CFB Top25 Week 15, Conference Champs and Playoff Discussion

        Here is the CFB Top 25 Week 15 Final Regular Collegiate Season Poll, updated by Joey the CFB Cat Analyst and also by CupofJoeintheD and the recap of Week 14 of the CFB season  A weekend where Conference Championships were crowned and the CFB Playoff teams announced and all the other 40+ Bowl Games picked their chosen teams. As it is every year, the discussions have begun as to who got in and who was left out of the Playoff picture. The College Football Playoff Selection Committee is by all means, one Big Joke!!! Since its conception, the Committee has emphasized the importance of getting into the Power 5 Conference Championship Games and even more so to win the game. But for the 2nd consecutive year, that has not been the case, especially with the Big Ten and its Conference Champion winner who again was left out of the Playoffs. In 2016 it was Penn State and in 2017 it was Ohio State, both won the B1G Championship but also both were left out of the CFB Playoff.   We also now know it is not as important as the Committee has lead on it is, to have a hard non conference schedule to help a team get in.  An example is, USC played a tough non conference schedule that cost them a chance this year to get into the Playoffs while Alabama played a softer schedule and an overall strength of schedule of 54th in the Country. So a note to all teams going forward, play a schedule of mainly lower tier Division 1 teams and your chance to get into the CFB Playoffs is better off. Also, make sure your Head Coach is as powerful as Alabama's Nick Saban, who when he says jump, the CFB Selection Committee asks, how high Sir? A few years back, Saban said a team had to get into their Conference Championship and win it to be a CFB Playoff team but he sure did change his tune this year as He lobbied for his team to be the final team chosen.
      As Week 14 of the College Football Season ends, here are my CFB Playoff teams; Clemson, Oklahoma, Georgia and Ohio State. There is no doubt that the selection committee has a tough job, but one has to wonder just how impartial the members can be? We now know they are very partial, do not do as they say and no doubt they have their allegiances to certain teams and conferences and no matter what anyone says, the almighty $$$ also comes into play as the top 4 teams get a boat load of money to play in these games. The Bowl Games are also a joke as instead of taking the schools in order of their rank or Conference Standings, the Bowls decide what teams they think are more lucrative for themselves. In this case, the Michigan Wolverines were chosen by the Outback Bowl instead of taking the Michigan State Spartans who had beat Michigan head to head and had a better resume and are ranked in the CFB Top 20 whereas the Wolverines are not even ranked. Once again all about the almighty dollar and nothing else. Michigan under the guidance of HC Jim Harbaugh still cannot win the big game when they need to as this continues to haunt Harbaugh at Michigan.
      As Coaches are being fired and hired at an alarmingly quick pace, Tennessee continues to be a Black Eye not only to itself but also to the College Sports World. They saved some grace by hiring former Vols Coach Phillip Fulmer to be their new AD in wake of the current fiasco that surrounds the school. Hiring the next HC is going to be a challenge with so many rejecting the school and most top candidates have been hired elsewhere. Whomever does get this job will make more money then they are worth as the school will have to entice the coach with a boatload of money.  Also, a first to see was Florida State HC Jimbo Fisher jumping ship and going to Texas A&M for nothing more then they money they threw at him to land him as their Head Coach. For whatever reason to me, The Seminoles chose not to match the money offered to Fisher and now have to find a new HC and quick.
       We also have learned as the coaching carousel in the CFB has started, once again schools refuse to do the right thing when it comes to showing respect as they fire a coach. College Football has become such a lucrative venue that schools see the need to fire Coaches even when they still owe the coach millions. Such as much happened at Arizona State, when they fired HC Todd Graham even though they owe him $12.3 M. Other Coaches were fired and they also were owed millions and millions. It is sad that schools have no regard to money anymore except they want to make more and more of it even at the expense of their Head Coaches. So as the carousel starts in motion, we will once again see many coaches fired and the rush to hire a teams next coach, but not in a timely and vetted and thought out process, but in one that they throw crazy money at another coach that is usually still coaching another team and also one that is usually preparing for a bowl game. And finally there needs to be a discussion about the leaving of a head coach after they have recruiter players, and that the NCAA does not allow student athletes to transfer to another school immediately to play, just as a coach is allowed to, but the NCAA penalizes them with a mandatory 1 year sit out. So the NCAA needs to address some issues that surround the game but also need to move their rules into the 21st century.
      Joey also wants to thank all who followed the Blog and his picks again. Once again it was a very successful season and Joey looks forward to sharing his Bowl picks in hte next few weeks.     
     Joey the CFB Analyst went 13-2 in week 14 (Championship Weekend),  YTD, He is 305-88 with 53 upsets picked. Watch for Joey Baloney's Bowl Game picks coming soon.
    
Top 5 Football Power Conference are:
1. SEC
2. ACC
3. Big Ten
4. Big 12
5. Pac 12

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Week 15 (Final end of Season before Bowl Games Rankings)

My CFB Top 25     By; Joey Baloney aka The Cat

Joey the CFB Analyst

  1. Clemson
  2. Oklahoma
  3. Georgia
  4. Ohio State
  5. Alabama
  6. Wisconsin                               
  7. USC
  8. UCF
  9. Penn State
10. Auburn
11. Miami (Fla.)
12. Washington
13. Michigan State
14. TCU
15. Notre Dame
16. LSU
17. Oklahoma State
18. Stanford                       
19. Memphis
20. Northwestern
21. Virginia Tech
22. Mississippi State
23. Washington State
24. San Diego State
25. South Florida

Honorable; Boise State, NCSU, Iowa State, Louisville, Iowa State, Army, FAU, Toledo, Troy, Kansas State, Fresno State, Mizzou, Army