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SEC coaches make revealing, edgy comments at spring meetings
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SEC coaches make revealing, edgy comments at spring meetings
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Drinkwitz isn't wrong. Coaching, managing through injuries, and who's playing their best football at the end of the season is who can compete all the way to the finals.
And yes, Vandy deserved to be in the playoffs. So did Notre Dame. So did a few other teams. If we had expanded to 24 teams last season and used the CFP rankings, the worst record of a team in the playoffs after the regular season would have been Iowa at 8-4. Those Hawkeyes beat Vandy in a non-CFP bowl game.
Wouldn't it have been better to have had that game as part of a 24-team playoff???
Instead, we have the 40+ game virtually meaningless non-CFP ludicrous bowl season that awards 6-6 and sometimes even 5-7 teams a post-season award….with many players opting-out of those games.
How many players do you think would opt-out if their team made it into a CFP game instead…possibly on-campus?
probably the same amount tbh
I can't remember the last time I legitimately rooted against a player/prospect leaving UGA (maybe Jermaine Burton? Only one I can think of over past two decades)... but this Curtis guy has got my goat. 100% loyal to UGA up to 24 hours left in the process, then throws the Dawgs under the bus because he can win a natty at Vandy!?
As I said, unusual to be this way on my part, but I just don't like the character of this guy...
IMO, Elko & Sark tied for quote of the day honors! …Sadducee's & Pharisee’s
Each new slot in the CFP protects another coach from the hotseat.
No, it's not better to have 8-4 teams in the playoffs or even 9-3. There are usually 6 to 8 teams that have earned the right by their play during the regular season to compete for a CFP championship. The increase to twelve, sixteen and eventually twenty-four doesn't have anything to do with competition but is based on making the networks (ESPN) more money. Having playoff games with 8-4 teams is no different than having these bad bowl games in December and January. I know we live in an "everybody gets a trophy society", but college football doesn't have to acquiesce to that mentality.
@87Dawg_11…I respectfully disagree. I am a Bulldog Alum, but I live in NW Montana. I have followed both the Griz and the new FCS National Champion Bobcats for years. Their fan base is passionate, loud, sells out all their games, travels well, and is a lot of fun to watch. I have been to a couple of the Griz games. Lots of fun.
The FCS 24-team playoff works well. Sure, occasionally you will have lopsided matchups but heck, we had that with James Madison and that other Group of 6 team this past season in the FBS CFP, and the CFP Committee changed the rules now going forward. Just last season, FCS #1 ranked North Dakota State - the mighty Bison - got taken out by an unranked Illinois State team that made it all the way to the finals and lost to Montana State in OT! Talk about a great game!
What is the point of an 8-4 team playing in a non-CFP bowl game when they could be competing in a playoff? Seeing Iowa defeat Vandy in a playoff game would be a bigger deal, because that upset radiates through the next round of the playoffs. And yes, both teams would make some more needed cash. I just don't get the reasoning behind your issue. Yes, this is all about money, and we ALL know this fact. BUT the playoffs are going to expand - I say embrace it or stop watching the games. Too many people are complaining about expanding the playoffs, but they keep watching the games as is obvious by the ratings. TV Viewership set records last season in the playoffs.