College football has become one big quagmire.

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I actually liked the format pre BCS. There wasn't 20 teams in a conference and going to a bowl game actually mattered. The bowl matchups also mattered. Regular season games mattered.

But they didn't want to do votes anymore and have co-national champions. So they created the BCS, and introduced algorithms instead of humans to pick who plays for the "title". Running up the score mattered. Instead of "style" points, they needed to feed the algorithms.

Then they created a playoff. They didn't know what to call it, so they just named it the "College Football Playoff". The ONLY difference between that and the old way is instead of going with the AP and Coaches poll, a ground of "special" people got to sit in a room and decide the 4 teams. Now they get to pick 12 and eventually 16.

Then you add in the fukkery with the conferences. The SEC and Big 10 plotted to and has successfully monopolized perception by poaching schools to create super conferences and weaken others. They are already angling to get 8 guaranteed spots, if they go to a 16 team format.

There are currently 10 FBS conferences. Out of those 10, 4 conferences make up over half of that. The SEC and Big 10 control the media slots and get the most tv money. A true playoff format would consist of 12 conferences and a 12 team playoff. The winner of each conference is in. If a 1 loss SEC team doesn't get in, then they should've won their conference. College football has basically become NFL light. Take the committees, the polls and the voting shyt out of it. It's like they want to evolve, but still have elements of how it use to be which makes no sense. Notre Dame shouldn't have it's own TV deal. They changed the transfer rules, but then change them again, because too many people was using it. They don't know what they want.
 

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Fans complained pre BCS

Fans complained during the BCS era

Fans are complaining now

But at least pre BCS the bowls mattered. The Rose Bowl matched was still dope. It was more about tradition. And there wasn't nearly as much media coverage.
 

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But at least pre BCS the bowls mattered. The Rose Bowl matched was still dope. It was more about tradition. And there wasn't nearly as much media coverage.

What do you mean mattered? Plenty of schools still care about their bowl wins. If a noteworthy team or player is playing in the Sun Bowl, people still watch it.

The Rose Bowl is a playoff game, so it still matters and has had classic games since the playoffs started.

Not sure why you’re upset about media coverage.

CFB has been more entertaining than ever.
 

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What do you mean mattered? Plenty of schools still care about their bowl wins. If a noteworthy team or player is playing in the Sun Bowl, people still watch it.

The Rose Bowl is a playoff game, so it still matters and has had classic games since the playoffs started.

Not sure why you’re upset about media coverage.

CFB has been more entertaining than ever.

How many players opt out of playing in bowl games now? How many coaches leave for other positions before bowl games.

The Rose Bowl was always the Pac 10 champion vs the Big 10 champion. Now you got the most popular Pac 10 teams playing in the big 10.

And most of the bowl games use to be on new years day. It's nowhere near like it use to be.
 

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But at least pre BCS the bowls mattered. The Rose Bowl matched was still dope. It was more about tradition. And there wasn't nearly as much media coverage.

Bowl games still mattered during the BCS, even early on in the CFP era

Players opting out is when bowl games really died though
 

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This playoff shyt is gonna be wack. Then they forcin too many teams in there. Playoffs shoulda been expanded to 6 teams, 8 at the most. 12 is too much
This is where I am at.. MOST years its only a few real contenders.. 8 at most is where it shoulda been..
 

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A few of the bowl games mattered during the BCS. And those bowls are now playoff games, so they matter even more now. Two 6-5 teams playing in the pop tart bowl never mattered.

The Poptart Bowl used to be the MAC Champ vs the WAC Champ :damn:

Now those championships don’t matter :damn:

What about the fans of Toledo University?!? :damn:

Y’all remember the classic 2007 Poinsettia Bowl?!?:damn:

A future 2nd round pick isn’t going to play for his 7-4 team in the JBO Bowl :damn:

I miss co-national champions:damn:

I miss not knowing who the best team actually is:damn:
 

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The funny thing is they keep making the same mistakes. They created a bunch of meaningless bowl games, then the media/fans/etc got mad when players started skipping them to prepare for the draft. Now we're going to have a 12 team playoff system and I guarantee you players will skip games on lower seeded teams. If you're say...James Pearce and Tennessee is the 12 seed come January, are you risking injury in a meaningless playoff game or are you preserving your potential top 10 status and bouncing to the draft process.

The playoff expansion should have been 6 teams total (top two seeds get a first round bye). I'd be fine compromising and doing 8, but 12 is way too fukking much.
 

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College football is the only sport league that can't figure out how a process of qualification that leads into a process of elimination until one team remains is done.

It's such a shameless and obvious money grab. They could literally just make 12 conferences,tell teams get down or lay down. Win your conference and you're in the playoffs but instead they leave everything up to the personal opinions of a bunch of old guys locked in a room. Why even play games if someones opinions can make or break your season?
 
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The funny thing is they keep making the same mistakes. They created a bunch of meaningless bowl games, then the media/fans/etc got mad when players started skipping them to prepare for the draft. Now we're going to have a 12 team playoff system and I guarantee you players will skip games on lower seeded teams. If you're say...James Pearce and Tennessee is the 12 seed come January, are you risking injury in a meaningless playoff game or are you preserving your potential top 10 status and bouncing to the draft process.

The playoff expansion should have been 6 teams total (top two seeds get a first round bye). I'd be fine compromising and doing 8, but 12 is way too fukking much.
We’ll see, but I doubt guys are gonna skip playoff games
 
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