bear2be2 said:The best thing about an expanded playoff is we no longer have to take opinions about who would massacre who based on imaginary games and limited relevant data seriously.Aberzombie1892 said:bear2be2 said:The same people who make this claim told me Michigan would blow out TCU. Repeatedly for weeks. I would bet you were one of them.Aberzombie1892 said:This is conflating topics. Georgia wasn't the only team from the SEC that would have blown out TCU that year despite TCU making the national title game, and everyone openly acknowledges this.bear2be2 said:
I think it's funny that TCU won 13 games (two more than Ole Miss has ever won) and reached the national title game in 2022, and we still have people here who would say that wasn't really a good team.
And now we have Ole Miss and Missouri, who have four 10-win seasons between them in the last decade, and we're supposed to bow down and kiss the ring because SEC! SEC!
If you want an example of how and why college football is broken, that's it in a nutshell. We have people who are wrong literally all the time making guarantees about who would beat who in games that should be but are never played. And the ones that aren't played don't have any impact whatsoever on national perception.
As it turns out, when teams actually play on the field, some guarantees are worth jack *****
Alabama would've massacred TCU the same way they massacred the team that beat TCU for the Big 12 title that season. No one seriously believes otherwise and that's okay because they're right.
I don't know what some college football talking heads are going to do now that things will actually be decided on the field.
You seem bright enough - you know exactly what is going to happen. It's going to be the same boring soundbites and picking the low hanging fruit.
Herbdick is going to slobber on Ohio St, we are going to be told the sec is a grind every week, the talking heads will sprinkle in things related to nil and how the players are now getting paid. We'll hear michigan isn't the same without harbaugh. We'll hear more about Nebraska if Rhule gets them moving in the right direction. We'll hear about all of the realignment moves i.e. "It feels so strange that USC is now in the B10". I'm sure they will touch a little more on the coaching carousels from the latest offseason, but more time will be given to who is on the chopping block as the season progresses.
As we get closer to the post season we'll hear about the new expanded "playoff" and how the sec is just a juggernaut top to bottom and that's why they have so many teams invited. They will probably skip past the part that the sec demanded they get more slots and more revenue and the fact that the sec administratively runs the playoff and makes the rules because no one needs those facts while being entertained. If they do bring it up, it will undoubtedly be spoken with the words "they deserve it".
In the end the new 'champ' will be crowned and those in power will all congratulate each other for the expanded "playoffs" and how fair and inclusive the system is.