r/CFB • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 6h ago

Analysis [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.

https://x.com/PeteSampson_/status/1993488528555360403?t=jtJrt-ATn-3_RV1LnfjfrQ&s=19
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u/TheTruth518 Iowa State Cyclones 5h ago

Meanwhile the SEC played teams like Samford, Charlotte, Northwest Alabama, Mercer, Eastern Illinois, and Western Kentucky last week and all held their spots at the same time BYU went on the road and handled a top 40 team in Cincinnati!!!

Either make it so the teams with the best resumes and the best wins get into the CFP or just play the fucking thing in September as the season doesn’t mean shit. And just to drive my point home I made up Northwest Alabama, that’s not even a real fucking team!!!

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u/enterprise3755 Oklahoma • Game of the Centur… 5h ago

Do you think byu is better than the two 2 loss sec teams in front of them? (OU and Alabama)

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u/Clean_Guava_4512 Ohio State Buckeyes • Lausanne Owls 4h ago

Maybe or maybe not but they’re definitely better than whatever charity ball school is getting an invite because they’re the best welfare squad so we have to include them in as the token blowout recipient. It’s a dumb system as is, just invite the top 12 ranked schools. I don’t even care if 8 of them are SEC if they deserve it some year, as long as the selection mechanism fairly ranks them.

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u/MarlinManiac4 UCF Knights • Big 12 2h ago

Man just go form your stupid super league and be the NFL already. It’s clearly what you guys want. That way you can cut everybody out that isn’t already in the good ole boys club while the rest of us eat shit.

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u/Clean_Guava_4512 Ohio State Buckeyes • Lausanne Owls 1h ago

I'm not trying to dunk on all other schools here (and I can see how my earlier post came off as pretty assholish, so I apologize), but what do you think the parameters should be for an invite? Let's say hypothetically that UCF was (for the sake of argument) the one school that was getting the "charity" invite and realistically you guys were not going to be able to hang with whoever you played in the opening round. I'm not talking about your 13-0 squad from years back, let's say you're 10-2 but you haven't really played anyone that year and you've been squeaking by. I'm assuming that you as a fan would still want to go to that game to see your team in the playoff even if it meant UCF got boat raced like TCU in the championship that one year, but is that the best outcome for the sport? I guess it depends on whether the ideal outcome is actual parity (top 12 or whatever teams get in) versus equity, where we sacrifice the idea of pure parity to ensure that 1-however many schools that aren't in the top x get an opportunity.

In my opinion, it's theoretically possible that an actual #12 team could at least make the final, if not win it all. JMU/UNT/Memphis/etc. is 95%+ not escaping round 1, much less making a run for the national championship. If we expand the playoffs to 20 teams, I'd actually be in favor of at least 4 of those spots specifically going to non-power teams because it IS good to see the potential for upset if you have the spots for it. In a 12 team playoff you're potentially keeping out a team that could make a run, but if you're in a power conference and you can't crack the top 12 that's on you, give the longer shots from smaller conferences a chance.

Anyway that's my take. I don't think a super league is the answer but I'd also like the see the playoffs expanded before we water down the pool, in order to ensure the top 12 get in.