🚨 CONTROVERSY?! 🚨 The REAL CONCERNS over the CFP expansion?! | The Sports Reporters

[@elijahthomas2298]

Look at my boy Josh on ESPN

[@brelnd8991]

love seeing josh on ESPN getting the attention he deserves

[@wolverinesfan9021]

Josh is on ESPN!! Let's gooo!

[@lmmoranor]

Can I just say, The Sports Reporters is one of the rare good things ESPN does. 5 quality sports journalists (well 4 depending on how you view Paul) not just trying to scream hot takes to get clicks, but making good points and having an interesting conversation.

[@godfr012]

Ryan's a clown

[@ubadman1]

Paul is def not a quality reporter.

[@thomasroyal8809]

Paul is of GREAT quality! He’s been doing this a while. I love hearing his opinions even the ones I disagree with.

[@MuhGlassRibs]

finebaum is a clown. he doesnt even watch games

[@coburgerj1993]

Two words: Mike lupica

[@Elusivv]

Nobody told them to make superconferences. They want the expanded playoff, but then make their own conferences too large and now want more auto bids. If you're good enough you get in.

[@swatisquantum]

It’s all because they didn’t have playoffs from beginning. They created super conferences so teams can get recognition which gets big tv deals to compete for national title. If they had playoffs from beginning, we wouldn’t have this spaghetti mess.

[@sethtate2079]

I know tons of bama fans, none are crying over being left out.

[@treywilliams2295]

You right. We are not crying about.

[@nicholashardin3704]

Like they said we know we’re better than some teams but we know we didn’t deserve to be in the playoffs after Oklahoma game

[@treywilliams2295]

@@nicholashardin3704 exactly. It's our own fault

[@johnotto4931]

Bingo, I think other teams fans are hoping Alabama fans are crying, we know what happened, it is what it is

[@KiriCade]

No tears left to cry after getting clowned by Oklahoma, lol! Roll tide

[@johntucker5994]

I was pleasantly surprised by the number of Alabama fans online who understood why Alabama did not make the playoff this year. Yes, the format should be tweaked. It doesn't make sense for two lower ranked conference champions to get a bye in the first round, but that was the agreement for this year. But I am not enthusiastic about the B1G and SEC being guaranteed 4 teams each. That would take up 2/3 of the 12 open spots. Even 3 teams each would take up 50% of the openings. I like that the lesser conferences are guaranteed a couple of spots to make the playoffs more inclusive; but other than that, I'd like to see the open spots go to the best of the remaining teams.

[@MattBuild4]

I mean as long as they are consistent in the logic and not that you are changing the format to favor a particular narrative. For example - the amount of hate directed at Boise is so funny to me. How could you possibly ever put a lower ranked team in a bye position over teams that outrank them? Oh idk how about we go back and look at the 19 P5 teams over 15 seasons that Boise State outranked, but got auto-bids into the NY6 and BCS over them....... The level of outrage on this, meanwhile in 2010 #6 Boise State didnt even make a bowl game because an UNRANKED P5 champion got an auto-bid over them....... The hypocritical takes and irony are palpable.

[@johntucker5994]

@ Hi Matt, I haven’t followed Boise State over time so I am ignorant of their particular situation. But I was on balance happy with how things turned out this year. I had never watched a Boise State or SMU game until this year. I’d call that a success in increasing fan interest across the board, and the ratings for all media are up. I am well aware how western teams and schools in less elite conferences can often be dismissed or disregarded re bowl and now playoff selection, which is why a couple or three spots should be guaranteed. The B1G and SEC are elite and don’t need the help IMO.

[@WaldoHaraldoFaldo]

Stop expanding!! 3 loss teams don’t deserve to be in a playoff

[@RonTDB]

Like zero or one loss teams that plays no one does?🙄

[@tompiper1480]

You're right

[@darkindian187]

Like Clemson?

[@SteveRogers-y1j]

@@darkindian187Clemson won the ACC championship so they deserve to be in

[@chikushodiz91]

@@darkindian187lol they are conference champions that’s the difference

[@nickdevoe9554]

You know what will solve all of this? Get rid of mega conferences. Bring back pac 12 and make power conferences have a max of 14 teams

[@ENDOPLAGUE]

This right here!! Absolutely!!!!

[@victord.cruzjr.5250]

That problem would never be solved...+100 years of college football and the havent been able to find a solution.... My take would be send all G5 conferences to FCS at the end of the day that teams dont have enough to fight year after year...Boise State is an exception this time around

[@ErikaSchmachtenberger2978]

Or have a 64 team upper echelon super duper league consisting of 8 divisions and do some meaningful regular season scheduling, i.e. no games against some creamcakes. And then a 8 or 16 team playoffs, seeding solely based on records, including division finals.

[@victord.cruzjr.5250]

@@ErikaSchmachtenberger2978 that would be a solution but this people dont want a solution they want controversy and unlimited reasons to cry about every year.

[@Nowledgeman]

​@@victord.cruzjr.5250or people just want college football preserved as a unique product. Id only be ok with that plan if we brought back regionality. West coast only plays against the big ten or sec teams outside of division once or twice. Regional rivalries and fans being able to travel is very important to this sport

[@SEMINOLEsq.]

FSU was left out after going 13-0, beat 12 P5 opponents, beat LSU on a neutral site by 21, beat UF in the Swamp by 9. I'll never get over it.

[@wevoroni]

the UGA / FSU game to me justified the decision; but I get it, it did feel very unfair based on accomplishments

[@litedawg]

And then your weak culture was exposed and you proved the committee right. Bunch of clowns.

[@Garon537]

​​@@wevoronino it didnt Georgia played a bunch of Freshmens because FSU starters opt ou thats not the same

[@RonTDB]

And looked like trash against Louisville after losing their starting QB and got smoked by Georgia that didn't even make it in the playoff's and they deserved to be in? I'll never get over how some peoples brains think.😂

[@godfr012]

​@@Garon537that only happened because FSU isn't respectable and knew they were going to be embarrassed

[@CollegeFootballNerds]

Ryan saying it needs to be difficult to get in, when several teams in the field have no ranked wins and multiple losses falls on deaf ears. A team who went 0-2 vs the SEC and lost to South Carolina at home gets to play in the playoffs while SC watches from their couch. "It has to be difficult to get in for teams with a difficult schedule, but not for the rest" is what he meant to say.

[@JamesMorris-f6u]

Could not agree with this more. You can't say it has to be difficult to get in and let in teams that play cupcake schedules and flop against the only good teams they play. That being said.I don't think Bama deserved the last spot if SMU won the ACC. Give me any of the other 3 teams.

[@RogerThat902]

@@JamesMorris-f6u that's my problem with this. The auto bids are the worst thing about it. Good teams wouldn't need auto bids. The crazy thing is the problems were totally predictable...in fact some of us said exactly what people would be complaining about when they realized what some of these provisions meant.

[@kev1n2011]

Follow the FCS playoff model then this wouldn’t be a problem for those who were left out

[@aaronscott8837]

oh no alabama didnt make the playoffs again, time to expand!!!!

[@biggie_2p1stols7]

They was already going to expand they decided that before the season started

[@godfr012]

Alabama USCe and Ole Miss should be in the playoffs. This system does not take into account the fact that SEC and to a lesser degree the big 10 became a power 2, not power 4. ACC and Big 12 are mid majors and now they also give Mt West essentially in the tournament Clemson is in, USC and Georgia beat them. Alabama beat Georgia and USC. Oklahoma would win 11 games with SMU schedule

[@aaronscott8837]

@godfr012 yet Alabama usc and ole miss didn't play in the conference title game. And if you want to say that your in the playoffs because you beat a playoff team that would mean oklahoma would be in since we murdered Alabama with backups

[@space0998]

@@aaronscott8837Clemson only played 2 SEC teams this year and those two losses alone puts them at 4th in the SEC. The conferences aren't even remotely close to parity.

[@J-cz7yv]

7:00 Paul said it well at this time stamp. Alabama wasn’t a great team this year. But they are better than teams in the playoffs right now.

[@AlaskaRob24]

All conferences need to play the same number of conference games. Whether it’s only eight like the SEC or nine like the B1G, it doesn’t matter, just play the same.

[@simpleysims]

I agree. I think the SEC is fine with 8 conference games. Cuz most of those teams play a noncon rival like Florida when they have to play Miami and/or FSU in the same year along with 8 other conf games. If they played 9 like everyone else, then they'd potentially have to play 11 power4 teams out of their 12 games. That wouldn't be fair to them. Instead, I think every other conference should go down to 8 games, include a rival like Florida does and then play Mercer in week 11 like Alabama does year in and year out lol. Because thats been my issue with the SEC is when these non-con games are scheduled. If you're going to play Sister's of the Poor in week 11, then we'll also play [insert FCS team here] in week 11.

[@MuhGlassRibs]

​@simpleysims those are just 3 teams. fsu/uf, ga/gatech and clemson/sc. even kentucky doesnt play Louisville every year. that's 3 teams out of 16. but for a 16 team conference, playing 8 conf games is ludicrous.

[@logandortch]

My ideal world would be every P4 conference plays 8 conference games and 2 OOC P4 games so it’s easier to compare conferences

[@Hodgiez]

The other conferences need to play more difficult schedules to match the difficulty of the SEC schedule if wins are the only thing that matters.

[@simpleysims]

@Hodgiez see this is what I'm saying. Oregon has to play Oregon St every year. Next year we play Ok state and Oreg state. And then we play a lower tier FBS school or FCS school to go with that. To cap our schedule we play 9 B1G games. Now a great chunk of those incon games could be detrimental to our schedule. Thats why I'm with reducing one less inferior B1G team for a real non-con team. LSU instead of Rutgers for instance. Our 2025 schedule is so trash lol

[@BrianGlaze]

He says it's not easy to get in, but we have a team in the playoffs with the weakest strength of schedule of all power 4 teams.

[@themacaronichronicles717]

I love how all these conferences like the SEC formed out of a massive super conference that had gotten way too big and now we've just looped back around to massive super conferences that are way too big 😂

[@hunterbutler1887]

(McGee) I agree it has to be difficult. However, the problem is how you're using difficult in one way but not another. Yes, there should be difficult criteria. However, the schedules also should be difficult.

[@wanrogers6249]

These clowns still bringing up bama. Just constantly in their thoughts we didn’t make it move on, you can tell Bama is just a ratings cash cow.

[@Bwood22]

Post Saban, we still live rent free in their heads. Roll Tide.

[@Educated2Extinction]

Bama earned their way out of the CFP against Oklahoma. The byes are the problem. I think they should go with guaranteeing spots to P4 conference champs plus the highest ranked G5 champ, but they're only guaranteed a 1st round home game. That would have given AZ State and Boise State 1st round home games, instead of byes, plus a Clemson home game. First round (Dec. 20-21) Friday, Dec. 20: No. 10 SMU at No. 7 Indiana 8 p.m. | ABC/ESPN Saturday, Dec. 21: No. 6 Ohio State at No. 11 Arizona State | 12 p.m. | TNT/MAX Saturday, Dec. 21: No.5 Notre Dame at No. 12 Clemson | 4 p.m. | TNT/MAX Saturday, Dec. 21: No 8 Tennessee at No. 9 Boise State p.m. | ABC/ESPN Quarterfinals (Dec. 31-Jan. 1) Fiesta Bowl: No. 4 Texas vs. No. 6 Ohio State/No. 11 Arizona State winner | 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31 | ESPN Peach Bowl: No. 3 Penn State vs. No. 5 ND/No. 12 Clemson winner | 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 1 | ESPN Rose Bowl: No. 1 Oregon vs. No. 8 Tennessee/No. 9 Boise State winner | 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 1 | ESPN Sugar Bowl: No. 2 Georgia vs. No. 7 Indiana/No. 10 SMU winner | 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 1 | ESPN Note: I switched Texas to #4 & Penn State to #3, and Tennesse to #8 and Indiana to #7 to mix B1G & SEC

[@ld4974]

The SEC pushing "good losses" in 2024 is hilarious.

[@dwaynejames7262]

no Alabama pushing good losses is only team that has to be in the spotlight

[@BamaBoy_Davis]

Not necessarily because in the NFL a top team that goes let's say 13-4 could lose 2 of those games tgey shouldn't but go on to win the🏆and a NFL team could lose 8 games be 2nd in their division because their division was weak

[@ld4974]

@@BamaBoy_Davis The SEC is not the NFL. A team with 3 SEC loses has zero chance of winning a national title. Keep in mind that before this year, a team with one loss risked being left out of the national title hunt. Making excuses for teams with 3 losses that don't win their conference title is pushing things a little too far.

[@MayleneMadman]

No they aren't. They are literally saying "Look, Bama ALSO beat UGA, Mizzou, LSU, and South Carolina. Yes, we lost some games. THAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PLAY A HARDER SCHEDULE"

[@gocrazy2113]

just win 😂 it’s literally so simple

[@godfr012]

Everybody lost ACC and Big 12 are the new mid majors. There is no power 4

[@patjablonski9739]

Okay then top teams will schedule all the worst teams in-conference and FCS teams out of conference since there's no incentive to do otherwise.

[@xappletrol9457]

Just win against Michigan its literally so simple

[@Goeers206]

​@@godfr012Did you have that same sentiment just 2 years ago when TCU beat the Big 10 champion in a semi-final game?

[@godfr012]

@Goeers206 not the same thing. At all... Big 10 sucked too. I only respect them more now because of the PAC 12 teams they've inserted. SEC US one of one even in a down year, they clearly deserved 6 teams in, and participation trophies for Boise, SMU, Arizona St and Clemson prevented it

[@tompiper1480]

The committee got it right this year

[@FreeCrashFlow]

I mean, maybe within the “rules,” but no way ASU and Boise should a bye…

[@tompiper1480]

@FreeCrashFlow I agree with that

[@vart7767]

NO! THE IRISH DOES NOT HAVE A CONFERENCE

[@SilentLamb999]

Not with smu and Indiana they got embarrassed in their playoff game

[@Fred-t8q]

Are you kidding me? Do you think ASU and Boise State should get a bye. This is nonsense talk. ASU played the 67th easiest schedule and UGA played the hardest.

[@ThomasJBedgood]

you guys need to stop saying Bama fans are crying guys. there might be one or two but normal Alabama fans hoped to get in but didnt really expect to. the only people crying or talking about it is you guys and the coaches and Stankey. Its seriously getting old hearing you guys EVERY day say " Alabama fans are crying" no the majority of us arent. Let it go you sound repetitively stupid. no one with any football knowlege is crying.

[@quantumpotential7639]

We need to get back to 6 game seasons, playing with leather helmets, burlap shoelace jerseys and wooden sneakers. Those types of games are light years ahead in terms of drama and fan enjoyment.

[@FreeCrashFlow]

I don’t think most Alabama fans (myself included) think 3 losses were okay. Most don’t think 2 were okay, given 2 of the 3…I don’t think any conference should have auto bids beyond conference champions either…and if winning the conference championship Closing the conference championship can improve your position, it should impact it negatively too.

[@JoshuaJackson-ne7lh]

Bama always deserves to be in, roll tide 🐘👍🏻

[@FreeCrashFlow]

@ yeah, I mean, might have put up a better fight than Indiana (assuming they show up).

[@phantomvapor]

6:41 to 7:01 is the realest thing i've ever heard him say about Alabama fans!

[@ericwatkins4581]

How is Ryan gonna say it shouldn’t be easy to get in the playoff when you have some teams with an SOS in the 50’s and have lost every ranked game they’ve played that have gotten in.

[@MattBuild4]

sos rankings dont make any sense

[@kevlartheweldingwarrior]

Had to make sure that DISNEY had plenty of inclusion to placate the masses. The committee didn’t have 3 losses as a bullet point for their judgement. They didn’t have making sure a 2 loss runner up in a conference championship game in a bad conference as a bullet point. The CONFERENCE GAMES MAKE BANK. IF THEY WOULDVE PUT BAMA OVER SMU THEN ALL CONFERENCES WOULD DO AWAY WITH CONFERENCE GAMES. THUS DISNEY/ESPN loses a lot of revenue. Bama checked all boxes and bullet points to be in over SMU. and that was clear by the AP VOTERS AND THE COACHES POLL. BOTH HAD BAMA AT NUMBER 11. So. Every single person not affiliated with Disney and ESPN told the truth. It’s so freaking evident.

[@bobthink3681]

As a Bama fan I am annoyed we didn’t make it in - yes we did lose 3 games and did not deserve to be top 10 but we were 100% top 12 - Clemson lost 3 games and got blown out way more than we did by Georgia a team we beat- ik they only got in bc they won the ACC but they had an incredibly weak strength of schedule and still had worse losses than us and basically no ranked wins - I just think the system should be adjusted - Miami would be good enough to be in - Ole Miss should be in and ofc Bama Ik im biased lol goodluck to whoever’s teams made it in Rolltide

[@MattBuild4]

I mean first were gonna have question the legitimacy of SOS as a metric. Like why does Mizzou outrank Clemson in SOS by 8 spots? How is playing Alabama and South Carolina tougher than playing SMU, South Carolina and Georgia? Clemson literally played more ranked opponents than them and higher ranked opponents than them, but somehow their schedule is easier?

[@Walls120973]

There should not be a 12 team play off take all the conference champions and have a playoff with them, I’m sorry but how does a #16 Clemson get in ahead of #11 Alabama? That’s the problem!

[@garyroenicke2102]

I can’t believe Paul mentioned rivalries in the NFL. Wow! They Don’t compare to the rivalries in college which are superior

[@lisajoplin6415]

The difference is if you have teams from conferences who play no one, and then the teams who have very hard schedules. You should 100% go by sos.

[@rc9745]

It should've never been a 12 team playoff unless the conferences are re-aligned and properly scheduled. Let's be honest, the end goal for ESPN/Fox is for a 2 conference league broken up like the NFL. The media has destroyed what made college football special but since we're going in this direction we might as well get it right.

[@darthborg1211]

I think the conference champions get auto bid but not 1st round bye . The top 4 teams in the country should get the bye and the seeding should be how they are rank on the last ranking release

[@jaymoneykennel5415]

Of course you said when don’t play no competition

[@sneakyquick]

The controversy as everyone will see when the lesser 1 loss teams are pounded, is that the best teams arent in the playoffs.

[@toddrowley5605]

16 teams!! So both teams that make it to their championship game get into the playoffs.

[@ZacharyLoeser]

Let’s call this what it is: changing the rules to ensure the SEC always has (at least)four teams in the playoff not matter what, two of which must always be Alabama and Georgia.

[@gaoneal02]

*Big 12, SEC, ACC & Big 10 are your only 4 viable power conferences right now. *Big 12 has 16 teams *Big 10 has 18 teams *ACC has 16 teams *SEC has 16 teams *Each conference plays only teams from its own conference and no more blowout September games against D2 teams and easy warm-up type games. *At the end of the regular season schedule, the top 2 teams in each conference play each other in the first-round playoff game as follows: Big 12 #1 vs Big 12 #2, Big 10 #1 vs Big 10 #2, ACC #1 vs ACC #2, SEC #1 vs SEC #2. The winners will be Conference Champions and ranked #1 - #4 by CFP Committee according to existing guidelines. *Semi Final Playoff #1 vs #4 *Semi Final Playoff #2 vs #3 *The losers will be ranked #3 & #4 by CFP Committee according to existing guidelines. * The winners will be ranked #1 & #2 by CFP Committee according to existing guidelines. *The CFP Super-Duper Bowl #1 vs #2, the winner is National Champions. *The Notre Dame dilemma of being an Independent solution, should they continue to want to stay Independent. UND should agree to play 3 games from each of the power conferences and to continue with their commitment to play Navy every year giving them a 13-game season as the other CFP teams. Notre Dame would have to be ranked above one of the conference teams that is the lowest ranked #2 to be selected to the 8 team CFP. #1. Alabama has nothing to complain about missing the CFP after losses to unranked Vanderbilt and OK, so shut up AL, you are the FSU team this year! #2. Miami lost to an unranked Syracuse & GA Tech, so no way Jose! No way in the world should Boise State be in the top 4, they have played no one in the top 25, but Oregon and lost. Weakest schedule out of all the CFP teams. And how did BSU jump over ASU when ASU had a huge blowout in their conference championship game? Since Clemson won SMU for the ACC Championship, I have Clemson #11 an SMU #12. How in the far world of rankings does Clemson not get ranked above SMU after winning them in the ACC Championship, this has got to be a mistake. Everyone was complaining about the 4-team playoff and the mess it created, now it's even worse with people making these ranking doing stupid stuff. The only way to deal with this is get rid of the scheduling on teams outside the power 4 conferences and anyone on the outside of the power 4 conferences don't play in the CFP primarily because of a totally weak schedule! Then have only and 8 team CFP with conference champions in the top 4 and the runner ups ranked in 5-8. We need to discuss how the committee is selected!

[@godfr012]

Ryan stop it. It is difficult to get in. Just because a SEC team loses 3 times while having 3 showdown games and winning 2 plus a couple of letdowns doesn't mean a team that beat absolutely no one and has 2 losses should get in instead. SMU playoff tickets are available for like $50 it's not good for the product folks

[@godfr012]

Teams merged this last summer. Into better leads. Historic conference is such as the pac-12 are dead because of it. Big 12 and ACC flew tens and from across the country that literally suck just to keep their teams together and league alive. Yet we treat these teams the absolute same as the Big ten and SEC shows that none of you know what you're talking about

[@SteveRogers-y1j]

So a team that has 2 loses to unranked teams including being blown out in one of those games should be in.

[@godfr012]

@@SteveRogers-y1j over teams that literally beat no one. Clemson lost to Georgia and USC. Beat SMU in a game of who sucks less and SMU played no one. To focus on a teams losses doesn't show potential because guess what Alabama beat USC and Georgia... ole Miss beat Georgia. To beat multiple good teams at least shows you belong over a team that beat no good teams and lost to 2 bad teams that were ranked at the end

[@MattBuild4]

@@godfr012 So you gonna take Texas out then too?

[@zogbogbean2464]

I think 16 spots is the sweet in between. You’ll get just enough teams for people to be happy.

[@hugebamafan]

I agree it should be difficult but if a team plays no one all year, how difficult is it, versus a team that plays a much tougher schedule... and I'm not mad that Alabama didn't get in, but schedule should matter and there shouldn't be any auto bids.

[@TBreezeMusic]

#1 offense, # 1 qb left out is the biggest joke.

[@samuelking4723]

The committee’s changing the entire CFP format just so they can guarantee Bama a spot

[@ketolomics]

What “works” is seeing great matchups. A playoff, by design, limits the meaningful matchups. Let’s start with the observation that 5 vs 12 will NEVER be interesting because what it sets up is a much larger, faster, more complete team against a smaller, slower, less complete team. Fine. But maybe, maybe, maybe baby, #12 actually has something going - like a big team that lost a few early games before maturing by the end of the season. This year maybe South Carolina could fit that description. Ok, so if 5 vs 12 and 6 vs 11 are such a bad idea, what alternative do we have? A play-in format. Start on Week 1 with the Bottom 4 (9 v 12, 10 v 11). Week 2, Winners advance to play 7, 8. Week 3 - Quarterfinals we now have 8 teams - 2 teams survive out of 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 - teams 1-6 have all had 2 weeks off - now we have an 8 team setup - assign matchups strictly by rankings (1 vs lowest survivor from Week 2, 2 vs second lowest survivor, 3 vs 6, 4 vs 5) - two of these games are likely lopsided, but 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5 should be competitive) - none of these teams should be “unwatchably bad” thanks to play-in Week 4: semi-finals - matchups based strictly on ranking survivors: highest winner vs lowest winner, 2nd highest winner vs 2nd lowest winner - both of these games should be solid because all possible trash teams have been weeded out Week 5: Championship game - This should be a great matchup between 2 big, fast, very talented, complete teams - There is no “easy path” to get to this game thanks to weekly selection of surviving opponents This Would Give Us: - More competitive games. - Limited opportunities for weasel teams. - A 2 week bye for upper tier teams. - A championship game that football fans would love to see. Give us games… but make more games interesting!

[@Laidback_616]

Nice to see the Homie Josh Pate on here with the cleanest white tee as always. I know he has room full of em somewhere, lol.

[@rorexjr]

The CFP committee does a ranking every week, and after the regular season ended and conference championships games were played, the #16 team is getting a shot ahead of four other teams that the CFP committee themselves say are better, Ridiculous 😂 When in the history of college football, after the regular season has ended, has there ever been an argument that "Hey, #16 should play for the Championship?"

[@MattBuild4]

In BCS bowls it actually happened frequently. If you mean actual championships then youd go back to the AP era - course should be noted that Bama actually claims a national title in a season that the AP ranked them #18 in the nation.

[@DaxtersDaddy3686]

Josh Pate and ESPN absolutely deserve each other. ESPN= The biggest joke of a Network Josh Pate= The biggest joke of sports pundits. Josh Pate talks and acts like he's the smartest person in the world, when if you look at 90% of his takes, he's usually DEAD WRONG lol.

[@davidheaton6206]

6 teams. Sec and big 10 byes. Let’s do some quantitative tightening. And what part of IU schedule was difficult Ryan?!

[@murrethmedia]

No one cares about my opinion, nor should they. But I personally won't take College Football truly seriously until these decisions stop being made in a smoke filled back room and start being made on the field. I'd love to see a realignment of all the teams in CFB, have multiple tiers (more than the 2 there are now) and have promotion and relegation like the soccer leagues do in Europe.

[@waldinjones]

The best system is a committee... said no one ever.

[@ErikaSchmachtenberger2978]

I Like the way you are thinking 😊

[@augiestylehd]

either split the country into 4 or 8 conferences and let two teams from each in. current conference play is ruining the game because of bias. sec get major bias even though they are beating each other and end up with 2 or 3 losses. somebody needs to come up with a system where your record and winning matters not a room full of idiots placing teams where they want.

[@SS11660]

You cant vet best teams when strength of schedule is ignored. Teams with no wins against ranked teams are not best teams.

[@MattBuild4]

SOS is an incredibly flawed metric. Can you even describe how this metric is calculated?

[@KamronRashid]

That there is no SEC rep on the committee is a disgrace. Not saying we deserved more teams in, but there should be someone making the argument, on the committee ffs

[@tedwilliams185]

What????? SEC got 3 teams in. Stop crying

[@MattattackW]

Alabama fans shouldn’t feel any kind of entitlement to that last playoff spot. They, along with two to three other competitive, playoff ready teams got left out.

[@mattgarr57]

The ranking system and CFB playoff system are pure sh*t. Many changes needed. The NIL, transfer portal, equity rankings, and a whack playoff system aren't doing CFB any favors. They are destroying CFB.

[@Mochishaveice]

“Dead trees can attest to that” You sure that was a Bama fan😂🤣😆

[@TyClanton6]

Difficult to get in needs to mean the same. It's easy for lower level teams. And the competition at the playoff level is lopsided. That's kinda the point. You're not talking down to 3 losses. It's literally the first year in a playoff, so of course there's precedent. Case and point, Clemson. Who literally just loss to an in state rival in Clemson a week before SMU and somehow got in, in a easier conference with 3 losses. Then you have the Boises of the world.

[@SteveRogers-y1j]

So you want only SEC and Big Ten teams in? Good luck getting a lot of people watching those games

[@TyClanton6]

@SteveRogers-y1j Get real dude. I said fair. Take your cupcake schedules and put decent teams in. 13-6 out of conference. Look at largest viewed games this year before you say something dumb like that. People want competitive games. Hopefully we'll see them, but I'm not hopeful and don't really care if you agree.

[@MattBuild4]

Oh im sorry - remind me again what SEC team played 3 P5 conference champions on the road in the last 4 years? Cuz little Boise State did that. But tell me more about how Boise doesnt play anyone...... In reality the last 25 years Boise State has scheduled the MOST ranked teams in OOC in the nation. They have played 32 final ranked teams, 14 Conference Runner ups/Division Champions and 10 P5 conference champions. This aint the team to be questioning schedule on. They want the smoke anywhere, anytime, anyone - and theyre really the only team in the nation that does this. Next year they got Notre Dame on the road and the year after they have Oregon on the road again - name a single other team scheduling like this? So then your argument against Boise becomes - oh you play in the MWC. Guess whose fault that is? Cuz its pretty silly to reject Boise State 13 times (7 by the PAC, 3 by the B12, 2 by the ACC and 1 by the B10) and then turn around and penalize them for not playing in these conferences......

[@terrylynch555]

I'm a Buckeye fan and I'm with you. Just for Bama to get in.

[@bettersounds1926]

quiet can’t wait for tennessee to beat you

[@geraldwaldrop5131]

Bama should be in...

[@colewilliams9432]

Exactly. Clemson, SMU and Arizona State don't deserve to be in more than bama

[@wildewaffle9790]

As an Oklahoma alum, the fact that we blew Bama’s doors off is all the proof anyone with a brain should need to exclude them from the playoff. We are downright awful this year, and we made Alabama look like amateurs.

[@geraldwaldrop5131]

@wildewaffle9790 we had our 3rd string in tho.

[@apoloestrada2908]

Stay at 12 teams in the CFP, it will ruin everything when it comes to NIL & transfer portal.

[@jameskelley2357]

I still say let's do 2 conferences with 4 divisions each and expand the playoffs to 16 teams.🤷 Win your division and you're in with 8 at large bids.😊

[@dapack424]

Did the guy just say it should be hard to get in the playoffs while pointing to Bama’s 3 losses? Hard to get in….literally half the playoff field has a combined zero wins over ranked teams!!!! Hard to get in 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@adamsmith2758]

Can you believe how terrible Indiana was!? 7-14 on 3rd down, 70 rushing yards, 164 passing yards and 3 turnovers and only 3 points!! Oh, wait.. that was Alabama vs Oklahoma

[@kimhelton5514]

bottom feeders with 3&4 losses want to cry their way into playoffs - no shame ?

[@Irishhaf]

Auto bids will be the stake in the heart of college football

[@Nowledgeman]

Josh is selling out.... This playoff has been a disaster when it cones to importance for the best big 10 games. The only decent teams in the big 10 got in. No eliminators. If Michigan still had harbaugh they may have gotten 4 in. The rest of the conference is trash. We got lucky that the sec had parity like it hasnt had in a long time or it wouldve been the same thing there

[@mesocorny4366]

I wanna say it’s so patently absurd for nfl & cfp to collide on the same day (12/21/24), I know nfl is using Sat to setup for its Xmas games but the clash is bad for the sport, didn’t we Americans learn from ‘08 wall st that things can get too big?

[@dshook1568]

I haven’t watched a playoff game at all, next year I’m not watching college football at all, I’ve seen nfl teams stay together longer than a college team. College football isn’t fun to watch anymore

[@Chance_ForForeverBV]

PATE STATE on ESPN…man I’ve seen it all. Managament definitely was consulted on this

[@StoicJason]

Bama fan here. In no way did we deserve to be in. I don’t know a single fan who thinks otherwise.

[@MMcCree7]

We still were better than half the team's in it

[@StoicJason]

@ yep but based on the rules we agreed to, we didn’t deserve to be in.

[@NFace23]

@@MMcCree7 Oklahoma and Vanderbilt would beg to differ

[@JoshuaJackson-ne7lh]

We deserve to be in, we’re bama 🐘💪🏻

[@StoicJason]

@ that’s not how it works

[@tracetrahan12]

Make Big 10, Big 12, and ACC play 3 teams from SEC in a row . You can have a cupcake team, a middle of the road team and a top 6 SEC team to play We will really then be able to see what non SEC teams can hang with a semi-SEC schedule and this will eliminate the whole SEC v everyone else debate

[@tedwilliams185]

SEC teams typical dont win outside of the conferences. Before this year FSU beat 7 SEC teams in a row.

[@NFace23]

Wrote "SEC" 5 times in one comment but won't admit it's emotional bias.

[@tyronpouncey5985]

Should’ve kept it at 4, and made all teams play an nfl schedule, that’s how you fix the playoffs. But naw , yall suits wanted yalls cake and eat it too, so this is what we got

[@StoicJason]

Go back to a four team playoff. Regulate NIL to some degree. Limit the portal to one transfer.

[@sneakyquick]

There should be zero autobids. Pick the 12 best teams

[@JamesJones-rb4ku]

16 Teams! Nobody gets a bye!

[@coburgerj1993]

A 2 loss max would be interesting to have as a wrinkle

[@artofficialjoe]

Hey Ryan, Clemson has 3 losses. Just saying!😂

[@seanrobinson8676]

They won there conference championship

[@space0998]

@@seanrobinson8676Who cares. ACC championship is worthless

[@artofficialjoe]

@ yes and they should be in. However 3 losses doesn’t automatically disqualify anyone. We have to get out of that mindset. There will be a a lot of 3 loss team that get in, in the future as well. Saying “just win your games” or “don’t lose 3 games” is over simplistic. Also the SEC is different than the ACC. We all know that. I’m ok Bama being left out but I would’ve understood them being in as well.

[@colewilliams9432]

​@@seanrobinson8676that shouldn't matter. It should just be the top 12 teams. There shouldn't be automatic qualifiers

[@Inzuse]

Expansion is a mess. Conf championships games are all but meaningless. Look at the Big 10 and the SEC conf championship games. Dident matter who won it. both teams from each game were going to the playoff.

[@Alana-t2o]

Another SEC cry baby. Get over yourself. We all are going through this and some of us aren't happy. Get over it.😢😢😢😢😢

[@shilljonnyshill]

there has to be a way for schools like the smus and boise states to get a chance or else it’s not college playoffs it’s a super conference playoffs.

[@whydidiwastemytimeonthis4581]

Clemson and SMU in the playoff is an absolute disgrace. Clemson only in for winning a weak conference, and SMU only in for having 0 ranked wins. College Football fans who like Clemson and SMU in the playoff would have you thinking that an undefeated high school team would beat a 6 loss D1 School because the high school team has less losses. 🤣🤦‍♂️

[@jonathangalindo7385]

Shouldn’t of expanded to 12 teams then, clemson & smu are out if it was 4 or 8

[@cde0907]

If you can’t win your conference, are you really in the running of the best?

[@SS11660]

Only way to get best teams is to stop guaranteeing conference losers a spot in order to push more teams from weaker conferences. Forget conferences just get 12 best teams forget conferences.

[@MattBuild4]

how do you determine the best teams?

[@SS11660]

@MattBuild4 they published a list of data but they only used it when it suited them to get the teams they wanted.

[@MattBuild4]

@@SS11660 so again how do you determine the best teams?

[@MattBuild4]

@@SS11660 Problems with college football that make picking the "12 best teams" impossible. 1. Selective bias of programs 2. Selective bias of what constitutes a good program 3. Belief in conference superiority 4. Historical formation of conferences having nothing to do with competition 5. Historical selection of teams for post season being inconsistent, illogical and/or corrupt Like Alabama is considered one of the best programs. They claim this because of wins and # of titles. They also record wins going back to 1889 when none of the conferences even existed. They also claim a whole bunch of championships that are arguably complete nonsense (aka seasons they didnt win the SEC, seasons they werent #1 by most polls, seasons they literally lost to teams who claim a title, seasons they literally lost the championship game). A lot of programs do this, and then over the last 50 years these same programs create rules for the rest of the teams that put favor against them. For example a program like SMU has been playing since the 1900s, but they are restricted in claiming wins pre 1950 for some reason. SMU also has 5 seasons polls ranked them #1, but they are persuaded to not claim these. This is a complete double standard that incentivizes greater favor for particular brands even though historically as a whole it makes zero sense. Like Boise State is considered inferior because theyre G5. If they were able to include all time wins they would have the 40th most wins in the entire league and as many to date as Stanford. That means they would have more wins than 18 P5 programs. So why is a team still in the G5 if they have been more successful all time than nearly 25% of the P5? And how do you claim the P5 is truly superior if you dont select teams into the P5 based on competitive ability?

[@thesoccertrotter1]

Keep it at 12 teams, you need double digit wins to get in

[@NFace23]

Memphis won 11 games! Better put them in! This is why your take is bad.

[@Wideout4]

Every conference champ gets a bid then reseed at season in. Even the little schools they can play a big boy in the playoffs no at large bids needed. ND join a conference bucko

[@JohnMandock]

Why should we conference the play? Nobody in their conference. Get rewarded to Playoff spot. I'll never understand that. Has an example wisconsin went 5 and 7 get in the big ten. You put them in the mac conference and they're probably going to feed it and make the playoff every year. Why did you mix no sense at all.

[@millecinematics]

If you really want Alabama in the playoff then this whole system will be ruined because if they actually went by who’s the best teams all the teams that won their conferences and made it to their conference games some of them wouldn’t get in the idea is to get the best from each conference to have a chance at a natty

[@jarius6881]

It’s already a model in the FCS level 😂

[@noeno17]

They're going to expand to a 32 team playoff because of money.

[@justaguy995]

Players are getting paid win or lose who cares if you win as long as you show out. 12 teams is too many. Does number 12 really deserve a spot. 8 would be plenty

[@iamurfriend777]

Feel like bama is getting brady rule. It would be funny to see it expand just for bama to lose 4 or 5 game and be left out again. 😂

[@tanjiro9425]

Pate State baby!

[@PureBleachFilms]

There aren’t 12 good teams…I liked the 4 team playoff

[@bvrsqzr3569]

Just do what the fcs does. A 24 team playoff. All conference winners get in, plus extra loss teams can make it in thst people feel deserve it.

[@manwholaughs2477]

Idk man when the ACC champ can loose to every SEC team they play it’s just the latest in a long line of evidence that D1 isn’t made equal it’s SEC then everyone else

[@Bamafan1229]

This video was a total waste of time. 3 losses in the SEC, no matter the opponent is not the same as 1-2 losses in ACC/Big 12.

[@robhawk6463]

College football has been ruined and is a sham. NIL, Transfer Portal and now again, the "committee" stacks the brackets with TCU 2.0. SMU, Indiana and Boise State? Who have they played this year? Nobody. Are you kidding me?

[@damianpresha9833]

Except TCU beat more ranked teams that year than Georgia. And they beat Michigan to advance your argument is flawed.

[@robhawk6463]

@@damianpresha9833 and got stomped in the Natty UGA was eating wings on the sideline by the fourth quarter TCU had no business being there

[@ubadman1]

​@@robhawk6463they earned the right to be there. Alsp uga only got past ohio state due to harrison jr getting hurt.

[@damianpresha9833]

@robhawk6463 Yeah your hopeless

[@MattBuild4]

@@robhawk6463 Remind me again what SEC team this season is 14-0? Oh nobody...... so why are you acting like anyone in the SEC this year is 2022 Georgia?

[@kimhelton5514]

why not change the rules, as long as bamar has more wins than losses they get an automatic birth - and first round bye

[@tagnbama9001]

BETTER BE CHANGES....PERIOD!!!

[@Smiketheman]

Bama acting like a spoiled brats!!😂😂Period?🌈 crew

[@gocrazy2113]

how about not losing to zesty vandy players. we’ll show you how to beat tennessee

[@bettersounds1926]

@@gocrazy2113doubt it you guys can’t beat Michigan with a stacked roster , y’all have never been the standard

[@mattdm1125]

As far as Bama being left out eh… they lost - it is what it is. Greg is too busy choking on his new burnt orange pole. But hey he likes money and will do what he has to. Was never a fan of abolishing the East and West.

[@A-Aron5151]

Bama had three teams rush the field on them this season. I’d like to know another college football team that had three teams rest the field when they got beat. You won’t find it cause Pam is the biggest brand and the biggest name in college football and it won’t change There was money to keep Alabama out this year, the way the season went, Oklahoma was one step ahead of ever play we played, there’s just a lot of money went into Alabama not getting there so that your little Garbage , Boise State, Arizona State, and Indiana teams could get in

[@MattBuild4]

If Boise State had money you think they would be in the MWC? They dont have money, but they have something arguably even more powerful than money - fear of lawsuits.

[@A-Aron5151]

@ I guess I agree , I don’t know where they sit with All of that I’m talking talent and comparable competition The sec rips each other apart Georgia beat everyone but bama and ole miss Then bama loses to Oklahoma Bama gets everyone’s best, and one thing most folks don’t talk about, go back and look at the teams who Beat bama They always take a bye week Imagine your opposing team, always take a bye week Bama played a fresh team most of the year. Boise wouldn’t have a chance in the sec Neither Indiana , Arizona state , maybe even penn state and Notre dame

[@MattBuild4]

@@A-Aron5151 I think you would be surprised how Boise State did in the SEC. For one, this is their roster making $2M a year - in the SEC that explodes for $50M a year. Second while there are a lot of good teams in the SEC, theres a lot of garbage in the conference too - historically Boise State has played the top end of the SEC and is 2-5 all time. So are they going to win the SEC? No, but they can be a mid to upper competitor. T hird the SEC has never played in Boise, beating Boise in Boise is very difficult to do. That stadium holds the all time consecutive home win record in the league and in the last 25 years, BSU has lost just 18 total games at home. If They play an SEC schedule at least 4 of those in-conference games will be in that stadium.

[@MattBuild4]

@@A-Aron5151 Boise State is likely the single most reason why the G5 gets a seed in the CFP as well as why a super league will not happen. During the BCS era there were a couple of extremely serious lawsuits against the league by a group of G5 teams. These lawsuits were not some PR show like what FSU did. They were civil, state and most importantly federal lawsuits on corruption, fraud and anti-trust. Boise State is the last remaining G5 team that was involved heavily in both. Most importantly is that the 2009-2012 G5 lawsuits made by the US DOJ and US Senate against the BCS and NCAA were never outright disbanded - they basically got put on hold when the CFP was announced. So if the CFP took action to prevent a program like Boise to make the playoffs at all and use the G5 argument in any way, Boise would have legal precedent and existing legal evidence to show decades of corruption against their program in previous lawsuits. Really no other program has a weapon like this. No Boise doesnt really talk about doing this openly, because these actions were taken as a last resort method (the NCAA sanctioned them and other G5 programs involved in these lawsuits as payback in 2013-2016).

[@A-Aron5151]

@ lol I had to Come back You blew my mind “You’d be surprised how house would do in the SEC” Lololol They have maybe 3 good players that have the opp to play next level I bet on 1,2 of them go pro However. LOLOLOL NOT EVEN GONNA DO IT TO YA there ain’t a team in the sec that doesn’t have 3 nflers Bama Georgia Ole miss Tennessee They have 4,5,6 Lol

[@kimhelton5514]

still ? bamar still 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 ?