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  1. The Notre Dame AD is unseemly and has pretty single-handedly turned me from a mostly ND fan to a mostly fed up with them observer. You have a point but any playoff is going to have to sort the unsortable and someone gets left out. It happens, buck the hell up man. In lots of European countries there is a “pre-election silence” when no polls are released and campaigning stops. I’d like to see that for this. No CFP polls after week 10 and no school officials lobbying in the media. Just shut up for a bit.
  2. I messed that up real bad, mixed up UofA and ASU locations.
  3. I am secure enough to enjoy a decent musical for what it is even if it isn’t the flick I’d choose first. That is where this fails, a musical isn’t doing it right if I exit the theatre and am not humming one of the numbers. Music was forgettable and boring.
  4. And look at Miami: they are in the playoffs BECAUSE of playing ND, if they had played Stanford then they’re at home and Texas, Vandy, or BYU is in. All it will take is one less than blueblood sneaking in cause they scheduled boldly and the pendulum will go back.
  5. ND has significant leverage with the ACC. ND-Miami was the highest rated game involving any ACC team and I’m pretty sure if all, but not most ACC teams that played them saw their highest or second highest ratings of the year for that game. And a lot of those schools will want to play them anyway. That’s BCs only shot at a sellout. GameDay is never at Pitt without the Domers. The top tier of the SEC and Big Ten can tell them to fuck off but the Rutgers and Cincis and Kansas’ of the world are gonna take that call. And eventually this whole mania not to schedule good OOC teams will die down and good programs will realize you can’t just put a dollar sign on having the spotlight on you all spring and summer as you get ready for a great OOC tilt. Being the first GameDay of the season. Someone will get bold and schedule a good series, ans maybe get rewarded with a CFP berth and things will swing the other way. Media partners will start griping too if it becomes a pattern of the most valuable properties ducking each other on purpose, it’d be like the Yanks and Mets pulling down the Subway Series and expecting no one to react. A single-program cancellation won’t move the needle, but no one in the SEC or the Big Ten FO wants to be renegotiating the rights and get shown shitty, declining ratings for the first 2-3 weeks of the season.
  6. We don’t need AI for that, the math and formulas have always been there. The real issue is that sports guy talking heads, conference reps, and fans will not like doing it that way and will melt down when the math doesn’t work their way.
  7. I think that byes need to remain in the format, and that’s as someone who wants to leave a G5 team in. That’s the FCS and DII standard. I don’t need a PO to tell me IU beats Duke. True last thing anyone needs is an OT falling on Mendoza’s ankle and ending their run early in a game against Duke or JMU. The process needs to be put on hold a bit with the exception of the weekly release. Let things work for a while. These massive demands for overcorrection are emotional and pointless. In five years, after IU, OSU, or UGA hoists the hardware, everyone will see how silly it would be to change everything just so a few multiple loss teams could get an extra game and a “CFP Participant” ribbon.
  8. The blind bit is a good tweak, too. You can hand them blind resumes with a star for the conference champs and say they have to include five of them for the final pool.
  9. I’d do a week nine and a final reveal. But your solution is fine.
  10. There is a three loss team in this year and was last year too. If the field goes to 24 I GUARANTEE there will be the best 8-4 SEC team bitching about getting bumped. The worst part about the playoffs is teams with multiple losses, sometimes to the same opponent, huffing like they’re 2003 USC or 2004 Auburn getting left out of the NC shot. We have actually solved that problem.
  11. Yeah, if we aren’t doing the weekly check-ins there is some grumbling but not full-bore meltdowns. The final pool is justifiable and defensible— but the committee had to make some WTF individual movements week to week to get here.
  12. Tucson is like over a hundred miles from Phoenix man. Granted its got heat, but its a real different vibe than Phoenix as a big college city.
  13. He was only ever a WR coach and he struck out to get his own HC job in 2010, when Saban was still just a great coach and not the GOAT. He wasn’t one of Saban’s anointed assistants, just a journeyman assistant who had done some good work there and at NCST.
  14. Franklin continues to kill it, hiring VT’s former HC to be DC again. Really amazing stuff and IMO speaks to the coach and the institution that Pry wants to stay around. VT closed out with at top 25 class, btw.
  15. lol letting retired football coaches and writers do the selection is a terrible idea. Hot take: a bunch of nerds who don’t watch football. Give them the principles and the advanced metrics they are allowed to consider and then have them do a 1/done selection meeting. Far better than letting Mack and RC Slocum pick.
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