The first round of the playoffs was really boring

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- 12/21/2024 at 9:53 PM #238812
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  Max
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  Is it just me or was the first round of the playoffs really boring. Two of the games were blowouts and Clemson vs. Texas was kinda close and same with Notre Dame and Indiana.
- 12/21/2024 at 10:01 PM #238813
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  Daren Oddenino
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  Kind of shows 8 team playoff might have been enough. 1-8 now in next four games.
- 12/21/2024 at 10:11 PM #238814
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  DataUte
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  ND was up 27-3 late into the 4th, so it was not as close as the score indicated
- 12/21/2024 at 10:51 PM #238816
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  ALUF
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  Totally agree was a snooze fest.
- 12/21/2024 at 11:33 PM #238818
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  Tony (admin)
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  Also less interesting since we weren’t involved
- 12/21/2024 at 11:56 PM #238819
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  Roy Rangum
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  This might sound dumb, but I was pretty ok with the blowouts. The whole point of a playoff is to prove on the field / court who is the actual best. A lot of those teams that got blown out were teams that a lot of people thought were pretty good. But now we know with a surety, those teams weren’t really all that close compared to the teams above them. And now we get a chance to do it again in the next round (and I won’t be surprised if ASU and Boise State similarly get whooped). With 12 teams, you eliminate the coulda woulda shoulda, and you get to prove who were the pretenders and who were the contenders.
  - 12/22/2024 at 12:22 AM #238821
    
    //r00t4Utes
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    So the home teams and favored teams have so won?
    
    Not exactly shocking. Home field is usually an advantage, especially for good teams.
    
    I know the little I watched I’ve heard the media say how good it is to have these games at college stadiums, which is true. But then gloss over the advantage the Home teams have and instead say things like wins aren’t as important as who you play.
    
    Again, there is some truth to that, but it’s lazy commentary and without context and small sample size, seeing as it’s the first time for this playoff format. And to me, it is just pushing the network agenda of keeping big names included to make the networks as much money as possible.
    
    If they do that, then what’s the point of the regular season? Just automatically put every blue blood in the playoffs, and the new auto bid can give these blue bloods all Home games as a way to reinforce their confirmation bias and make more money.
- 12/22/2024 at 12:11 AM #238820
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  Utah
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  Get used to it. With the money and the separation of the SEC/Big 10 from the rest of us…they are just better than us.
  
  And the odds of a non-SEC/B1G team winning three games in a row…are pretty close to zero.
  
  Kids don’t play anymore to compete or win or become a legend. They play to make money and go to the NFL. Having a kid wanting to go to a Utah or Oklahoma St or Boise St to prove the world wrong and show they can hang with anyone…maybe you find one or two…or ten. But that isn’t enough in football.
  
  Why go show the world you are the best at Utah for $100,000 when you can get $500,000 from Alabama and win it all?
  
  The SEC/B1G need to break off and do their own thing. The playoff just shows that.
- 12/22/2024 at 7:22 AM #238826
  
  Uteanooga
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  This version of playoff would be perfect for the old conferences. Put the old P12 and B12 back to gather and voila- perfect playoff.
- 12/22/2024 at 7:33 AM #238828
  
  2008 National Champ
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  The score of a single game is the silliest argument for “deserve to be there” and that it still exists after ~ 30 years of BCS and CFP means that people still don’t understand the difference between Best Team and National/Tournament Champion.
  
  Blowouts happen in every sport, in every competition and are 10 times more common than exciting finishes. But top level College Football fan has been taught for over 100 years that their bias is more important than what actually happened and they will glom on to any and every innocuous factoid to prove their point. It doesn’t matter how many wild card NFL teams win the Super Bowl, there will still be people who know without a shadow of a doubt that if a wild card team gets blown out in the first round that they didn’t deserve to be there. It didn’t matter how many 4 seeds won the CFP, as soon as one got blown out it proved that 4 was too many and the playoff shouldn’t expand.
  
  In a world where the more talented team at home wins ~ 75% of the time, the only thing more predictable is people with an axe to grind using the results as proof of something unproveable.
  - 12/22/2024 at 8:10 AM #238829
    
    Roy Rangum
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    “proof of something unproveable”
    
    So blowing another team out is not proof that you are a better team, because it was a home game?
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