1 hour ago1 hr On 12/29/2025 at 7:30 PM, satyanash said:Because NFL fans want CFB to become a bastardized version of the NFL, where the regular season is meaningless and 7-9 teams can and do make the playoffs.Compare the intensity of Texas-Oklahoma or Alabama-Auburn or Ohio State-Michigan to the Dallas-Philadelphia or Bears-Packers. NFL rivalries are no match for CFB ones because half the damn league makes it to the playoffs.NFL fans will literally watch their teams rest starters left and right towards the end of the season to secure playoff berths, and then demand that CFB align to that model while claiming it won't affect the meaningfulness of regular season games 🙄Indiana looks like an unstoppable force. Of the teams left, Miami is built to turn the game into a rock fight like the Big Ten CCG and somehow stumble into a NC. It would be very unsatisfying, like those NYG Super Bowl winners that derailed clearly better NE teams. Except it would be screwing up a magical year by a non-traditional power. Open question as to whether this is a better system than just matching two teams that had magical years.Other scattershots: Lots of griping about the G5 and then a blue blood SEC team and a consensus first round bye pick looked equally inept. And the cold truth is that only ND and Texas have a legit case to complain about being left out; you could have put them in place of Bama and TTU just as easily as JMU or Tulane.But ND and Texas are also capable of laying eggs against both good comp and mediocre comp, as demonstrated by the regular season. The uncomfortable reality is that there is no good way to get to the top 4, 12, 16, 24– whatever— without some arbitrary cutoffs and also letting in some teams that aren’t great. There aren’t 12 actual NC contenders. Finally, this is the tweet of the year and 95 percent of CFB analysis whether on message boards or from “ball knowers” boils down to this.
1 hour ago1 hr The hot takes of “FRAUD!” every time a team loses is so tiring. It needs to go away in 2026Scoring 3 or 0 makes you a fraud tho
1 hour ago1 hr 1 minute ago, Js1 said:The hot takes of “FRAUD!” every time a team loses is so tiring. It needs to go away in 2026As do the following phrases:“Tuddy”“Sark is in his bag”“Jawja”
1 hour ago1 hr Most of the regular football posters understand what happened with Tech. The vulnerability was identified way the fuck before 1JAN26.The salve in the wound for the past 18 hours or so, are the trolling posters or folks who never even comment in the real discussions, giving us their thorough breakdowns of the games and the PO system. They bring a giggle or 2.
1 hour ago1 hr 1 minute ago, Pancho said:As do the following phrases:“Tuddy”“Sark is in his bag”“Jawja”“Natty”
1 hour ago1 hr 25 minutes ago, Iceman said:Most of the regular football posters understand what happened with Tech. The vulnerability was identified way the fuck before 1JAN26.The salve in the wound for the past 18 hours or so, are the trolling posters or folks who never even comment in the real discussions, giving us their thorough breakdowns of the games and the PO system. They bring a giggle or 2.Elite on one side of the ball, pretty good on the other. A season where you mostly only played teams that were a level or several levels beneath you talent-wise. Played a very good team, kept making mistakes, things snowballed and you looked much less competitive than you could have. This is not at all an unusual outcome. Oregon is a program in particular that has seen it happen to them a few times in years past.
22 minutes ago22 min 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:Indiana looks like an unstoppable force. Of the teams left, Miami is built to turn the game into a rock fight like the Big Ten CCG and somehow stumble into a NC. It would be very unsatisfying, like those NYG Super Bowl winners that derailed clearly better NE teams. Except it would be screwing up a magical year by a non-traditional power. Open question as to whether this is a better system than just matching two teams that had magical years.Other scattershots: Lots of griping about the G5 and then a blue blood SEC team and a consensus first round bye pick looked equally inept. And the cold truth is that only ND and Texas have a legit case to complain about being left out; you could have put them in place of Bama and TTU just as easily as JMU or Tulane.But ND and Texas are also capable of laying eggs against both good comp and mediocre comp, as demonstrated by the regular season. The uncomfortable reality is that there is no good way to get to the top 4, 12, 16, 24– whatever— without some arbitrary cutoffs and also letting in some teams that aren’t great. There aren’t 12 actual NC contenders.Finally, this is the tweet of the year and 95 percent of CFB analysis whether on message boards or from “ball knowers” boils down to this.1 hour ago, Js1 said:The hot takes of “FRAUD!” every time a team loses is so tiring. It needs to go away in 2026Scoring 3 or 0 makes you a fraud thoI was having this discussion yesterday, it’s gotten so annoying. Also overreactions to every result and extrapolating it to certainties. What’s really being exposed is the absurdity of realignment, mega conference scheduling, and having to make decisions based on subjectivity and speculation. Aggy and Ole Miss had weak SEC schedules, one flailed out immediately the other is in the semis. Miami didn’t even play for their conference title because of a five way tie atop the ACC and is in the semis while also putting to bed any argument that they didn’t deserve the spot. The Big 12 got one team in which is probably right and isn’t the first CFP shut out, the other two were in the 4 team setup with much larger margins of victory, not to mention that ASU played well just last year. Now we have the bye teams losing (except IU). It all supports my plan to do away with CCGs and have a playin round the first week of December of the 9-24 ranked teams, then a 16 team playoff with games weekly instead of huge time gaps between rounds. I agree with Lanning that the NFL should give December Saturdays back to CFB. Edited 21 minutes ago21 min by 'stache
20 minutes ago20 min 1 minute ago, 'stache said:I was having this discussion yesterday, it’s gotten so annoying. Also overreactions to every result and extrapolating it to certainties. What’s really being exposed is the absurdity of realignment, mega conference scheduling, and having to make decisions based on subjectivity and speculation. Aggy and Ole Miss had weak SEC schedules, one flailed out immediately the other is in the semis. Miami didn’t even play for their conference title because of a five way tie atop the ACC and is in the semis while also putting to bed any argument that they didn’t deserve the spot. The Big 12 got one team in which is probably right and isn’t the first CFP shut out, the other two were in the 4 team setup with much larger margins of victory, not to mention that ASU played well just last year. Now we have the bye teams losing (except IU). It all supports my plan to do away with CCGs and have a playin round the first week of December of the 9-24 ranked teams, then a 16 team playoff with games weekly instead of huge time gaps between rounds. I agree with Lanning that the NFL should give up December Saturdays and give them back to CFB.Yep. Just adjust the schedule. Top 4 teams get a bye and home game if no expansion, 2 weeks after CCG games. Tell Army-Navy (really, CBS) to kick rocks and use that weekend for R1 home games for 5-12 or if you go 16 teams, everyone plays the week after a CCG.
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