Post by cjhawkeyes on Jan 13, 2018 22:36:46 GMT
Jan 12, 2018 1:34:51 GMT Bevo said:
This is irrelevant to how legitimate competitions operate. With most every other sport, teams advance based on beating the competition according to the rules in play. If you are a better team, that is advantage towards beating the competition. Better teams still have to beat lesser teams at the rules in play. The point of competition is to determine a winner. It is not to identify and validate the best teams.
But, here's the cold hard truth: FBS football is made up of a CRAP LOAD of teams, all playing at greatly disparate levels of competition. There are LONG held, traditional factions (conferences and bowls) that drive practically ALL of the interest and the bulk of the revenue for this sport. These factions demand a significant portion of the season to hold their own, internal regional competitions. That leaves precious little time available for any kind of overall, nation-wide tournament similar to what most "other sports do". For nearly 100 years, there was ZERO effort toward a national competition at all. Only very recently has there been ANY effort in doing so.
Given the limited time, huge number of teams, and the power of the controlling conferences.. (not to mention the traditional bowls) there will NEVER BE a system like most other sports, where every team has a chance to compete against every other team, or even to be assured of a chance to "play their way into" the Title competition. There will ALWAYS be a higher level of subjectivity in the process of "selecting which teams will be given a chance to play in a limited playoff."
There may be changes, or growth to the number of teams selected. Or, there may not be any change. But, we're NEVER going to a system that gives conference with such a high degree of competitive imbalance an equal shot at placing their Champion into post-season competition.
If that's the only thing that will make you happy? Then, maybe college football isn't your thang? Might want to take an interest in curling, or extreme-snow boarding.
I'm all about rules deciding which teams advance...........whether or not a system gives auto bids for league champs is not a huge concern.