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First guy on the roster with those skills that pops into my mind is Kyle Fuller. It's a shame he probably won't be healthy to strap it up.
Having so many on the comittee will keep special interest an prferential trestment to a minimum give it a chance the compters have been involved with the process and have proven they are imperfect lets give the committe a shot
I knew someone would work pie into this discussion.
Um, you do realize that I misspelled it on purpose, right?
This is the reason why I see a complete overhaul of the conference alignments. I thought they were headed in that direction before, but it stopped.
Six 16-team conferences would result in 96 teams playing big-time football. That puts 24 teams out that are in now. Tell me you can't find 24 cellar dwellers out there. If it takes "absorbing" some of the mid conference teams into the big ones now, so be it.
There will not be a good solution given the conference alignments and the schedules as they stand now. There must be a complete redo in order to make it work properly. The 4 team playoff is nice, but it's like putting duct tape on the leak.
How about 8... the champs of the SEC, ACC, Big XII, Big Ten, and Pac-12 plus the three highest ranked champions from the AAC, MWC, CUSA, MAC and Sun Belt?
And Hundley can, you know, pass.
So let's cut the basketball tournament back to 32 teams and get rid of the automatic bids for teams like George Mason, VCU, Gonzaga, Valparaiso and every other small school nobody has heard of yet made a splash in the tournament.
The Sun Belt, MAC, CUSA, MWC and AAC all play Div I-A football and have, in the past, knocked off some big boys in the process. Their conference champion has just as much right to participate in the playoffs as do the champions of the 5 majors. And if they get in and, God forbid, one of them actually wins a game or two they would immediately become America's sweetheart, the underdog everyone roots for to knock off the big boys and actually win a title.
You ever driven through Indiana? It's not long, but once you pass Cleveland in Ohio there is nothing until Chicago. And then once you pass Chicago there is nothing until California.
That's the regular season for those kids on the top 2 teams with aspirations of playing in the NFL. I think they should be able to handle it. I think the bottom line is that any playoff with fewer than eleven teams needs to exclude teams that did not win their conference. There really needs to be a premium on winning the conference title. Rematches suck and I don't care to watch a team play with the attitude of "it doesn't matter if we lose this game because we'll make the playoffs anyway."
Playoffs cheapen the season and the best way to keep that from happening is to make conference champs and top 5 ranked independents the only teams eligible to participate. If you want a conference loser to participate, then you want a 16 team bracket.
Actually by that time we will need 15 wins given the playoff, so #VT4NATIONALCHAMPS2020
Agreed.
Reserved pre-order of Sam Rogers bio, with a spot held as an extra in the made-for-tv movie.
#sunbowlgifts
Kill the minor conference champs and have a bye for the top 4 teams. That solves the too many games problem and keeps it as interesting as possible. I don't care that it marginalizes minor conferences. That's why they're called minor conferences.
The way things are going, they're eventually going to be marginalized by 16 team superconferences anyway. It will allow weak football programs to stop wasting so much money on football and major programs will be more profitable. Everyone is financially better off and the football is as exciting as possible. You could conceivably have a Cinderella team from a minor conference in an at large spot, but it would be rare.
Also, I would stipulate that the higher seed gets the game on their home field up until the championship, which would be at Wembley Arena to try to develop the European market for college football.
There's still room for the at larges. Plus, look at if Duke beats F$U. They would be in the 8 team playoff??? Make the regular season games matter. Win all games=>get into playoff.
And, the reg season wouldn't have the FCS games, so another conference game can be added.
With 11 games, in a 16 team conference, 7 games in your division, 4 (half) from the other division.
If you wanted to add an outlier in there for 12 games, fine...but make the conference games matter.
That was the big ten championship game. In my scenario, that game doesn't get played.
So, the rankings/standings at the end of week 15 are used, thus OSU are the 2 seed since they would be undefeated.
Oh I see...you're nixing the conference championships entirely. Personally I don't like that idea. Take the ACC this year. You could have a schedule like ours where you avoid playing the two best teams in the league and then have a better record than the team that had better competition and lost a game. That doesn't mean you're the best in the league though.
Yeah, it's pretty suite.
/shows self out
I agree great post....have a pizza.
Umm...they just played Michigan State last weekend and lost.
I remember hearing a lot of the same arguments regarding our D's trouble containing mobile QBs. Denard was going to run wild against us, but it didn't play out that way. I don't remember if he used a spy or not. I would need to go back and rewatch it, but that game is filed away in a special vault along with the Matt Ryan incident and JMU.
I was doing those trips from 95 - 99, so gas was significantly cheaper. I couldn't say it would be worth it monetarily now.
however, I loved those trips. even the non-stop trips. Driving across country is amazing. Like I said the 6 non-stop trips were a lot easier than I thought they would be but I also did trips in a few days and a few weeks. Just driving in different directions. All were worth it. I actually dictated most of my final paper on one road trip into a recorder.
I would definitely say the drives were oddly quite relaxing. 2 worst stretches thought were Nebraska and Tenn. Tenn because it is so long and it feels good to just get through a state fast, like through Amarillo and northern Texas. Your through it in no time. Tenn is like driving in slow motion. Takes forever.
Nebraska is challenging because on the entire stretch of I-80 there is exactly 1 turn in the road. Not even a turn. More like a bend and it's also quite a long stretch. It's hell. Pure hell.
But if your young and have friends, my point is the El Paso road trip is very doable.
That Cinncy team beat three ranked teams (#23 USF, #20WVU and #20Pitt). The Big East that year had 6 teams win 8 or more games. They were ranked 12th when we beat them.
Tackling issues are especially troublesome when Kyle and Tone are on the bench. The freshman corners are great cover guys, but they're still learning to be great run-stoppers.
I thought DIII only played 10 regular season?