AA Tourney/AA Football Playoffs

[a vol n tears]

Watching so many lower seeds beat the higher seeds (even a team who finished 6th in their conference) it got me thinking about the talk concerning expanding the number of teams in the football playoffs. Very few could argue that UCLA has the most talent during their incredible run. But the other side of that, notice there was only 24 - 32 teams in the tournament. If they had to go through a 64-68 team field, who doesn't think they would have been upset a few times. This is my concern with expanding the football field. It may start with 8 but rest assured it will go to 16 at the first chance. Upsets are exciting, except when it is your team getting knocked out because of turnovers, weather, or some other reason. At the end of the season there is only one fan base happy. That is one reason I love conference championships, and most fans have forgotten how great that is. Now fans have one ending they want, and it is NC or nothing. Conference Champs should be the preseason goal. Everything else is gravy.

 

[vol94]

Watching so many lower seeds beat the higher seeds (even a team who finished 6th in their conference) it got me thinking about the talk concerning expanding the number of teams in the football playoffs. Very few could argue that UCLA has the most talent during their incredible run. But the other side of that, notice there was only 24 - 32 teams in the tournament. If they had to go through a 64-68 team field, who doesn't think they would have been upset a few times. This is my concern with expanding the football field. It may start with 8 but rest assured it will go to 16 at the first chance. Upsets are exciting, except when it is your team getting knocked out because of turnovers, weather, or some other reason. At the end of the season there is only one fan base happy. That is one reason I love conference championships, and most fans have forgotten how great that is. Now fans have one ending they want, and it is NC or nothing. Conference Champs should be the preseason goal. Everything else is gravy.

I get what you are saying but the ultimate prize is to be the best in the entire country.

 

[Johnnyreb#VFL]

Once knew a guy in AAA, ended up in AA. Got a DUI

 

[TheVolsFrog]

Yeah their may be an upset or two early on but but those schools aren't beating teams like Bama & GA no time soon.
It's different playing guys in college vs playing NFL guys that are in college.
With NIL things may balance out a little more for some teams though.