I acutally agree with you for once. Sark played not to lose, includin ghis choice of qb. Ewers was floating everything outside of the hashes. Notice that almost all of his throws in the sencond half were quick slants and screens. He had no velocity on a ball going more than 10-15 yards. And, given how GT lit up UGA with a running qb, ewers again was a poor choice today.
That said, I still like Texas in the cfp. They match up well with everyone not named UGA, so depending on the draw, they should still be playing in the semifinals.
I agree that a 12-game season does make it more difficult for good two-loss teams to make a limited playoff system, but D3 does it just fine. Hell, even high school does.
I'm not suggesting diluting the season, just putting to rest the notion that only 1-loss or undefeated teams are necessarily the only teams that should be allowed in the playoffs. For years undefeated teams loaded up on retarded competition and were rewarded for it. I think that's where the "have to win" mentality really turned a portion of the regular season into a mockery. I don't know about you, but I don't give a shit about my team having a tune-up game against UC Davis...and not only because they might lose.
I think we can limit OOC games and eliminate conference championship games and that would allow for a 16 team-playoff, which is even more reasonable as it allows for more teams that proved something (during the regular season) to have a shot, in the form of at-large bids to deserving programs. And, no , this isn't the equivalent to a participation trophy, I'm only talking about top programs that season that demonstrated they're worthy of inclusion.
Yeah, many good teams would be excluded, but that's where the regular season really does make a difference. Winning 10 out of 12 games should not be part of that exclusion if you make the selection based on any other number of factors, such as SOS and to whom those losses occurred. I also think improvement counts, and that's why I brought up the 2002 USC team; NOBODY would have wanted to play that team in a playoff, and they shouldn't be excluded for losses to K-State (who was really tough at the time) and Penn State really early in the season.
EDIT: Okay, it was Washington State, not K-State. I looked it up and was wrong. But I stand by my original point.
I acutally agree with you for once. Sark played not to lose, includin ghis choice of qb. Ewers was floating everything outside of the hashes. Notice that almost all of his throws in the sencond half were quick slants and screens. He had no velocity on a ball going more than 10-15 yards. And, given how GT lit up UGA with a running qb, ewers again was a poor choice today.
That said, I still like Texas in the cfp. They match up well with everyone not named UGA, so depending on the draw, they should still be playing in the semifinals.