Footballking16

Thought we had 20.5 as of a few weeks ago? Don't you keep the receipts?

Here's how I personally see it playing out. UGa wins out (beats Bama in SEC championship game) and is the #1 seed at 13-0. OSU wins out and is the #2 seed Clemson wins out and is the #3 seed 4th seed will come down to a 1 loss Tennessee, 1 loss Michigan, and perhaps a 1 loss USC. I guess Ole Miss could play spoiler and is still one of the few teams who control their own destiny but I don't see it playing out that way

Still think OSU is going to have the best player on the field by a wide margin and that will account for something. Not as confident as I was 3 months ago as UM is running the ball well, but UM is going to have to put up points in a hurry to keep up the pace with the Buckeyes. Much like 6A has been this year, I do think there are 5-6 teams who could ultimately win it all. Unfortunately only 4 teams will make it. SEC and B10 winner are locks in my opinion and I don't see Clemson losing a game either. USC losing Saturday opens the door for some one loss teams. I think a 1 loss UM team belongs in the conversation with a 1 loss UGA or Tennessee team. Season is now just getting started, a lot of football left.

It'll get muddied if UGA beats Tennessee and then loses to Bama in the SEC championship but still think this is the best shot the B10 will have getting 2 teams in until the CFB playoff expands.

Crazy thing about the Michigan and PSU game is that PSU somehow lead 17-16 almost midway through the 3rd quarter. Penn State had 1 first down in the first half (on a QB keeper that went 60+ yards for a TD) and scored a 2nd TD on a tipped pick 6. The 41-17 final score doesn't do UM's domination justice. I think OSU and UM are both top 5 teams in the country and honestly just behind Georgia. UM should be able to run the ball at will on a team like Tennessee or Alabama, just a matter of getting enough stops. This may be the year the B10 gets two teams in.

What’s the harm in that when you don’t have to qualify for the playoffs? Not sure why most teams don’t rest their starters in weeks 8-9. I think CG rested some guys last night who otherwise would have played.

Very real talent. CG still turned him over multiple times which just doesn’t happen. Have a feeling this isn’t the last time we meet.

Would the regular season mean jack crap if you had to actually qualify for the postseason?? You’re literally making my point. The regular season means jack crap because it has zero bearing on the postseason. Make teams qualify for the postseason and regular season games now take on real, actual value. Its not that hard.

Why does every other state, sans 1 or 2 others, have a qualification format? Where does the entitlement to playing a “tenth” game come into play? High school football is a privilege not a right, why shouldn’t a postseason birth be earned? Meaningless in the sense that regular season game outcomes have zero direct effect on the postseason.

Not a single person has brought an argument to the table that brings a constructive thought as to how the regular season takes on any meaning. I get I’m in the minority for a playoff qualifier, but for the life of me I have zero understanding how anybody can defend how the regular season takes on any kid of real value meaning. If you support the all-in, that’s great. I get it. But stop with the backwards BS that the regular season has some kind of major connotation. It doesn’t.

Same boat, same water brother. I don’t get it.

Mad? Nah. Trying to make a difference? Maybe. I’m a sports fan. Period. The All-in, blind draw is an injustice to competition. You won’t change my mind. Make it make sense.

@scarab527 I’ll take your non-response as much. You don’t have one. There’s nothing to say. I get it. Make it make sense.

I mean seriously, two conference champions (Brownsburg and Ben Davis) aren’t going to win a tournament game while two bottom feeder teams (Pike and Avon) are going to play for a sectional championship. And the regular season (and winning a conference championship) actually has meaning? GTFOH

I’ve yet to hear a soundproof argument that regular season results matter. Better?

If you tell your players that going undefeated puts you in the best position to advance in the tournament, you’d be called an absolute liar. As you should be.

At the end of the day, the final score of all 9 regular season games mean absolute ZILCH in regards to the postseason. That is a fact and is irrefutable. You can take absolute joy in winning a conference championship or beating a huge rival, but at the end of the day and the end of the regular season it means jack squat. Everybody reverts back to 0-0. There’s zero gained advantage by having a better regular season than your peers. It’s a travesty. It happens nowhere else in this country outside IHSAA sanctioned tournaments. What you accomplish in the regular season is meaningless come week 10. Change my mind.

Hey, at least someone is catching on. You’re coachable, I’ll give you that.

Blowouts are the very least of my concern when it comes to the all-in. In fact I encourage them until the IHSAA wakes up and says enough is enough. My issue with the all-in is that it renders the regular season meaningless. In fact it doesn’t even acknowledge it.

Did the tournament in 1979 and 1980 actively take 50% of the field at the conclusion of the regular season?

Is that his response to his team when they inevitably get shellacked after playing their first real competition? Logical sense says that Penn, Elkhart, and Warsaw need to ditch their current conferences, start their own, and reach out for help. Carroll and Homestead would be good additions, Snider and Dwenger on top of those two would be even better. Playoff qualification or not, this benefits all those schools in the long run when it is time to play real elimination games.

And teams that avoid competition (see Elkhart and Penn) run the risk of missing out on the postseason altogether under a rating system that simply measures more than just W-L. Unless every team plays a round robin schedule, comparing W-L record is a highly ineffective way of comparing teams.

Avon wouldn’t be in a postseason that effectively cuts the field in half at the end of the regular season as they are currently a bottom half Sagarin rated team. If Warsaw or Elkhart played Avon’s schedule they wouldn’t be 7-1 or 6-2. What’s your point?

Well yeah, I was asked a question. I answered it.

I’d tell Elkhart and Warsaw to beef up their schedules. Elkhart has the second easiest schedule of any 6A team in the state (and lost to the single 6A opponent they’ve played) while Warsaw hasn’t played a single 6A opponent yet.