College Football 2024

[Dudley]

There are around 6-7 teams that begin the year truly capable of winning the title. Maybe fewer than that. Add to that a couple of those teams self-destructed this year and it makes it an even smaller field.

But as an IU fan I can assure you the regular season mattered to us.

 

[antman12]

lmao. I remember where I was when watching this. A truly WTF moment followed by a HOLY S*** play. Clowney was a man amongst boys in college.

 

[Mispeedway15]

Expanding to 12 already rendered the regular season mostly useless for schools with national title capabilities and aspirations, as we just saw. I’m not sure it can get much worse from here, although a specified number of auto bids per league would still suck on principle.

I don’t agree. 10-2 is still a tough task in a major conference, especially with the loaded up schedules

 

[Michfan]

lmao. I remember where I was when watching this. A truly WTF moment followed by a HOLY S*** play. Clowney was a man amongst boys in college.

Thanks for the reminder

 

[Dudley]

Thanks for the reminder

Illegal hit

 

[FLRacingFan]

I don’t agree. 10-2 is still a tough task in a major conference, especially with the loaded up schedules

I don’t think it’s really any harder or easier. The number of conference games has remained the same. There’s just more inequity between intraleague schedules among member schools.

Penn State went 1-1 against Top 25 teams before losing to Oregon in an utterly useless Big Ten CG.

Texas went 0-1 against the Top 25 (Georgia) before losing to Georgia again in an, again, useless conference title game.

I could go on throughout the rest of the playoff field and you’d see a number of similar résumés.

 

[Dudley]

The problem with the current format is that there just aren't 12 elite teams. I have no problem with the teams that made last year's show but that's the kind of disparity you're going to get. I would have stopped at 8.

 

[DIDIT]

The problem with the current format is that there just aren't 12 elite teams. I have no problem with the teams that made last year's show but that's the kind of disparity you're going to get. I would have stopped at 8.

and they way they playoffs went, the top 4 seeds should be the teams out to make 8!

 

[FLRacingFan]

and they way they playoffs went, the top 4 seeds should be the teams out to make 8!

It was expected from the time the format was formalized that at least two of the top four seeds would be cannon fodder since they were awarded exclusively to conference champions, and that’s how it played out.

Oregon lost to the team who had a disappointing regular season but was still #1 in predictive metrics.

Georgia didn’t have a QB and lost to the team who was #2 predictive metrics and, by rule, can never earn a top 4 seed since they’re independent.

Arizona State and Boise State were #12 and #9 in the actual ranking and significant underdogs.

The next move sounds like the SEC and Big Ten pushing expansion to 16 so there won’t be any byes to screw up the bracket - just solidify that the regular season is entirely useless anymore.

 

[Michfan]

I guess I watched a different ASU game. Certainly wouldn't describe that as cannon fodder

 

[FLRacingFan]

I guess I watched a different ASU game. Certainly wouldn't describe that as cannon fodder

Yeah, they outplayed expectations for sure. The broader point is that the current format doesn’t reflect the actual rankings, so they weren’t a ‘true’ #4 seed in the traditional sense. They were a significant underdog, and that’ll probably always be the case until the format changes further. Same thing with Boise as the #3 seed.