ACC Playing the CFP Committee

[B1GTide]

To take advantage of the current CFP rules, the ACC is making plans. They are trying to game the system to ensure more than one team makes it into the playoffs, and don't care if the #1 team in their conference even makes it into their title game.

Time for these conference title games to go. They are officially meaningless.

ACC will weigh changes to conference title game

ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said on Sunday the league will have conversations among coaches and athletic directors to ponder changes to its conference championship game format after a season in which two league teams made the College Football Playoff.

www.espn.com

 

[DzynKingRTR]

The ACC wants to ruin it and water it down even more. If they get approved for thus garbage then every conference will do it and make it worse than it already is.

 

[CB4]

Time for the SEC and the BIG10 to tell the rest of college football to “go pound sand”.

 

[CrimSonami]

Time for the SEC and the BIG10 to tell the rest of college football to “go pound sand”.

Overdue!

 

[CrimsonTheory]

All Clowns, Indeed.

 

[BamaFossil]

Abolish the conference championship games! They're an opportunity for:
- Best conference team to pick up a critical injury going into the "real" playoffs;
- Team that loses the conference championship game to be left out of the playoffs; and
- Ensures both teams are less rested going into the playoffs.

And yes, SEC & BIG need to consider if their best interests are served by continuing to remain in a league with the other conferences.

 

[davefrat]

If I'm reading that article correctly, they want to name a regular season champion, and then let the second and third place finishers play for the conference championship? So, they'll have a regular season champion and a post-season champion (that doesn't include the top team in the league)?

 

[colbysullivan]

This is stupid. The only reason they got two teams in is BECAUSE of the conference title game. They should just be happy to be included.

 

[Crimson1967]

The CCGs make a ton of money. They aren’t going anywhere.

 

[denver]

2-11 in bowl season, and the ACC sees the writing on the wall...they will be lumped in with the G5 soon enough and maybe get one team in at best.

 

[TideEngineer08]

It only happens if the rest of the nation allows them to get away with it.

It's moronic. But it's a weak league doing anything it can to protect its relevance.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

The CCGs make a ton of money. They aren’t going anywhere.

Who is going to want to watch two teams play for second place?!?

 

[B1GTide]

Who is going to want to watch two teams play for second place?!?

They can't sell tickets to the ACCCG anyway. They couldn't fill the stadium if the seats were free.

 

[BamaFan6462]

They can't sell tickets to the ACCCG anyway. They couldn't fill the stadium if the seats were free.

With the amount of games added to the post season schedule and the cost of tickets, travel and hotels I would imagine this is pretty relevant for all of the conferences championship games at this point.

 

[Snuffy Smith]

If I'm reading that article correctly, they want to name a regular season champion, and then let the second and third place finishers play for the conference championship? So, they'll have a regular season champion and a post-season champion (that doesn't include the top team in the league)?

NCAA does some REALLY STUPID stuff, but I don’t see even that group being duped into something like this. You have one champion - and how many ever at large teams you can manage to get past the committee’s smell test. They should have considered themselves fortunate to have gotten both teams in this past year. In either scenario they described I couldn’t see them getting more than 2 in this past year, and they could have possibly cost themselves one spot with that mini-playoff scheme.

 

[B1GTide]

NCAA does some REALLY STUPID stuff, but I don’t see even that group being duped into something like this. You have one champion - and how many ever at large teams you can manage to get past the committee’s smell test. They should have considered themselves fortunate to have gotten both teams in this past year. In either scenario they described I couldn’t see them getting more than 2 in this past year, and they could have possibly cost themselves one spot with that mini-playoff scheme.

The committee didn't dall for the Big 12 scam early on, so maybe.

 

[davefrat]

NCAA does some REALLY STUPID stuff, but I don’t see even that group being duped into something like this. You have one champion - and how many ever at large teams you can manage to get past the committee’s smell test. They should have considered themselves fortunate to have gotten both teams in this past year. In either scenario they described I couldn’t see them getting more than 2 in this past year, and they could have possibly cost themselves one spot with that mini-playoff scheme.

Just declare everyone in the conference co-champions and force the CFP to put them all in the playoff.