Same
It seems like the NCAA is committed to Monday night for the championships. Why not have it on a Thursday or Friday night?
Yeah. The big problem, at least where the championship game is concerned, it is the Monday after you had 4 NFL playoff games that weekend. All sports talk, newspapers, and Sports TV are focused on those games and dissecting them ad nauseum. Meanwhile, CFP Champ game is like that little kid in the back of the room jumping up and down with his arms up "I am still here" in a crowd of adults.
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I actually watched the full NFL playoff games ,And now for the whole story. The NFL killed it. Ravens/Bills drew 42 million, almost 20million more than the CFP Champ game. Chiefs/Texans 33 million on ESPN.
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If it makes you feel better, I fell asleep watching ND/OSU
Trump stting in the oval office signing executive orders and fielding questions on the fly there before heading out to televised balls is pretty close to must see tv..Six or seven million extra viewers than a normal night on news channels and a couple networks which equates pretty close to the drop of the cfp game...numbers be numbers.
No team that loses to a 6-5 team and has 2 losses SHOULD make the playoff. Regular season means nothing
Well especially in red states like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Tennessee
That’s correct. There’s only so much time the average fan is going to devote to watching football. It’s like having a 3-course meal and then trying to get people to eat more food. The College Football final should be on New Year’s Day or the first Friday in the New Year. If they are going to wait until January 25th to play a championship, then do it on the Saturday before the NFL conference championships or the weekend before the Super Bowl when the NFL is off.
Or when was the last time you heard of a player being academically ineligible?
The reality. at least in all the NORMAL SPORTS, being champion has absolutely nothing to do with being the best team, and any sports playoff or tournament is designed to crown a champion and has absolutely nothing to do with determining the best team. College football fans never understand this, sometimes the subjective, eye test best team wins the championship tournament and sometimes someone else does. Sometimes 9-7 NYG is champion and 16-0 Patriots are the best team, or 11-loss Nova is champion and powerful Georgetown is the best team, I like it this way, I happen to think the best team having a chance of losing and some mediocre team taking the championship is what REAL SPORTS is supposed to be, not some committee hand picking the two best eye test champions to make sure the best team becomes champion.
Except if it's an 8:45 start time on the east coast and people have to be at work 7am.
I think the only sports where you see the best team consistently win the championship would be the NBA, the NHL, and English Premier league soccer
Yes and no. I think the NHL also has maybe or at least did, the most active trade deadline. But it is so late in the season (over 2/3's played) that the "best" team emerges after that deadline. Obviously as an avid fan of the flightless birds, I can attest to this in a few of those Cup winning years (specifically 91, 92 and 2016) the Pens were the best team yet they didn't win the President's Cup and their famously 1993 team which was by far the best team in the NHL didn't win the Cup based on running into a hot goalie.
Exactly! The 1980 Soviet hockey team was the best team. USA won the gold. An amazing story and memory.
I mean that is what makes sports, "sports" and entertainment. If you are just selecting "best teams" you can just rank polls and not play the games. Florida State would have had a great year this season. I don't know why college football fans and maybe more to the point, SEC Fans, can't understand this. Then again the southern folks in this nation haven't been the brightest bulbs in the box over our history.
You hit the nail on the head with this one! and it's why I prefer the chaos of an inclusive tournament, nobody remembers when the best team wins the championship playoffs too because it's expected, but nobody ever forgets the biggest upsets, like USA/USSR, Nova/G'town, Namath over Colts, Buccos over Yankees 1960 or NYG over 16-0 NE.
Yeah - the Stanley cup is the hardest trophy to win -
Because someone commented above that this playoff isn't a good way to determine the best team and I make the case that being the best team has nothing to do with being champion in real sports
Also why it’s always Better to be in the playoffs than not, or in the big dance than on the outside
I think when you have been outscored 131-14 in the 1st quarter of the last 6 playoff games, I don't think you have a chance. You have a better chance if you went 3 or 4 wins one season and picked in the top 5 and possibly get a top QB, WR or DL.
