Screw the BCS and the NCAA. Lets start this next Saturday.

January 12, 2013
Notre Dame (1) vs Florida (8) @ Dallas (Cowboys Stadium)
Ohio St (2) vs Georgia (7) @ Indianapolis (Lucas Oil Stadium)
Alabama (3) vs Stanford (6) @ Phoenix (University of Phoenix Stadium)
Oregon (4) vs Texas A&M (5) @ Atlanta (Georgia Dome)

January 19, 2013
1/8 winner vs 4/5 winner @ New Orleans (Mercedes-Benz Superdome)
2/3 winner vs 3/6 winner @ Miami (Sun Life Stadium)

January 26, 2013
Championship Game @ Pasedena (Rose Bowl Stadium)

Any predictions?

Playoffs should be 4 teams

I agree, but that leaves A M out. They migh be the best righ now. No way they don't go to 8+teams a some point.

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--- HokeIsFat wrote:

Playoffs should be 4 teams

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Agreed. Just wait for the 4 team playoff. Someone at 5/6 is going to get screwed. ESPN will dictate who those 4 teams are.

In my 8 team playoff I have Oregon playing A&M. That would be a great game.

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--- IlliBuck wrote:

I agree, but that leaves A M out. They migh be the best righ now. No way they don't go to 8+teams a some point.

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--- HokeIsFat wrote:

Playoffs should be 4 teams

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Agreed you need to go deeper than 4 if you're gonna do it. 16 would be ideal. All other divisions do it.

Didn't Florida just get destroyed by Louisville?

HAWAIIANBUCKEYE wrote: Agreed you need to go deeper than 4 if you're gonna do it. 16 would be ideal. All other divisions do it.

i think 4 is enough, because the idea is to find the best team only, not the top 3 teams.  In a sense, the regular season is a playoff.  March madness has ruined the regular season for NCAA basketball by letting in the top 64 teams. the regular season is now meaningless, because all that matters is reaching the tourny where the real games are played, and if you can't finish top 64, then you aren't close to the best.

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--- otterbeinbuckeye wrote:

Didn't Florida just get destroyed by Louisville?

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Yea, but they were # 3 and had wins over A&M, South Carolina, LSU, and FSU.

KSU, nope, 2 losses worse than FL and not as good a resume of wins.
FSU, nope, 2 losses, lost to Florida.
South Carolina, nope, 2 losses, lost to Florida.
Oklahoma, nope, just got waxed by A&M.
Clemson, if South Carolina is out I can't move Clemson up.
Oregon St, no way.

I'd rather 1 or 2 teams get in that don't deserve it that 1 or 2 teams get left out that do deserve it.

Lol at including 4 SEC teams

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--- OSUBuckeyes7 wrote:

Lol at including 4 SEC teams

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Not intentional but my opinion was those were the 8 best teams. Argue another team over Florida and Georgia?

FSU and KSU. That would get a Big 12 and ACC team. Louisville?

I saw KSU play Baylor and Oregon. Nothing I saw made them a top 10 team. I had Florida in based on their résumé and H2H win @ FSU.

Then there is really no value on big regular season games.

IlliBuck wrote: I agree, but that leaves A M out. They migh be the best righ now. No way they don't go to 8+teams a some point.

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--- HokeIsFat wrote:

Playoffs should be 4 teams

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Sure there is. The regular season is your campaign to be in the top 8 of 120. This is true in basketball where 68 of 347 make it. 20% would make it in basketball. 6.67% would make it in football.

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--- HokeIsFat wrote:

Then there is really no value on big regular season games.

IlliBuck wrote: I agree, but that leaves A M out. They migh be the best righ now. No way they don't go to 8+teams a some point.

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--- HokeIsFat wrote:

Playoffs should be 4 teams

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That would be awesome but I'd bump it forward so it's more over Christmas break.  You may also have to play the first few games at one of the team's home stadiums because I don't know too many fan bases that have a whole lot of fans that can travel around the country for multiple weeks in a row.

A&M lost like 2 out of 3 of it's big games. how do they deserve to be in the playoff?

SuwaneeDawg20 wrote: Sure there is. The regular season is your campaign to be in the top 8 of 120. This is true in basketball where 68 of 347 make it. 20% would make it in basketball. 6.67% would make it in football.

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--- HokeIsFat wrote:

Then there is really no value on big regular season games.

IlliBuck wrote: I agree, but that leaves A M out. They migh be the best righ now. No way they don't go to 8+teams a some point.

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--- HokeIsFat wrote:

Playoffs should be 4 teams

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SurfOhio wrote:

HAWAIIANBUCKEYE wrote: Agreed you need to go deeper than 4 if you're gonna do it. 16 would be ideal. All other divisions do it.

i think 4 is enough, because the idea is to find the best team only, not the top 3 teams.  In a sense, the regular season is a playoff.  March madness has ruined the regular season for NCAA basketball by letting in the top 64 teams. the regular season is now meaningless, because all that matters is reaching the tourny where the real games are played, and if you can't finish top 64, then you aren't close to the best.

1) conference tourneys ruin the regular season, not the NCAA.  Exciting? yes.  Should the winner get a bid?  no.  should go to regular season champ.  Should START the conference season with a tourney

2) with that said, the regular season is just fine.

Agreed, w 2 losses you have no argument, BUT if there was an 8+ team playoff right now you'd be a fool to bet against A M.

This thread really went in a direction I thought it wouldn't.

Fail thread.

IlliBuck wrote: Agreed, w 2 losses you have no argument, BUT if there was an 8+ team playoff right now you'd be a fool to bet against A M.

Agreed that they would have as good a shot as anyone but they just don't deserve it.

Ok, we are dreaming here. You don't have to agree or disagree with having an 8 team playoff vs 4 or 16.

Lets change this thread to the following.

Based on what you have seen this year, who are your 8 teams that would make an 8 team playoff and what would the seeds be.

Ready, go.

Fine Suwanee, I'll take A M to win it all, beating ND and OSU. Who you got?