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WestCoastHusky said:
Anyone thinking Clemson gonna get smoked next game?
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It can be hard to say in these games. I think Clemson is a little more stout defensively than the other teams that got run out, and I am not totally sure about Texas and how good they really are. I also think Clemson got a huge schedule break in their league this year and may not have even made it to their conference championship had it been different. I could see Clemson hanging around for a bit and getting worn out as it goes on.
 
WestCoastHusky said:
Anyone thinking Clemson gonna get smoked next game?
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I don't hate Texas the way I hate the ACC, so if Texas can stomp on Clemson and remove the ACC from the CFP today, I would be very happy.
 
traitor71 said:
It can be hard to say in these games. I think Clemson is a little more stout defensively than the other teams that got run out, and I am not totally sure about Texas and how good they really are. I also think Clemson got a huge schedule break in their league this year and may not have even made it to their conference championship had it been different. I could see Clemson hanging around for a bit and getting worn out as it goes on.
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Horns are rolling as we speak. If Clemson can't stop the run, this can get ugly in a hurry. ACC is getting face stomped today, and it is a good day.
 
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Actually want Texas to lose otherwise the SEC cronies will never shut up about them deserving more teams in the field. Already hearing it regarding SMU.
 
I think these games are going to show what I've always thought: that SEC teams are going to really struggle in the cold.

At the very least, the new playoff system forces a couple of them to play in the cold for once...
 
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But we’ve also seen how overrated Indiana and SMU were. It’ll be interesting to see what changes are made going forward
 
While I like the conf champs getting a first round bye, I wouldn’t mind reseeding after round 1

12 ASU v 1 Oregon at Rose
5 ND v 4 PennSt at Peach
6 Ohiost v 3 Texas at Fiesta
9 Boise v 2 Georgia at Sugar
 
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Buffett10 said:
Did you expect anything different considering for the most part the semi final games since they 4 team playoffs started have been blowouts?
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I think that will ease over time as players realize they don’t have to go to bama/clem/ga to be in the playoff now that 12 teams make it.
Also NIL.
 
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It's good to be the home team in these playoffs for sure. But Ohio State isn't going to be a pushover in the Rose Bowl against Oregon. Tonight was a beatdown.

I do wonder how ticket distribution works for the next round. The 4 bye teams don't get a home game but do they get home team considerations or anything at all aside from the bye?
 
Texas' reward for losing the SEC title game... the bottom two teams that qualified for the playoff. I think they'll adjust to reseeding because the top-ranked non-bye team will typically end up with the "easiest" path to the semis, while the top two seeds face comparatively more difficult paths. (This year it turns out even the 6 seed got a "easy" paths.

They might keep the conference champion byes... but I still think they reseed the quarterfinals starting next year.,...
 
ScottVib said:
Texas' reward for losing the SEC title game... the bottom two teams that qualified for the playoff. I think they'll adjust to reseeding because the top-ranked non-bye team will typically end up with the "easiest" path to the semis, while the top two seeds face comparatively more difficult paths. (This year it turns out even the 6 seed got a "easy" paths.

They might keep the conference champion byes... but I still think they reseed the quarterfinals starting next year.,...
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Agreed. Also Oregon getting Ohio State in their first knockout game is crazy. I know tOSU lost to Michigan but they’re always playoff contenders.
 
Especially the optics where you can argue both the SEC & Big Ten champions got tougher matchups than the teams they beat in their conference title games.
 
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UConnDan97 said:
At the very least, the new playoff system forces a couple of them to play in the cold for once...
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Yep, and I love this. The legacy B10 showed their advantage against the southern teams in playing in cold weather. Kinda easier to run up the score when it's +70°. Tenn and SMU can defrost over winter at home.
 
What was the point in going to 12 instead of 8? (This is rhetorical, I know it was money. But that was a horrible product this weekend.)
 
Tenspro2002 said:
What was the point in going to 12 instead of 8? (This is rhetorical, I know it was money. But that was a horrible product this weekend.)
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The 12 team CFP has been an abject failure, and it really brings into question the entire college football product. If you look at the history of this sport, it has always been this way at the top, just a series of mismatches and blowouts.

The middle of the pack teams, in the fat part of the distribution curve, produce fun, competitive games between each other for the most part, but the top teams have always been so much better that a playoff was pointless. Finding two teams that should play for a championship was manageable, four, difficult given the number of blowouts in the CFP the last 10 years, and 12 teams, silly. Unfortunately, if any kind of playoff outcome is predetermined, it turns all the games into exhibitions. None of them matter. They are just for entertainment.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
The 12 team CFP has been an abject failure, and it really brings into question the entire college football product. If you look at the history of this sport, it has always been this way at the top, just a series of mismatches and blowouts.

The middle of the pack teams, in the fat part of the distribution curve, produce fun, competitive games between each other for the most part, but the top teams have always been so much better that a playoff was pointless. Finding two teams that should play for a championship was manageable, four, difficult given the number of blowouts in the CFP the last 10 years, and 12 teams, silly. Unfortunately, if any kind of playoff outcome is predetermined, it turns all the games into exhibitions. None of them matter. They are just for entertainment.
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It keeps the game interesting on a local level, not just a national level.

I would love to see a 24 team, FCS style playoff. UConn could have a shot at a playoff game every once in a while. Give the MAC a spot, the Sun Belt, everybody. Not because they are going to win a national championship, but because it gives us more meaningful football and regionalizes a national tournament. And the occasionally upset -- imagine the equivalent of App State winning at Michigan in a playoff context.
 
Funny people keep talking being more like the FCS playoffs ….

The round of 16 games had an average margin of 18 points, and only 2 of 8 were 1-score games.
 
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