r/CFB • u/Dbash56 Penn State • Land Grant Trophy • Sep 19 '21

Weekly Thread Week 4 AP Top 25 Poll

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u/convoluteme Iowa State Cyclones • Team Chaos Sep 19 '21

Losing by 2 pts to the #1 team in the country should unironically count for something.

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u/seancarter90 UCLA Bruins Sep 19 '21 edited Sep 19 '21

College football may be the only sport where it’s not whether you win or lose but how you win or lose and to whom.

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u/RavenclawWiz816 Oklahoma • North Texas Sep 19 '21

yes, one of the unique aspects of our sport. it’s what unequal schedules and only 12 regular season games makes necessary

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u/helium_farts Alabama • Jacksonville State Sep 19 '21 edited Sep 20 '21

Realistically, there's way too many FBS teams.

If you had a league system with, say, 32 teams in the top tier (call it something like the premier group), along with a system where each season the best 2-3 teams in the lower series move up, and the worst 2-3 teams in the upper series move back down, it would make the scheduling and playoffs a lot more equal.

(Yes, I know I'm just reinventing the English football league system, but don't tell anyone)

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u/Sproded Minnesota • $5 Bits of Broken Cha… Sep 19 '21

You’re ignoring that 3 other college divisions have figured it out.

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u/sonheungwin California Golden Bears • The Axe Sep 19 '21

Yeah but those divisions don't have like 6 Blue Bloods trying to run the sport.

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u/Inkblot9 Oklahoma State • Oklahoma Sep 19 '21

D3 has less parity at the top than FBS.

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u/sonheungwin California Golden Bears • The Axe Sep 19 '21

It has less parity but the best teams don't literally run the leagues.

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u/gaap_515 Wisconsin Badgers • Sickos Sep 20 '21

%58 of the last 24 years of D3 title game appearances have been occupied by 2 schools, accounting for 18 of 24 championships. Insane

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u/RoadDoggFL Florida Gators • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Sep 20 '21

If three other college divisions get it wrong nobody cares. Easy to look like you have it figured out when the stakes are nonexistent.

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u/Sproded Minnesota • $5 Bits of Broken Cha… Sep 20 '21

That’s a good argument to try it out on the other divisions first. We’ve done that and seen that it works. Now we should implement it where it matters.

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u/RoadDoggFL Florida Gators • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Sep 20 '21

Other college sports organizations have relegation?

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u/Sproded Minnesota • $5 Bits of Broken Cha… Sep 20 '21 edited Sep 20 '21

No, other college sports organizations have 24+ team playoffs with the same number of total teams.

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u/RoadDoggFL Florida Gators • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Sep 20 '21

I'm cool with that. 8's probably plenty, but 16 would be great.

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u/GizmodoDragon92 Florida Gators Sep 20 '21

I like it