After lasts nights game ESPN had a graphic with the percent chance to win the Coastal. We were currently 3rd with a 17% chance, VT was 2nd @18%, and Pitt was first having yet to play a conference game at like 36%.
Man, I really hope VPI loses against BYE this weekend...too bad it wouldn't be a conference loss, though.
I think VT’s defense will hold bye scoreless, but their offense won’t put up many points either
The ACC Coastal is not even in talent...just results.
I don't want an expanded playoff until it's limited to 2 teams (max) from each conference. If you're not at least playing for the conference championship, you really have no business with a chance at the National Championship.
I agree with this sentiment, but what makes college football the only exemption in major North American sports where you don’t deserve to win the championship if you don’t win your conference/division/region/league in the regular season?
It's football. A single game is usually sufficient to determine superiority.
Last year’s New Orleans Saints team would disagree with you there. They beat the Bucs twice in the regular season by a combined score of 72-26 and won the division. In the playoffs the Bucs beat them and won the Super Bowl soundly, and yet nobody doubts them as a legit champion. It’s just weird to me that college football is the only North American sport where there’s such a debate about non conference champions being eligible for the national championship.
What is unique about FBS football is that there is no objective way to enter the championship field. The field is 100% decided by a committee of people with biases. Before people start saying that the basketball tournament field is determined by a committee, they only decide which teams failed to qualify can get into the field. They have no say in who the automatic qualifiers are. If FBS football it is entirely possible for a team to win every single game, win their conference and not be allowed into the championship field.
You are missing the point. People here are arguing—specifically in regard to expanding the college playoff to 8 or 12 teams—that the #3 team in the SEC should not make it in before one of the other P5(4) champions makes it in. The point is not that non-conference-champions get in, it’s that other conference champions are being left out in favor of a 2nd-place team (soon to be 3rd place, if the $EC gets their way) in the “superior” conference.
