What if USC and UCLA played Thanksgiving weekend

[Java]

USC won.  And then they both had to fly across the country to play again in front of an empty stadium in Indianapolis.  ???

 

for those who hate college football in its present state this would be awesome

[SC Gator]

And then the loser in Indy would get bumped from the Playoff to make room for 8-4 South Carolina.

[Fraud]

Oregon is going to likely win out and it’s going to be UCLA vs. Oregon.

[SC Gator]

Oregon could easily win out and, if they did, I assume they’d qualify for Indy unless there’s a three- or four-way tie at 7-2 and some weird tiebreaker rule that sends someone else.  Then they’d still have to win the CCG to get into the Playoff, right?

 

[Fraud]

Ha. Yeah, I don’t know the Big10 multi team tie breaker. If ESPN had their way, the 3rd place SEC team would go to Indy then.

[saturdaysarebetter]

My god Java, that would be college football idiocy at its finest would it not?

[Daystalker]

Depending on how things bounce, the two teams could potentially play each other 3 times in one season.  As the playoffs expand to more teams that will probably happen often.  A regular season matchup, a conference title game, and again in Playoffs.  Being that the rivalry games are late in the season, that would get old fast to have the same matchup multiple times in a somewhat short timeframe.  Not if you win I guess, but still.

[saturdaysarebetter]

This was brought up years ago with Ohio State and Michigan. They could play their season finale, meet in the Big 10 Conference Championship game and then in the playoffs. It could happen in three successive weeks. Unlikely, but possible.

If you know you’re going to meet in the conference championship game, do you rest your starters in the meaningless season finale?  One way around it is to move the rivalry game up in the year.

[SC Gator]

The possibility of college players invoking load management and coaches holding out healthy players are two more good reasons to hate the concept of conference championship games.

 

[SC Gator]

Stalker, you’re forgetting that when the Playoff expands to 24 a likely byproduct will be the cancellation of conference championship games.  Therefore, the likelihood of two teams playing each other three times in a season diminishes to zero.

 

[saturdaysarebetter]

Yes it does.

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