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University football will waste its time this weekend with the relic of the "Conference Championship Weekend" because the powers in this area are old and devoid of imagination.
Call Saturday a foolish and futile exercise does not even describe its inanity. It does not make sense. No. No competition. Not in terms of entertainment. Not even generating income.
The only reason this is even accepted is that college football fans suffer from Stockholm Syndrome and gladly accept the madness that has been sold to them many times.
Start with this very simple lesson: there is no need to expand the current playoff series of college football. You just need to reform the playoffs into something that looks like the one that was designed by someone with a brain that works.
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University football has chosen the conference league weekend as the first de facto round of its playoffs. This means that, with justification, he can argue against an expansion of the playoffs because that would mean that there are too many games for the players.
But what if they eliminate the conference championships and, instead, start an eight-team playoff series this weekend?
Here is the list of the matches (the standings are projected) for the "opening round" of the current post-season:
No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 4 Georgia: Alabama should not lose 50 points and advance. Georgia must either win, or perhaps lose a few points to advance.
No. 2 Clemson vs. No. 22 Pitt: Clemson should just not lose more than, say, 21 points and they move on. Pitt can not move forward.
No. 3 Our Lady. Idle. They advance.
No. 5 Oklahoma vs. No. 13 Texas: Oklahoma must win, Georgia must lose and then win a debate with Ohio State (or lose the state of Ohio) to advance. Texas can not move forward.
No. 6 Ohio State vs. No. 18 Northwestern: The state of Ohio must win, Georgia must lose and then win a debate with Oklahoma (or lose Oklahoma) to advance. Northwestern can not move forward.
No. 7 UCF vs. Unclassified Memphis: The game does not make sense.
No. 13 Washington vs. No. 16 Utah: The game does not make sense.
Alabama probably only needs to appear Saturday against Georgia to secure a place in the playoffs of college football. (Getty)
If the conference championships were canceled, here's what we could have instead: five automatic offers for major conferences, three global offers and sites for the first round:
No. 8 Washington at No. 1 Alabama, yes, at Tuscaloosa.
No. 7 UCF at No. 2 Clemson, yes, at Clemson.
No. 6 Ohio State at No. 3 Notre Dame, yes, at South Bend.
Oklahoma No. 5 in Georgia No. 4, yes, between hedgerows.
Which series of games would you choose to be the first round of your playoffs / playoffs? This is not a trap question.
If you answer the first over the second, you are either a bowl director, terrified by the fact that the playoffs are held in electrical and historical stadiums on campus (while generating economic activity for the cities that support the sport all year round) there is no need to give petanques the semifinals, either, or you are a conference driver asleep driving.
You can have eight teams with legitimate claims for a playoff spot, or you can have Clemson against Pitt.
And forget that we must determine who won the conferences. There is only one (somehow) conference championship that we doubt for the "conference championship weekend".
Alabama won the SEC. Clemson won the CAC. Oklahoma won the Big 12. Washington won the Pac 12. There is no debate here. Check the records. This was set on the ground.
Technically, Ohio State and Northwestern are tied in the Big Ten with an 8-1 record for the league, but this is a serious imbalance between planning schedules due to geography. Well-being is based on maps. Northwestern lost all three games without a conference, including against Akron. He played a weaker schedule. There are 100 ways to break such a tie. Ohio State would win them all. It's not difficult.
(An aside: if we eliminated conference league matches, we could also get rid of the artificial structure of the divisions, especially those based on management, then the schedules would balance and the regular season would be over. would also improve.)
Instead, we get this bastard version of the sport because the commissioners created it to make money. OK fine. Conference title games, like basketball tournament tournaments, bring in money. Nobody is against making money.
You know what would make even more money? This first round of eight-team playoffs, which would generate massive (and much larger) television deals, not to mention more ticket sales (larger stadiums) at higher prices (more demand). And a lot of that money would stay in the places that count for college football – not far from the NFL cities.
For two seats in the alley of a playoff game from the state of Ohio to Notre Dame, ticket brokers could require a kidney and a half, then attend a auction war that would drive up prices.
The atmosphere for the playoff games on campus would be unreal. Nobody has ever attended an NFL playoff game at Lambeau nor at Heinz Field or Mile High nor anywhere else in the United States, has examined the pre-kickoff frenzy and has not seen it. is saying, "Good God, I would like us to spend $ 1,500 on trips so that it's happening at a distant dome or what they call this place-now in Miami. "
If Clemson or Alabama had a game a little easier against a weaker team, well, it's the reward of a high seed and the reason why every game of the regular season would still matter. The same goes for the advantage of the field.
Every game does not matter, despite the slogan of marketing. There is virtually no difference between the No. 1 seeds and the No. 4 seeds in the current playoffs. That's why 'Bama has no playoff-related incentive to win on Saturday. Or last Saturday from elsewhere.
Who said no to OSU at ND but yes to Ohio State-Northwestern in Lucas Oil, which does not guarantee the winner in the playoffs but guarantees Buckeye fans to shout about the selection committee on talk radio all week long?
University football does not need to extend the playoffs. Repeat: NO expansion. We need a reform after the season. We must think about it. The title game of the conference has survived its usefulness. Games do not matter anymore. Losers can enter. Winners can be left out. In the past two years, teams that did not even win the conference title have qualified for the playoffs. Some major conferences (yes, you Pac-12) are repeatedly marginalized.
This year, in the first round of the playoffs, four teams (including Georgia) may either not play or lose by a respectable score and continue to advance to the semi-finals. Nine teams can win and not advance.
That's the system? Yes, it is the current system.
At least, a quick fix is available.
Eliminate unnecessary games that generate less excitement, less money and less meaning, and replace them with fun games generating more excitement, more money and more meaning . It's simple.
How is someone against this?
Seriously?
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