NCAA Football Conf. Championship Week

Infield Infidel

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Friday
7 p.m. MAC Championship #17 WMU vs. Ohio ESPN2, WatchESPN
9 p.m Pac-12 Championship #4 Washington vs. #8 Colorado Fox, Fox Sports Go

Saturday
9 a.m. Gameday from Indianapolis (Big Ten Championship Game)

Noon
AAC Championship Temple at #19 Navy ABC, WatchESPN
C-USA Championship LA Tech at WKU ESPN, WatchESPN
Troy at Georgia Southern ESPN2, WatchESPN
Kansas State at TCU FS1, Fox Sports Go

12:30 - #10 OSU at #9 Oklahoma Fox, Fox Sports Go
1p.m. - NMSU at South Alabama WatchESPN
3 p.m. - UL Lafayette at ULM WatchESPN
3:30 p.m. - Baylor at #16 WVU FS1, Fox Sports Go
4 p.m. - SEC Championship #1 Alabama vs. #15 Florida CBS, CBSSports.com
5 p.m. - Georgia State at Idaho WatchESPN

7:30 p.m. Arkansas State at Texas State ESPN2, WatchESPN

7:45 p.m. MWC Championship SDSU at Wyoming ESPN, WatchESPN

8 p.m.
ACC Championship #3 Clemson vs. #23 VT ABC, WatchESPN
Big Ten Championship #6 Wisconsin vs. #7 Penn State Fox, Fox Sports Go
 
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j-man

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the playoffs are set unlees VT COLO Win Bama and Ohio st are locks Clem is in with a win and so is Wash my 2 is will they put 2 Big10 in or leapfrog Colo in the 4 hole if they best wash
 
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Western Michigan up 26-20, Ohio driving. WMU picked a terrible time to play their worst game. Their QB came into the game with 1 INT all season, has 2 in the second half.
 
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Great downhill running for UW on that TD drive.

Meanwhile, it's looking like WMU is going to grind out a win. Football is an easy game when you run for 5-6 yards every first down.
 
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He's been a tought kid all year. No QB has taken the punishment he has throughout the season. He deserved a shot coming out of the half, especially after pulling the program back from the hinterlands. But horrible luck blowing out his ankle on the first drive.
 
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This is just a shitty game in the end.

They were just running the ad for the big Ten title game, and even though you know what it is, it just seems so weird that the consensus 2 best teams are in the title game, and the winner probably doesn't get a invite to the National Title tournament
 
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Colorado is a great story this year. They were picked last in the division m, for good reason after the past few years, and made the conference championship game, but they aren't a top 10 team. Washington is in a different class
 
Clears Cleaver

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I don't know what we'd do without this stellar lineup of championship CFB games. What a hot pile of meaningless garbage. Is anyone clamoring to see any game this weekend?!?

Pretty clear that they are going to have expand to 8 and give each conference champ game winner a bid and then add next three teams.

Of course, then cfb regular season would almost meaningless. Every year you'd get Alabama, tOSU/Michigan and clemson/FSU. then one pac12 and big12. And everyone else fighting for 8th spot.
 
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Clears Cleaver said:
I don't know what we'd do without this stellar lineup of championship CFB games. What a hot pile of meaningless garbage. Is anyone clamoring to see any game this weekend?!?

Pretty clear that they are going to have expand to 8 and give each conference champ game winner a bid and then add next three teams.

Of course, then cfb regular season would almost meaningless. Every year you'd get Alabama, tOSU/Michigan and clemson/FSU. then one pac12 and big12. And everyone else fighting for 8th spot.
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You are probably right. The worst part is moving to an 8 game tournament is the exact wrong response to this year, at least right now. Right now it looks like Bama will end up with 2 lopsided wins, as at least on paper it looks like they are just dramatically better than everyone else, and it is hard to make an argument that anyone has the right to go against them in a title game.

Now I guess if Bama loses in the playoff, then it shows that theory was wrong, and there should be 8 teams. .
 
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And honestly, the other three teams pretty much suck. Quality of play is way down. Maybe Clemson can step it up, but no one else is within 10-14 points of Bama.

My point was that the championship games were supposed to help determine the four teams who make it. Ok, so Washington won and is in. Beating a very mediocre CO team who had a dream year. If Bama plays it's powder puff team and loses today, they are still in. Meaningless. Clemson is playing a very mediocre VaTech team. Penn st is playing Wisc and neither team has a chance to get in. If the Big12 had OU vs OSU as championship it would mean nothing. What's the point? If Washington or Clemson lost, the team that replaced them would also not have played in a title game. Michigan. If both lost were they really going to invite three big 10 teams?

With a committee choosing teams, what is point of this weekend? College football bowls and postseason is all just BS. Any given game is great, spectacle, fun. The politics around the sport suck bad. If you have a committee, then the five conf champs get in and either one or three more are chosen by committee who also seeds them. Quarterfinals on home fields. Semis and finals as is now
 
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Clears Cleaver said:
And honestly, the other three teams pretty much suck. Quality of play is way down. Maybe Clemson can step it up, but no one else is within 10-14 points of Bama.

My point was that the championship games were supposed to help determine the four teams who make it. Ok, so Washington won and is in. Beating a very mediocre CO team who had a dream year. If Bama plays it's powder puff team and loses today, they are still in. Meaningless. Clemson is playing a very mediocre VaTech team. Penn st is playing Wisc and neither team has a chance to get in. If the Big12 had OU vs OSU as championship it would mean nothing. What's the point? If Washington or Clemson lost, the team that replaced them would also not have played in a title game. Michigan. If both lost were they really going to invite three big 10 teams?

With a committee choosing teams, what is point of this weekend? College football bowls and postseason is all just BS. Any given game is great, spectacle, fun. The politics around the sport suck bad. If you have a committee, then the five conf champs get in and either one or three more are chosen by committee who also seeds them. Quarterfinals on home fields. Semis and finals as is now
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I don't agree that the Championship games are supposed to help. Personally I think the committee gave them more importance than necessary two years ago when they dropped TCU from 3rd to 6th the final week despite a blowout in a game that wasn't a championship game. Favoring OSU who also won impressively in the conference championship game. Point there is OSU deserved it, but TCU should have never been 3rd, moving them out sent the wrong message about the importance of conference championship games.

Problem with these steamy pile of shit games today is they don't do what they are designed to do which is pair the two best teams in the conference, or at least come close. ACC is 1 v 4 (or 5), Big 10 is 3 v 4, Pac 12 is missing arguably the best team in USC, *SEC is pairing 1 v 6? Ironically the Big 12 is pairing 1 v 2 in a game that isn't a conference championship game, and like you said it won't matter. Today is about completing the resume for the final 4 teams. As a Clemson fan, I'm nervous, because we've got something to lose and VT has nothing to gain. So the game does the conference, as a whole, zero good.

8 is not the answer. Maybe they should have the committee pick the 2 best teams in each conference and let them play for the championships on neutral fields. We could have Clemson v FSU, OSU v Michigan, Bama v Auburn, Washington v USC, Okla v OkSt. So we get some redundancy, but the joy of seeing OSU fans scream, but we beat them last week would be golden. /Sarcasm

EDIT: *Just checked and Florida is better than 6, I overestimated how good the rest of the SEC is.
 
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Clears Cleaver said:
And honestly, the other three teams pretty much suck. Quality of play is way down. Maybe Clemson can step it up, but no one else is within 10-14 points of Bama.

My point was that the championship games were supposed to help determine the four teams who make it. Ok, so Washington won and is in. Beating a very mediocre CO team who had a dream year. If Bama plays it's powder puff team and loses today, they are still in. Meaningless. Clemson is playing a very mediocre VaTech team. Penn st is playing Wisc and neither team has a chance to get in. If the Big12 had OU vs OSU as championship it would mean nothing. What's the point? If Washington or Clemson lost, the team that replaced them would also not have played in a title game. Michigan. If both lost were they really going to invite three big 10 teams?

With a committee choosing teams, what is point of this weekend? College football bowls and postseason is all just BS. Any given game is great, spectacle, fun. The politics around the sport suck bad. If you have a committee, then the five conf champs get in and either one or three more are chosen by committee who also seeds them. Quarterfinals on home fields. Semis and finals as is now
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I don't buy this. Unless it's a field goal win by PSU the winner leapfrogs Michigan. Sorry wolverines

Wiscy hasn't lost to anyone except UM and OSU and Psu beat Osu and both will have one more win which is a conference title. Michigan is 3rd in its division

That said this is moot as Clemson will win today even though they've had several clunkers. They are dominant against the drek and play up to their competition in big games. They have let downs against middle of the pack games like Pitt Louisville and NCState. Although I could see them losing to a half dozen b1g teams this year and are probably not one of the four best teams this year , if they win they deserve to go based on the system. And they're fun to watch.

If you beat Auburn and Fsu on the road and Vt on neutral field in any given year, it's a rare accomplishment
 
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Clears Cleaver said:
And honestly, the other three teams pretty much suck. Quality of play is way down. Maybe Clemson can step it up, but no one else is within 10-14 points of Bama.

My point was that the championship games were supposed to help determine the four teams who make it. Ok, so Washington won and is in. Beating a very mediocre CO team who had a dream year. If Bama plays it's powder puff team and loses today, they are still in. Meaningless. Clemson is playing a very mediocre VaTech team. Penn st is playing Wisc and neither team has a chance to get in. If the Big12 had OU vs OSU as championship it would mean nothing. What's the point? If Washington or Clemson lost, the team that replaced them would also not have played in a title game. Michigan. If both lost were they really going to invite three big 10 teams?

With a committee choosing teams, what is point of this weekend? College football bowls and postseason is all just BS. Any given game is great, spectacle, fun. The politics around the sport suck bad. If you have a committee, then the five conf champs get in and either one or three more are chosen by committee who also seeds them. Quarterfinals on home fields. Semis and finals as is now
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I had never considered this as part of an 8 team playoff but damn I would love to see a Florida team have to play in Columbus in December.
 
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Florida needs to understand that they can't have penalties that give Bama cheap points
 
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