No one is getting screwed. No one know much about the playoffs except Georgia is better than Texas as they played twice and Texas lost both. The rest is simply opinions less the 4 Conference Champions who got there winning their Conferences. On field matters more them perception or some silly statistical model that says X is better than Y even though there is no real commonality in who they played during the season.
The ACC benefits greatly from the ND contract. Would be even more if ACC Football teams actually beat ND.
Hypothetical which was pretty close to happening this year.
Yep, they’ve never even been close to budging on their “no conference” stance. But I’m sure they evaluate their situation all the time. The ACC made it much easier for them to remain independent since scheduling would be difficult in the long run without a conference tie in.
I like the idea of letting conference champs host in a 16 team format with no byes.
We go 12-0 and beat Georgia, I guarantee we get a top 2 seed.
Why is Texas #3? They won the Beauty contest. Their record is not worthy of #3 any more than Boise St or AZ State!
We'd be #1. My point is if Notre Dame was 12-0 and clearly the second best team, they end up on the same side of the bracket as us. And all the ASU and Boise's getting byes would mean our 8/9 would really be 6th and 7th best teams. It's stupid.
Ask the CFB playoff committee. That's where they ranked them.
Which is why the Conference Champions should get the byes vs arbitrary rankings that have little to do with on field results.
I responded to both of your comments, both Oregon and ND. Until there is a more even approach to the rankings, I want each conference to have a bye, at least the top 4. To be honest, I think Clemson would dismantle both Boise State and ASU. We may get that chance. I’m expecting Texas to fold, then Oregon will face the #12 team; we’ll see.
Gonna have to beat them anyway. No system is perfect. Using rankings is dumb because the rankings are biased. No need to give another advantage to SEC and B1G or ND.
The contract actually helps our strength of schedule, improves our TV ratings, but we got to beat ND.
This doesn’t take into account the fact that the top 25 is totally arbitrary and not based on anything tangible. There’s no real discernible difference between the teams ranked 9th and 11th. Or 24th and 31st. I think the entire “top 25” rankings system should go away if we’re going to have a playoff. Every conference champ should be in, giving every single team in the country a path to the national championship. Then however many at large bids you want to shove in there go ahead. If the SEC and B1G are so much better than everyone else, make them beat the MAC winner. I don’t care if it’s a blowout, you shouldn’t just automatically disqualify half the teams in the league from competing for the championship based on a hypothetical of what people think would happen. Prove it on the field, just like all the #1 seeds in March Madness have to do against the #16 seeds.
Don't lose sight of the fact that this arrangement has ND as a full conference participant in all other sports which benefits the ACC greatly.
.....plus requires ND to play 5 ACC football games per year. I would be willing to bet the ND game was the highest (or second highest) viewed game of all 5 of these ACC schools.