(02-25-2018 08:56 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(02-25-2018 01:10 AM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(02-25-2018 01:01 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(02-25-2018 12:14 AM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(02-25-2018 12:04 AM)_C2_ Wrote:  You're dealing with college football logic here. Going undefeated is good enough in every other team sport but college football logic is about who you played. But not really because the logic evolves to make sure every scenario is taken care of for the same few teams. I'm sure UCF could have played and beaten Alabama and OU and still not sniffed the playoffs this year.

I could live without all conferences getting an auto-bid so long as one outsider is guaranteed as well as Access (at-larges) for others.

Nah. I don't feel like accepting a slightly better variety of 2nd class citizenship. Its a sports league, it should be structured like one. All of our kids should have an equal path to a National Championship decided entirely by their own play. It may be unlikely for UCF to win a NC but it should be decided in the playoff, not in a boardroom.

Thing is, there's nobody at Alabama or LSU or Ohio State that regards themselves as being "in the same league" as Arkansas State or South Alabama or New Mexico State.

Their leagues are their conferences, and they have other conferences they regard as more or less peers. To them, the NCAA classification is basically meaningless.

So harping from folks at North Texas State about "this is crazy! How can we have a system that doesn't allow for the champs of my conference to compete for the national title with the SEC champ like we do it in basketball!?!?!" doesn't resonate in those places at all. They don't see it as "crazy" because the NCAA and FBS isn't their frame of reference in terms of who their peers are and who they are competing with, locally (in-conference) and externally (out-of-conference). NCAA/FBS is just a mildly-useful category for determining what non-peer schools should count for scheduling purposes.

That's just the culture of big-time college football.

Then they should stop pretending they are a sports league and change the name like the WWE did.

College football is "sports entertainment" and not sports. I myself prefer sports.


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What sports do you not consider entertainment?