I don't think it'll happen, especially if the B1G and SEC are consistently putting 3-4 teams into the playoff. You simply can't avoid conference matchups even in the 1st round with only 12 teams making it. Even if you do, the quarters would be full of them and is that better?
I think this is right
We’ll see. For comparison’s sake there’s conference matchups in the FCS round of 16 almost every year.
Best/deepest RB’s in the nation. No Brooks should mean nothing. Results on the field should mean everything.
They give teams in March Madness different seeds all the time for “better” matchups
Eh, the second best ACC team is probably NC State or Clemson. The unbalanced scheduling really helped out Louisville this year.
The QB that played last night would not be playing in the playoffs. Travis won't be there, but it would be the backup, not the third stringer they had last night.
Toughest ACC opponent FSU played, based on final score, was BC so 2nd best team in ACC is BC
They do this to increase ticket sales, especially since most of the good teams are in very cold places like Montana and the Dakotas
Yes, for instance if a team is a 6 seed they may put them in the West instead of East to avoid a conference matchup.
There's a number of reasons why that's not a useful comparison, but the most important is that ESPN isn't paying literally billions of dollars for the FCS rights.
My point is that Florida State was fortunate to play Louisville yesterday to give them their undefeated season. If they had played any of the other teams on the bubble, they would gotten smoked.
Because they played their defacto championship game the week before against a top 3 team. FSU struggled to beat a team that lost to Kentucky the week before, a Kentucky team that Bama beat (on the road) by 28 and Georgia beat by 38.
Yes but FSU beat VT by 22. VT beat UVA. UVA beat UNC. UNC beat Minnesota by 18 and Minnesota beat Iowa. So by the transitive property, Iowa isn’t that good.
Great, now go check tOSU schedule and tell me why Michigan barely beating them is impressive. tOSU best win is Penn State, Penn State has zero good wins and their coach got fired.
FTFY, James Franklin is still there and absolutely salivating at the prospect of a 12 team playoff taking the heat of him.
This seems to be very important. They won with their third stringer who won’t be playing in the semis. And the backup has a month to prepare. I’d expect FSU to be competitive if they get the chance.
I agree with you that the SEC was down this year, but that’s relative…the ACC’s second best team was really Clemson, a 4 loss team. That conference was seriously flawed and an undefeated ACC record isn’t what it appears.
The computer numbers really hate them. That’s why they were 10 point underdogs to Oregon. If it was “4 best teams” Ohio State would be in over Washington according to the computers
I might have read that wrong. Is that to win it all or make the playoff? If to win, I can understand those lines better.
Odd that teams get huge credit for an OOC win against the SEC, but having an 8-0 record against SEC teams is dismissed.
