• Texas: +350
• Ohio State: +380
• Oregon: +400
• Penn State: +450
• Georgia: +500
• Notre Dame: +600
• Boise State: +6000
• Arizona State: +7000

Rose Bowl - Oregon (-1.5) vs. Ohio State

Fiesta Bowl - Penn State (-11.5) vs. Boise State

Sugar Bowl - Notre Dame (-1.5) vs. Georgia

Peach Bowl - Texas (-13.5) vs. Arizona State

I'm surprised ND is favored over Georgia.

Coppell97 said:

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I'm surprised ND is favored over Georgia.

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More to do with ND money than anything.

Coppell97 said:

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Nice job by the committee. The teams with byes are double digit underdogs. Well done CFP committee and playoff system.

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That is the 4 conference champ rule that was put in place to justify having conference champ games. Has nothing to do with the committee. Just money, always money.

Safest investment in the world is to bet against the sips.

LB12Diamond said:

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Coppell97 said:

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Nice job by the committee. The teams with byes are double digit underdogs. Well done CFP committee and playoff system.

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That is the 4 conference champ rule that was put in place to justify having conference champ games. Has nothing to do with the committee. Just money, always money.

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An attempt by the four conferences not named SEC to save themselves from a crushing realignment. It actually is a good idea to avoid a huge anti-trust loss. And it takes decisions out of the have of the committee.

tOSU being 3rd in the new B1G is what throws this off
The 1 seed gets the winner of the 3 SECvs3 B1G
PSU and tu got into their CCG partly because of catching a favorable schedule #2 SEC & B1G being 5&6 is reasonable

If the committee ground rules didn't include the bye for the four highest ranked conference champions and it was just the four highest ranked teams, they could keep their automatic qualifier rules and (hopefully) get much better first round matchups. The 5-12 and 6-11 games might still be blowouts but the 7-10 and 8-9 games would have a good chance of being competitive.
This would also be fairer to the #1 seed and not give the 5-seed a huge advantage.

This year's field was also weakened by Alabama and Ole Miss, two teams with the potential to win it all, losing games they had no business losing and thus getting left out. This allowed the committee to gift the ACC two spots when it clearly didn't deserve them.

They HAVE to get better at rankings and then the seeding process.

I would like to see 16 highest ranked teams for more than one reason. Plus, no auto bids, no byes. Maybe a home game for first round games but that's it.

LB12Diamond said:

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Coppell97 said:

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I'm surprised ND is favored over Georgia.

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More to do with ND money than anything.

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I think it is because Beck is not going to play.

Based on the SECCG, I would think that would increase the odds in Georgia's favor.

I see UGA favored by 2 over ND

Is Oregon the least talked about #1 team ever?

They need to go to 16 teams with no byes and proper seeding. This year should have been:

1 Oregon v 16 Arizona State
8 Texas v 9 Alabama

4 Penn St v 13 Iowa State
5 Tennessee v 10 Indiana

2 Georgia v 15 Boise
7 Miami v 10 Mississippi

3 Notre Dame v 14 Clemson
6 Ohio State v 11 South Carolina

Starting a backup QB that now has film out on his play is incredibly different than throwing him out spur of the moment