With players opting out of Bowl games, is it time for an expanded playoff?

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Great point on 97 FSU. Every ounce of juice from that game would have been gone. Bowden might even have pulled a Mullen and played his scrubs. We would have never had "He's behind the defense!"

You have to say it with a crack in your voice. Same
with Taylor’s run the next play. Doesn’t hit as hard otherwise.
 

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Funny story, I was actually on the plane with Stallone’s HGH guy in Jan 2008 on my way to Vegas to get married. I’d known him through a friend for several years but just happened to be on the plane with him. He tells me he’s being flown out by SS for the premier that weekend and invites me and my soon to be wife to the premier. I politely declined, conveniently using my marriage as the reason. In retrospect, it would’ve probably been a lot of fun one night and was a bad call by me, but I couldn’t bring myself to be a part of that monstrosity. I’ve never seen it to this day.
Where'd you get married in Vegas? Mine was at the Rio followed by a small reception at Caesars. Still try to get back to Caesars every year.
 

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Where'd you get married in Vegas? Mine was at the Rio followed by a small reception at Caesars. Still try to get back to Caesars every year.

Nice.

Venetian. We did the reception back in Palm Beach Gardens a month or so later. But I fell
into the reservation the Monday before we got married on Thursday. Worked out great and we were certain we’d be back at least once a year.
It’s now been almost exactly 13 years and we haven’t . :lol:
 

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Nice.

Venetian. We did the reception back in Palm Beach Gardens a month or so later. But I fell
into the reservation the Monday before we got married on Thursday. Worked out great and we were certain we’d be back at least once a year.
It’s now been almost exactly 13 years and we haven’t . :lol:
I get it. Only a four hour drive for us. Much easier. Been a couple years now though. We're due.
 

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I get it. Only a four hour drive for us. Much easier. Been a couple years now though. We're due.

I’d love to stay at Caesar’s and were supposed to be there for the first time this month for our anniversary but the trip was ultimately canceled.

Yeah, the distance sucks. Trying to get back to Napa since ’14 but no success there either. You are fortunate with your location.
 

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In the extremely rare case that happens then you get a new 1 and 2. Is that hard to understand? Nothing's perfect. Adding payoff games just makes it even less perfect.

Let's do it your way...we have 5 Power Conference Play-Offs

Winners Play in 5 Major Bowls and then what? What determines ranking?
 

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Let's do it your way...we have 5 Power Conference Play-Offs

Winners Play in 5 Major Bowls and then what? What determines ranking?

My way is play the season and the bowls. Let the committee and computers pick 1&2 for the NC game.
The regular season matters, the bowl games matter. Is it perfect? No. Is it the best solution? Yes.
More importantly it works best in UF's favor. I have every confidence that the SEC Champ will be in the NC game every year. We have an advantage playing in the SEC. Everybody else can take their participation trophies and fuch off.
 

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My way is play the season and the bowls. Let the committee and computers pick 1&2 for the NC game.
The regular season matters, the bowl games matter. Is it perfect? No. Is it the best solution? Yes.
More importantly it works best in UF's favor. I have every confidence that the SEC Champ will be in the NC game every year. We have an advantage playing in the SEC. Everybody else can take their participation trophies and fuch off.

You still have not explained what you do with multiple teams with the same win loss record? Or a one loss SEC Team that is clearly better than an undefeated ACC or Big???

Sorry but most sports except FBS have Play-offs...WHY? The system we have now has me watching way less CFB. Most Bowls are meaningless and with OPT OUT... AGAIN...WHY?

They won't go back to the old Bowl System...What we have now SUX...So why do you fight it?
 

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You still have not explained what you do with multiple teams with the same win loss record? Or a one loss SEC Team that is clearly better than an undefeated ACC or Big???

Sorry but most sports except FBS have Play-offs...WHY? The system we have now has me watching way less CFB. Most Bowls are meaningless and with OPT OUT... AGAIN...WHY?

They won't go back to the old Bowl System...What we have now SUX...So why do you fight it?

I told you. I have every confidence that (even a one loss) SEC team gets in. I don't give a shyt about anyone else. And I don't care how other sports do it. CFP is unique. You don't watch bowl games now because they are meaningless under the playoff system. I made them meaningful again.
 

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I told you. I have every confidence that (even a one loss) SEC team gets in. I don't give a shyt about anyone else. And I don't care how other sports do it. CFP is unique. You don't watch bowl games now because they are meaningless under the playoff system. I made them meaningful again.

Except you didn't...you want but you can't.

Wish in one hand and $#!^ in other and see which gets filled first.

You can drone on all you want but they ain't going back

I just came up with a way to keep Bowls but as a playoff...but I don't even care about Bowls anymore.

You want viewership? Expand the Playoffs.

I want Kerwin to coach Div-1. Guess what? I can want all day but I'll get nothing but STONED on GC...again it ain't happening
 

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Except you didn't...you want but you can't.

Wish in one hand and $#!^ in other and see which gets filled first.

You can drone on all you want but they ain't going back

I just came up with a way to keep Bowls but as a playoff...but I don't even care about Bowls anymore.

You want viewership? Expand the Playoffs.

I want Kerwin to coach Div-1. Guess what? I can want all day but I'll get nothing but STONED on GC...again it ain't happening
The discussion isn't what will they do. The discussion is why you're a pussy for wanting playoffs.
 

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By your way, Alabama is playing Clemson for the NC.

tOSU clearly proved on the field that they are the better team, and more deserving than Clemson to face Bama. It is not debatable -- doing it the old way would have gotten it wrong this year.


And from another thread:

This is not for your benefit, because you clearly don't have the capacity to understand it. It's for the benefit and entertainment of others reading.

Which of these was a more impressive and glorious athletic achievement, that should give greater pride to the fanbases:

(a) Florida's back-to-back NC's in basketball in 2006-07, which we won by playing 12 postseason games and defeating, and in some cases upsetting, elite teams like Duke, North Carolina, Georgetown, Villanova, UCLA, Oregon, tOSU and others, in games that were mostly thrilling and closely contested;

OR:

(b) Alabama's back-to-back NC's in football in 2011-12, which they won by playing two postseason games with blowout scores of 21-0 and 42-14?

No objective person would deny that the answer is (a).

@NOLAGATOR and I like the idea of more parity among teams, and more opportunities to win championships by proving our mettle on the field of play, as opposed to letting the title matchups be determined by "the committee and computers," who would've had Alabama facing Clemson this year.

So because we want more competition, more games, more football and consequently MORE GLORY, we are told we are "pussies" who are talking "loser talk" about "participation trophies."

On what fuchsing planet does that make any sense? :scratchhead: Not this one, that's for sure.

@ThreatMatrix is AFRAID for the Gators to be tested on the field, because he FEARS we might lose. He FEARS competition. He literally said so! He would prefer that we win NC's not by proving ourselves to be the better competitors, but rather by being the beneficiaries of, "competitive imbalance." His words!

Where is the glory and honor in that? He is clearly one of these recruitnik dorks who thinks NC's should be awarded in February based on who did the best job of sweet-talking teenage boys.

@ThreatMatrix, all message board bluster and smack talk aside, you and all those who think like you are FEARFUL COWARDS.

I have to confess. I don't actually read your posts. Generally, I skim, slap a looney on them, then write something to trigger you. While it's been fun I can tell by your lengthy posts that you have a deep seeded need for my approval. I'm sorry to inform you that you'll never get it. It's not me, it's you. You should move on with your life.
 

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