OTF Premium Notre Dame series, future Texas non-conference games in limbo due to CFP unknowns

[Burnt Orange Horn]

2 hours ago, Texas fan in Georgia said:

Are the members of the CFP committee ever a topic of discussion? I mean why not put a committee of former coaches spearheaded by Nick Saban to determine the criteria to make the playoffs?

And where are the computer rankings any more???  At least they have no legacy team biases!

[Tres Comas]

29 minutes ago, Jeff Howe said:

 

Sark came with receipts

[TheContractor12]

4 hours ago, HonkEm said:

I get the logic, but that’s exactly the problem -Texas shouldn’t have to choose between great home games and the playoff. We’re Texas. We can walk and chew gum. I’ll take Ohio State in the winter and Michigan/Notre Dame in September.

If the CFP punishes teams for scheduling real opponents, then the CFP is broken. Fans shouldn’t have to sit through Rice/UTSA/Wyoming just because the committee can’t evaluate strength of schedule. Fix the system so Texas can keep scheduling like Texas.

thats not a smart mentality. it cost us a playoff spot in 2025 and will again in the future. If you continue to bash your head against a system that is against you, its on you then

[TheContractor12]

pay the $500k and get out of ND 2 game home and home. Make the playoff, Play ND in December when their SOS will be in the 60s 

[horns96]

Drop ND for UMHB.  Everyone is happy.

[harveycmd]

We need more on the genius of Marcus Freeman. Maybe he's a scheduling wizard as well.

[Thanos72]

Let’s not be the best team, let’s be the best scheduled team!!! Sec sec sec

What starts here, changes to a weaker schedule…

[MarkInAustin]

While there are teams outside the B1G and SEC that play big boy football and produce lots of NFL players they are not playing schedules full of other similarly talented teams.  In a typical season probably 2/3 of the playoff teams should come from the two major conferences and 1/3 from the rest of the football world, and I think the computer rankings would bear that out.  

As some have already posted, computer rankings should probably be paramount for the playoffs.  Then both the B1G and the SEC teams would feel free to schedule a marquee OOC game every season.  USC and ND would resume.  Texas could play tOSU, Michigan, or Penn State again.  Florida would not be disadvantaged for having Miami and Fl St OOC.

If 'Bama chose all patsies it would work against them, not for them.

In a rational world.

[Tuco Ramirez]

The SEC should go to a 5 game conference schedule then play the rest of their games ravaging the lower tier of the weakest conferences. Then it’s an all SEC CFP. Winning! 

[Judd_Irby]

14 hours ago, HonkEm said:

I get the logic, but that’s exactly the problem -Texas shouldn’t have to choose between great home games and the playoff. We’re Texas. We can walk and chew gum. I’ll take Ohio State in the winter and Michigan/Notre Dame in September.

If the CFP punishes teams for scheduling real opponents, then the CFP is broken. Fans shouldn’t have to sit through Rice/UTSA/Wyoming just because the committee can’t evaluate strength of schedule. Fix the system so Texas can keep scheduling like Texas.

I agree with you. I would add that the playoff committee has taken strength of schedule into account in some fashion, even though we can’t decipher what the criteria is.  Take Baylor’s 2014 team.  They opened with a 45-0 win over SMU, followed by a 70-6 win over NWST in week 2.  I week 3 they won 63-21 over Buffalo.  They later beat UT 28-7 and beat TCU, the league’s co-champion 61-58. Overall they finished 11-1.  But the committee, citing SOS, deemed that Baylor should not be included in the top four even though the top four included three one loss teams (Alabama, Oregon, and Ohio State) and an undefeated FSU team.  So the committee somehow did factor in SOS.  I think the real issue is clarity of the SOS, and how it is weighted in the overall analysis.  I would really hate to see losing the thrill of in-season marquee intersectional match-ups because the SOS is inconsistent and opaque.  

[Burnt Orange Horn]

11 hours ago, TheContractor12 said:

thats not a smart mentality. it cost us a playoff spot in 2025 and will again in the future. If you continue to bash your head against a system that is against you, its on you then

What is schedule integrity?

How many seats will be filled for a Prairie View football game?

[Burnt Orange Horn]

11 hours ago, TheContractor12 said:

thats not a smart mentality. it cost us a playoff spot in 2025 and will again in the future. If you continue to bash your head against a system that is against you, its on you then

One has to hold the CFP Committee responsible.  The NCAA, the SEC, ESPN nor Texas is not.  If no one comes them to perform their charged duty with competence, then it is time to move on.

Submitting to institutionalized incompetence is not a solution.

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