NCAA
The college football playoff is set and there was hardly any controversy over who is in and who is out. Most people agree that the teams in are worthy and the teams that didn’t make it weren’t good enough. The current system of a committee selecting the teams has worked well enough. Their most controversial pick was likely taking Ohio State last year over Baylor or TCU. But Ohio State ran the table in the playoffs and any doubt about the pick vanished when the Buckeyes won the national championship.
I prefer a little chaos and I can’t wait for the year when a controversial team gets in the playoff and then gets blown out in the first game. This would fuel the arguments of teams that just missed the playoffs and felt snubbed. The committee’s methods would be questioned repeatedly.
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I’d like to see a little of both and that’s why I think Vegas should have some input into the playoffs. If odds makers think the best team is one with three losses, I still want to see them play for it all. I’d like to see Vegas power rankings determine half of the playoff field and the other half be teams with the best records according to strength of schedule and wins vs losses.
The nature of college football lends itself to controversy in the rankings. Teams only play twelve or thirteen games so strengths of schedule can vary drastically even within the same conference. It is impossible to find a playoff system that everyone will be happy with, but I would prefer something more objective than just what a certain twelve elites happen to decide.
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