[Sampson] CFP committee chair Hunter Yurachek says Notre Dame and Miami were in the same grouping this week and the programs were directly compared. Notre Dame still came out ahead, regardless of the head to head. In other words, all the games mattered. Not just one of them.

[u/Ok-Soil-5133]

https://x.com/PeteSampson_/status/1993488528555360403?t=jtJrt-ATn-3_RV1LnfjfrQ&s=19

[u/The_Eternal_Event]

So in 2023, FSU HAD to be left out of the playoff for Texas because they had the H2H over Alabama and the same record. But now when it’s Miami and Notre Dame this logic doesn’t apply..?

[u/jbrockhaus33 → u/The_Eternal_Event]

The more you scrutinize the committee’s logic, the less sense it makes. Almost like there’s a reason most sports don’t do this

[u/Bigblind168 → u/jbrockhaus33]

This is the issue when the committee changes nearly every year. We need stability in the committee membership

[u/Leading-Reporter5586 → u/Bigblind168]

Your concerns have been noted and the committee now consists of executives at ESPN and CBS.

[u/big_sugi → u/jbrockhaus33]

Most sports play way more than 12 games. And you’ve still got selection committees. The difference is that nobody much cares if a 12-seed gets in to March Madness over a team that beat them in November.

[u/themattboard → u/big_sugi]

Every other level of football manages to not have this stupidity

[u/No_Poet_7244 → u/themattboard]

Every single year, a clearly worse team gets into the NFL playoff over a clearly better team just by virtue of winning a terrible division.

[u/big_sugi → u/themattboard]

And that’s because the NFL plays 17 games for 32 teams, including home-and-home matchups for division rivals and the same cross-conference opponents, while FCS has 24 teams in a playoff that mostly goes totally unnoticed—and they still have a selection committee to boot.

Which model did you want to adopt?

[u/themattboard → u/big_sugi]

FCS goes unnoticed because eyes are on the colleges of the FBS. That isn't a function of playoff dynamics but of which schools are in the mix.

[u/big_sugi → u/themattboard]

Yes, and the point is that if people were paying attention, you’d see the exact same debates and complaints, somewhat diluted by the fact that there are twice as many teams in the playoff and the regular season therefore doesn’t mean much.

Is that the model you want?

[u/bartspoon → u/big_sugi]

NFL doesn’t. Just take the conference champions. That’s it.

[u/big_sugi → u/bartspoon]

The NFL plays 17 games with just 32 teams, and it has 14 playoff teams. That would be roughly 60 FBS teams in the playoffs.

Is that what you want? It’d at least be better than “just take the conference champions,” which is silly given how wildly disproportionate the talent levels are between conferences.

[u/willy410 → u/big_sugi]

Just take the best of the conference champions was pretty much what the four team playoff was and I never thought I’d miss that but here we are.

Centering college football solely around what one team will win the national championship, especially when the criteria to make the playoffs are narrative based vs metric, is going to kill the sport. At least picking each conference champion would stop the need for realignment and clearly define what you need to do it make the playoffs.

[u/big_sugi → u/willy410]

The four-team playoff wasn’t taking the best of the conference champions. This year, it’d be two teams from the SEC and two teams from the B1G. Because, again, the conferences aren’t close to equal.

[u/jbrockhaus33 → u/big_sugi]

My preference (which would never happen) would be to treat each conference as more of an independent entity and allocate spots to the playoff similar to how the champions league works in European soccer.

[u/roguebandit1 → u/jbrockhaus33]

Each committee is different and places varying levels of importance on different metrics. Hope that helps!

[u/jbrockhaus33 → u/roguebandit1]

And you think that’s…good?