[thepostman]

aka participation trophy...

Fox New would hate you

[TallyW]

Can we imagine giving a .500 softball team a trip to Florida for a week? It's a ridiculous double standard. How about the bowl game for the women's soccer team? "Congratulations, you were mediocre! Let's go to Disney World!"

[BJWilliams]

You have .500 and under teams in the postseason on the regular on other sports, the thing is those teams earned their way in through conference championships. Football is the only sport where you can be in the postseason simply by...being mediocre

[BlueBlood]

I vote 8. Every conference champ plus 3 at-large (with preference for one spot given to highest IND or G5, but not guaranteed). 8 lets you keep the bowl games mostly intact. I say this while wearing both my old Penn State hat and my new Liberty hat (daughter is going next year).

[ballcoach15]

If go to 8, I say pick best 8 teams, regardless of conference.

Here is something some may not know:

Oklahoma made it in as 4 seed. On the selection committee were Okalhoma Athletic Director, an Oklahoma assistant coaches father, and the President of College Football Playoff has a degree from Oklahoma . Georgia should have been 4 seed.

[Purple Haize]

Why?

[thepostman]

Because!

[flamehunter]

They are SEC. Duh!

[TallyW]

They'd never run that Alabama/Georgia game back that quickly. OU works.

I still want more teams. At least 8.
See: March Madness & every other NCAA division.

[Purple Haize]

Because!

I’m still trying to figure out how being ranked 11 moakes you one of the 8 best teams

[ballcoach15]

Actually Georgia should have gotten in as 3 seed, and bumped ND to 4. Alabama, Clemson and ND were in, leaving a 4th team to be selected, which should have been Georgia, not the Okies.

[Purple Haize]

Actually Georgia should have gotten in as 3 seed, and bumped ND to 4. Alabama, Clemson and ND were in, leaving a 4th team to be selected, which should have been Georgia, not the Okies.

Why?

[adam42381]

If go to 8, I say pick best 8 teams, regardless of conference.

Here is something some may not know:

Oklahoma made it in as 4 seed. On the selection committee were Okalhoma Athletic Director, an Oklahoma assistant coaches father, and the President of College Football Playoff has a degree from Oklahoma . Georgia should have been 4 seed.

And how many of those guys recused themselves from the selection process?

[alabama24]

See: March Madness

March Madness stinks. This isn't something where everyone gets a participation trophy. It's football!

(As for March Madness, I know I am in the minority. It is an awful system though. There should be MANY fewer teams and play multiple games against opponents. In College Basketball there is absolutely NO compelling reason to even play a regular season. Just forfeit every game and wait for your conference tournament. See Liberty, circa 2013 )

[BJWilliams]

Actually Georgia should have gotten in as 3 seed, and bumped ND to 4. Alabama, Clemson and ND were in, leaving a 4th team to be selected, which should have been Georgia, not the Okies.

Explain in what delusionally God forsaken universe is a 2 loss Georgia who lost their conference title game (LOST mind you) seeded higher than an undefeated Notre Dame and bumps out a 1 loss Oklahoma squad that clearly avenged that one loss in tbe conference championship game

[ballcoach15]

ND played a weaker schedule than all other teams in the hunt for a playoff sport, plus they did not play in a conference championship game like Alabama, Clemson and Georgia. ND only got in because they "won one for the Gipper years ago.

Truth be known, Georgia and the Okies should probably have gotten in before ND.

[alabama24]

Explain in what delusionally God forsaken universe is a 2 loss Georgia who lost their conference title game (LOST mind you) seeded higher than an undefeated Notre Dame and bumps out a 1 loss Oklahoma squad that clearly avenged that one loss in tbe conference championship game

Play with me for a moment. Consider these (admittedly flawed) points:

1. The "better" team always wins the game.
2. The 13 "best" teams all play one another, and only one another, during the "regular" season.

If those two things are true (I don't think they are, but #1 is true more often than not), then you would have one team 12-0 and another team 0-12, with every possible record in between. In the post season if the 0-12 team played the 12-0 team from a DIFFERENT league, the 0-12 team would win. (Again, because the "best" teams were all playing one another. The second 12-0 team wasn't one of the 12 "best").

When you are evaluating the "best" teams, the W-L record is only one criterion.

I think the SEC is the best conference. I think that there is good football in other conferences too... but not like the SEC. I think GA would beat ND and/or Oklahoma. Because of that, I would say that GA is better than either and could legitimately deserve a spot in the playoffs. I don't think it is outrageous that they were left out, however. A good case can be made for both ND & Oklahoma over GA.

[JK37]

I don’t think a good case can be made for ND over UGA. GA may be stronger, but the fact remains that ND went undefeated against a schedule that was strong enough. That LSU loss hurts GA’s resume against an UNDEFEATED Notre Dame. And I absolutely HATE the Golden Domers.

Oklahoma avenged their one loss.

I do think a 1-loss UGA gets in. But 2-loss UGA can’t get in over undefeated ND. And OK barely squeaks by because they avenged their lone loss.

[alabama24]

I don’t think a good case can be made for ND over UGA.

I don't think that means what you think it means. (You mean UGA over ND)

[ballcoach15]

Georgia would beat Notre Dame by 14 points. Probably more.

[thepostman]

ballcoach you literally have zero credibility in regards to college athletics. Until you admit that the schools related to the SEC is about as shady as they come your opinion will mean absolutely nothing around here.

[Jonathan Carone]

Georgia would beat Notre Dame by 14 points. Probably more.

While that may be true, their resume wasn’t as strong as Oklahoma’s which is why they didn’t get in.

[TallyW]

See: March Madness

March Madness stinks. This isn't something where everyone gets a participation trophy. It's football!

(As for March Madness, I know I am in the minority. It is an awful system though. There should be MANY fewer teams and play multiple games against opponents. In College Basketball there is absolutely NO compelling reason to even play a regular season. Just forfeit every game and wait for your conference tournament. See Liberty, circa 2013 )

That was the carrot being dangled around about going FBS. "You get to go to a bowl game.". That's about as much of a participation trophy as one could get.

March Madness is 68 teams while Bowl season for FBS is 80. There are 347 D1 basketball teams. There are 130 FBS teams.

Basketball: 68/347= .195
Football: 80/130= .615

So you think 19.5% of teams getting in is a participation trophy but 61.5% getting in is a hard-fought victory? Okay.

[ballcoach15]

ballcoach you literally have zero credibility in regards to college athletics. Until you admit that the schools related to the SEC is about as shady as they come your opinion will mean absolutely nothing around here.

Postman: I am very knowledgable in college athletics, probably more than most.

[JK37]

Thanks for the correction.

You know, when the selection became a human committee, it was supposed to eliminate the “resume” talk. Give me the best four teams. Bunch of wimps.