Under the guidelines of the new playoff system, being a conference champion may be used as a tiebreaker but is not a must. With this rule in place, the strength of the SEC schedule could allow us to see more potential rematches. If the selection committee is as secretive as the BCS formula, fans will be up in arms, and the system will have no chance at working. When college basketball is selecting their field with a committee, it is hard for fans to truly argue that a team who couldn't get in to a field that now has expanded past 64, could have won it.
With the field only being four teams in college football, the selection of these teams could be extremely difficult, and if the reasoning is not transparent and consistent, than this system will not last long. At the end of the day, moving to a four-team playoff was as much about making more money and retaining as much control as possible as it was about naming a true champion. If college football and its governing body wanted to make this about naming a true champion, they would expanded the field to a greater size and not stood in the way of what fans have been asking for.
At the end of the day, I believe that this system will support the SEC more than any other conference. With the ability to get a non-conference champion into the playoff, the SEC has the best chance of sending two teams into the playoff. People outside of SEC country already have enough issues with the conference, mostly out of jealousy, and if this new system gives us rematches like the BCS did last year, people will want it gone.
Will they be still used to help rank teams? Will we rely on the other polls for guidance? Even so, computer ratings played a large role in the BCS, and there were a number of reasons why the foray into data-crunching failed. First, the formula concocted by BCS creator Roy Kramer was inelegant , stirring the polls and computer ratings into an arbitrary statistical mishmash that included team loss totals and an arcane strength of schedule calculation.
Also, it was badly overfit. It was seeking to reduce the incentive for coaches to run up the score on overmatched opponents, but in doing so it also deprived the computer ratings of key data points. One of the most crucial findings in sabermetrics, across virtually all sports, is that the average margin by which a team wins or loses conveys more information than wins and losses alone.
This is especially true in a sport like college football, where the sample of games is so small. Perhaps a computerized system could work if it were deployed with more skill. But the CFP loses that advantage by forcing the top team to play an additional game, opening it up to becoming the victim of bad luck. According to past research of mine, a two-team playoff is won by the best team in the country about 29 percent of the time, while a four-team playoff crowns the best team at a 31 percent clip — hardly any improvement at all.
The debut of the College Football Playoff is being celebrated as progress because it returns to the simplicity of human debate. The changes did produce less controversy in the title game selections, but the BCS produced arguably its greatest unintended effect during these middle years.
While the schools in the non-BCS leagues tried to figure out how to win entry into the other six, the power conferences were playing their own game. Louisville, acting independently of any conference, informed the Big East it would be leaving as well.
But would bring another vote, and one final BCS controversy would doom the system and usher in the playoff era. As the fans at Jack Trice Stadium poured onto the field, it felt like another earthquake. The loss threw the Cowboys, who almost certainly would have faced LSU in the BCS title game had they been undefeated, into a beauty contest with one-loss Alabama. Voters and computers chose Alabama, setting up an all-SEC national title game that would guarantee that league its sixth consecutive national title.
A day after the bowl selections were announced, Big 12 athletic directors voted in a straw poll to support scrapping the BCS in favor of a four-team playoff. It would be replaced by a system that is more fun, more interesting, more lucrative and just as controversial. While the BCS roasts in hell rewatching the Oklahoma-Connecticut Fiesta Bowl for all of eternity, please enjoy a week of stories looking back on a system that changed college football forever.
All this thinking about has inspired me to rank the top 10 songs of that year. No algorithms were used in this ranking. I probably should just list the other tracks on Aquemini and call it a day, but we have to give some other people a chance. Admit it. You wanted to drive a gold tank onto a basketball court. Heck, I still want to do that. Fromm, who earlier this year had to get a piece of crankbait removed from his leg , continued his string of Extremely Georgia Injuries when, according to UGASports.
At this point, the only injury more Georgia than the ones Fromm already has suffered involves a Dale Murphy—signed bat falling out of the sky. Last week, Long was hired to replace Sheahon Zenger at Kansas. Alabama tailback Najee Harris told the San Francisco Chronicle that he considered transferring during a freshman season that started slow but ended with a major role in the second half of the national title game.
At 6'2" and pounds, comparisons to former Crimson Tide back Derrick Henry were inevitable. Henry was barely used in before breaking out in a Sugar Bowl loss to Oklahoma. He played a much bigger role as a sophomore and then won the Heisman Trophy as a junior. If that frustrating freshman year leads to sophomore and junior seasons for Harris that come close to the ones Henry had, Harris and the Tide will be thrilled.
Last week, Hodges was named the No. Two years before he opened a barbecue joint that almost instantly asserted itself as one of the best in Texas and therefore among the best in the country , Grant Pinkerton looked into his freezer, saw a package of duck chunks and had an idea.
He was cooking for a tailgate before the Texas Bowl that matched his alma mater Texas against Arkansas, so he needed to please a big crowd. His idea? Duck and sausage jambalaya. While Pinkerton would prefer to forget everything that happened on the field that day, he never forgot how his friends reacted to jambalaya turned into a rich, silky delicacy by rendered duck fat.
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