Liberty is the 23rd ranked team with one of the easiest schedules in the country but they did go undefeated. They got an automatic berth.
Well I thought it over some more. I can see how Liberty players and recruits would be really excited. But I think Duck players and recruits and fans would be a lot happier if Oregon was playing Penn State, Ole Miss, Oklahoma or Notre Dame. And I don't understand why that didn't happen.
I'd assume other bowls picked all those schools first and the Fiesta got stuck forced to take Liberty. Can't imagine Fiesta had the choice of taking Oklahoma but instead picked Liberty.
I don’t think that the change to the transfer portal is a direct correlation. I’m not saying it isn’t, but I’m also not saying it is without any sort of evidence. But you do you.
he didn't say its direct correlation, he just pointed out the obvious counter fact that on a macro level ratings are up... no need to be a Slypokerdog STOMP
What I really wonder is if FSU would have been left out for Texas if Georgia had beaten Bama. This feels very much like finding justification not to omit the SEC champ.
4 team playoff was always stupid. Same problems as the BCS, just more bowl games ruined. We needed at least an 8 team playoff instead of 4.
In the 4-team playoff era, have we ever had a team left out that had a truly legit argument like FSU this year?
We've had recent 5 seeds barely sneak in with people saying they didn't belong and win the whole thing. We've had pretenders sneak in and get throttled because they didn't belong there, so one team basically got a bye in the first round. We've had two teams from the same conference meeting in the championship without necessarily beating the best teams from the other conferences. With 8 teams you'd know for sure. I've just never liked the 4 team playoff, and always regretted the lost opportunity of a really expanded playoff. And now the PAC won't get to be a part of it. I'm just bitter.
on one hand, I'm surprised because Nix has nothing left to prove at the college level, and there's an injury risk on the other hand, from what Nix has revealed about his character and his loyalty to Oregon, now, it's not surprising Will be interesting to see how many Ducks opt-out with Nix choosing to play
To you. Not so much to kids who are growing up and wanting to pick a school. And NIL money. Which Oregon can pay.
That's awesome. I was listening to a pod the other day and they said they think that if Bo plays, a lot of the other guys will play too because they respect him. So we might still see Franklin and Bucky, etc.
I'm not sure if it's correlated or not. I'm simply saying that I've been hearing the narrative, but I've yet to see anything that says it's driving a significant amount of people away. I'm certainly not trying to talk you into enjoy the product if you've already decided you don't like it anymore.
Looking forward to the debate about why the 13th and 14th ranked teams got screwed next year. At least we're heading in the right direction.
