Arena 2024-25 NCAA Football Discussion

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Just about everyone has Ohio State in.

 

Amazing job by Urban this year.

I feel for the TCU kids.

 

O'Doyle rules!

 

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I'm excited to play Alabama but am nervous as heck.

 

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Oregon will win it all.

 

Florida State has no chance. They've struggled against mediocre teams all year. There's no way they can handle Oregon's high-powered offense.

 

Someone go back in time and tell me this is the final four on the day they announced Braxton Miller's injury. Or the night of Ohio State - Virginia Tech.

 

This will be the third game the Buckeyes play as underdogs this season. The other two were our best performances: Michigan State and Wisconsin

 

Also, if both teams are motivated, Baylor vs Michigan State is one helluva matchup. Classic offense/defense game, both teams lost out to Ohio State for their season goals. Best of the big four bowls for my money.

 

Ironically, having a conference championship game had cost the Big 12 three times in the past: 1996 Nebraska, 1998 Kansas State, and 2001 Texas.

 

So, who all has made calls to the Big XII today?

Memphis? Cincinnati? BYU? SMU? Boise State? Colorado State?

 

I'm an Ohio State fan, but TCU and Baylor both had solid cases and I wouldn't have griped (much) if one of them had gotten in and not us. But that's always going to be the way with these somewhat subjective systems. You could expand the field to 50 teams and the 51st team would feel like they got hosed.

 

I'd prefer a fluid field, as tough as that would be to still. Six teams would have been perfect this year. Maybe eight some years, five others, four some.

But Florida State vs TCU, winner to face Oregon, and Ohio State vs TCU, winner getting Alabama would have been perfect this season.

 

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I don't get the case for OSU aside from the conference. TCU had a very tough schedule and should have gotten in imho. The real question is how many years until an 8 or 16 team playoff?

 

I would say 3 years max and then we'll have an 8 team playoff. They stick will the current system at least 1 to 2 more years, but if the same inequalities happen again, then first the Big 12 needs to expand. Grab whoever you can since it makes no difference. Have a conference playoff like the others and then let your resume shine.

Really though, I still expect your big 4 conferences of 16 teams each for a total of 64 in 4 different super conferences which will split off from the NCAA to form their own playoff system. Notre Dame will need to be exclusively ACC. Big 12 gets absorbed by ACC, Pac-12, Big Ten, SEC.

 

The 4-team playoff is locked in for 12 years due to the television contract with ESPN for it, and no expansion or other change to the system can be made until that contract expires.