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The bowls are really just one-off exhibitions, outside the playoffs. They're more about setting up for the next year than they are about the season that just ended. I enjoy watching them, but I wouldn't use them as a meaningful measure of the quality of the teams that played in the regular...

What I want isn't really relevant bc my opinion isn't going to impact the direction of the sport but yes, we would have been better off if we had focused on keeping the number of playoff teams restricted to the number necessary to determine a national champion after a limited regular season...

Correct, so FSU should have been included as an undefeated conference champion, regardless of whether they were one of the 'best four teams' . . . By which logic KState beat TCU, so TCU didn't deserve to be there . . . Rendering the regular season game meaningless, proving my point . . ...

Correct, two loss Alabama left out in favor of one loss TCU who lost their conference championship game, despite the fact that Alabama was one of the best four teams. Which is my point, the committee has never actually done the 'best four teams' thing until this year when they used it as an...

If FSU didn't lose their QB the committee wouldn't have had an excuse to leave them out, but they still deserve to be in . . . The committee's decisions this year coupled with the playoff expansion next year has put us in danger of regular season games losing any meaning, like in professional...

Michigan and Washington were locks, and for the remaining two spots I can understand the arguments for any of FSU, Texas, Alabama, Georgia and Ohio State to be included or excluded. So I can understand the committee picking Texas or Alabama to the exclusion of the other -- Texas has the...

Michigan accepted the three game suspension to prevent a stayed suspension extending into the postseason. They also avoided the discovery process an actual court case would have required, which probably pleased the Big Ten as much as Michigan. The NCAA investigation will reveal nothing as the...

If we end up with three undefeated teams and a bunch of one-loss teams, I'd say that's more of an argument that four teams is too many rather than not enough. Different perspectives I guess . . .

Going divisionless isn't going to help the Big Ten tho, it's just going to end up being Ohio State/Michigan playing back-to-back weeks to end the season, where only the second game matters. Who wants to see that? I'm betting conference title games won't be around for much longer once the...

I came by earlier in the season but there wasn't a thread up and then forgot to look again until now . . . A bittersweet year in that this is the last great regular season, before some changes for the worse come next year to shift the focus away from the regular season games. This is the last...

I regret that we didn't get to see UGA v Michigan, but at least there wasn't an upset in the title game and we have a deserving champion. Apparently that was the most lopsided game in postseason history, not just the playoffs or bcs but the entire history of the bowl system. That sounds...

The reason I liked three teams is bc while it's possible to have more than three deserving teams, it's never actually happened. And while ofc undeserving teams can win those games -- we've seen two win the national title in 2011 Alabama and 2015 Ohio State -- that's exactly what I'd like to...

No the committee def picked the correct four teams, and it wasn't close. But only two of those teams earned their way in based on their play. The other two were the 'least undeserving' that we've had to use to fill the field ever since it expanded to four. I wouldn't say the playoffs are worse...

I was, as always, pulling for the teams that actually earned their spots in the playoff and so was disappointed that Michigan lost. It is nice that they were both very entertaining games tho . . . I watched in a bar full of mostly Alabama fans and was surprised at how heavily the crowd favored...

Florida was no surprise but I was a little disappointed in Mizzou. They're not a great team but I thought their defense would have given them a better chance v Wake . . . Finally getting into some of the bigger name games tomorrow, with our first ranked v ranked P5 matchup coming Thursday night...

Loath tho I am to double post, I guess I can't edit now w/o messing up the timestamp on my previous picks? I'll pick the next two days now: Marshall, San Jose and Toledo . . . 7-1 so far \o/ Not sure I would have picked UAB if I'd known McBride wasn't playing, but I didn't : )

eh, either I don't have an espn profile or I forgot it ; p EDIT: I'll just make my picks here. Picking both Alabama teams tomorrow. UAB should have an easy win, Troy has been very good all year and is perhaps more motivated than most bowl teams for being matched in the CUSA/Sunbelt title game ...

I like all the SEC's draws really. Florida is probably a little outmatched and LSU should roll Purdue, but otherwise I'd expect all to be good, entertaining games . . . EDIT: if y'all want to do a pick 'em I'll try to make some picks but it's not really my thing. Same reason I don't gamble, I...

Twitter factoid of the day: Eleven percent of current fbs head coaches were on Saban's staff at Alabama or LSU. Speaks to his longevity as much as anything, but still . . .

Idk UGA has def had some flaws, lots of lazy games, but they certainly did look the part last night v LSU . . . With only two teams earning their way in I'm not sure it was possible for the committee to get it 'right', but I think they made the best choices they could given the teams they had...