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Dec 1, 2022
12:19
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shoganai
Intervention Needed
Give every conference an auto-bid, and every few years we'll get to see this...
...except then it will be in a playoff game, and it will be 100x better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOF6-GScIGo
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The formula is so simple and obvious.
(shoganai, Dec 1, 2022 at 11:29am)
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Give every conference an auto-bid, and every few years we'll get to see this...
shoganai
12/1/22 12:19pm
Doubtful. Those big powerful teams aren't gonna be overlooking anybody
FieroCoug
12/1/22 12:22pm
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chilawcoug
12/1/22 12:25pm
Not every few years for sure. It could happen. But to make the playoffs its
FieroCoug
12/1/22 1:11pm
Yet, every year in the basketball tournament we get this highlight reel..
shoganai
12/1/22 12:26pm
Basketball sees a ton more upsets than football. There's far less
FieroCoug
12/1/22 1:09pm
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chilawcoug
12/1/22 1:15pm
And far fewer teams in the playoff
FieroCoug
12/1/22 2:08pm
You really don’t think a Michigan or Alabama
XORCoug
12/1/22 12:40pm
No cause in the playoffs it won't be a total nobody.
FieroCoug
12/1/22 1:13pm
Yep, no one gets overlooked, no upsets, even in March Madness
akbarishiwatsu
12/1/22 3:37pm
They might happen once every 10 years or so. Maybe longer.
FieroCoug
12/1/22 3:52pm
Probably more like every 10 years
SolidBlue
12/1/22 12:24pm
Significantly more often than that if other NCAA sports are any kind of an
shoganai
12/1/22 12:28pm
Football is very unique in the distribution of talent because there are so many
FieroCoug
12/1/22 2:10pm
Other sports: one person having a great or terrible day can change the outcome
moknowssports
12/1/22 2:35pm
You really won’t… upsets like that happen early in the season
Noni Fruit
12/1/22 12:25pm
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chilawcoug
12/1/22 12:26pm
Yeah, who ever heard of "cinderella" teams beating the big boys in a college
shoganai
12/1/22 12:26pm
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chilawcoug
12/1/22 12:27pm
Says Ohio State after being thrashed by Michigan. Reality = winning, not polls
Happy As Larry
12/1/22 12:35pm
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chilawcoug
12/1/22 12:39pm
I could give a thousand examples of upsets late in the season in any league but
canofpicante
12/1/22 12:55pm
But the trade off for one of those games is sitting through 30 or more 72-10
Emmett Fitz-Hume
12/1/22 11:10pm
The reason that happens early season is because expectations are out of whack
krindorr
12/2/22 3:47am
But couldn't the reverse also be true: because they lost to App State they went
moknowssports
12/2/22 9:08am
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