FIVE Big Ten Teams in The Latest CFP Rankings; Jake Diebler & Tracey Fuchs Stop By | B1G Today

[@joeseddit]

Ashley Adamson. Great job this season. Came in as one of the new kids on the block with class, poise and professionalism. Hope to see you back next season.

[@craigastor8182]

Agreed Dave, Thanksgiving best holiday of the year. Great show.

[@Al-Rudigor]

Thanksgiving became a holiday while slavery was still going on. I don't celebrate that ish.

[@craigastor8182]

Agreed Ashley, USC beating ND would be HUGE. Go Trojans.

[@markgreco2119]

That will not happen.

[@supernova4575]

All 4 Of the top 4 teams in the Big 10 are favored by 3 scores or more if all hold serve we have 4 teams in the playoffs that is great

[@jamesfeigert4294]

GO BUCKEYES!!!!!

[@timisaacson5509]

Where is the rest of the Big 10? There are 8 SEC teams and 5 Big 10 teams in the top 25. Southern Cal, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska and others need to improve.

[@w9gb]

Iowa will start its 5th (in line) Quarterback against Nebraska Friday. McNamara (1) out for concussion protocol ; Sullivan (2) out for ACL injury; 3 and 4 various injuries (game day decisions, if needed). So #5 starts.

[@joeseddit]

Well, you could turn that around and say where is the SEC at the top of the rankings. There are 3 Big 10 teams and 1 Sec team in the top five. I mean, i think we'd be just arguing about math with this. The top of the Big is heavier on wins than the SEC, which would mean the rest of the teams would be heavier on the losses. The top of the SEC is riddled with losses which means the teams below them are heavier on the wins, thus landed more of their middle tier teams in the 10 to 20 range than the Big Ten would have. Oh, and the SEC's cupcake noncon might have a bit to do with it, too.

[@supernova4575]

Indiana is in Purdue is basement material lol

[@dankcoyote]

Here’s how to fix the Playoffs: You divide college football into 4 divisions of 64 teams. Top 4/bot 4 promote and relegate at the end of the year. Each division is divided into 4 conferences of 16 teams. A team plays 8 conference games and the tournament is seeded with the four bracket regions being the four conferences. Seeded based on conference record. Top seed has home field. The result? Every team has a chance. A freshman on the 256th team in the country could in theory win a national championship their senior year. Competition is more balanced. No more Ohio State playing puff teams ranked 120th. The playoffs produce the conference champions as the final four. This is not hard but everyone wants to cling to how college football was in the past and it’s not that complicated to fix it and stop with all the unnecessary drama and focus on the good drama which is the game itself.

[@joeseddit]

8 games in a 16 team conference doesn't give everyone a fair chance. Just like 9 games in an 18 team conference doesn't give everyone a fair chance. If you're not gonna play all the teams in your conference how could it possibly be fair? You're at the mercy of the schedule. At least the current format offers some protection against that since you don't have to actually win the conference to get in the playoffs. Under your system- if one of the divisions was the big ten teams -Oregon would be the only team in the playoffs. How college football was in the past was there were several conferences with about 8 to 10 teams that all played each other. No need for a conference championship game because a champion has already been determined on the field. And not everyone got in the playoffs so the regular season mattered to the very end. And the drama was winning the game itself. Which really hasn't been the case here recently. It's become more about entertainment and money. Iowa fans got its OC fired while they were winning most every game because they weren't being entertained enough. Oregon/Washington presented as such a bitter rival yet one of the star players jumped ship for the money. And they have a committee of invisible has beens submit their brand biased "eye test" on a weekly basis about a month before the votes really count so the networks can produce whole shows talking about it and selling you advertising. Rewarding teams for "winning" the game is taking a back seat to all of this. Here's how to fix the playoffs: Divide the teams into conference sizes that can play a full round robin schedule which fairly determines the best team of that conference. Then let the conference winners have a playoff.