Kirk Herbstreit discusses 'armageddon' scenario for College Football Playoff committee
The top three teams in the College Football Playoff rankings are set — Alabama, Clemson and Notre Dame. All three are undefeated, and should remain in the top three spots unless they lose.
During Tuesday night’s rankings show, though, the analysts discussed their doomsday scenarios for the selection committee, and Kirk Herbstreit’s was interesting.
Herbie said that if Alabama loses to Georgia in the SEC title game, it presents a difficult choice to the committee, as both Georgia and Bama would probably deserve spots in the final four (via 247Sports):
“If Alabama loses to Georgia, that’s the worst-case scenario for the committee,” he said. “You start throwing all these other teams in the mix. Georgia has to be in. Who would be left out? That would be armageddon this year for the committee.”
Of course, Georgia would still have to beat Alabama for this scenario to take place, and that doesn’t look like an easy task at this point.
However, if it does happen, you can expect a fierce debate to wage among media members and fans when the final four is announced.
Whomever is the sec champ should go. This problem could be avoided with an 8 team playoff (each power 5 champ gets an auto bid plus three at large bids selected by the Committee). Of course we all know that Stanley would take hostages at the SEC office if UGA wins, lol.
Sankey-autocorrect
I hate it when Stanley goes rouge!
LOL, dammit Stanley!
An 8 team playoff means that the conference championship becomes relatively meaningless if you finish the regular season with 1 loss, or even 2. If LSU wins out, they’d have a pretty good argument for the 8th spot in that playoff, and then everyone would pitch a fit about potentially 3 SEC teams in one playoff.
So we’d be in the exact same situation as last year with UGA and Bama except this time UCF is in? This gives the Committee some options, unlike the current plan. Also, not sure how championships are meaningless when it would now be similar to March madness in that a team who’s had some tough losses could sneak in via championship. Seems like the game provides a big opportunity for those teams.
It could be argued that they don’t deserve that opportunity, given that they couldn’t win their conference.
I just don’t see any advantages that expanding the playoff has. All it does is diminish the value of perfection and SOS, and it adds an extra game for a great team to have bad luck and slip up. It doesn’t replace any of the system’s current “problems”, which is just another way of saying, lack of opportunity for overrated teams who play cupcakes to get in.
It wouldn’t be very fair if say, Kyler Murray got injured in an extra semifinal game. Players get beat up enough as it is.
If you want an 8 team playoff, how does a 16 or 32 team playoff sound to you? How about 64 teams?
I don’t want 8 teams in the playoff. I don’t want teams sneaking in. Earn your way into the top 4 through a combination of outstanding conference play and strength of schedule.
There is no way Alabama loses that game. Book it.
Likely correct. UGA will have to tackle Tua at the knees to win. So will “Clempson”
they wont even make it the CFP to face clemson unless its a NY6 bowl!!
Nick Saban’s players and likely his staff as well feed off of Saban’s desire and fire. This is a gem of an opportunity for Saban to achieve what he desires most: perfection, as in undefeated National Champion. He’s got the ammo to get it done, and he is likely to will the Crimson Tide to perfection if not to in all other ways prepare Alabama to accomplish that rare and lofty performance.
Congrats on pulling Emery into the pack. I was overjoyed when he told the bullpups and Get Smart he was getting out of a Dodge. It was the best move he could have made.
Georgia doesn’t get to play the “disrespect” card very often but you can bet Kirby reminds his players “There is no way Alabama loses that game. Book it.”.
we beat bama easily… if they aint got Tua theres no chnce they beat us and thats BIG Facts..
Beat us? You’ve never played a day in your life and especially for Georgia.
Not even in college yet nighha…
That’s not surprising at all.
“IS iT bUCkaRoO??”
Look at these possible automatic qualifiers: Big Ten- Northwestern, 4 losses. ACC-, Pittsburgh,
4 losses. SEC- Georgia, 2 losses. PAC- Utah, 3 losses. BIG 12- 2 losses. Michigan, Notre Dame,
And UCF would probably be the at large teams. Pretty sorry looking bunch group of playoff teams
For the National Championship. Don’t think you plan will be adopted.
Be it 8 teams or 16 teams, there should be no automatic bids. That’s what ruined basketball. The best teams period. You could easily make an argument for three this year from the SEC. Teams like UCF shouldn’t even be in consideration unless we want to insure that the number one pick get’s an easy game. Playoffs should show us who is the best by the end of the season, not who survived a bad conference (Northwestern for example).