You just don’t understand that with an Expansion the little Cinderella’s might have 1 team sneak in and get boat raced against #1. This year with expansion, based on final rankings before the bowls, 3 different 2 loss teams would’ve made it, no thanks.
For me it would be more than just a better way to crown a champion. If you expand the playoffs then you have the opportunity to create more compelling matchups. Lets say this year it was Bama, Clemson, OSU, ND, A&M, Okla, Oregon, Cinn in that order. Yes Bama would have probably boat raced Cincy but then again Bama would have boat raced anyone they played. The other matchups Clemson/Oregon, OSU/Okla, ND/A&M would in my opinion be pretty compelling matchups to watch. Sure you could match them up in other bowl games but no one cares about the other bowl games, including the players. Playoffs would add some significance to it. Plus we might actually see some competitive playoff games if we went to that kind of model, instead of the garbage blowouts that we usually see.
And it’s not like the p5 teams facing one aren’t getting boat raced either. There has hardly been any close games.
Actually, the hardest schedule we have played in my lifetime......1980
So the best thing to do is add more boring games against uneven teams, rather then going back to just picking the best two?
Poor Bill Curry. I had forgotten about that. I stand corrected that is the hardest schedule even worse than this one. There was talk about trying to get back into the SEC and the Bear did his best to sponsor us but UGA and the Mississippi schools said no. That resulted in a short lived, thank God, unbalanced schedule that contained both ACC teams, SEC teams and a few independents. Coach Curry must have thought the football gods were crazy with saddling him with two number one opponents in the same year as well as number 2 Alabama. UNC, Florida, Auburn, and Tennessee. Ouch! The only saving grace was the bottom four teams were pretty bad but we still lost to three of them.
No wonder there was talk of "deemphasizing football" and dropping the program altogether.
To think we managed to tie number one Notre Dame. I was at that game and Tech who had people on defense that would hit you pretty good, crowded the line of scrimmage and dared the quarterback to hit receivers down field. He had a really bad day and was missing them by inches. That team only won one game and tied Notre Dame but played pretty good defense under the circumstances. Florida killed us and UNC shut us out in a rout but we played respectably against both Tennessee and Auburn. Even UGA with you know who, we played competitively for a while.
Didn't we lose Mike Kelly for the year down in the Swamp?
Can't remember if it was him or ELI. The guy that hit ELI was a longtime color announcer for the Gators back in the 1990s. He said that hit was the hardest he ever administered and both of them ended up on the turf knocked out.
ELI's last season was 1978.
He was injured in the Georgia Game. They twisted is ankle on purpose and if not we probably win that game....
5 P5 winners and top 3 G5 conference winners. If you can't win your conference, you have no business being a National Champion. PERIOD!!!!