Jason Whitlock believes the CFB Playoff has ruined college football | CFB | SPEAK FOR YOURSELF 

Playoffs. BCS was a joke. Atleast we have a definitive national champion now.

Let’s just abolish playoffs in all sports. I mean since it’s so much more fun to debate who’s champion instead of letting it play out.

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BCS. Pairs teams of comparable quality. In a title game. With everything on the line. 2014: Alabama vs. Florida St. Rose: Ohio St. vs. Oregon 2015: Alabama vs. Clemson Rose: Michigan St. vs. Stanford 2016: Alabama vs. Clemson Fiesta: W. Michigan vs. Washington Rose: Penn St. vs. USC 2017: Georgia vs, Clemson Sugar: Alabama vs. Oklahoma 2018: Alabama vs. Clemson Sugar: Oklahoma vs. Georgia Orange: Notre Dame vs. Ohio St. Those pairings are better .

@@andrewjohnson5048 Playoffs aren't necessary.

No they aren't. They are arguing different sides of the issue and one person is trying to be right by narrowing the definition of the argument.

Klatt is staying on the topic.

Not really. Whitlock is actually old enough to remember when CFB was more popular than the NFL.

Banquet Meal College was never more popular in the TV era.

The politics of the playoff is worse than BCS because now strength of schedule is no longer relevant pop quiz how many top 25 teams Clemson played as opposed to BAMA 🤔

@Excalibur Clan the tournament primarily popular because of the brackets and people that have no interest in the sport watching it because of a bracket pool in their office.

@@ashtonbriscoe8522 Is Bama's SOS good because of the same reason it is good every year? Bama has a good SOS only because they play 8 or 9 SEC games and the PERCEPTION is that the SEC is the best conference every year. Newsflash: The SEC is not that great and the winner of the SEC will always make the playoff while the Big Ten champ has been left out for the last 3 seasons. Say anything you want. You won't change my mind. Strength of schedule is not an exact science in any way whatsoever. There are many ways to calculate it and no one way is any more or less correct than another. See... Ohio State played TCU which was thought to be a tough out of conference game away from home. The Buckeyes played a 2-0 TCU team that had its best player/QB healthy and playing. They didn't play against a 6-6 TCU team (that was TCU's record at the end of the regular season) that lost Shawn Robinson and then lost many games they may not have lost without him. Strength of schedule should matter but since it can't be correctly calculated, how much do you put into SOS and which way do you calculate it? Going back to my Buckeyes because I am a Buckeye homer, Ohio State didn't play a Purdue team that finished 6-6 in their regular season. They were playing a Purdue team that lost its first 3 games of the season. Then they won 3 in a row before Ohio State visited and got blown out. Purdue was obviously playing their best football of the entire season when that game was played. Nothing was ever said about that part of that game but surely that should have something to do with SOS that makes that not such an easy game where the upset is much more possible. There simply is no clear way to make SOS work in the ultimate role of things. You mentioned Clemson but I think that we all knew that Notre Dame was the one team that had no chance in that playoff that just happened. Why? BECAUSE OF THE EYE TEST they are supposed to use but clearly didn't. I don't think the playoff works and I don't think that it helps college football either. I love the playoff but you can't get the correct 4 teams into the format by having a dozen people pick the teams. Having 12,000 people pick the 4 teams would be smarter than just 12 people locked in a room to decide the fate of the teams that do or don't get in. Sorry for the novel. This will probably be my last writing on this season. I had to make it count the best I could.

Flawed stat...Bama beat Georgia in 2018 for Chip. Bama and Clemson played to get to chip. When Clemson and Bama play for Chip Clemson is at a 2-1 advantage

JD Allen true, they did have a semifinal matchup, but the winner of the game won it all. They split all 4 championships, just 3 games were for the actual title. I should’ve added that in, but it was definitely those 2 teams for 4 years.

It's not flawed.. What he wrote is correct. Head to Head in a playoff scenario was his narrative. The four year span was his narrative. Championship is part of the playoff road. That's where they have met. They are 2- versus each other. Sure, Clemson can hold a right stating they hold an advantage in championship games, but Bama can also hold a right saying they also stopped Clemson from getting to a championship game and a possible 3rd championship. These two are on equal plain at this time. Any coach says, once you're in the playoffs, it's a championship game because if you lose in the playoffs, the season is over. Period. One goes on, the other goes on.

@@Keepdapocket Rationalize it however you want to in your head. The fact of the championship matter stands and I want to make sure the record shows it as such. No a semi final is not a championship it does not equate. Sorry.

What you call "rationalizing" I call comprehension. The post (key word is POST) was about TWO teams being the top, with statistical facts to corroborate WHY those two teams are the best. It's basic common sense. If two programs have the same record, same amount of national titles, even record head to head in that four year span, tree context of the post is to show the two programs as equals. IF the post were to say "this year this team was better" then your argument would have validity. But, as it stands, it doesn't because you're attempting to change the narrative of the post. Go yearly, you can say which team is better. Going over a span, you can't determine that when EVERYTHING down the board is equal. Come on man. Common sense.

I love college football,I'm already sad it's over. Blip college football haters bro

Facts I don't know why they didn't put it on ABC

Facts!!!!

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Those stations are dying slowly. If you’re still watching regular TV you’re being left behind. Online entertainment is where things are going. Once sports is completely online cable and regular TV is over.

I know right. SMH.

What was bad about it?

@@christopjerfoote5747 It kept teams from playing each other.

The BCS???? the Alliance was WORSE!!!!

The BCS bowl system was horrible and rigged up

Wiley knows football better though

Robert Goldman he does not know college football more than Joel

Use facts? use emotion? Umm those aren’t mutually exclusive.... they are quite indivisible from each other. How detached from reality are you exactly? The human brain is a lot more complicated than an on/off switch for factual or emotional mode. Try to get some more social interaction into your diet, it will do ya good.

Taylor Brown bro shut up

Brandon Green, c’mon man your using emotions, we’ve talked about this.....

Great post.

I still don't know how Whitlock has a show....

I agree with whitlock but not about the conference. Pre-BCS was exciting because anyone in top 5 could have a shot at being voted national championship and New Year’s day was awesome because every game mattered

@@eamonmaloney381 Absolutely. I never ever ever ever cared about the lack of a playoff. Now, I don't care about college football at all.

He said they were getting exploited then..but now they are playing even more games with the new system and still arent Getting paid

They get 4 year full ride scholarship.

michael hodges - You look like a very young guy , because Whitlock is really referring to the days before the BCS , like the 1970's and 1980' and early 1990's with 11 or 12 games . The winner could come from any of the 3 or 4 major Bowls . So in other words #1 and #2 might not play head to head .

Andrew Bokal still not getting compensated enough considering the amount of money they generate

@@WISHBONEL7 which is why they fixed it, and we made it better. It just so happened that Alabama and Clemson made dynasties during they tenor

Nick Vickers lmao..Same!🤣

@Derrick F Yeah, I like Klatt and got bit.

Nick Vickers 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

It's not possible

Only if it's takeout Chinese food...

No he's a blowhard

@@dm6187 lmao

good point. i try to avoid him but his takes are so outrageous that you hv to tune in just as a sports fan to basically ask what planet does this guy live on? controversy sells, i am almost certain that most of what he says, he doesn’t even believe.

Nobody can hang with Joel

Joel agreed with everything Marcellus said😁😁

@@montygreen5917 they were making a multitude of different arguments that were off topic. Topics that Joel agreed with, but he stayed true to the original argument.

Guys in this post made the best response. Ratings were only down because it was on cable.

@@DarkCeasar85 Joel argument was because CFB is the 2nd largest rated sport its the most popular. Marcellus said you cant compare the ratings because other sports have 7 game series compared to a 1 game series. Then Joel said I agree you cant compare the ratings😀. His argument was over at that point!

There is way more people in all those cities combined then the rural areas hahaha

@@Collegeave12 Nope, those cities combine for 51 million. US has 335 Million

Get a professional team already , when your favorite team is a college you need to move .

The last census says that 80.7% of Americans live in cities, wtf are you smoking?

@@KevinWidesouls yeah, a city is defined as 100k. There are hundreds of 100k towns in ohio,PA, nebraska. But the majority of big metropolitan cities in the US i named contain about 35% of the population.

Steve Athagen it wasn’t a failure, Ohio State has a good season if they win one game period, TTUN. We just didn’t meet all our goals, but OSU met their rivalry goal, division goal, and Big Ten goal. That is successful, just not perfect.

Well except that the BCS also had massive controversy nearly every year of the 2000s

And YOU sound like a typical black brother who does not know the difference between YOUR and YOU'RE.

Peter Paz lol chill out man, you made a lot of assumptions from a quote and backed it up by being the typical grammar guy. Develop a sense of humor.

Rob Parker deep cuts lol

Black men with indepentant thoughts clearly scare you

@@peterpaz4877 he's referencing comment Rob Parker made about RG3 years ago that got him fired from espn.

TheChiefRocka Wiley and Whitlock are idiots. Case closed

Wildcard @ 1, 4:30, then the college chip at 8:30

This makes no sense. Unless you literally just became a UGA fan in the past year or so, you wouldn’t be used to them being a top four team/national title contender going into bowl season anyways.

Then you aren’t diehard

I agree. Once the regular season ends and your team isn't in the playoff its kinda not worth watching. Top players skip the bowls, the teams often dnt show up like they did all season. Its kinda like the NIT tourney in college basketball

Georgia did look pretty unmotivated in the sugar bowl. That was not the same team that played alabama in the sec title game.

Georgia just wasn't that great this year. They stayed close with an Alabama team that got beat worse than Notre Dame. Syracuse stayed close with Clemson and had 10 wins, they deserved to be in over Georgia.

agree, it easy to do, the only problem is too much money in the bowl system for Division 1 to give up on it. That only reason they're not giving up the bowl system. Top 16 teams in the nation go at in winner take all tournament .

I'd miss them playoffs are the worst way for any championship.

Haha - I'm 47 and I agree. I thought I wanted the playoffs, but I actually liked it better back then... Maybe something was left to the imagination...

Anthony Broaddus I can see that..you make a great point good brother👍👍

Because they have so many bowl games now and it pretty much diminishes the value.

yeah you're right the "Burger King Blockbuster Have-It-Your-Way Bowl" is pretty prestigious honor watching UC-Irvine play New Hampshire State

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People will watch the other bowls if it's a good match up. The Alamo Bowl for example was top ratings when it aired.

Oh the players are getting paid and so are their families. Not on record but under the table. They don't get paid as much as NFL players but they are getting a few grand. Ever heard of the bag man? Well Bama is notorious for those. They have big boosters who work at State jobs, etc.

Whitlock wants it Pre-BCS when it got voted on.

Simple solution, post-season NC, pairing the two best teams. Essentially the same as now w/o seedlings should be sufficient.

@@christopjerfoote5747 ao the BSC. Nah

@@damoneallen1084 pairs Clemson and Alabama how many times?

Food

Ryan Albertson facts dude

Wanemi things were awful in the past. Everyone CLAIMED nattys left and right

I concur

I like where you're heading with that but how many teams get into the playoff? There's 10 FBS conferences plus 6 indie schools. If they force the Indies to join conferences and Notre Dame is in the Big 10 where it belongs then we could have 12 teams in the playoff with the top 4 schools getting byes like in the NFL and then the other 8 going at it for the first weekend. Regular season wraps up in November and the championship is New Years day or whatever. The playoff games are still the major Bowls and the corporate folks still get their money and everybody is happy except Nick Saban lol. I like your idea about paying them too. Schools with more revenue get to pay players more which is a benefit of the players individual talent and ability to go to better schools.

@@leonbanks2538 Tbh I'd leave it at 4 and change the selection process instead. Instead of a committee alone, have a committee, press, and computer aggregate. The only non power 5 school that was close was UCF last year and the computers had them ranked higher than the committee. So if UCF had a slightly tougher non conference they would have made it

@cacable7 Lol it's not a big deal, either only pay athletes during the season which cuts cost significantly. OR only give them their rights to make profit of their names without losing eligiblity and allow them to sign one sided pre-contracts with agents, that is agents cannot have performance based initiatives on the athletes and the ONLY benefits they would receive from the athletes is if they go pro and sign with such agents. If Johnny Football had rights to his name at A&M alone he would have made a couple million in 2 years alone

I liked it a simple pairing of teams in a title game, seemed adequate.

They cried because the SEC was so dominant

Jeff Short ....Yes!!!! You are spot on!!!!

To compare a situation where kids who arent smart enough to get into a prestigious school 90% of the time, get a free education and free room and board to slavery is just idiotic. Give me a break. Plus dont go down that money rabbit hole. Then every student athlete should get paid. Basketball, tennis, lacrosse....all the sports. Colleges cant afford that. Or are you saying that football players are the only ones who deserve to get paid? Like to see that hold up in court. And yes believe me, the feminists will definately take that to court.

Wesley Smith 15 highschool games aren’t 15 college games

Elias Ayala those guys only come out once every 15-20 years. Adrian Peterson was the last guy I could think of that’s worthy. Don’t change the whole system to help a few outliners. A few players after their sophomore years is better. Joey Bosa and Ed Oliver had no business being in college this past year.

@@fcdl61 trevor lawrence can step into a Nfl training camp right now and make a team with no issue that's a problem

Elias Ayala he seems like a special case. The NFL does what they can to protect QBs so he won’t take the punishment other QBs have taken in the past. Would still be a punishment at aged 19 regardless the rules.