Any discussion of the most productive rivalries in school football revolves around Alabama opposite Auburn, Ohio State vs. Ohio. Michigan, Army vs. Army Navy and some of the other long-time confrontations with a deeply rooted story.
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Always place everything from debates about the formula of the playoffs to the most productive coaches in the country, to the long-standing team fights, the D-ll powers and everything else.
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The constant renewal of university skill makes it difficult for any rivalry between players to gain momentum before the start or professional aspirations throw water into the fire.
Head coaches are the constant, as long as they are successful enough to keep their jobs, and few have been more successful in the last decade than Nick Saban of Alabama and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney.
Whether fighting for rookies, competing in school football playoffs or sharing a low-season residence in Boca Grande, Florida, the two coaches have in many tactics the enduring faces of school football.
The two have faced each other 4 times in seven years since the launch of the CFP system, and have won twice:
Ohio State has beaten Clemson this year, so we may not yet get another part of the spite game, but others are inevitable over the course of recent years.
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On October 4, 2008, the Kansas Jayhawks achieved a 35-33 victory over Iowa State in Ames amid disappointing 8-5. They were 12-1 last year and entered the season with the highest expectations.
The fall from there rushed.
In the 12 seasons that followed, they won 26 games and none of them away from home in conference.
The 2020 season ended with a loss to Texas Tech at Lubbock, which led his winning-free streak on the way to convention in 54 consecutive games that were unstopbable.
To see things the way, they’re in their fifth head coach since they last won a game on the way to big 12.
And after a 0-9 season, you can’t see an ending.
This is a classic on the ground, but no one speaks nationally.
This obviously has to do with the fact that those are two FCS teams, but those are the powers of this level, and that rivalry is necessarily Alabama as opposed to Clemson Lite.
North Dakota has won 8 of the last FCS titles.
The exception was the 2016 season when James Madison eliminated the state of North Dakota in the semi-finals and then beat Youngstown State in the name game.
In total, they have faced each other 4 times in the playoffs since 2010:
It may not appear on your popular list of the most productive school football rivalries, however, it fits perfectly here on our list of opportunities in the school football landscape.
Most would agree that the SEC is the most internal convention in school football, especially at a time when ACC and Pac-12 are so heavy, Big 12 is still in favor of a victory in the playoffs and Big Ten has noticed little. fortune beyond the state of Ohio.
However, there is also something to point out about the SEC bias.
When a convention like the Pac-12 cannibalizes and groups suffers losses by convention, the total league is affected.
When there is parity in the SEC, it just means that more SEC groups are the most sensitive in the AP survey.
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A Florida with three losses deserved to be No. 7 in the final standings before the Gators achieved their fourth cotton bowl defeat?
A two-party Georgia, who fought for her identity for much of the year, deserved a Top 10 position in the same ranking?
Maybe he’s a resounding yes.
Still, it’s easy to see why enthusiasts from other convention groups rush to assert sec bias.
Since the installation of the College Football Playoff formula for the 2014 campaign, 4 Group of Five groups have completed the normal defeat of the season:
None of them made it to the playoffs. Not that 3 of the groups lost the bowling games they were sent to, with the exception of the 2017 UCF team that beat Auburn through seven peach bowl issues.
Despite this unfortunate detail, the committee will have to acknowledge at some point that it would be much more convincing to give a Group of Five team a chance than to see Alabama dismantle Notre Dame.
This year’s Cincinnati team had the most productive case of any undefeated team in the Group of Five at the time of the playoffs, and the Bearcats probably weren’t even next, Texas A
It is fair to ask if this will ever happen with this system, which leads us to . . .
The solution to the debate on the inclusion of the Group of Five would be simply to expand the format of the playoffs.
Whether it’s an additional play circular and 4 additional groups, two more groups with a play circular and the two most sensible groups receiving a bye, or anything else, you have to argue. that’s better.
Just over a year ago, I wrote a couple of articles examining both sides of the plot, and at least it’s worth going back to the chips:
Pro Expansion
Against expansion
The debate is furious.
All statistics are courtesy of Sports Reference.