2025-26 College Football Thread

[Sydla]

LOL you would HATE the non-committee solution.
It would be almost ALL auto-bids like the NBA and NFL or NAIA football.

It would include all 10 D1 conference champions, 2nd place teams from the P2, 3rd place teams from the P2 and possibly even 4th place P2 teams and 3rd place Big 12/ACC.
The would be a miniscule area for ND to get in an even expanded 24-team playoff.

This system is very imperfect, but it is still light years better than D1 football has EVER had before.

They badly need to expand to 16. To not publish any official poll until week 4. To add a requirement all teams must participate in any post season game for which they are eligible or face a 1-year post-season ban. --Can apply for special permission to skip with Head Coach loss.
Make the games start week 0 for everyone and play every week starting Turkey Day so we keep the games (except perhaps the Natty) in the 1st semester.
Create massive penalties for approaching coaches in season. --It will still happen, but it won't be Lane Kiffin public, and they won't announce anything before the season's end.
Create 5 years for 5 seasons and single medical year rules. 6 years should be the most any player can play on a collegiate level.

Create an arbitration panel of 5 federal judges across the regions that can rule on NCAA matters with a solid Commish from professional sports not any friggin Saban.

The non-committee selection solution is the only solution that makes sense. Because people will always have bias and the way this committee recuses people is absurd.

Ivan Maisel had a partial recusal. He could talk about ND but could not vote for ND. His reason for recusal? He recently wrote a book about Frank Leahy.

You know how had zero recusals other than Arkansas? Chair Yorachek. He did not have to recuse himself from talking and voting for other SEC schools despite the fact Arkansas BENEFITS DIRECTLY from as many SEC schools making it as possible.

Oh and Mike Riley had to recuse if discussing Oregon State but the fact he was a player on a NC team with Alabama was not a reason to recuse himself from discussing/voting for Bama. LOL.

The committee is a stone cold joke. Get rid of it and go back to the old BCS style that used human and computer polls, metrics. But if we have to keep the current stupid committee process, then blow the make up of the committee up. ADs and administrators with direct ties to conferences get shot from the room. Build a committee of maybe some key media types, maybe some FCS football people that know football but won't have the inherent bias people like Yorachek had. Shoot, put a couple Vegas experts on there. They probably know better than anyone who is good and not good given the amounts of data they crunch.

 

[atlantacowboy]

EVERY D1 Team sport with a playoff has auto-bids for its conference champions.
This also holds in EVERY level of collegiate football.

The braindead love the old system that created big brands that they now worship even though they often lack local ties to the university, never attended the school or stepped foot on the campus.
The brand lured them in, they bought the t-shirts, and they worship the brand and hand it all value.
If the brand loses value, they have no reason to even support them. They just move over to a new big brand.

This makes no sense. We just want to see the best teams play each other. Nobody wants to watch JMU or Tulane. This is a new system and there is no precedent. Until they expand the playoff, they need to stick with the 12 best teams formula regardless of conference.

 

[gtb1943]

The non-committee selection solution is the only solution that makes sense. Because people will always have bias and the way this committee recuses people is absurd.

Ivan Maisel had a partial recusal. He could talk about ND but could not vote for ND. His reason for recusal? He recently wrote a book about Frank Leahy.

You know how had zero recusals other than Arkansas? Chair Yorachek. He did not have to recuse himself from talking and voting for other SEC schools despite the fact Arkansas BENEFITS DIRECTLY from as many SEC schools making it as possible.

Oh and Mike Riley had to recuse if discussing Oregon State but the fact he was a player on a NC team with Alabama was not a reason to recuse himself from discussing/voting for Bama. LOL.

The committee is a stone cold joke. Get rid of it and go back to the old BCS style that used human and computer polls, metrics. But if we have to keep the current stupid committee process, then blow the make up of the committee up. ADs and administrators with direct ties to conferences get shot from the room. Build a committee of maybe some key media types, maybe some FCS football people that know football but won't have the inherent bias people like Yorachek had. Shoot, put a couple Vegas experts on there. They probably know better than anyone who is good and not good given the amounts of data they crunch.

put Division 3 retired coaches on the committee if you are going to do it

they have absolutely no conflicting interests compared to current committees

 

[Robbieac]

This makes no sense. We just want to see the best teams play each other. Nobody wants to watch JMU or Tulane. This is a new system and there is no precedent. Until they expand the playoff, they need to stick with the 12 best teams formula regardless of conference.

Speak for yourself. Most people love to watch a good Cinderella team. That’s where a lot of the excitement comes from during March madness.

If JMU or Tulane even make the game competitive, there’s going to be a bunch of folks who look silly saying that they don’t belong.

 

[gtb1943]

Speak for yourself. Most people love to watch a good Cinderella team. That’s where a lot of the excitement comes from during March madness.

If JMU or Tulane even make the game competitive, there’s going to be a bunch of folks who look silly saying that they don’t belong.

they are not part of the 12 best
your whining does not change that

 

[Robbieac]

they are not part of the 12 best
your whining does not change that

And even if Notre Dame somehow lucked into getting into the playoffs, they would have been dog-walked by the top half of the teams.

You’re whining does not change that.

The committee saved the Irish a lot of embarrassment.

 

[Ghost12]

And even if Notre Dame somehow lucked into getting into the playoffs, they would have been dog-walked by the top half of the teams.

Just like last year.

 

[gtb1943]

And even if Notre Dame somehow lucked into getting into the playoffs, they would have been dog-walked by the top half of the teams.

You’re whining does not change that.

The committee saved the Irish a lot of embarrassment.

wow you truly did fail football 101

 

[gtb1943]

Vegas had ND as the #4 favored team to win it all but then the ND haters are always blind to reality

 

[Robbieac]

Vegas had ND as the #4 favored team to win it all but then the ND haters are always blind to reality

Lol.
Now we are resorting to Vegas betting odds to prove Notre Dame’s “greatness”.

 

[Ghost12]

Lol.
Now we are resorting to Vegas betting odds to prove Notre Dame’s “greatness”.

It’s more than anything you brought to the table when you said “they would have been dog-walked by the top half of the teams.”.

 

[jterrell]

ND would have easily been in under metrics this year so your whole argument as usual fails

ND had the 44th rated SOS and 2 losses so under that metric, they pretty much sucked.
As per usual your every take is so insanely biased that you forget everything else that exists.

ND's best chance to make the playoffs is with a committee.
That's the only reason any fan is crying now because you were overrated all year starting in pre-season and carrying to this day.

 

[Ghost12]

ND had the 44th rated SOS and 2 losses so under that metric, they pretty much sucked.

Um, the system that places Notre Dame’s SOS at #44 has Notre Dame the #3 ranked team in the nation.

But why let facts get in the way…

ND's best chance to make the playoffs is with a committee.

Not a committee based on the current makeup.

That's the only reason any fan is crying now because you were overrated all year starting in pre-season and carrying to this day.

Weaksauce.

There isn’t a single fan of a single team in NCAA football that wouldn’t be upset if they switched places with another team after a weekend where neither played.

Like I said in a previous post, the haters are having their moment of glory right now but they won’t find it so funny when it happens to someone they root for.

 

[Sydla]

ND had the 44th rated SOS and 2 losses so under that metric, they pretty much sucked.
As per usual your every take is so insanely biased that you forget everything else that exists.

ND's best chance to make the playoffs is with a committee.
That's the only reason any fan is crying now because you were overrated all year starting in pre-season and carrying to this day.

So to be clear, you are claiming that ND's best chance would be under the subjective choice of a committee than the metrics/computer polls and your proof is they lost two games with the 44th ranked schedule?

You could have spent like 3 minutes of research and realized how wrong you would appear to be. The most popular cited "metrics" polls are FP, SP+, Sagarin, Colley Matrix, Massey. In addition, there is a site that calculates rankings using the old BCS formula, which was a mix of the AP and coaches polls and a sample of computer polls. Under every one of those measures, ND should have been in:

FP - #3
SP+ - #6
Sagarin - #3
Colley - #10
Massey - #6
BCS - #9

And as much as people want to poo poo Vegas, no one crunches data more than the people that set lines so the fact that Vegas would have ND as one of the faves to win most games and a Top 5 odds to win the NC, it would seem to validate the computer poll rankings. So I am not exactly sure where you got the idea that ND would suffer under the metrics and computer rankings but would have been better off with a subjective committee full of conference affiliated folks with apparent biases. I mean there is a reason why the conferences have pushed back on utilizing more objective measures like the computer polls.

 

[gtb1943]

Lol.
Now we are resorting to Vegas betting odds to prove Notre Dame’s “greatness”.

not my problem they are smarter than you

 

[gtb1943]

It’s more than anything you brought to the table when you said “they would have been dog-walked by the top half of the teams.”.

hope he keeps it up I can use the laughs

 

[gtb1943]

So to be clear, you are claiming that ND's best chance would be under the subjective choice of a committee than the metrics/computer polls and your proof is they lost two games with the 44th ranked schedule?

You could have spent like 3 minutes of research and realized how wrong you would appear to be. The most popular cited "metrics" polls are FP, SP+, Sagarin, Colley Matrix, Massey. In addition, there is a site that calculates rankings using the old BCS formula, which was a mix of the AP and coaches polls and a sample of computer polls. Under every one of those measures, ND should have been in:

FP - #3
SP+ - #6
Sagarin - #3
Colley - #10
Massey - #6
BCS - #9

And as much as people want to poo poo Vegas, no one crunches data more than the people that set lines so the fact that Vegas would have ND as one of the faves to win most games and a Top 5 odds to win the NC, it would seem to validate the computer poll rankings. So I am not exactly sure where you got the idea that ND would suffer under the metrics and computer rankings but would have been better off with a subjective committee full of conference affiliated folks with apparent biases. I mean there is a reason why the conferences have pushed back on utilizing more objective measures like the computer polls.

The Irish haters never have had much beyond emotion this year
I am comforted by the fact that probably none here are going to see their team win it all

 

[Sydla]

The Irish haters never have had much beyond emotion this year
I am comforted by the fact that probably none here are going to see their team win it all

I mean when one could have done a couple of minutes of research and seen their point was inaccurate but they went with their emotional view instead of factual view, it's kind of hard to not see that they aren't looking at this logically but with an anti-ND lense.

If you want to make the case that ND didn't belong, fine. But saying that ND needs the committee to get into the playoffs and that a more objective metric system would not benefit them is a bizarre claim.

 

[DFWJC]

Looking forward to more games being played.
Bowls, playoffs
bring it on, please

 

[gtb1943]

Curious to see if weeks of preparation can make Arch look like he is supposed to