in the SEC, something might be said. But alas, they are not. And since all SEC fans are fans of each other, no matter who wins they all win.

 
ACC considering not having the #1 team in the conference play in the ACC Championship Game.  It would be #2 vs. #3 instead.   :blink:

 
admo said:
The SEC Conf Champ Game has been held in Georgia every year since 1994.  Georgia has played in that game 6 out of the last 7 years.   They've won 3 times.  Plus, the winner of those 7 SEC Conf Champ Games went to the CFB playoffs.  Practically a home game since 1994 and all they have to do is make it to the game.

And yet, nobody ever "at least talks about it" or brings it up.  
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Nebraska fans (including on this board) sure talked plenty about how the Big 12 championship game was always in Texas and not rotating with KC or something...

 
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