The OFFICIAL 2016 College football RANDOM THOUGHTS thread

[MMS]

Bubba ain't gon do shyt

"his feet came off the ground"

 

[Billy Hoyle]

@Billy Hoyle @Ed MOTHERfukkING G @Silkk

A 6-seed playoff makes the most sense to me.

The top 2 seeds get a bye. Seeds 3 & 4 hosts the first round at their home stadium against 5 & 6 the week after the conf championship games. Both teams are awarded $1 million for the 1st round games and most stadiums should be near full (not many fans will be on winter vacation just yet and exams will be the week after). Also stadiums aren't in much use in the beginning to mid December. The losers of each game will be picked up by the NYear bowls, accordingly.

This gives the each Power 5 champion a virtual spot and a group of 5 team a spot (if they finish top 6).

This is how it would look with the current rankings:

Dec 10th
#3 Michigan v #6 Ohio State - Michigan Stadium

#4 Texas A&M v #5 Washington - Kyle Field

Dec 31st
Fiesta Bowl
#2 Clemson V Texas A&M/Washington

Peach Bowl
#1 Alabama v Ohio State/Michigan

Jan 9
Championship

Definitely the best route if you want to expand.

 

[RammerJammer]

"his feet came off the ground"

Mack gon get revenge when he boom his ass to the ground

 

[Billy Hoyle]

Midwest Conference:

1. Cincinatti
2. Indiana
3. Michigan
4. Michigan jr
5. Columbus reform school
6. Illinois
7. Iowa
8. Minnesota
9. Nebraska
10. Northwestern
11. Notre Dame
12. Purdue
13. Wisconsin
14. Iowa state
15. Kansas
16. Kansas St
17. Oklahoma
18. Ok st
19. Missouri
20. A directional michigan school or ohio school, really theyre equal

Eastern Conference

1. BC
2. Penn State
3. Rutgers
4. Maryland
5. Uconn
6. UNC
7. NC ST
8. Navy
9. Syracuse
10. Wake forest
11. Pitt
12. Navy
13. Duke
14. Virginia
15. Virginia Tech
16. West Virginia
17. Marshall
18. Clemson
19. FSU
20. South Carolina

Southern Conference

1. Kentucky
2. Houston
3. Memphis
4. Georgia tech
5. Miami
6. Baylor
7. Texas
8. TCU
9. Florida
10. Georgia
11. Kentucky
12. Tennessee
13. Vanderbilt (TN)
14. Alabama
15. Arkansas
16. Auburn (AL)
17. Louisiana St.
18. Mississippi
19. Mississippi St.
20. Texas A&M

Western Conference

1. Air Force
2. Boise St
3. Fresno St
4. Hawaii
5. Nevada
6. UNLV
7. SDSU
8. San Jose st
9. California
10. Oregon
11. Oregon St.
12. Stanford (CA)
13. Washington
14. Washington St.
15. Arizona
16. Arizona St.
17. Colorado
18. Southern California
19. UCLA
20. Utah

The bushes, unless you want to make 4 more small conferences....they can go to FCS...theyre never gonna compete anyway

UCF - X
USF - X
SMU - X
Akron - X
Kent State - X
Ohio - X
Colorado St - X
New Mexico - X
Wyoming - X
Utah st - X
East Carolina (NC) - X
Temple - X
Tulane - X
Tulsa - X
Florida Atlantic - X
Florida International - X
Middle Tennessee St. - X
North Carolina-Charlotte - X
Old Dominion (VA) - X
Western Kentucky - X
Louisiana Tech - X
North Texas - X
Rice (TX) - X
Southern Mississippi - X
Texas-El Paso - X
Texas-San Antonio - X
Central Michigan - X
Western Michigan - X
Eastern michigan - X
Miami - X
Arkansas St. - X
Georgia Southern - X
Georgia St. - X
Idaho - X
Louisiana-Lafayette - X
Louisiana-Monroe - X
New Mexico St. - X
South Alabama -X
Texas St. - X
Troy (AL) - X

Twenty team conferences, ten team divisions, So, every team faces their 9 opponents in division, 2 opponents in the other division, and 1 out of conference. That should fix any cross division, OOC rivalry breakups.

The conference championship games are held on New years day, round of 4 after that, title game after that.

EVERYTHING is decided on the field with the exception of the seeding, which keeps the poll system SOMEWHAT relevant...

It's not though. You have twenty teams in each conference. They all can't play each other.

Just one division of the southern conference could have possibly 6 of the best teams in the nation while the entire eastern conference could be complete dogshyt on any given season. We aren't all that far away from every single one of those teams being mediocre.

People would be bytching constantly about it. FSU could play one hard game the entire season and then come into the playoffs fresh as fukk while Bama just went through seven layers of hell getting to the playoffs.

Again, if you want to do this in a manner that balances the difficulty of each division, you've got to throw geography out the window. And in doing so you'll have to break up a ton of rivalries.

 

[Tide Run This]

I'm all over Arkansas +5 at home vs Florida
Like Northwestern +7 at home vs Wisconsin


Bet the mortgage on Kentucky +2.5 at home vs crummy UGA

 

[Billy Hoyle]

AP College Football Rankings: Greatest Programs Of All-Time

AP Final Rankings Greatest Teams Of All-Time
These rankings are created according to the CFN scoring system – this isn’t the official AP ranking of its all-time greatest teams.

Rank Teams Points Last Year
1 Oklahoma 1116 1
2 Alabama 989 3
3 Ohio State 988 2
4 Michigan 957 4
5 Notre Dame 939 5
6 USC 795 6
7 Nebraska 783 7
8 Texas 772 8
9 Tennessee 682 9
10 Penn State 648 10
11 LSU 612 11
12 Auburn 554 12
13 Georgia 548 13
14 Florida State 544 14
15 Miami 511 15
16 UCLA 503 16
17 Florida 487 17
18 Michigan State 443 19
19 Arkansas 439 18
20 Texas A&M 365 20
21 Clemson 352 24
22 Ole Miss 347 T22
23 Georgia Tech 343 21
24 Washington 331 T22
25 Wisconsin 327 25

These teams are going to have to be divided evenly in order to make that 4 superconference grouping work. Florida, LSU, Auburn, Tennessee, Alabama, TAMU, Arkansas, Georgia, and Ole Miss are not going to be able to be in the same conference. That's 40% of the top 25 programs and you're going to have to make it so that only 25% of the top 25 are in each conference.

That's gonna piss people off. As an Auburn fan, I'd be furious about not playing any of those teams. I was already pissed about bringing TAMU and Mizzou because it means that we now play Florida and Tennessee once every eight years.

 

[Tide Run This]

AP College Football Rankings: Greatest Programs Of All-Time

AP Final Rankings Greatest Teams Of All-Time
These rankings are created according to the CFN scoring system – this isn’t the official AP ranking of its all-time greatest teams.

Rank Teams Points Last Year
1 Oklahoma 1116 1
2 Alabama 989 3
3 Ohio State 988 2
4 Michigan 957 4
5 Notre Dame 939 5
6 USC 795 6
7 Nebraska 783 7
8 Texas 772 8
9 Tennessee 682 9
10 Penn State 648 10
11 LSU 612 11
12 Auburn 554 12
13 Georgia 548 13
14 Florida State 544 14
15 Miami 511 15
16 UCLA 503 16
17 Florida 487 17
18 Michigan State 443 19
19 Arkansas 439 18
20 Texas A&M 365 20
21 Clemson 352 24
22 Ole Miss 347 T22
23 Georgia Tech 343 21
24 Washington 331 T22
25 Wisconsin 327 25

These teams are going to have to be divided evenly in order to make that 4 superconference grouping work. Florida, LSU, Auburn, Tennessee, Alabama, TAMU, Arkansas, Georgia, and Ole Miss are not going to be able to be in the same conference. That's 40% of the top 25 programs and you're going to have to make it so that only 25% of the top 25 are in each conference.

That's gonna piss people off. As an Auburn fan, I'd be furious about not playing any of those teams. I was already pissed about bringing TAMU and Mizzou because it means that we now play Florida and Tennessee once every eight years.

SEC and BIG run shyt UCLA being ahead of Florida smells like bullshyt though

 

[RammerJammer]

I'm all over Arkansas +5 at home vs Florida
Like Northwestern +7 at home vs Wisconsin


Bet the mortgage on Kentucky +2.5 at home vs crummy UGA

I don't care if Alberto Del Rio is better than Treon, Florida's offense still concerns me.

 

[Tide Run This]

I don't care if Alberto Del Rio is better than Treon, Florida's offense still concerns me.

Florida hasn't played an offense worth shyt since UT I think Arkansas might win straight up even though they D is ass this might lowkey be one of the best games of weekend too bad its a night game.

 

[RammerJammer]

Florida hasn't played an offense worth shyt since UT I think Arkansas might win straight up even though they D is ass this might lowkey be one of the best games of weekend too bad its a night game.

Nah it's gonna be on at 2:30 on CBS, Brad Nessler calling the game

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

It's not though. You have twenty teams in each conference. They all can't play each other.

That's an absolutely ridiculous argument...I almost want to stop here.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Just one division of the southern conference could have possibly 6 of the best teams in the nation while the entire eastern conference could be complete dogshyt on any given season. We aren't all that far away from every single one of those teams being mediocre.

People would be bytching constantly about it. FSU could play one hard game the entire season and then come into the playoffs fresh as fukk while Bama just went through seven layers of hell getting to the playoffs.

Again, if you want to do this in a manner that balances the difficulty of each division, you've got to throw geography out the window. And in doing so you'll have to break up a ton of rivalries.

This is how all sports works. You face your division, you face a small amount of out of division and conference foes, you play a playoffs and a championship....because you played your way there. What do you want? An imaginary paper champion like exists now? A 128 team rou d robin that never ends? Or conference champs who face each other?

Nobody sheds tears for the 9 or 10 win NFL team that misses the wildcard...win your division or stfu

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

We don't give up huge runs but teams can run the ball on us. Auburn proved that. I definitely see Bama trying to establish a run game with Hurts and Harris. Theyre goin to want to put Hurts on 3 and manageable situation.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

AP College Football Rankings: Greatest Programs Of All-Time

AP Final Rankings Greatest Teams Of All-Time
These rankings are created according to the CFN scoring system – this isn’t the official AP ranking of its all-time greatest teams.

Rank Teams Points Last Year
1 Oklahoma 1116 1
2 Alabama 989 3
3 Ohio State 988 2
4 Michigan 957 4
5 Notre Dame 939 5
6 USC 795 6
7 Nebraska 783 7
8 Texas 772 8
9 Tennessee 682 9
10 Penn State 648 10
11 LSU 612 11
12 Auburn 554 12
13 Georgia 548 13
14 Florida State 544 14
15 Miami 511 15
16 UCLA 503 16
17 Florida 487 17
18 Michigan State 443 19
19 Arkansas 439 18
20 Texas A&M 365 20
21 Clemson 352 24
22 Ole Miss 347 T22
23 Georgia Tech 343 21
24 Washington 331 T22
25 Wisconsin 327 25

These teams are going to have to be divided evenly in order to make that 4 superconference grouping work. Florida, LSU, Auburn, Tennessee, Alabama, TAMU, Arkansas, Georgia, and Ole Miss are not going to be able to be in the same conference. That's 40% of the top 25 programs and you're going to have to make it so that only 25% of the top 25 are in each conference.

Breh theyre already in the same conference

 

[Francium]

Definitely the best route if you want to expand.

Plus you minimize the amount 16 game schedules to 4 teams which will be rewarded monetarily along with a chance at a championship. I think most teams will take that chance.

Also, by the time of expansion, the Big 12 should have 12-14 teams with divisions on top of their established conference championship. The Power 5 is necessary for regional reasons - travel, more teams involved in the big conferences, etc. No conference should be larger than 14 teams.