It seems like this is a year that should argue for playoff contraction.

Like, just pick some poor team out of a hat to go get massacred by Alabama. Who cares who it is? Or, you know, maybe they pull the upset, and if so - great! They get to be national champs (and national heroes). But what's the point of having, for example, Clemson and Notre Dame play a game to see who gets the right to go play Alabama this year? Just draw straws or something, nobody needs to waste time with that game. Whichever one of you wins is only going to have like a 10% shot anyway. (I mean, no offense. That's obviously still about 50x more likely than VT would be to beat Alabama this year.)

And that's especially true given the clear - CLEAR - SEC dominance this season. The national rankings honestly aren't even doing the SEC justice. I have a computer ranking system that places 5 SEC teams in the top 6, 6 in the top 8, and 9 in the top 23. It's a joke how much better they are than everybody else.

Just call off the playoffs, let the Sugar Bowl pick Clemson or Notre Dame to play the SEC champ for the national title, and let the rest of the major bowls just do what they want this year. We could have the Big 12 champ (Oklahoma?) vs Clemson or Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl. A pretty fun Big Ten champ vs Pac 12 champ in the Rose bowl (with runner-up teams playing in the Fiesta). Maybe Texas or some other Big 12 runner-up vs the SEC runner-up in the Cotton. WHO SAYS NO TO THIS? Give everyone a full month to plan to go to ONE game in ONE fun destination. We don't need a playoff that involves SEC teams re-litigating what they already decided during the regular season plus a conference championship game, and which forces fans to figure out if they're going to try to go to the semifinal, final, or both.

[Post edited by Gobbler-100 at 10/22/2018 12:23AM]

(In response to this post by goldendomer)

Posted: 10/22/2018 at 12:23AM

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It seems like this is a year that should argue for playoff contraction.

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