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12-26-2007, 03:40 PM
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Until someone can show me a playoff system in which the regular season isn't rendered meaningless, a la the college basketball season which is nothing more than a glorified 5 month preseason, I am not in favor of a playoff.
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12-26-2007, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by HailToMichigan
"The cards fell in favor." Well that was awfully nice of the cards. Someone ought to inform Mr. Rudzinski that when you are the only BCS team with only one loss all year, it does not take the luck of the cards to get you a deserving spot in the championship game.
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Well, we were indeed lucky that so many teams that were in front of us after our loss to Illinois ended up choking. I've rewatched The Game several times and each time Musberger and Herbstreit are talking how unlikely it is that Ohio State make it to the title game I just laugh out loud.
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12-26-2007, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by buckeyesin07
Until someone can show me a playoff system in which the regular season isn't rendered meaningless, a la the college basketball season which is nothing more than a glorified 5 month preseason, I am not in favor of a playoff.
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Uh, how can the regular season be "meaningless" when it determines: - Whether or not you make the playoffs, and
- If you make the playoffs, your seeding within the playoffs
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12-26-2007, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye
Uh, how can the regular season be "meaningless" when it determines: - Whether or not you make the playoffs, and
- If you make the playoffs, your seeding within the playoffs
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Agreed. How kewl would it be to have a few more home games if your team is a high seed. It would be incredible.
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12-26-2007, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by buckeyesin07
Until someone can show me a playoff system in which the regular season isn't rendered meaningless, a la the college basketball season which is nothing more than a glorified 5 month preseason, I am not in favor of a playoff.
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College basketball has more regular season games and a larger playoff pool. That is what lessens the regualar season. Plus, football > basketball.
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12-26-2007, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by HailToMichigan
"The cards fell in favor." Well that was awfully nice of the cards. Someone ought to inform Mr. Rudzinski that when you are the only BCS team with only one loss all year, it does not take the luck of the cards to get you a deserving spot in the championship game.
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To be completely accurate, tOSU was the only BCS Conference champion with only 1 loss. Kansas was another BCS team with only 1 loss.
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12-26-2007, 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by methomps
College basketball has more regular season games and a larger playoff pool. That is what lessens the regualar season. Plus, football > basketball.
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No, it is in fact the presence of a playoff which reduces the value of the regular season. Bring a playoff into the picture, and suddenly games like this year's WVU-Pitt, Kansas-Missouri, Missouri-Oklahoma, LSU-Tennessee, LSU-VT, OU-Texas Tech, USC-Stanford, and so on, mean nothing. Zip. Oh, I forgot - home field advantage, if in fact that is the system settled on by playoff proponents, which is hardly unanimous.
And given the capricious way in which the NCAA handed home field to NW Mo. St. against Grand Valley, despite Grand Valley earning the higher seed and having a higher record, somehow "let's just do it the same way they do it in D-II" takes on less weight.
And does home-field advantage really mean that much? In 48 intra-conference games this year in the ACC, the home team was 28-20. An advantage, but significant enough? Seeding doesn't mean much either. This season, upset city, is supposedly the poster child for a playoff. It also says | |
