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Will anyone even challenge Alabama this year (YES, Texas AM)....or next ? (Yes, Auburn & Oklahoma)


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Oregon played tennessee tech earlier in the year. I hate teams scheduling games against I-AA opponents. I wish they would get rid of it all together, or make it so the games don't count towards bowl eligibility. But, every team does it now (except notre dame and USC). Every SEC team in the top 10 (except LSU) played a I-AA opponent yesterday.

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There will most likely be one undefeated team and about 6 or so with one loss but Alabama will get in again. This is why college football is such a joke when it comes to a National Championship!

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Say Notre Dame loses next weekend to USC(not likely with Barkley out), who will play for the National Championship?

Crazy day of football yesterday though!

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If notre dame loses, and florida beats florida state, it will probably be alabama vs. florida for the national title. If georgia beats alabama, and notre dame loses, and florida loses, it'll be complete chaos. Probably georgia vs. florida state or oregon.

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Exactly. Alabama shouldn't be rewarded for playing a cupcake at the end of the year.

Alabama always schedules a cupcake for the next to last game of the season instead of 4 cupcakes in a row to start the season like the Gophers and almost every other major college football program in the country. While the rest of the programs were playing a cupcake on week 1, Alabama was playing the then top 15 or so ranked Michigan.

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The SEC all played cupcakes last weekend, a quirk of scheduling. And they're not going to get rewarded for it, either. They still gotta play the SEC Championship game, after all. And like Big Dave said, they have played quality non-conference opponents the last few years

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In a best of three they couldn't run the table as A&M already beat them once with only two left.

Originally Posted By: Big Dave2

I meant that Bama would run the table on them the next 2 games. You can take that to the bank.

I think I would pass on taking that to the bank. The Aggies are good enough to split with them...easily.

These national titles are just little more than a popularity contest and a joke.

Give us some true play-offs and then we can count them daddio. laugh

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These national titles are just little more than a popularity contest and a joke.

Give us some true play-offs and then we can count them daddio. laugh

A true play-off system would be the ruination of the College Football atmosphere. You may as well watch the NFL if that is what you want.

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Big Dave, every level of football except for D1 college ball has a playoff. It wouldn't ruin the college atmosphere to have a playoff, in fact I'd argue it would enhance it

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A true play-off system would be the ruination of the College Football atmosphere.

Yeah, because the NCAA BB tournament sucks, said no one ever.

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An 8, or even better 16 team playoff would be AWESOME!! It would draw more viewers then just about anything other than maybe the NFL. I think it would have a shot at passing the NFL ratings once it has a few years to establish itself. Imagine the betting pools it would create. Move it to 16 teams!!!

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The playoffs might be exciting but you would ruin the atmosphere of the regular season games. Look at the NFL, the Vikings even still have a chance of making the playoffs, what does THAT tell you?

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It tells me they are worth watching - they are still alive. If 1-2 loss(es) = no chance at a title, why would you watch your team the rest of the season after a loss? I would watch a 2nd round playoff college game between Oregon and Kansas State long before I'd watch them in a bowl game with no title implications.

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The playoffs might be exciting but you would ruin the atmosphere of the regular season games.
And I read that as....

I can't believe the Aggies beat my Tide and actually proved on the field the Texas A&M Aggies are the better team so I will spout off nonsense about how the tide is better even though they squashed my tide last time. Good thing for these popularity contests that inflate the Tides rankings. We need to stay away from the play-offs or we might have to face the Aggies again and actually prove the braggadocio that is coming out of me. laugh

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The playoffs might be exciting but you would ruin the atmosphere of the regular season games. Look at the NFL, the Vikings even still have a chance of making the playoffs, what does THAT tell you?

So if I am understanding your argument correctly, you are saying that because the Vikings still have a chance at making the playoffs, that makes the regular season less exciting?

Because to me, seems like that'd make the games MORE exciting

Football regular season games are always exciting, simply because there are so few of them. Unlike baseball, for example

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It tells me they are worth watching - they are still alive. If 1-2 loss(es) = no chance at a title, why would you watch your team the rest of the season after a loss? I would watch a 2nd round playoff college game between Oregon and Kansas State long before I'd watch them in a bowl game with no title implications.

To me it appears that you don't understand much about the history of College football.

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To me it appears that you don't understand much about the history of College football.

Toughguy has hit it so squarely on the head there isnt even room for a rebuttal.... To me it appears that you have been owned. cry

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I understand plenty about the history of college football and what's wrong with it. The fact that there are teams that start the season with no hope of winning the title is wrong. You can win every game you play and lose the nat'l title to a team that has a loss. That's a broken system that favors the established schools and big conferences.

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And I read that as....

I can't believe the Aggies beat my Tide and actually proved on the field the Texas A&M Aggies are the better team so I will spout off nonsense about how the tide is better even though they squashed my tide last time. Good thing for these popularity contests that inflate the Tides rankings. We need to stay away from the play-offs or we might have to face the Aggies again and actually prove the braggadocio that is coming out of me. laugh

My desire to keep playoffs out of the picture has nothing to do with the fact that I happen to be an Alabama fan. If all I cared about was my team winning I would say go for it because Bama would have a great chance of winning a national title EVERY year. All they would have to do is win enough games to get to the playoffs and then run the table from there. Regular season would become useless like high school football.

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I understand plenty about the history of college football and what's wrong with it. The fact that there are teams that start the season with no hope of winning the title is wrong. You can win every game you play and lose the nat'l title to a team that has a loss. That's a broken system that favors the established schools and big conferences.

The system favors teams that play tough competition.

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Toughguy has hit it so squarely on the head there isnt even room for a rebuttal.... To me it appears that you have been owned. cry

Luckily, things are not always as they appear.

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Agreed there Dave, why in the world can 0-8 high school teams make the playoffs ? One more beating ? 1 last trip in the ambulance ? I last long drive to get just hammered making your record even more desireable at 0-9. Let those teams pack it in and give the # 1 seed a bye. The parents tire of watching drubbings all season long. Unless all your studs are out with a 6 weeker for drinking and you play 2 tough squads and go 0-2 against them, for your 0-8, you got no chance at all. Never have never will, not in the game of football, tennis sure, golf why not, when it's all-state athletes pounding sand up there .....you get the drift.

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How can 0-8 teams possibly make the playoffs? That seems like a bad system, and certainly not applicable to discussion about D1 college playoffs, given that only the top 4, 8, 16 or so teams would be making the playoffs

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How can 0-8 teams possibly make the playoffs? That seems like a bad system, and certainly not applicable to discussion about D1 college playoffs, given that only the top 4, 8, 16 or so teams would be making the playoffs

How can you make a cut-off at 16 or less? How many basketball teams ranked less than 16th have won a national championship? There must be a few that have? Aggies were ranked 15th when they beat Alabama, in a tournament of 8 teams they wouldn't have even been part of the conversation. In a tournament of 16 teams there will always be that #17 team that only has 1 or 2 losses that thinks they should have made the play-offs.

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How can 0-8 teams possibly make the playoffs? That seems like a bad system, and certainly not applicable to discussion about D1 college playoffs, given that only the top 4, 8, 16 or so teams would be making the playoffs

In the Minnesota River Conference we had a 1 win team win the section and end up playing in the 1st round of the State Tournament.

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That's why the regular season IS important...what are the Aggies ranked now?

Where would they be if they had never had Alabama on their schedule?

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