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Topic: And the Spartans Shall Fend the Raging Beasts (SOC 10/12/19)
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OrangeAfroMan · « **Reply #196 on:** October 19, 2019, 12:22:06 AM »

Quote from: FearlessF on October 18, 2019, 11:06:31 PM

I don't think any intelligent folks think expanding the field will reduce the controversy

it was to make sure a deserving team wasn't left out and had their shot to settle it on the field

This.
...which is the problem.

Identifying the national champion should be exclusive, not inclusive. We all know the best team doesn't always win, so the more you expand the system of crowning a champion, the less often the 'best team' will win it. It's simple logic.

bayareabadger · « **Reply #197 on:** October 19, 2019, 06:56:19 AM »

Quote from: CWSooner on October 18, 2019, 11:02:41 PM

Wasn't the 4-team CFP supposed to reduce the controversy by expanding the field? It doesn't seem to have done that. If anything, making selection for the CFP the metric for a successful season, it seems to have increased the intensity of the argumentation.

I mean, it kind of has. It’s changed the parameters a little, but it has.

The nature of the sport is that people will bitch and moan endlessly. That’s actually sort of the charm.

bayareabadger · « **Reply #198 on:** October 19, 2019, 07:02:41 AM »

Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on October 19, 2019, 12:22:06 AM

This.
...which is the problem.

Identifying the national champion should be exclusive, not inclusive. We all know the best team doesn't always win, so the more you expand the system of crowning a champion, the less often the 'best team' will win it. It's simple logic.

The problem is we have a system without hard and fast selection criteria. And as stated above, we like to complain.

There’s also the reality that because it’s less systemized, in a more exclusive arrangement, one year a deserving team gets shut out, and in another, a champion backs in or is given a mulligan.

Don’t you hate the lazy sports writers and coaches? Isn’t letting the teams figure it out via football preferable.

847badgerfan · « **Reply #199 on:** October 19, 2019, 08:07:37 AM »

Quote from: bayareabadger on October 18, 2019, 10:41:38 PM

UW was 1-1 vs ranked teams going into the playoff.

I couldn't find the AP so I used Sagarin rankings.

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