Ice wrote:
Nick79 wrote:
Ice wrote:
I kind of like that the outcome isn't predetermined.
The thing is, you're evaluating a bunch of 18-22 year old kids, for the most part. They can quite literally grow up and change as a season goes on. They play in different conferences, in different parts of the country, and even if they're playing common opponents, they're playing them at different times in their own respective seasons. It just really isn't possible to take subjective evaluation out of the equation.
If you can't handle that, may I humbly suggest that you stick to professional football.
I pretty much do not watch the beauty contest playoffs of CFB, I want college football to change to a logical system like all the NORMAL SPORTS have so that I can be interested in it. I like the way the division and conference winners qualify in the NORMAL SPORTS, even if they aren't the BEST TEAMS, put's pressure on the best teams to win their leagues.
I think it's nice that not all sports fit the same cookie-cutter mold, first off. Second off, like I said, there's subjectivity built into CFB. There has to be. It isn't a 30-32 team league, like all other "normal sports," with normative mechanisms like scheduling difficulty inverse to previous season's record and common drafts to insure a nice, orderly pecking order. Some years, some conferences are up, some years, other conferences are down; some years, one team's nonconference strength of schedule just doesn't measure up (whether it's through any fault of their own, or just the natural variance teams go through), some years the bad loss happens at the right time, and sometimes, it just doesn't always make perfect, empirical sense. If you can't embrace a little chaos, like I said, perhaps this just isn't the sport for you.
You're right, it isn't the sport for me as it stands, you see it as chaos, I see it as entrenched entitlement. I don't think it would be too much to ask to have all of the Power 5 champions qualify, you'd still have 3 spots for corporate welfare to bring in the blue blood teams that you feel bad for, who are supposed to be the BEST, but where FAILURES in actual games and didn't win their league.
I pretty much watch every Pitt Panthers game, and pretty much no other games, so I do have an interest. My issue is, if Pitt ever goes and wins an ACC title game some day, I'd like that ALONE to qualify them to be crushed by 'Bama in a playoff, that's part of why I want automatic qualifiers

And besides, what difference does it make if conferences are up or down? The thing some people don't get is that
being CHAMPION has nothing to do with being BEST TEAM, so maybe a weak conference champ comes in, pulls an upset and runs the table and knocks off the top 3 seeds, like the Steelers did in '05, I see that is the essence of sports, not the BEST team winning every time.