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Terrific post. Thanks. Oklahoma won at Alabama. A rematch in a different venue with both O's being beaten down over time. ACC and B12 have one team in the PO. Vandy, Texas, and Notre Dame are left out. Alabama's bad showing against Georgia doesn't count. So why does BYU's bad performance count? A crescendo of complaints that can be dampened by baking the Big Ten's AQ PO plan. No matter the metrics used or abused, there are not enough games between teams with equal rosters to make a CFB PO anything other than a guessing game. The Notre Dame/Miami controversy is only a controversy because of five nothing-burger committee rankings before the PO field, and the seeding of the field was finalized. During GameDay on Saturday, Herbie said these interim rankings need to end. Nick Saban, Pat McAfee, and Desmond Howard, via body language, agreed. Rece Davis, who made his bones as a host, did not react. Five SEC teams are in the field, and SEC coaches are whining about playing nine conference games. Oregon is the only team outside of the SEC hosting a 1st round game. Three of the four 1st round games played in SEC stadiums are not enough. "In a conference so great from top to bottom, why should we play more than eight!" Fine, play seven and have an SEC intramural playoff. The 18-team Big Ten and 16-team B12 played nine conference games this season, and each has six teams that are not bowl eligible. (5-7 Rutgers, along with Notre Dame, turned down bowl invites.) The 17-team ACC and the 16-team SEC played eight conference games this season, and each has six teams that are not bowl eligible. If the SEC gauntlet is so brutal, why are there so many one and two-loss teams? Why aren't there more teams in Dixie missing out on bowl games? Why did so many SEC coaches get canned? In 2025, Florida's schedule was brutal. A&M's schedule was not. Mega-conference SOS will vary significantly year to year. But I cannot foresee a season where a 4th-place B1G or SEC team would be an embarrassment to a 16-team PO field. If you use preseason polls, human or otherwise, that have over half of the conference ranked in the top 25, you are ipso facto going to have the most difficult SOS and SOR rankings. DUH! I want the ACC and the B12 to survive. I don't want to see a G8. I don't want to see millions of ACC/B12 fans 'disenfranchised.' So, wake up, commissioners, and back the Big Ten PO format, tweaked as needed and agreed upon over the next six weeks. Do not allow the foolish pride of, 'You have to earn the right to be in the PO!', to lead to millions of dollars in lost revenue. Put this ESPN subjective nonsense to bed. I posted what a 16-team playoff field would be after the committee's fifth rankings tease, there would still be complaints, but nothing as we see with this current format and selection process. Fans in South Beach and in South Bend would be happy. Let's do what Dan Ackroyd and Eddie Murphy did: Destroy the Dukes!

I guess it's time to Force ND into the ACC by shutting them out of the playoffs each year. I wonder how much they'll lighten their schedule now.

You and Notre Dame are like Me and...

This is stunning.... "Now, despite the open money faucet, spending on sports at some Big Ten schools has outpaced revenues. This year, Michigan said it would need a $15 million university contribution to balance its athletic budget. The Buckeyes reported a $38 million deficit across athletics last year. And as Indiana embarked on the best two-year run in its football program’s history last season, it needed $34 million in university support to run its athletic department."

Carson Beck against UGA’s defense is a matchup I want to see. Something tells me there will be a few late hits.

I actually think they will boat race the Aggies. Texas exposed them.

We’ve had good luck with pass catchers from Idaho.

Remember the hundreds of preseason articles? Now we see how valuable they are... No. 1 Texas No. 2 Penn State No. 4 Clemson No. 6 Notre Dame No. 9 LSU Half of the preseason Top-10 are not not even in the Playoffs? Weren't there a few who stated that Oregon would NOT be in the Top-10 at the season end? Yep, they know what they're doing!

Good gosh...this short video is when he ran the 10.15 and he had a pretty good build back then! For perspective, Devon Allen was 10.35 and 20.62 out of high school. Bair was borderline world class speed at 10.15 in high school. 😳 To add, he also had the 2nd fastest 200m in the nation in 2023. 20.41.

Wowsa. Not only is he fast, but he high-points the ball on 50/50 throws, and has a good sense for cut-backs already!

Look at these updated numbers...he is not a skinny guy at 5'11"...but he is 6'3" and 195? A 4.36 forty-yard-dash and ran 10.15 in the 100 meters in high school two years ago? He's got strength and hops? And he was NOT part of the No. 2 ranked recruiting class for 2026!

The playoff structure is like a pyramid, the more teams included the more teams "almost" made it and will be complaining about being slighted.

the 12 weekly No. 1 rankings since the CFP expanded to 12 teams B1G dominance? 2025: Indiana (1x) & Ohio State (5x) 2024: Oregon (6x)

If it was 2026 already, Notre Dame would be in. Starting in 2026, according to an agreement they have signed weeks ago, any N.D. team ranked in the top 12 is automatically in. If it applied in 2025, N.D. would be in and Miami would be out. Alabama should not be in. No team which lost their conference championship by double digits has ever kept their same CFP ranking that they had prior to the game. Alabama should have dropped below Miami and N.D. and been displaced by either Tulane or James Madison.

While it would have been cool to host Notre Dame, I don’t personally care about TV ratings. I want Oregon to win a national championship and having a cupcake “tune-up” is probably the best we all could have hoped for (even over the bye given the current playoff format). Even Coach Lanning indicated as much on the playoff selection show.

It would have been great to host ND at Autzen what a game!! As we knocked off their shinny lil helmets. Think about it--Notre Dame at Autzen. Say what you want but ND is BIG TIME ratings. JMU--not so much.

Just because Mario plays with his food doesn't mean he can't get his stuff together and win big games. He did that many times for Oregon. Miami will be dangerous in the playoffs.

G6 should be a different division between FBS and FCS. No more conference championships. Playoff field should be top 16 with no byes and no AQs. Natty should be played in a Bowl on New Year's day.

Miami getting Mari-0-no'ed in the first round!

I thought this thread was just about this year. I don't see BT being the starter for the whole year in 2026 or beyond. Dante Moore is coming back. Even if it's not 100% confirmed, he's not going to play for the dumpster fire Raiders, he's coming back to get better, because he knows better than any he isn't at the level he needs to be to get thrown to the wolves in the NFL on a bad program.

They need to be revamped. By themselves they are unexciting but they could be incentivized. NIL is a thing so pay the players and give the winning team more. This can be done lots of ways but still. There should also just be a second tournament like in mens basketball and that should be the bowl game system. Schools are going to be able to pay players directly soon and bowl game payouts could absolutely be part of the equation.

I guess they're taking their ball and going home crying🤣. They only hurt themselves, they will be totally off the radar and lose a months worth of practices (assuming this is still not allowed for non-bowl teams). I do agree however, that this system is a bit stupid. G5 teams do not play at the same level as P4 teams, period. Sure they get a win every now and then against P4 teams, but having two G5 teams as part of "the 12 best" defies logic. The committee did what they had to including JMU, but this just isn't an accurate seeding. The G5 needs their own playoff, there's plenty of interest and of course $ to be made. We know changes are coming, home games in the second round would be a great first step. This is now officially a playoff and the bowl system is going the way of the 8-track tape.

I stopped watching and listening after No. 5 announced and our opponent. My wine tolerance is steroidal in nature compared to my lack of whine tolerance.

Ok great this is a favorable path to the final four, no question. That said, as a season ticket holder I was hoping for a better matchup. Even Tulane would be more interesting, but to think that we could have had Alabama or Miami in Autzen if we were ranked a little lower makes me wonder how much of an advantage (at least for the fans) it really is to be seeded higher. Don't get me wrong, I'll be there, but we'll be paying a premium price for the equivalent of a September cupcake game.

You may have noticed that I am not "hovering" over the forum like I usually do, in fact I have been MIA for up to a complete day at a time lately. Like many of you--I have work projects and commitments to attend to, as well as the background stuff that has to be done for the two sites. And frankly, it is going to get much worse over time thus... THANK YOU for Posting New Threads! I really appreciate many of you starting new threads for discussion, and I want to say thanks, and to encourage everyone to join in. To start a thread and write a title....please remember two things with a title: First, web metrics tell us that readers will not open a thread unless they know what is in it in advance. So please don't give us a nebulous title that could mean anything; you want people to read your thread, so tell us what the topic is about, and people will open and read your thread. Below are great examples... Penn State AD Pat Kraft Despises Oregon by DrJacksPlaidPants...Not only did he tell us the topic, but he made it tasty, and you can't help but want to open it immediately. B1G Championship Game Thread by OregonDucks...He got the GameDay thread started of what we wanted to discuss, and I very much appreciate it as I was detained elsewhere when the game began. Second....Please, please Capitalize the first letter of every major word in the title. You can leave the inconsequential words, (as, and, the, in, etc.) in lower case, but putting caps on the rest helps other good people like YOU find this forum from Search Engines. A great example... Myriad of Topics: Notre Dame, Sixteen Team CFP, and G6 Representation by GatOrlando...This is perfect across the board, and no surprise as GatOrlando has been an MVP on this forum with his posting and insights. With that...we have SO MANY great OBD members who post so well, and not only do I thank you, but urge you to keep doing so. We all have each others' back here, and I sure am grateful that so many people step up to help. You Been So Good to Me...