The big name brand schools are still getting 4 and 5 star talent at every position, the difference now is they can't do it for the entire roster anymore because guys are just transferring where they can start. So the first string of the big teams is still what it used to be, but they don't have the depth anymore. They can't just plug in another 4 or 5 star lineman to replace the guy who got hurt in the 2nd game of the year.
Yea… it’s diffused talent more widely. You’re exactly right though … if you’re a 5 star why be 3rd string at OSU or Bama when you could be the star of Colorado or Indiana or etc
Yes and no. Big $ schools just go and buy proven players to fill weaknesses. Yes IU and CO become competitive instantly but OSU is a college all star team.
It never was the entire SEC and the entire Big 10 are better than everyone else. It was Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State and Michigan are on a different level.
Yep. Just individual teams and it's all cyclical, depending a lot on who's coaching. I don't know when fans started becoming proud of a conference. Used to be that most fans were just dedicated to their favorite team without much regard as to whose conference was better.
@@MichaelOdomwest16thAve And that '97 nattie was sus. Big 10 was weak that year and they beat Ryan Leaf and Wazzou in the Rose Bowl, while Nebraska was dismantling Payton Manning led UT.
It changes constantly in college football. Georgia was nothing before the mid 2010s. Alabama was completely irrelevant for most of the 2 decades before Nick Saban. Ohio State couldn't win it until Jim Tressel, for decades before that. Michigan has won 2 championships in 80 years........places like Florida, Miami, Notre Dame, Nebraska, Oklahoma and others were the Big Time Programs, in previous recent decades.
If Saban cheated every year how come he didn’t stay on then? He would have been able to get away with a lot more now than ever. I am not a Bama fan by the way. They basically opened the flood gates for them to cheat legally. Don’t say cause the portal either. Thats a cop out.
@@LeroyJenkins12B because everyone can pay players now the same way he has for the past 20 years. . Dicksaban couldn't handle that fact plus he's scared of deon in colorado. He's avoiding him like he avoided pete carroll at usc
It's not rocket science. What the Soft Eastern Conference did better than all other conferences was cheat with bagmen. NIL and transfer portal has leveled the playing field by making pay for play easy for everyone. When you listen to the coaching ranks they are quite candid about how hard it was competing with those bagmen.
College football has been compensating players in m a ny different ways for years. Money, nice cars, friendly women. Now it's all money. College football is now the minor league for the NFL without costing th e nfl a dime.
@@Rick-jf6sgPlease tell me why they gave Texas Home field advantage to Texas at Arlington? That decision favors the Texas longhorn that will have enormous local energy batteries feeding the longhorns energy that is not being equally transferred to Ohio State So the CFO plays favorites to make sure their Mob Bosses are happy or they get whacked and targeting for NOT obeying the ABUSER rules of QI playing games with their minds Solar coded power battery operated slaves That's Mob Rule means Obey the Corporate tyrant or U get targeted for reporting the Eternal Sun TRUTH of War Game Crimes against Humanity Mu ah VA 💋🌈 Aurora's
Free market is glorious. Now we just need Northwestern and Harvard to spend all their alum money and buy a championship. 😂 Only bringing it up because there's a lot of schools up north even in the NIL era that are asleep with athletics.
Dan Patrick careful to skirt the fact that the U was paying players. So was Georgia, and Alabama, more recently Ole Miss. However, if Michigan steals some signals these idiots lose their minds
Have you noticed that in the last 25 years that non Sec teams that were good or on the rise have scandals that good Ole ESPN sniffs out? Penn State, usc, ohiost.,Michigan.... not a peep about sec schools!
We need to stop pretending that the SEC or the U were the only schools paying players. I was a student manager for a mid tier division one program, we paid players for crying out loud.
Please tell me why they gave Texas Home field advantage to Texas at Arlington? That decision favors the Texas longhorn that will have enormous local energy batteries feeding the longhorns energy that is not being equally transferred to Ohio State So the CFO plays favorites to make sure their Mob Bosses are happy or they get whacked and targeting for NOT obeying the ABUSER rules of QI playing games with their minds Solar coded power battery operated slaves That's Mob Rule means Obey the Corporate tyrant or U get targeted for reporting the Eternal Sun TRUTH of War Game Crimes against Humanity Mu ah VA 💋🌈 Aurora's
All 4 teams losing after having the 1st round bye isn't as big a deal as people think. All 4 of them were underdogs.... The only real surprise was Oregon not showing up.
Fewer top recruits sitting on the bench means increased player experience. That should improved the quality of players coming into the NFL, particularly at the quarterback position.
SEC was paying players with lower academic standards for years. Plus, in the south they hold back players a year to bulk them up so you get freshman that are actually 19 and ready to play versus the B1G where academic standards are much higher
Sorry, but you're wrong. The Big 10 goes after those same 4 and 5 dummies that the SEC does. If a player qualified to attend a D1 school, they can go to any D1 school. Read the rules. The head coach and AD control the scholarship offers, not the school or conference. Granted, they can have guidelines but there isn't a major D1 football or basketball program that has SAT minimums above the NCAA minimum. That's why they are called Athletic Scholarships. Your theory has debunked a thousand times by those who educate themselves on subject.
the biggest problem with the playoffs is that it fosters among fans the mindset that if one's team doesn't win the whole thing, it was a failed season. Only one team in the system finishes with a win. Oregon gave its fans a lot of good moments. One bad outcome shouldn't ruin the flavor of a great season. I'm a Buckeye fan, and if they lose to Texas, and all I can do is cry about one loss to a good team, and not remember the fun of watching them beat Penn State, Tennessee, Indiana and Oregon (and the pain of losing to Michigan), then I have a problem that nobody else is going to fix. And if OSU wins this year, that's great, but they can't win every year. As fans we have to appreciate what our programs do and recognize that nobody gets to win them all. NIL and the Portal will make it even harder for the biggest names to dominate year after year.
@@matthewbeaver5026 Oregon spent more. Not a lot more, but a bit more. I read that Texas also spent more. But who knows how accurate the actual numbers are? OSU spent a lot, that's for sure. It wouldn't be wasted. I've enjoyed the show no matter who wins the big trophy.
Spreading out the playoff games is ridiculous. College Football is a big enough brand to compete with the NFL on Saturdays towards the end of the year. It’s been like 25 days since Oregon played a football game. As a Notre Dame fan I actually like that we were able to keep our momentum going with the Indiana game.
Just gives them more time to talk about it and sell advertising. Not a sport left that ends anywhere near the season it's actually supposed to be played in.
Agreed, there is no reason the whole thing should be wrapped up by Jan 1. D2 has a 28 team playoff with 1st round byes and is done by mid Dec.. this 2 -3 week in-between games is bullshit.
@@kennetzel6101 in the old system both teams would have the same layoff. IN this system you have a team that hasn't played in 3 weeks against a team that not only played 10 days prior, but won. I thought it might be an advantage going in, when I saw the schedule. Not one team with the bye had a good first 1st quarter. Look at the way ASU started the game, and the way they played after the first quarter. Likewise Oregon, and BSU. Georgia was bad all game.
Georgia is not and was not a good team. Did anyone ask how the team with the most drops in the country and WRs that lack basic catching ability made it to the playoffs? The only team they beat was Texas.
They’ve been pumped up and propped up by ESPN all year. I remember during the SEC championship game when the announcers said at least 10 times, even if Georgia loses they’re still in the playoffs.
I am an OSU fan. Not a Georgia fan, but how does that team end up with receivers that can’t catch a cold. Look at the difference between Beck this year to last after Bowers and McConkey left. I have watched parts of Georgia games this year and 86 has dropped an unbelievable amount of easy catches. He did last night when he was wide open. Guess they get a lot of the big linemen, but not the skilled players.
He asked if the remaining 4 are the 4 best teams. That doesn't matter. We're looking for the best team and I guarantee the best team is one of the 4. Stop acting like every team has to be the best. We're looking for the 1 best team. The champion.
Vegas is all about profits and Dan Patrick you want Vegas seeding the playoffs. Give me a break, just let a AI-BCS system do the seeding now. I really never thought the BCS was that bad compared to humans and the politics.
Absolutely should be a point system as opposed to human voting eye test opinions. The problem the last time imo was that the ratings were done by math majors and were too complex for anyone to understand, much less verify. I don't think it has to be that difficult. You only need a few components, just assign them some weighted points. Wins, strength of schedule and playing on the road. And you could also add margin of victory but I don't really like that one. And don't get cute determining strength of schedule. Just use opponents winning percentages and maybe opponents opponents winning percentage. It may not be perfect, but neither is what they're doing now. At least everyone would know the criteria under this method.
FPI would have put Alabama in, and Alabama lost to a 5-loss Michigan team missing a ton of starters. FPI, btw, is using a lot of the old BCS algorithm originally created by Jeff Sagarin, Ken Massey and Wes Colley. The computers don't know what the hell they're doing, at the end of the regular season FPI had 3 teams with 3-4 losses in the top 12.
I agree that BCS formula wasn't bad. Its issue was it could only select the best 2 teams and there were years when more than two teams were deserving. People forget though that it included the eye test as 2 of the 4 major components were the coaches poll and the media poll. Your average rating of the computer rankings was the 3rd component. Your number if losses was a fourth component for at least some of the years.
@@stevescheidjr4632 I did forget about that. So even then the eye test was skewing things. I say go to a point system. I don't want to say computer system because the BCS computer results were explained in ways that were hard for me to understand, such as: Jeff Sagarin-author of one of the BCS computer polls- explains his schedule rating (strength of schedule) as follows: The SCHEDULE ratings represent what the rating would have to be for a hypothetical team to have a mathematical expectation of winning precisely 50% of their games against the schedule played by the team in question in the games that it has played so far. Who could verify that? Even if you had access to Sagarin's program it'd still be difficult. I think you'd need a computer to calculate the results, but to me, strength of schedule could simply be determined with opponents winning percentages.
SEC screwed it's self by building a very strong conference. ND and the Big 10 are set up well for this new playoff system. Play a half ass schedule, and you're in!
Sec have money, but others have money too. Today if you are good you dont sit on the bench of Alabama or Georgia. You play at Duke, Rutgers, Nebraska, Colorado etc@@lanceruffin4298
There are 9 programs that i think are in their own class as most iconic to college football. Four of 'em made the playoffs this season and all four are still playing. Can't go wrong with any matchup among this group for me.
Im a traditionalist. Can we please go back to the original conferences now that the SEC by way of Bama, Georgia, Tenesse, Florida, LSU, and Auburn have been taken off their pedestal and dethroned. These monstrous conferences, no need if you add 2 or 4 team spots in the playoff. Why would they want to stay realigned if everyone now gets a shot at the NCAA college football playoff. I want the rivalries back and the pagentry of the bowl games back. This makes them more money, but if they add more games, they won't need these mega monster conferences, would they? Im asking because with NIL, transfer portal and adding 2 more spots, do they really need this to stay relative? I miss my PAC 12, i miss the old Big 10, Big 12, Big East, ACC WAC, and Mountain West. What's the point of these mega conferences if you've reached parity? Alabama and Georgia are no longer the boogie man l, so why keep these monstrocity of football conferences alive if you've already obtained your goal? Like, what's the point? I just dont get it anymore, i understood that there was a need to do this when the SEC was dominating everyone, but now that it's over, what for? Big Bad Wolf 🐺 will no longer matter, so whos afraid now?
I agree but how far back should we go? Big 12 was mid-90s. Miami was an independent during their best run. Do we bring back the Border Conference or leave Texas in the SWC? And for the schools in these conferences, it's not just about sports--particularly the Big 10, there's a big research incentive to being part of the league. I'm not opposed to the idea but it's more complicated than laid out.
Yea as a lifelong wvu fan. I'd love to go back to the big east. The old big east with all of its members pitt VT Miami. Cuse maybe leave temple and uconn out this time around 😂
@joeseddit You could also make a max dollar cap for every team. If you don’t the big name school will still always win because they have deeper pockets.
There really isn’t a way to fix it but there needs to be some sort of mea culpa given to SMU for them getting the death penalty so many years ago. Honestly for me that’s when I began to realize how dumb the NCAA rules were then as I began to study antitrust laws I realized how illegal their rules were.
The conference that had the most to lose from the NIL and transfer portal was the conference with the most talent, and that is, of course, the SEC. So there's two ways of looking at this new college football landscape . Some will say that spreading out talent is a good thing, and those who say it's a bad thing because of money being a huge part of a players decision process. Prime example, just recently, LSU lost their five star QB recruit to Michigan, who simply waved a bunch of money in his face, a ton of money. So the only way to fix this sort of thing is to have these players sign contracts . These players are getting paid like professional athletes, and therefore, they need to be treated as such. Also, a cap is needed to prevent schools with the deepest pockets from gobbling up all the talent. If something isn't done to get this under control, it will destroy college football as we know it.
Salary cap is BS. It discourages transparency, creates incentives for a SuperPAC like structure (as in politics, not Pac 10). Does it apply to groups not directly associated with the university, who pay players to come? Does it apply to sponsorship deals that can be arranged to coincide with signing? etc etc. This is college football, land of perpetual inequality. It will perpetuate itself as it can, just like it did before the portal (Go to teams with biggest TV exposure, go to teams where there's a black market in payer playing, teams over-recruiting, etc etc). I agree, contracts are a must, but none of that NFL BS where employer can cut you at will but you can't leave. If you want a guy to sign a multi-year contract, no signing bonuses, these are 18 year olds--pay should be distributed evenly or back-loaded. Leave the coaching exception in (transfer allowed with coaching change--can be written into contract payment structure). College football as we know it is already done. It was done 30 years ago with the BCS. It was done when the first guys realized opting out of increasingly meaningless bowl games was the right move. It was done with the 4-team CFP (CFP was a huge boon to the SEC). And it's done again.
As for the contracts. You can't leave a 4 or 5 star on the bench til his Jr bc he's under contract. Yes I absolutely wish these kids had more loyalty to the program they picked to start their careers. Though if a cap of some kind was developed it would offset some of that if we didn't have teams out here spending 20mil more than any other school.
@@robwalls6057 nah only root for O$U when they're playing the $EC. This age of mass media does funny things to loyalties. I'm against a cap because it just encourages shady workarounds.
When talking about Texas they were inconsistent and was it ASU being better or Texas just relaxed in that game after being up two scores and couldn't get it started again? If truth be told the most consistent team left is Notre Dame with nine wins in a row by double digits including Louisville, Georgia, Indiana, Georgia Tech and Michigan.
It is too early too tell if there will be any significant changes. This is just the first season of NIL and we still only got traditionally big schools fighting for a championship.
The teams that were good pre NIL are still the teams left standing in the Final 4. Ohio State. Notre Dame. Texas. Penn State. They have always been great. The players have always been “taken care of😂”. Don’t think for a minute those schools weren’t shelling out big $$$ for decades to players and simply got away with it.
@@FrancoDFernandoThey used to have their pick from all of the Catholic HS players. Ohio State and Penn State had good players because of the great migration, ie steel mills. The south was just the south. I'm talking about demographics here of course.
Penn State has never made a playoff before this year. Notre Dame got blown out the last time they played in the playoff and blown out in one of the last years of the BCS natty. You're delusional if you think the SEC wasn't more pervasive with their bagmen than any other conference.
This is what you get when you're not the only one buying and hoarding players, and actually have to know how to coach,haha. The playing field is even now.
I disagree with any shift. I don’t go off bowl games outside the CFP, there are sit outs and more of a look at what you might have going into next year. With the CFP people are seeming to forget Georgia beat themselves, with a backup QB making his first start. The CFP brackets were also wonky. Penn State has had the easiest path so far. As for season conference records, the diluted B1G was massively favorable for them to get Ohio State, Oregon, and Indiana in. I don’t even think Indiana beat a team that was over 500 in the season, and they didn’t play Oregon or Penn. They easily could have had a 2-3 loss season and been on the outside. Penn avoided Oregon, they could have been on the bubble. Neither had a good win all year. Texas also benefited from this with who they played. I think everyone is missing that certain teams had brutal schedules while the teams that got in with 1 or 2 losses lost their biggest season games. The B1G definitely benefited from this the most, 18 teams is bloated and this will happen again. Even 16 is bloated and allows a random schedule like Texas got. Texas isn’t the best team in the SEC, but their schedule then the wonky seeding gave them the easiest path to be where they are at, same with Penn State. This year really isn’t about why the best team is for the natty, it’s which team has been lucky with their schedule, did enough to get in and then any given Saturday. Just look at the seeding numbers left, it’s the #5, #6, #7 and #8 teams. Ranking wise it’s 3, 4, 5, 6.
SEC bias thing that exists only on the internet , I dont think many people in real life would actually buy that the SEC was doing that but online the haters are emboldened
When your starting QB is a transfer it hurts your argument lmao But Notre Dame and Penn State both don't rely heavily on the transfer market. Still recruit and develop but supplement with the transfer portal. Notre Dame has a lot more NIL money and does more than Penn State in that realm, but aside from that they're much more similar than they are to Texas or Ohio state
I don't want to hear it. All I hear is 20 million dollar roster, about Ohio State. In reality they were #4 in NIL, behind Oregon, Texas and your Irish.
@@Al-Rudigor NIL and transfer portal are two different things. My comment was about the transfer players and them not being high level players. Ohio state got Caleb downs and Julian sayin from Alabama. Those are five star guys. Big difference in transfer talent
A lot of teams just need that talented QB, now they will get it depending on its bag, now thats the American way, gotta love it, there will be “more” parity then before 😂
Are these the 4 best teams in the country? Yes, how do we know? We have a tournament. The rest lost or didn't earn their way in. And the bowl performances show this.
sec just had a down year. nothing to do with nil. saban retired so first year coach. half the players left when saban retired. one playing at texas and another at ohio st. it's simply a rebuilding year for bama. ga lost their qb so that's what happened with them. you can't just throw a 2nd string qb in there and keep going like nothing changed. only bama could kinda do that when they had tua and hurts at the same time...but that didn't last long. hurts left and went to oklahoma even before the NIL.
@@stanpratt6546 I certainly have been, thanks! Enjoy crying about Michigan on TH-cam for beating your team down and winning a natty for the rest of your life.
Guys the final four are Texas, Penn St, Notre Dame and Ohio St. Anyone telling you NIL has changed college football doesn't know college football. Those 4 schools are POWERHOUSES. To think there is a massive change and any school has a chance is laughable.
I've been a long time usc fan and I don't care if usc wins the national title. with the nil im just watching out for the next guys that go pro Case in point, Jeremiah Smith, what an exepctional talent. He should be able to pro right away
The problem is the seeding was different from the CFP rankings. If you gave byes to the 4 highest teams, not 4 highest ranked conference champions, Oregon gets the winner of an Indiana Boise game.
The Bi-week for conference winners doesn’t bother me…but no weeks off in the future! College basketball doesn’t do it! Just play lower seeds! That system has worked for over a generation….
Let vegas pick the seeding? What's the point of even playing then. Bad idea. If a conf champ doesn't mean anything, the get rod of it, or better yet, just include the 4 main conferences. No mountian west, no pac 4.
SEC still went 13 of 20 against ACC, big ten and big twelve….the big teams are still the big teams. There are no “shockers or Cinderellas in the final four” this is click bait on a dozen college shows.
The same 10 programs that have been in the mix for the championship in the last 10 years are the one that's in now. It's so disingenuous and this narrative is being pushed to get fans to accept this crap. The top 10 in recruiting and transfer portal hasn't changed in fact it's gotten worse. If a good player is on a bad team it's automatic now they're going to one of the rich programs. College football is the sec, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, and Oregon. Same as the previous era.
Best 4 teams? Why is that even a requirement? The playoffs in all sports do not always produce a winner as the 'best team' Its about who is playing the best during the playoffs. Many times the clear favorites don't win because of injuries, missed field goals, fluke plays, and other football god intangibles. If it was supposed to be predictable, there would be no reason to play the games.
I agree about Las Vegas and the seading , but if the NCAA goes to them for that are there some underhanded things going on with seading certain team for money because like you say all they care about is money
The bowl games have always been useless. And became even more so the more that were added and 6-6 teams were getting bids. It is a game played for nothing. It took until sometime in the 2000’s for the one and two ranked teams to actually play for a title. Before that it was just who some random people decided were the national champions. To me this will be the first real national champion.
College is semi pro. The team with the money can buy a championship. Maybe the pros should be subsidizing high school football ? Is Nil above board ? It's all about the money
What do you think of having all conference champions in FBS1 get in playoff and also have twice as many at large teams get in. There are 9 conference champions now so that would be 18 at large teams so 27 teams total. The 18 at large teams would play each other to play same number of games as conference champions. Then the 18 teams left the at large teams and conference champions would be seeded based on committee rankings which it may be possible for two conference champions to play each other based on rankings. After you get to the odd number of teams in this case 9 then the highest ranking eliminated team would get a chance to get back in to make even number of 10 in this case. Every time you get to odd number the next highest ranking eliminated teams that has not been double eliminated would be back into playoff. So in this case with 5 teams left the next highest single eliminated team back in to make 6 and then when there are 3 teams left another highest ranking single eliminated team in to make semi final. You are giving eliminated teams a second chance but not making non eliminated teams play any extra games like with byes. This format would work regardless of any changes in number of conferences. So conference champions in and twice as many at large teams could work every year with this format I mentioned and bowl games could facilitate these matchups. What do you think? Seems like fair competition where most of results are decided on the field. This format would be one game more and two more games for single eliminated team. It seems like there should be less conference games though.
I wonder how many players on these teams are majoring in molecular biology or chemical engineering . . . I also wonder how many of them know what they're even majoring in.
12 teams is too many. Chop it down to 8. It's too late to do that, but 12 was unnecessary. Automatic byes to conference champions is dumb. With 8 teams there wouldn't be a bye. Boise shouldn't have even been there. A non-power conference team shouldn't be playing for the national title. This isn't basketball.
Every year is different. Quit acting like now you know what the future is gonna be like after one year. Things were never consistent in any era of college football anyways, not to get all altruistic but everything changes foo
The Big 10 in this new area of paying will be good. Alot of those kids who played in the South in the past will now come up North for the money. I dont think big industry and money when someone says Alabama.
I don’t think these are the best teams. Two or three other teams should’ve won their games, but they were rusty because they haven’t played for 4 to 5 weeks. The playoffs need to change where the first round is the start of the bowl season the second round 10 days later third round around Christmas/New Year’s and the championship should be the first or second Monday of the new year that way all the teams can be at their best when they play each other, you could easily argue being one of the top four teams and have that first round by put you at a disadvantage when you play a team that got to play a week to 10 days before
Not gonna listen to someone who ignores the rules and says Texas should have lost to Arizona state. You're just someone who reads headlines (scripts in this guys case) and doesn't actually watch the games. They let Asu break tons of rules and even gave em a few first downs. Just cuz y'all clearly hate Texas, as you always have, doesn't mean they deserved to lose, it just neans you wanted them to lose. And deserved to lose? Asu couldn't do anything without trick plays and literally using illegal wrestling moves. Gtfo haters, go cry some more cuz your team lost and you're the ones who can't man up to reality.
@@AdrianFarris-m5f If Oregon lost 3 games they would have finally got to beat Alabama and the season would feel like a success. Instead of losing to a team that they have already beaten.
@@AdrianFarris-m5f I'll look at the bracket if Oregon is playing in the playoffs I'll watch if not I'll skip it. I won't waste my time watching a regular season that doesn't matter.
The big name brand schools are still getting 4 and 5 star talent at every position, the difference now is they can't do it for the entire roster anymore because guys are just transferring where they can start. So the first string of the big teams is still what it used to be, but they don't have the depth anymore. They can't just plug in another 4 or 5 star lineman to replace the guy who got hurt in the 2nd game of the year.
OS roster is full of juniors and seniors. You pay them well to stay!
Yea… it’s diffused talent more widely. You’re exactly right though … if you’re a 5 star why be 3rd string at OSU or Bama when you could be the star of Colorado or Indiana or etc
There aren’t as many 5 star players as 4 star anyway
Yes and no. Big $ schools just go and buy proven players to fill weaknesses. Yes IU and CO become competitive instantly but OSU is a college all star team.
And I wouldn't say it's all above board now. The player pay probably is, but tampering is going on and agents are making bank with the churn.
It never was the entire SEC and the entire Big 10 are better than everyone else. It was Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State and Michigan are on a different level.
Yep. Just individual teams and it's all cyclical, depending a lot on who's coaching. I don't know when fans started becoming proud of a conference. Used to be that most fans were just dedicated to their favorite team without much regard as to whose conference was better.
Florida, LSU, and Auburn also had natties during that run of SEC dominance. Until Harbaugh, it was the SEC, Ohio State, Clemson and everyone else.
Michigan won in 1997 after not winning since 1948, they have a losing bowl record. They are not on a different level.
@@MichaelOdomwest16thAve And that '97 nattie was sus. Big 10 was weak that year and they beat Ryan Leaf and Wazzou in the Rose Bowl, while Nebraska was dismantling Payton Manning led UT.
It changes constantly in college football. Georgia was nothing before the mid 2010s. Alabama was completely irrelevant for most of the 2 decades before Nick Saban. Ohio State couldn't win it until Jim Tressel, for decades before that. Michigan has won 2 championships in 80 years........places like Florida, Miami, Notre Dame, Nebraska, Oklahoma and others were the Big Time Programs, in previous recent decades.
Basically Saban retired and he carried the SEC for 15 years.
He cheated every year
If Saban cheated every year how come he didn’t stay on then? He would have been able to get away with a lot more now than ever. I am not a Bama fan by the way. They basically opened the flood gates for them to cheat legally. Don’t say cause the portal either. Thats a cop out.
@@LeroyJenkins12B because everyone can pay players now the same way he has for the past 20 years. . Dicksaban couldn't handle that fact plus he's scared of deon in colorado. He's avoiding him like he avoided pete carroll at usc
@@mikewilliams9069you’re an unserious person
A cheater has to have rules. The more rules the better. When rules are eliminated the cheater’s advantage is over.
It's not rocket science. What the Soft Eastern Conference did better than all other conferences was cheat with bagmen. NIL and transfer portal has leveled the playing field by making pay for play easy for everyone. When you listen to the coaching ranks they are quite candid about how hard it was competing with those bagmen.
Great point
College football has been compensating players in m a ny different ways for years. Money, nice cars, friendly women. Now it's all money. College football is now the minor league for the NFL without costing th e nfl a dime.
So's college basketball for the NBA.
College football has always been that for the NFL. What are you talking about?
Cheeseburgers....
It always was
@@Rick-jf6sgPlease tell me why they gave Texas Home field advantage to Texas at Arlington?
That decision favors the Texas longhorn that will have enormous local energy batteries feeding the longhorns energy that is not being equally transferred to Ohio State
So the CFO plays favorites to make sure their Mob Bosses are happy or they get whacked and targeting for NOT obeying the ABUSER rules of QI playing games with their minds Solar coded power battery operated slaves
That's Mob Rule means
Obey the Corporate tyrant or U get targeted for reporting the Eternal Sun TRUTH of War Game Crimes against Humanity
Mu ah VA 💋🌈 Aurora's
Free market is glorious. Now we just need Northwestern and Harvard to spend all their alum money and buy a championship. 😂
Only bringing it up because there's a lot of schools up north even in the NIL era that are asleep with athletics.
That would be awesome!
Phil Knight gave Oregon a blank check and they still got their doors blown off - money alone is not the solution.
The Ivy League did just decide to participate in the FCS playoffs starting in 2025.
@@Adam-xo5iq Those multi billion endowments are going to produce an Ivy League National Championship 👀👀
And Cal
They are actually people out there who believe the SEC hasn't been paying players this whole time. Wearing a Livestrong bracelet.
Well, the SEC team I root for hasn’t been paying players. I know this because we completely suck every year.
Dan Patrick careful to skirt the fact that the U was paying players. So was Georgia, and Alabama, more recently Ole Miss. However, if Michigan steals some signals these idiots lose their minds
Have you noticed that in the last 25 years that non Sec teams that were good or on the rise have scandals that good Ole ESPN sniffs out? Penn State, usc, ohiost.,Michigan.... not a peep about sec schools!
We need to stop pretending that the SEC or the U were the only schools paying players. I was a student manager for a mid tier division one program, we paid players for crying out loud.
@@Chalk89when a school like Michigan can’t get more than one 5-star while a South Carolina gets 9-10, you know which team is paying for them..
Please tell me why they gave Texas Home field advantage to Texas at Arlington?
That decision favors the Texas longhorn that will have enormous local energy batteries feeding the longhorns energy that is not being equally transferred to Ohio State
So the CFO plays favorites to make sure their Mob Bosses are happy or they get whacked and targeting for NOT obeying the ABUSER rules of QI playing games with their minds Solar coded power battery operated slaves
That's Mob Rule means
Obey the Corporate tyrant or U get targeted for reporting the Eternal Sun TRUTH of War Game Crimes against Humanity
Mu ah VA 💋🌈 Aurora's
Where’s your evidence of paying players?
All 4 teams losing after having the 1st round bye isn't as big a deal as people think. All 4 of them were underdogs.... The only real surprise was Oregon not showing up.
Fewer top recruits sitting on the bench means increased player experience. That should improved the quality of players coming into the NFL, particularly at the quarterback position.
When MLB, NFL, NHL, and NCAA basketball teams advance do we ask “are the best teams still playing”? No. Why do we ask that in the CFP?
Because the seeding makes some sense
SEC was paying players with lower academic standards for years. Plus, in the south they hold back players a year to bulk them up so you get freshman that are actually 19 and ready to play versus the B1G where academic standards are much higher
Sorry, but you're wrong. The Big 10 goes after those same 4 and 5 dummies that the SEC does. If a player qualified to attend a D1 school, they can go to any D1 school. Read the rules. The head coach and AD control the scholarship offers, not the school or conference. Granted, they can have guidelines but there isn't a major D1 football or basketball program that has SAT minimums above the NCAA minimum. That's why they are called Athletic Scholarships. Your theory has debunked a thousand times by those who educate themselves on subject.
the biggest problem with the playoffs is that it fosters among fans the mindset that if one's team doesn't win the whole thing, it was a failed season. Only one team in the system finishes with a win. Oregon gave its fans a lot of good moments. One bad outcome shouldn't ruin the flavor of a great season. I'm a Buckeye fan, and if they lose to Texas, and all I can do is cry about one loss to a good team, and not remember the fun of watching them beat Penn State, Tennessee, Indiana and Oregon (and the pain of losing to Michigan), then I have a problem that nobody else is going to fix. And if OSU wins this year, that's great, but they can't win every year. As fans we have to appreciate what our programs do and recognize that nobody gets to win them all. NIL and the Portal will make it even harder for the biggest names to dominate year after year.
Agreed. I’d rather have the chance to get to the Rose Bowl every year vs. a contrived playoff format.
If OSU doesn't win it all it is absolutely a waste.
Not so much a wasted season. A bunch of wasted $$
Most expensive team in college ball.
@@matthewbeaver5026 Oregon spent more. Not a lot more, but a bit more. I read that Texas also spent more. But who knows how accurate the actual numbers are? OSU spent a lot, that's for sure. It wouldn't be wasted. I've enjoyed the show no matter who wins the big trophy.
Spreading out the playoff games is ridiculous. College Football is a big enough brand to compete with the NFL on Saturdays towards the end of the year. It’s been like 25 days since Oregon played a football game. As a Notre Dame fan I actually like that we were able to keep our momentum going with the Indiana game.
That is no different than the layoff under the old Bowl system.
Just gives them more time to talk about it and sell advertising. Not a sport left that ends anywhere near the season it's actually supposed to be played in.
Agreed, there is no reason the whole thing should be wrapped up by Jan 1. D2 has a 28 team playoff with 1st round byes and is done by mid Dec.. this 2 -3 week in-between games is bullshit.
@@kennetzel6101not true. Osu had a 10 day layoff vs Oregon 24 day lat off. Makes a difference. And im an osu fan
@@kennetzel6101 in the old system both teams would have the same layoff. IN this system you have a team that hasn't played in 3 weeks against a team that not only played 10 days prior, but won. I thought it might be an advantage going in, when I saw the schedule. Not one team with the bye had a good first 1st quarter. Look at the way ASU started the game, and the way they played after the first quarter. Likewise Oregon, and BSU. Georgia was bad all game.
Georgia is not and was not a good team. Did anyone ask how the team with the most drops in the country and WRs that lack basic catching ability made it to the playoffs? The only team they beat was Texas.
They’ve been pumped up and propped up by ESPN all year. I remember during the SEC championship game when the announcers said at least 10 times, even if Georgia loses they’re still in the playoffs.
They won the sec. Wtf are you talking about
@@obieknobbethe sec is soft conference
@@fredericklockard3854georgia played weak competition
I am an OSU fan. Not a Georgia fan, but how does that team end up with receivers that can’t catch a cold. Look at the difference between Beck this year to last after Bowers and McConkey left. I have watched parts of Georgia games this year and 86 has dropped an unbelievable amount of easy catches. He did last night when he was wide open. Guess they get a lot of the big linemen, but not the skilled players.
Yeah, I bet you like the shiny toys.... ohio Soft university.
Is this guy a genius or what? No kidding NIL And Portal have changed the game.
He asked if the remaining 4 are the 4 best teams. That doesn't matter. We're looking for the best team and I guarantee the best team is one of the 4. Stop acting like every team has to be the best. We're looking for the 1 best team. The champion.
Vegas is all about profits and Dan Patrick you want Vegas seeding the playoffs. Give me a break, just let a AI-BCS system do the seeding now. I really never thought the BCS was that bad compared to humans and the politics.
Absolutely should be a point system as opposed to human voting eye test opinions. The problem the last time imo was that the ratings were done by math majors and were too complex for anyone to understand, much less verify. I don't think it has to be that difficult. You only need a few components, just assign them some weighted points. Wins, strength of schedule and playing on the road. And you could also add margin of victory but I don't really like that one. And don't get cute determining strength of schedule. Just use opponents winning percentages and maybe opponents opponents winning percentage. It may not be perfect, but neither is what they're doing now. At least everyone would know the criteria under this method.
FPI would have put Alabama in, and Alabama lost to a 5-loss Michigan team missing a ton of starters. FPI, btw, is using a lot of the old BCS algorithm originally created by Jeff Sagarin, Ken Massey and Wes Colley. The computers don't know what the hell they're doing, at the end of the regular season FPI had 3 teams with 3-4 losses in the top 12.
I agree that BCS formula wasn't bad. Its issue was it could only select the best 2 teams and there were years when more than two teams were deserving. People forget though that it included the eye test as 2 of the 4 major components were the coaches poll and the media poll. Your average rating of the computer rankings was the 3rd component. Your number if losses was a fourth component for at least some of the years.
@@stevescheidjr4632
I did forget about that. So even then the eye test was skewing things. I say go to a point system. I don't want to say computer system because the BCS computer results were explained in ways that were hard for me to understand, such as:
Jeff Sagarin-author of one of the BCS computer polls- explains his schedule rating (strength of schedule) as follows: The SCHEDULE ratings represent what the rating would have to be for a hypothetical team to have a mathematical expectation of winning precisely 50% of their games against the schedule played by the team in question in the games that it has played so far.
Who could verify that? Even if you had access to Sagarin's program it'd still be difficult. I think you'd need a computer to calculate the results, but to me, strength of schedule could simply be determined with opponents winning percentages.
Vegas? Gross, would have had SEC 3 loss garbage in the playoff then.
Pay to Play… Leveling the playing field… SEC is done…
So all the other schools have money and the SEC don't?? 😂😂
SEC screwed it's self by building a very strong conference. ND and the Big 10 are set up well for this new playoff system. Play a half ass schedule, and you're in!
@@brentkuehne435 SEC just paid players when it was illegal now it's legal, Big Ten schools have more money.
@nick21614 You sure about that! 🤔
Sec have money, but others have money too. Today if you are good you dont sit on the bench of Alabama or Georgia. You play at Duke, Rutgers, Nebraska, Colorado etc@@lanceruffin4298
CFB's compass has been upset and it's wonderful. SEC schools not named Texas better go find them some billionaires.
There are 9 programs that i think are in their own class as most iconic to college football. Four of 'em made the playoffs this season and all four are still playing. Can't go wrong with any matchup among this group for me.
People don't want to hear this, but conferences don't matter anymore, the playoffs made it every man for themselves
Jalen Milroe is not a loss...
College sports are ridiculous.
I’ve lost all interest in college football. I haven’t watched any post season play. I’m sure I’m in the minority but I’m done with it.
What's sad is that these NIL recipients receive athletic scholarships, even though they aren't even "scholars."
Im a traditionalist. Can we please go back to the original conferences now that the SEC by way of Bama, Georgia, Tenesse, Florida, LSU, and Auburn have been taken off their pedestal and dethroned. These monstrous conferences, no need if you add 2 or 4 team spots in the playoff. Why would they want to stay realigned if everyone now gets a shot at the NCAA college football playoff. I want the rivalries back and the pagentry of the bowl games back. This makes them more money, but if they add more games, they won't need these mega monster conferences, would they? Im asking because with NIL, transfer portal and adding 2 more spots, do they really need this to stay relative? I miss my PAC 12, i miss the old Big 10, Big 12, Big East, ACC WAC, and Mountain West. What's the point of these mega conferences if you've reached parity? Alabama and Georgia are no longer the boogie man l, so why keep these monstrocity of football conferences alive if you've already obtained your goal? Like, what's the point? I just dont get it anymore, i understood that there was a need to do this when the SEC was dominating everyone, but now that it's over, what for? Big Bad Wolf 🐺 will no longer matter, so whos afraid now?
I agree but how far back should we go? Big 12 was mid-90s. Miami was an independent during their best run. Do we bring back the Border Conference or leave Texas in the SWC? And for the schools in these conferences, it's not just about sports--particularly the Big 10, there's a big research incentive to being part of the league. I'm not opposed to the idea but it's more complicated than laid out.
Yea as a lifelong wvu fan. I'd love to go back to the big east.
The old big east with all of its members pitt VT Miami. Cuse maybe leave temple and uconn out this time around 😂
If they're paying these kids big boy money, why can't they make them sign a big boy contract to stick around for more than a season?
@joeseddit You could also make a max dollar cap for every team. If you don’t the big name school will still always win because they have deeper pockets.
There really isn’t a way to fix it but there needs to be some sort of mea culpa given to SMU for them getting the death penalty so many years ago. Honestly for me that’s when I began to realize how dumb the NCAA rules were then as I began to study antitrust laws I realized how illegal their rules were.
So the SEC gets the “oh the game has changed teams have caught up?” But Ohio State Oregon PSU Notre Dame and are doing just fine
All those schools are far richer than any SEC team not named Texas. SEC is full of poors compared to the BIG.
The conference that had the most to lose from the NIL and transfer portal was the conference with the most talent, and that is, of course, the SEC. So there's two ways of looking at this new college football landscape . Some will say that spreading out talent is a good thing, and those who say it's a bad thing because of money being a huge part of a players decision process. Prime example, just recently, LSU lost their five star QB recruit to Michigan, who simply waved a bunch of money in his face, a ton of money. So the only way to fix this sort of thing is to have these players sign contracts . These players are getting paid like professional athletes, and therefore, they need to be treated as such. Also, a cap is needed to prevent schools with the deepest pockets from gobbling up all the talent. If something isn't done to get this under control, it will destroy college football as we know it.
Salary cap is BS. It discourages transparency, creates incentives for a SuperPAC like structure (as in politics, not Pac 10). Does it apply to groups not directly associated with the university, who pay players to come? Does it apply to sponsorship deals that can be arranged to coincide with signing? etc etc. This is college football, land of perpetual inequality. It will perpetuate itself as it can, just like it did before the portal (Go to teams with biggest TV exposure, go to teams where there's a black market in payer playing, teams over-recruiting, etc etc). I agree, contracts are a must, but none of that NFL BS where employer can cut you at will but you can't leave. If you want a guy to sign a multi-year contract, no signing bonuses, these are 18 year olds--pay should be distributed evenly or back-loaded. Leave the coaching exception in (transfer allowed with coaching change--can be written into contract payment structure).
College football as we know it is already done. It was done 30 years ago with the BCS. It was done when the first guys realized opting out of increasingly meaningless bowl games was the right move. It was done with the 4-team CFP (CFP was a huge boon to the SEC). And it's done again.
@@patrickwright8552must be OSU fan if you don't want a cap.
As for the contracts. You can't leave a 4 or 5 star on the bench til his Jr bc he's under contract.
Yes I absolutely wish these kids had more loyalty to the program they picked to start their careers. Though if a cap of some kind was developed it would offset some of that if we didn't have teams out here spending 20mil more than any other school.
@@robwalls6057 nah only root for O$U when they're playing the $EC. This age of mass media does funny things to loyalties. I'm against a cap because it just encourages shady workarounds.
Really miss DP's 2 hour block on 104.5 the zone Nashville. They really messed up not re-newing their contact with Dan.
When talking about Texas they were inconsistent and was it ASU being better or Texas just relaxed in that game after being up two scores and couldn't get it started again? If truth be told the most consistent team left is Notre Dame with nine wins in a row by double digits including Louisville, Georgia, Indiana, Georgia Tech and Michigan.
It is too early too tell if there will be any significant changes. This is just the first season of NIL and we still only got traditionally big schools fighting for a championship.
The teams that were good pre NIL are still the teams left standing in the Final 4. Ohio State. Notre Dame. Texas. Penn State. They have always been great. The players have always been “taken care of😂”. Don’t think for a minute those schools weren’t shelling out big $$$ for decades to players and simply got away with it.
Notre dame didn’t…that’s why Brian Kelly left lol
@@FrancoDFernandoThey used to have their pick from all of the Catholic HS players. Ohio State and Penn State had good players because of the great migration, ie steel mills. The south was just the south. I'm talking about demographics here of course.
@@Al-Rudigor I mean that was decades ago before the BCS…fairly certain OP is talking about in the past 10-20 years
Guess you haven't been paying attention.
Penn State has never made a playoff before this year. Notre Dame got blown out the last time they played in the playoff and blown out in one of the last years of the BCS natty. You're delusional if you think the SEC wasn't more pervasive with their bagmen than any other conference.
Sam Gilbert paid so UCLA had all the talent for John Wooden
This is what you get when you're not the only one buying and hoarding players, and actually have to know how to coach,haha. The playing field is even now.
Interesting until the end, when his take about Vegas running the playoffs is the stupidest thing he's ever said!!!!
at some point, the ncaa will drop the requirement that the football players also need to be students.
they are school employees
Not really. The same name brand teams have a chance at the Championship. There’s no little engine that could team. Those teams lost.
When all the administrators and coaches were the only persons getting paid millions college football was perfect. Typical heirarchy behavior.
YT captions: "All right Satan pull questions today"
Great points, about 10 years ago of the top 100 college players, 60 of them went to the SEC
I disagree with any shift. I don’t go off bowl games outside the CFP, there are sit outs and more of a look at what you might have going into next year. With the CFP people are seeming to forget Georgia beat themselves, with a backup QB making his first start. The CFP brackets were also wonky. Penn State has had the easiest path so far.
As for season conference records, the diluted B1G was massively favorable for them to get Ohio State, Oregon, and Indiana in. I don’t even think Indiana beat a team that was over 500 in the season, and they didn’t play Oregon or Penn. They easily could have had a 2-3 loss season and been on the outside. Penn avoided Oregon, they could have been on the bubble. Neither had a good win all year. Texas also benefited from this with who they played. I think everyone is missing that certain teams had brutal schedules while the teams that got in with 1 or 2 losses lost their biggest season games. The B1G definitely benefited from this the most, 18 teams is bloated and this will happen again. Even 16 is bloated and allows a random schedule like Texas got. Texas isn’t the best team in the SEC, but their schedule then the wonky seeding gave them the easiest path to be where they are at, same with Penn State. This year really isn’t about why the best team is for the natty, it’s which team has been lucky with their schedule, did enough to get in and then any given Saturday. Just look at the seeding numbers left, it’s the #5, #6, #7 and #8 teams. Ranking wise it’s 3, 4, 5, 6.
The SEC was the only conference paying players prior to NIL? Hard to buy or believe
They did more underhanded things in recruiting than anyone by far. But now the money is out in the open so the talent is spreading
😂😂😂 they were that is why they won 13 out of the 15 nattys
SEC bias thing that exists only on the internet , I dont think many people in real life would actually buy that the SEC was doing that but online the haters are emboldened
@@GeronFletcher Oh please, the SEC was quite selective in their audits. At least two big ten programs went overlooked for a long time.
Not hard to believe at all. The SEC spends a decade winning a rigged game then flexes about it? Shane Gillis was right.
People making too big of a deal with Notre Dame’s transfer players. None of those players are star’s.
When your starting QB is a transfer it hurts your argument lmao
But Notre Dame and Penn State both don't rely heavily on the transfer market. Still recruit and develop but supplement with the transfer portal. Notre Dame has a lot more NIL money and does more than Penn State in that realm, but aside from that they're much more similar than they are to Texas or Ohio state
I don't want to hear it. All I hear is 20 million dollar roster, about Ohio State. In reality they were #4 in NIL, behind Oregon, Texas and your Irish.
@@JM-wf2to Is Riley Leonard a star? He’s just a solid qb. There are 20 qb’s across the country that are on his level.
@@Al-Rudigor NIL and transfer portal are two different things. My comment was about the transfer players and them not being high level players. Ohio state got Caleb downs and Julian sayin from Alabama. Those are five star guys. Big difference in transfer talent
Nil is also striping teams like Georgia of their depth players so it creates more parity
Hey Dan, did you get that shirt at a penitentiary gift shop? 😂 HNY, bro!
A lot of teams just need that talented QB, now they will get it depending on its bag, now thats the American way, gotta love it, there will be “more” parity then before 😂
NIL changed college sports landscape??? Just seeing this now??
Get rid of gambling. Online should be illegal. It is ruining people's lives. I know not popular opinion but...
Are these the 4 best teams in the country? Yes, how do we know? We have a tournament. The rest lost or didn't earn their way in. And the bowl performances show this.
sec just had a down year. nothing to do with nil. saban retired so first year coach. half the players left when saban retired. one playing at texas and another at ohio st. it's simply a rebuilding year for bama. ga lost their qb so that's what happened with them. you can't just throw a 2nd string qb in there and keep going like nothing changed. only bama could kinda do that when they had tua and hurts at the same time...but that didn't last long. hurts left and went to oklahoma even before the NIL.
In 2014 Ohio Station the natty with their 3rd string qb. Although with nil you can't stockpile that much talent now.
@@stevescheidjr4632 yeah it is possible but rare especially now with NIL. there was a time when florida had tebow and cam newton at the same time lol
Curious how Michigan was able to beat Vegas over/under consistently there for a few years.
And then fell off a cliff.
It's called cheating!
Option 1: Assistant coach
Option 2: Head coach
Option 3: Quarterback
They still beat OSU and Bama this year
Curious how they can lose their entire team and coaching staff and still beat OSU. Must have been muh siiiiiiiiigns. Soft af crybaby
@@HyzersGR Enjoy watching the playoffs.
@@stanpratt6546 I certainly have been, thanks! Enjoy crying about Michigan on TH-cam for beating your team down and winning a natty for the rest of your life.
Guys the final four are Texas, Penn St, Notre Dame and Ohio St. Anyone telling you NIL has changed college football doesn't know college football. Those 4 schools are POWERHOUSES. To think there is a massive change and any school has a chance is laughable.
When was Penn State powerhouse? Maybe 30,40 years ago.
Cut the playoffs from 12 to 8
Why if I’m a top recruit would I not want to go somewhere and play
I've been a long time usc fan and I don't care if usc wins the national title. with the nil im just watching out for the next guys that go pro Case in point, Jeremiah Smith, what an exepctional talent. He should be able to pro right away
Go to a 16-team playoff, top seeds get home games and go by true rankings instead of conference champions.
12 is enough.
NIL is the beginning of the end of College football
Well, the end of college football as it has been known for sure.
Really NIL has led to a shift in College Football? No shit!!!
Dont make excuses for the teams that lost!!! Allways excuses..
Penn state has not won one of "these ganes" yet. They won 2 games as double digit favorites...like always.
Would Oregon rather have had a bye or a home game? That's the problem with the seeding
If playoffs were 16 teams Oregon could have 2,3 home games.
The problem is the seeding was different from the CFP rankings. If you gave byes to the 4 highest teams, not 4 highest ranked conference champions, Oregon gets the winner of an Indiana Boise game.
The Bi-week for conference winners doesn’t bother me…but no weeks off in the future! College basketball doesn’t do it! Just play lower seeds! That system has worked for over a generation….
Honestly there are no great teams this year. Michigan's Natty team would boat race every single one of them...
Let vegas pick the seeding? What's the point of even playing then. Bad idea. If a conf champ doesn't mean anything, the get rod of it, or better yet, just include the 4 main conferences. No mountian west, no pac 4.
I would love to know why Dan Patrick doesn’t like James Franklin. Curious minds want to know, haha.
Agree with everything except GA. Stop it. If Beck plays Different game.
The SEC is no longer king now that EVERYONE can pay for players.
SEC still went 13 of 20 against ACC, big ten and big twelve….the big teams are still the big teams. There are no “shockers or Cinderellas in the final four” this is click bait on a dozen college shows.
NIL is going to make coaches develop players again
The same 10 programs that have been in the mix for the championship in the last 10 years are the one that's in now. It's so disingenuous and this narrative is being pushed to get fans to accept this crap. The top 10 in recruiting and transfer portal hasn't changed in fact it's gotten worse. If a good player is on a bad team it's automatic now they're going to one of the rich programs. College football is the sec, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, and Oregon. Same as the previous era.
Best 4 teams? Why is that even a requirement? The playoffs in all sports do not always produce a winner as the 'best team' Its about who is playing the best during the playoffs. Many times the clear favorites don't win because of injuries, missed field goals, fluke plays, and other football god intangibles. If it was supposed to be predictable, there would be no reason to play the games.
I agree about Las Vegas and the seading , but if the NCAA goes to them for that are there some underhanded things going on with seading certain team for money because like you say all they care about is money
The kids are still being used and thrown away in the end.😢
The bowl games are useless now. Why even watch ?
The bowl games have always been useless. And became even more so the more that were added and 6-6 teams were getting bids. It is a game played for nothing.
It took until sometime in the 2000’s for the one and two ranked teams to actually play for a title. Before that it was just who some random people decided were the national champions.
To me this will be the first real national champion.
Because we love COLLEGE football? 🏈
There are four teams left but are they the "best"?
Um, Tiger shot -29 but is he the best?
Stop looking at Logos to seed or rank
College is semi pro. The team with the money can buy a championship. Maybe the pros should be subsidizing high school football ? Is Nil above board ? It's all about the money
Love how notre dame wins ONE big game against the SEC now they’re the bad guy
That isn't why they are the bad guy
What do you think of having all conference champions in FBS1 get in playoff and also have twice as many at large teams get in. There are 9 conference champions now so that would be 18 at large teams so 27 teams total. The 18 at large teams would play each other to play same number of games as conference champions. Then the 18 teams left the at large teams and conference champions would be seeded based on committee rankings which it may be possible for two conference champions to play each other based on rankings. After you get to the odd number of teams in this case 9 then the highest ranking eliminated team would get a chance to get back in to make even number of 10 in this case. Every time you get to odd number the next highest ranking eliminated teams that has not been double eliminated would be back into playoff. So in this case with 5 teams left the next highest single eliminated team back in to make 6 and then when there are 3 teams left another highest ranking single eliminated team in to make semi final. You are giving eliminated teams a second chance but not making non eliminated teams play any extra games like with byes. This format would work regardless of any changes in number of conferences. So conference champions in and twice as many at large teams could work every year with this format I mentioned and bowl games could facilitate these matchups. What do you think? Seems like fair competition where most of results are decided on the field. This format would be one game more and two more games for single eliminated team. It seems like there should be less conference games though.
Yup the cheating SEC exposed.
I wonder how many players on these teams are majoring in molecular biology or chemical engineering . . . I also wonder how many of them know what they're even majoring in.
12 teams is too many. Chop it down to 8. It's too late to do that, but 12 was unnecessary. Automatic byes to conference champions is dumb. With 8 teams there wouldn't be a bye. Boise shouldn't have even been there. A non-power conference team shouldn't be playing for the national title. This isn't basketball.
Every year is different. Quit acting like now you know what the future is gonna be like after one year. Things were never consistent in any era of college football anyways, not to get all altruistic but everything changes foo
There will never be another Oklahoma State with Thurman Thomas starting & Barry Sanders backing him up... & that's good
Correct FSU bowl game was versus NFL like team vs Average SEC team UGA was South Carolina in roids this year
The Big 10 in this new area of paying will be good. Alot of those kids who played in the South in the past will now come up North for the money. I dont think big industry and money when someone says Alabama.
I don’t think these are the best teams. Two or three other teams should’ve won their games, but they were rusty because they haven’t played for 4 to 5 weeks. The playoffs need to change where the first round is the start of the bowl season the second round 10 days later third round around Christmas/New Year’s and the championship should be the first or second Monday of the new year that way all the teams can be at their best when they play each other, you could easily argue being one of the top four teams and have that first round by put you at a disadvantage when you play a team that got to play a week to 10 days before
Not gonna listen to someone who ignores the rules and says Texas should have lost to Arizona state. You're just someone who reads headlines (scripts in this guys case) and doesn't actually watch the games. They let Asu break tons of rules and even gave em a few first downs. Just cuz y'all clearly hate Texas, as you always have, doesn't mean they deserved to lose, it just neans you wanted them to lose. And deserved to lose? Asu couldn't do anything without trick plays and literally using illegal wrestling moves. Gtfo haters, go cry some more cuz your team lost and you're the ones who can't man up to reality.
Bottom line is the Rich will get richer.
Milroe will be bagging groceries...
Final Four is basketball.
And now football as well
It's wonderful
Kirby is a joke why are you talking about Vegas lines. The bottom line is UGA got flat out manhandled by Rudy and there a nothing Kirby can say or do
OSu had 33 pass attempts against Michigan never forget Joel Klatts lies
Be the first QB that takes a pay cut by going nfl
Ohio state. - Penn State national Title
Penn St.'s gonna overthink their play-calling again and blow it against ND.
As an Oregon fan I'm not watching a regular season again because the regular season is pointless now. The playoffs are all that matter.
Got to work together as a team to have a chance to win. Need to work at it all season.
The first Oregon vs OSU game was a classic. Don’t diminish your squads victories.
Ok, lose 3 games and tell me if the season is pointless.
@@AdrianFarris-m5f If Oregon lost 3 games they would have finally got to beat Alabama and the season would feel like a success. Instead of losing to a team that they have already beaten.
@@AdrianFarris-m5f I'll look at the bracket if Oregon is playing in the playoffs I'll watch if not I'll skip it. I won't waste my time watching a regular season that doesn't matter.