I have always favored an automatic bid for any conference champion to make it a real playoff. However I don't think that ever happens in football, best we can hope for is any conference champion in the CFP top 25. So a 16 team field with straight seeding and automatic bids for any conference champ in the top 25 this season would be
#16 Army @ #1 Oregon
#9 Boise St. @ #8 Indiana
#13 Miami (FL) @ #4 Penn St.
#12 Arizona St. @ #5 Notre Dame
#15 Clemson @ #2 Georgia
#10 SMU @ #7 Tennessee
#14 Ole Miss @ #3 Texas
#11 Alabama @ #6 Ohio St.
What do you mean by historically a major player? Because the current #1 team in the country checks a lot of those boxes and isn't a blue blood by any means.
There's a reason the spread is where it is and why most places have it an 80/20 game for Texas, because that's what it is. I've got it in the 30-17 to 31-20 range on average. That means Texas has some wiggle room but not much. The more important things to discuss instead of worst case scenarios are things like Kelvin Banks's and Bond's recoveries, what the hell Jeff Banks does these days, and if Sarkisian is going to cut the crap with the 5 fakes in the backfield stuff.
The point is that your analysis is fairly worthless. Yes, Texas will lose if they play poorly while Clemson plays their best game. Great. Now what happens if Texas plays their best while Clemson plays poorly? Something like 41-7 Texas. But who gives a shit about edge cases. We've covered them now so how about everyone stops crying about their nightmares?
I admonished the vaginal caterwauling around here before the A&M game and your version is even dumber.
"But what if we play as badly as we've played all year and they play better than they have all year? What then?"
Scintillating analysis.
Holy shit our fanbase is so ridiculous.
"Not sure if we can line up and just run against anyone"
Non-sack rushing for Texas
40-196
32-143
34-197
51-243
29-200
29-183
20-88
30-133
30-219
39-146
46-256
49-244
22-58
It looks like we can run against everyone except one game against one team. Our first game against Georgia was fine on straight runs, Sarkisian tried to run wide way too often in the second game.
It was better when athletes were the only students at the university who weren't allowed to transfer to any other school whenever they wanted. You know, they need to be treated just like every other student except they have to be locked where they are so I can watch them play sports.
Well it's two weeks away so there will definitely be at least periods of time where they're lower. But there's a chance that they go up right at the end when people realize they can save on travel and hotel costs by going to this one instead of Atlanta.
Not nearly as feasible with neutral sites for the quarters and semis. People are already making hotel reservations for later rounds. In the NFL those are all home games.
And it's silly anyway. The issue is the seeding, reseeding doesn't fix that.
I don't think that will happen because bowls are tied to New Year's timing.
I still say the solution is guaranteeing the top 4 conference champions a bye or home game. So guarantee them a top 8 seed, not a top 4.
He does a decent job of being impartial but until he publicly states it was absolutely ridiculous for him to get a medical year for being a drunk asshole I'll go ahead and continue disliking him.
I mean it makes me wonder how much extra value Ohtani turned down from the Mets. Didn't people report that they never made an official offer because it was too high? What the fuck? If you're willing to give Soto $765M in current money then Ohtani is worth a billion.