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  • #241
    This type of comment just proves that this is more of a popularity or beauty contest than a serious look at the data.

    Yurachek said Miami and Notre Dame were close enough in the rankings this week to be compared head-to-head, and in the same pool as Alabama and one-loss BYU.

    Still, the committee feels Notre Dame "is a complete team," according to Yurachek, and "deserves to be ranked where they are."

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    • #242
      Originally posted by chrisrenrut View Post
      This type of comment just proves that this is more of a popularity or beauty contest than a serious look at the data.
      LOL! College football "data." (not arguing, the word 'data' in this context just made me chuckle for some reason)

      This is the same sport that used to crown a champ based on popular media vote. It has always been a beauty contest. It has always been about the 'pageantry.' I kind of think that the fact that the playing field of CFB is so uneven and there are such gaps between the "haves" and the "have nots" that creates such drama, is why there is such a broad interest in CFB. If CFB became a sort of 'mini-NFL' then it loses some of that element and the novelty around it. an imperfect analogy might be if you make WWE fight for real, it just becomes the UFC, but with more theatrics? at any rate, my point is that CFB will never be 'fair' and drama that attracts is part of the reason that it maintains its allure. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk .

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      • #243
        Originally posted by wally View Post

        LOL! College football "data." (not arguing, the word 'data' in this context just made me chuckle for some reason)

        This is the same sport that used to crown a champ based on popular media vote. It has always been a beauty contest. It has always been about the 'pageantry.' I kind of think that the fact that the playing field of CFB is so uneven and there are such gaps between the "haves" and the "have nots" that creates such drama, is why there is such a broad interest in CFB. If CFB became a sort of 'mini-NFL' then it loses some of that element and the novelty around it. an imperfect analogy might be if you make WWE fight for real, it just becomes the UFC, but with more theatrics? at any rate, my point is that CFB will never be 'fair' and drama that attracts is part of the reason that it maintains its allure. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk .
        It does suck to be on the side of the fence that misses out though. Even dumb Ute fans like me can empathize with that.

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        • #244
          Texas A&M doesn't have a single win against a team from the top half of the SEC. Texas is in fact the only team in the top 8 of the current SEC standings that A&M has even played. And they lost.

          Being undefeated is one thing, but if the committee now doesn't drop them significantly it will invite a lot of controversy.

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          • #245
            Originally posted by BlueK View Post
            Texas A&M doesn't have a single win against a team from the top half of the SEC. Texas is in fact the only team in the top 8 of the current SEC standings that A&M has even played. And they lost.

            Being undefeated is one thing, but if the committee now doesn't drop them significantly it will invite a lot of controversy.
            Spoiler alert: they won’t
            "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
            "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
            "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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            • #246
              Nothing breaking to make a 2 bid Big-XII happen. I will forever root against an SEC team and only root for a B1G team if they play an SEC team. And never for Notre Dame.

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              • #247
                Originally posted by USUC View Post
                Nothing breaking to make a 2 bid Big-XII happen. I will forever root against an SEC team and only root for a B1G team if they play an SEC team. And never for Notre Dame.
                This is the way.
                "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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                • #248
                  I think I’m about done with college football, except BYU. The conferences are too big, including the Big 12. It is tough to get a clear conference champion when the tie breakers to get into the game are so ridiculous.

                  They killed off all traditions and many natural rivalries, with all the west coast teams in the B1G and the ACC.

                  The twelve team playoff is a joke where the SEC potentially gets 5 teams in. At this point they might as well go to 24 teams and water down the regular season where 3 loss teams and some years probably 4 loss teams get in. You will probably start seeing teams resting players for the last game or two on the season like you see in the NFL.

                  The dumbest thing they have done is having the weekly committee rankings. It biases the process to pre-season rankings. It locks them into positions before the full body of work is done. Because if they make any changes based on anything but the direct results of the week, it makes them look dumb. So any previous screw ups are set in stone.They shouldn’t be meeting until conference championship weekend.

                  There is my rant for the day.
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                  • #249
                    Originally posted by beefytee View Post
                    I think I’m about done with college football, except BYU. The conferences are too big, including the Big 12. It is tough to get a clear conference champion when the tie breakers to get into the game are so ridiculous.

                    They killed off all traditions and many natural rivalries, with all the west coast teams in the B1G and the ACC.

                    The twelve team playoff is a joke where the SEC potentially gets 5 teams in. At this point they might as well go to 24 teams and water down the regular season where 3 loss teams and some years probably 4 loss teams get in. You will probably start seeing teams resting players for the last game or two on the season like you see in the NFL.

                    The dumbest thing they have done is having the weekly committee rankings. It biases the process to pre-season rankings. It locks them into positions before the full body of work is done. Because if they make any changes based on anything but the direct results of the week, it makes them look dumb. So any previous screw ups are set in stone.They shouldn’t be meeting until conference championship weekend.

                    There is my rant for the day.
                    The conferences are too big. I'd still like to expand the playoffs to move towards the March Madness model. No, I don't think there should be 64 teams.

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                    • #250
                      24 teams would be great. Top 8 get a first round bye and 16 teams play a first round game. 10-game regular season. No conference championship. First round games happen Friday and Saturday after TG.
                      Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark “egg on your face”! -- Moss

                      There's three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who's got the same first name as a city; and never go near a lady's got a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, everything else is cream cheese. --Coach Finstock

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                      • #251
                        Originally posted by Donuthole View Post
                        24 teams would be great. Top 8 get a first round bye and 16 teams play a first round game. 10-game regular season. No conference championship. First round games happen Friday and Saturday after TG.
                        That’s a lot fewer games, over 200 less. I doubt any conference or team goes for a 10 game season.

                        I’m guessing only teams that lose money on games would. maybe that’s most.

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                        • #252
                          Originally posted by beefytee View Post

                          That’s a lot fewer games, over 200 less. I doubt any conference or team goes for a 10 game season.

                          I’m guessing only teams that lose money on games would. maybe that’s most.
                          Player health is a bonus!

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                          • #253
                            https://x.com/iowahawkblog/status/19...BhJBbqEIA&s=19

                            "I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
                            - Goatnapper'96

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                            • #254
                              https://x.com/RGIII/status/199523297...rbkmiZcNg&s=19

                              "I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
                              - Goatnapper'96

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                              • #255
                                I don’t blame Kiffin for leaving Oxford MS
                                "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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