Fighting Muskie
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RE: Start over the 8 team playoff with 1989 conferences configs
(01-28-2022 11:50 PM)esayem Wrote: (01-28-2022 01:08 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote: (01-28-2022 11:42 AM)Wahoowa84 Wrote: (01-27-2022 10:59 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote: Leave everything like it was in 1989 with these exceptions:
FSU & SC to the ACC
Penn St, BC, Syracuse, Rutgers, Pitt, Temple, WVU, VT, & Miami form Big East football.
Your playoff is the 7 major conference champs plus a wild card.
Rose, Orange, Cotton, and Sugar Bowls host your quarterfinals.
If you’re feeling frisky—add Utah and BYU to the Big 8 so everyone is at 9 or 10.
If you prefer merit over sticking to history, drop Temple from the Big East and swap in Louisville & Cincinnati.
If you’ve got 7 conferences of 10 all playing round robin schedules there’s no need for CCGs.
This design is great.
SWC and Big 8 (+2) could then contract with Cotton Bowl.
Big 10 and PAC are happily with the Rose Bowl.
ACC and BE (+PSU) champions are natural fits with the Orange Bowl.
SEC plays an at-large selection in the Sugar Bowl.
We just would have needed a football football czar in 1989...with a lot of vision to start an 8 team playoff.
I think it would have been more along these lines:
Rose: PAC 10 vs Big 10 (regardless of seed)
Sugar: SEC
Cotton: SWC
Orange: Big 8
The ACC, Big East, and At Large team would then get placed such that the highest ranked champ with a permanent tie in gets the lowest ranked team from the un-attached pool, etc.
You then reseed the winners for the CFP Final 4.
That's literally what the dude said in my sig said. Except there was no Big East and auto-bowl bids don't work for any kind of fair playoffs.
It’s close but it’s not exact. He’s got the Big 8 in the Cotton Bowl instead of its traditional tie in with the Orange.
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esayem
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RE: Start over the 8 team playoff with 1989 conferences configs
I didn’t think he tied the bowls in with certain conferences, which makes sense if you’re seeding by ranking. You can always have the Pac 10 or Big 10 play in the Rose Bowl regardless.
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01-30-2022 09:20 AM |
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esayem
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RE: Start over the 8 team playoff with 1989 conferences configs
I didn’t think he tied the bowls in with certain conferences, which makes sense if you’re seeding by ranking. You can always have the Pac 10 or Big 10 play in the Rose Bowl regardless.
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01-30-2022 09:20 AM |
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esayem
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RE: Start over the 8 team playoff with 1989 conferences configs
I didn’t think he tied the bowls in with certain conferences, which makes sense if you’re seeding by ranking. You can always have the Pac 10 or Big 10 play in the Rose Bowl regardless.
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01-30-2022 09:20 AM |
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