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College Football 2024

Wow, that was fun and ballsy -- two things I haven't associated with Notre Dame in a long time.
 
MichVandal said:
So none of the byes/conference champs won. The only won that put up a good game was ASU.
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Poor system design with the seeding. All the teams with byes lost but none were favorites. Granted, ND-UGA and OSU-UO were basically pick ‘ems but ND and OSU were slightly favored.

If we list them by actual ranking and list the conference champs as the home teams it was #6 at #1, #5 at #2, #3 at #12 and #4 at #9.

Keep the autobid but seed them by ranking instead of conference champs getting the bye. Would’ve made a lot more sense having Boise-IU vs Oregon than Ohio State in the quarters. And Georgia would’ve had Tennessee or SMU. Though their situation is different having a backup QB.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Poor system design with the seeding. All the teams with byes lost but none were favorites. Granted, ND-UGA and OSU-UO were basically pick ‘ems but ND and OSU were slightly favored.

If we list them by actual ranking and list the conference champs as the home teams it was #6 at #1, #5 at #2, #3 at #12 and #4 at #9.

Keep the autobid but seed them by ranking instead of conference champs getting the bye. Would’ve made a lot more sense having Boise-IU vs Oregon than Ohio State in the quarters. And Georgia would’ve had Tennessee or SMU. Though their situation is different having a backup QB.
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OU did earn #1 being undefeated and beating 3 of the other playoff teams. I don’t see how they could have been ranked differently. Just as OSU should not get a bye for losing two games.

The only team whose bye could logically be question was Bozo JC, ND chooses to not have a bye.

ASU put up enough of a fight to at least justify a bye.

And I honestly can’t see altering Texas and Georgia.

So the only logical change would be PSU over Bozo JC
 
Oregon was ranked perfectly fine, they just ended up with the worst opponent possible for them to play. It was having conference champs with the bye that threw everything out of wack.

But if they had seeded by the rankings, byes would have been:

1. Oregon
2. Georgia
3. Texas
4. Penn State

5. Notre Dame vs 16 Clemson
6. Ohio State vs 12 Arizona State
7. Tennessee vs 10 SMU
8. Indiana vs 9 Boise State

If the home teams sweep that would’ve set up Oregon-Indiana, Georgia-Tennessee, Texas-Ohio State and Penn State-Notre Dame for the quarterfinals.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Oregon was ranked perfectly fine, they just ended up with the worst opponent possible for them to play. It was having conference champs with the bye that threw everything out of wack.

But if they had seeded by the rankings, byes would have been:

1. Oregon
2. Georgia
3. Texas
4. Penn State

5. Notre Dame vs 16 Clemson
6. Ohio State vs 12 Arizona State
7. Tennessee vs 10 SMU
8. Indiana vs 9 Boise State

If the home teams sweep that would’ve set up Oregon-Indiana, Georgia-Tennessee, Texas-Ohio State and Penn State-Notre Dame for the quarterfinals.
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I appreciate relying on the rankings. But those are the same rankings that had bama 11th. Who got beat by unranked Michigan. So that suggests that would not have really helped much.

While Texas won, they don’t seem to be nearly as good as a #3 seed, for this playoffs. They should have curb stomped ASU based on the rankings, but let them back in and had to rely on converting a 4th and 13. We will see about PSU, as their path wasn’t the hardest to the semis.
 
This isn't of course fully in context, but to give some indication of what it takes in the early stages of the NIL era...
The Buckeyes have the best roster in college football by a country mile, one that athletic director Ross Bjork bragged cost them more than $20 million to keep together.​
 
MichVandal said:
OU did earn #1 being undefeated and beating 3 of the other playoff teams. I don’t see how they could have been ranked differently. Just as OSU should not get a bye for losing two games.

The only team whose bye could logically be question was Bozo JC, ND chooses to not have a bye.

ASU put up enough of a fight to at least justify a bye.

And I honestly can’t see altering Texas and Georgia.

So the only logical change would be PSU over Bozo JC
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Agree on OU. There was almost no objective way to not have them as #1 seed.

For giggles, here's how the composite rating would have done it:

1-4:
OU
Notre dame
OSU
Texas

5-12:
GA
PSU
IU
SMU
Tennessee
ASU
BSU
Clemson

So I think that means:
SMU-Tennessee vs Oregon
UGA-Clemson vs Texas

PSU-BSU vs OSU
IU-ASU vs Notre Dame

Not sure this fixes much. Not sure it necessarily needs fixing if this is the format we have (12 teams with autobids)

The only difference a true 12-team pure ratings system would have done was swap out BSU, ASU, Clemson for Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina (Lost to Michigan, Stomped Duke, lost to Illinois). So you'd have two SEC teams that lost to middling Big Ten teams and a Mississippi that stomped a top-50 duke.

ASU would have been the only real loss. Clemson and BSU just didn't look good. But then again neither did Alabama or SC. Which leads me to believe 12 is just too many. Go to eight.
 
1. That was a great drive.

2. I can't remember the last Notre Dame team that was objectively likeable. Was it in the 1940s?
 
The cutaway shots of the crowd demonstrating these are the two least physically attractive fanbases in factory college football. This is practically Ivy-level unappetizing.
 
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