2015 College Football Season

[Green Monstah]

I'll make the argument that one of the great things about college football is that the regular season means something. Lose one game and a team no longer controls it's own destiny. Lose two games and national championship hopes are over unless a team becomes a once-every-20-years exception. In my view, a 4-team playoff is about right although I'm open to considering an 8-team playoff if the four team format proves that a legitimate national championship contender is left out. There's still a month of football left and things will shake out. IMO, the worst thing that could happen for college football would be for a 16-team playoff where the regular season doesn't really matter.

True. Look how March Madness has basically ruined college basketball.

[YOhio]

True. Look how March Madness has basically ruined college basketball.

LOL! No it didn't.

[Jeff Lebowski]

True. Look how March Madness has basically ruined college basketball.

Exactly. lol.

I can think of a zillion things that would be worse for college football than a 16-team playoff. No playoff, for starters.

[Omaha 680]

An expanded playoff would make more regular season games matter.

In number of games, sure. But It would also make the biggest regular season games matter a lot less. Games between elite programs would just be for playoff seeding, not for inclusion in the playoff.

[Jeff Lebowski]

In number of games, sure. But It would also make the biggest regular season games matter a lot less. Games between elite programs would just be for playoff seeding, not for inclusion in the playoff.

Haha. Knock it off.

[Omaha 680]

Haha. Knock it off.

Ok. I guess we disagree.

[TripletDaddy]

another bad thing that could happen to college football is that it stopped existing, as katy lied predicted a few seasons ago.

[Jeff Lebowski]

another bad thing that could happen to college football is that it stopped existing, as katy lied predicted a few seasons ago.

There you go. Two worse things!

Keep 'em coming folks.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Notre Dame has one loss, in the last seconds of a road game to arguably the top team in the country. If anything, Notre Dame has the "best" loss of any one loss team in the running. Why is Notre Dame at 5 worse than Alabama at 4?

Alabama has better wins than Notre Dame. Wisconsin and aTm vs Navy and Temple. Also, barely slipping by 3-5 Virginia wasn't good.

[Paperback Writer]

True. Look how March Madness has basically ruined college basketball.

I'd rather have three months of meaningful football than one-month of playoffs. Winning a big game during the regular season and a team still has championship hopes; lose it and those hopes are probably gone. That's what makes the regular season exciting and meaningful.

[TripletDaddy]

Alabama has better wins than Notre Dame. Wisconsin and aTm vs Navy and Temple. Also, barely slipping by 3-5 Virginia wasn't good.

good point. in that case, alabama should be ranked higher than notre dame.....

[SCcoug]

In number of games, sure. But It would also make the biggest regular season games matter a lot less. Games between elite programs would just be for playoff seeding, not for inclusion in the playoff.

You really think people would care less about LSU-Alabama or OSU-UM or a myriad of other games? I don't buy that for a second. It would reinvigorate the conference championship race. And once the playoff expands enough to give the G5 a bone the other half of FBS games would start to matter too. I'll also add that if the CFP committee sticks to their guns about SOS we'll see more games that matter in OOC play as well.

[Donuthole]

I'd rather have three months of meaningful football than one-month of playoffs. Winning a big game during the regular season and a team still has championship hopes; lose it and those hopes are probably gone. That's what makes the regular season exciting and meaningful.

This is the same argument that was trotted out when they were considering a 4-team playoff. It wasn't true then, and it won't be true with a 16 team playoff. A "meaningless" matchup between Denver and Green Bay drew 23 million viewers on a night when the World Series was in an extra-innings game. Bottom line, people love football, and will find meaning in pretty much any game.

[DrumNFeather]

another bad thing that could happen to college football is that it stopped existing, as katy lied predicted a few seasons ago.

That's gonna happen in Provo when my man Bednar is in charge, you just wait! (you know, 30 years or so)

[Eddie]

So what I'm hearing is that TCU and Baylor last year really had no argument that they belonged in the playoff. No way they should've been in - we're better off with a 4 team tourney.

I'm hearing that if you somehow tweaked things to go to an 8 team or even 16 team playoff, the regular season wouldn't matter. (Are these the same people arguing that once BYU has lost 1 game, the season is over and not worth watching? But the regular season is improved by putting MORE teams in that same situation where no one cares about them anymore because 1 loss effectively ends all hope?)

Do those of you who favor a 4 team playoff, but enjoy the conference championship race, really think that it would make the regular season suddenly meaningless if a conference championship also meant inclusion in the playoff? Seems to me, that would make each conference game that much more important until the last week of the season.

I understand how you don't necessarily want to reward teams for scheduling a bunch of powder puff non-conference games. I don't understand how you think it's OK to exclude a team that might actually be the best team just because the non-conference teams they scheduled 12 years in advance aren't doing as well as they were when the games were scheduled. So now, since there are 5 undefeated teams and theirs is the worst SOS of the bunch, they are left out.