College Football Playoff Round 1

[Dback Jon]

Back to blowout territory

 

[Devilmaycare]

I think they need to take a look at the seeding but not when it comes to who got the byes this year, just with how they matched up the first round. None of the teams that played in round 1 deserved a bye. If OSU, Texas, or PSU want a bye then win your conference. They all had a shot and blew it.

I'd like to see them balance the brackets a bit more though. The top half is brutal compared to the bottom half. Oregon as #1 is going to have a tougher path than the lower seeds.

I'd also like to see them get rid of the bowl games for round two. Give the bye teams a home game. It'll make travel for the fans a lot easier and give more of an incentive to win your conference. The atmosphere at all 4 games was amazing this weekend. Another weekend of that would be great instead of going to the more corporate atmosphere of the bowls.

 

[AZCB34]

I think they need to take a look at the seeding but not when it comes to who got the byes this year, just with how they matched up the first round. None of the teams that played in round 1 deserved a bye. If OSU, Texas, or PSU want a bye then win your conference. They all had a shot and blew it.

I'd like to see them balance the brackets a bit more though. The top half is brutal compared to the bottom half. Oregon as #1 is going to have a tougher path than the lower seeds.

I'd also like to see them get rid of the bowl games for round two. Give the bye teams a home game. It'll make travel for the fans a lot easier and give more of an incentive to win your conference. The atmosphere at all 4 games was amazing this weekend. Another weekend of that would be great instead of going to the more corporate atmosphere of the bowls.

In reverse order.

Yes, more games played on campus is a must. You cannot beat that atmosphere. I think the current bowl industrial complex is going to face some serious changes in the near future. Campus games until Final Four.

I think, perhaps, the best way to alleviate the Oregon issue is the #1 seed plays the lowest remaining seed after the 1st round. And then the other seeds get the lowest seed left.

I’m not sure I necessarily buy into the conference champion automatically gets a bye but I am also 100% against a conference champion getting a #12 seed. I’m not sure how we rectify that.

Objectively, I think we have to acknowledge that ASU is probably the 10th best team in this whole thing (I think Indiana is the very definition of paper lion). But they also probably shouldn’t be seeded that low.

 

[Devilmaycare]

In reverse order.

Yes, more games played on campus is a must. You cannot beat that atmosphere. I think the current bowl industrial complex is going to face some serious changes in the near future. Campus games until Final Four.

I think, perhaps, the best way to alleviate the Oregon issue is the #1 seed plays the lowest remaining seed after the 1st round. And then the other seeds get the lowest seed left.

I’m not sure I necessarily buy into the conference champion automatically gets a bye but I am also 100% against a conference champion getting a #12 seed. I’m not sure how we rectify that.

Objectively, I think we have to acknowledge that ASU is probably the 10th best team in this whole thing (I think Indiana is the very definition of paper lion). But they also probably shouldn’t be seeded that low.

Yeah, reseeding after the first round would fix it and be a good fix. I had argued about that on reddit last weekend and forgot about it in my post.

I like the conference champ getting a 1st round bye and home field if we move to campus games. At least for the P4 schools if they have 2 or less losses. If one drops to 3 or more losses due to an upset then it could go to a G5 school. You have to give some incentive to play in them. I'm hoping that this year was a little bit of an outlier since the B12 and ACC had upstarts win it that didn't get the national recognition until late due to the biases.

I'd honestly put ASU as the 8th seed out of the 12 teams that got in. Clemson, SMU, Indiana, and Boise State I'd all put behind us. I could see an argument to flip us with Boise State at 9 but they didn't beat anyone all year and we blew out our only common opponent and they won by only 4. I'm pretty sure we'd be 12-1 also with their schedule.

 

[Lorenzo]

at the end of the day I don't mind the way it played out. I think the best way is to go off of final rankings and understanding that not all conferences are the same, I.E. Boise St's conference title the same as Georgia's or Oregon's. I know that's not what some want to hear, but it's absolutely the truth. If we want to do the smartest thing we should have boise state playing in the first round vs. SMU or Tennessee. that said, I have no problem with the system that is in place now. it is fair, it is what I wanted for years, and all will be decided on the field.

 

[Ronin]

Stewart Mandel

@slmandel
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3h

CFP first-round TV numbers are in. The 2 ESPN games were *huge*.
ESPN Ohio St-Tennessee: 14.3M
Notre Dame-Indiana: 13.4M
TNT Clemson-Texas: 8.6M
Penn St-SMU: 6.4M

 

[AZCB34]

Stewart Mandel
@slmandel
·
3h

CFP first-round TV numbers are in. The 2 ESPN games were *huge*.
ESPN Ohio St-Tennessee: 14.3M
Notre Dame-Indiana: 13.4M
TNT Clemson-Texas: 8.6M
Penn St-SMU: 6.4M

Both the primetime games went crazy. Daytime games on the weekend before Christmas, not surprisingly, didn’t fare well and the PSU game certainly was an opponent issue as well

 

[ajcardfan]

Both the primetime games went crazy. Daytime games on the weekend before Christmas, not surprisingly, didn’t fare well and the PSU game certainly was an opponent issue as well

But compared to TNT's normal ratings? I am sure they were huge.

They were. TNT averages about 1.4 million for an NBA game.