Cancel Ohio State Immediately

[PrisonMike]

3 hours ago, wosmustangs1979 said:

I know that many will disagree. That’s why this site exists - to dialogue. Texas needs to focus clearly on one thing - The Playoffs. Period. It’s not about being scared. One less loss is all that matters. It’s fun and exciting to open the season with a NAME. We all get that. But, the ROI simply is not there. When our name does not show up in the bracket next Sunday, it will sting bad. This is avoidable with a strategic aim at what is more important. The SEC is a gauntlet enough. 
 

CDC - drop the game. It’s the smarter thing to do. I’ll trade that shiny game for the playoffs. This seems simple. Drop it!

Hook ‘Em 

I agree.  Take their money makers away and they’ll learn their lesson.  

[wosmustangs1979]

Yep - try missing the playoffs over this. 

[hookem1014]

Get rid of the auto G5 bid. This isn’t March Madness. Respect to their seasons but those teams will never go on a Cinderella run in the CFP….

[Class of 04]

3 hours ago, DanielOnorato said:

Not necessarily. I would like them to go back to the BCS formula. 

The BCS formula was explicitly designed to incorporate strength of schedule (SOS) as a key component alongside human polls and a penalty for each loss. 

"Quality Wins" Bonus: Later iterations of the formula added a bonus for beating top-15 teams, further rewarding teams that challenged themselves.

Mitigating Penalties: Playing a hard schedule meant that a loss against a "team of substance" was not punished as severely as a loss to a weak team. 

Strength of Schedule Component: Teams were ranked 1 through 115 (at the time) based on the winning percentages of their opponents and their opponents' opponents. A team's rank in this category contributed to their overall BCS score (lower score was better, like golf).

Key Example: 2007 LSU Tigers

The 2007 college football season is the most famous instance where the traditional emphasis on an unblemished record was overturned by the BCS system's flexibility.

LSU's Record: LSU finished the regular season with two losses.

The Outcome: The Tigers were selected to play for the national championship and ultimately won the BCS National Championship, the first and only two-loss team ever to do so in the BCS era.

Valid point.  https://masseyratings.com/cf/fbs/ratings

[uthorn1374]

5 hours ago, GoHorns1 said:

That would be weak and timid which isn’t the Texas way.

Well we’re sitting with our pride at home watching Notre dame beat up on cupcakes and in the playoff.  These high level games cause injuries.

[SpaceCityWrangler]

So…. Should Georgia cancel Georgia Tech?  Should South Carolina cancel Clemson?

IF we had a 16 team playoff, we would be in.

Michigan and Ohio State are both coming in the next two years. That’s f’ing awesome.

[burntoc]

24 minutes ago, SpaceCityWrangler said:

So…. Should Georgia cancel Georgia Tech?  Should South Carolina cancel Clemson?

IF we had a 16 team playoff, we would be in.

Michigan and Ohio State are both coming in the next two years. That’s f’ing awesome.

You cannot be so dense as to understand the difference in your examples and OP's. No one is canceling TX-OU or TX-TAMU. Geebus.

[henry bumpus]

Someone said it above:

Beat Ohio State, 10-2, in the playoff. Probably a home game.

Beat (Insert random team), 10-2, in the playoff. Maybe a home game, maybe not.

Lose to Ohio State, 9-3, miss the playoff.

It's that simple. In an ideal world they make adjustments to 14 team with only two byes, or 16 team with four byes. There's no guarantee of that. There's an argument to keep Ohio State and Michigan the next two years because both are our home swings (we've been away at each past two years). Playing Notre Dame 2028-2029 would be moronic.

Look at what is happening to Miami right now. They beat ND, same record, and are getting left out of the playoffs. I don't know why any blue blood program (or even remotely close to blue blood) would schedule ND until they join a conference. They play by their own rules and get the benefit of the doubt year after year. I wouldn't be surprised if they surpass OU and get to play them at home! It's a real detriment to the sport as a whole and I hope Texas doesn't engage with that program until they adhere to the rules every other program does.

I hope things change and Texas can keep challenging themselves out of conference, but if they miss this CFP they should at least use the potential lost money if games were cancelled as future leverage against the way the committee currently operates. 

Hook em, lot to look forward to next year!

[Califashorn75]

There is zero point in scheduling really tough teams during nonconference play. Our SEC schedule is tough enough as it is right now. The goal is to win a Natty. The only way to do that is to get into the playoffs. We shouldn't even play a bowl game. We are Texas!