Saturday, December 28, 2019

Hey, ESPN, College Football, and NCAA!!! How's that Playoff working for you?

Hard facts as Oklahoma is getting absolutely DRILLED -- AGAIN...
  • Joe Burrow has just written his ticket to Cincinnati.  Today, he became the fifth quarterback in FBS history to throw for seven touchdown passes in a half -- the FBS record.   (Page 8)
  • Oklahoma is now 0-4 in the College Football Playoff.
  1. 2015-16 Orange Bowl:  37-17 to Clemson
  2. 2017-18 Rose Bowl was the one close game at 54-48 to Georgia in double-OT
  3. 2018-19 Orange Bowl:  45-34 to Alabama
  4. 2019-20 Peach Bowl:  63-28 to LSU
  • Average margin of defeat:  18 points.
  • Only 11 different schools have been in the CFP.  
  • Alabama six times, Clemson five.
  • The SEC plus Clemson is 13-6 in the CFP.  
  • Only one of those six losses was not against someone else in that group -- and that was a semifinal in the first year of the CFP.
  • The rest of the country?  3-10.
College football is no longer a national sport.

It's really a semi-glorified version of NASCAR (regional sport, national reach), propped up by the traditions and religions of Football Nation America.

It would be better to abolish the CFP and go back to at least the BCS, if not a backroom deal situation, because it's clear that this is a southeastern-US sport with a false national reach because of the traditions that magnetized recruiting has now basically destroyed.

I SERIOUSLY doubt Oklahoma was the fourth best team this year -- but what are you going to do unless you go SEC/SEC/SEC/Clemson or SEC/SEC/SEC/SEC??

Better to take the best schools of the SEC, add Clemson and enough cannon fodder name schools from the rest of the country and create one national top superconference and get rid of the CFP (and all remaining pretense of national reach of this false sport) once and for all.

1 comment:

  1. As Brian Tuohy said in his second Fix Is In book, these schools need to drop all of these sports. They are giving their universities a bad name.

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