Red is not scary enough. We need a scale that looks like charcoal.
Not a handy scale?
Doesn’t matter! We have an agenda to sell!
u/chefbeezy — 13 days ago
▲ 84 r/CFB
Could the CFP rule Tech Inelligible for the 2026 Playoff?
They operate as an LLC with their own Board of Managers. Can they not simply act on their own behalf to exclude Tech unless they drop Sorsby? Per their own ruling based on this singular case? Is there anything binding them to including every FBS team no matter what? They already determine what champions and what at-large teams appear.
u/chefbeezy — 28 days ago
▲ 26 r/CFB_v2
Integrated Realignment and Playoff
Another off-season, another realignment! With talk of a 24 team playoff and with SEC and B1G super-conferences brewing, I think it's a pretty good time to discuss what would be better than either of those happening.
This time I've put quite a bit of thought into it, I've tried to integrate the realignment directly with the playoffs while fixing the calendar. I've done all of this with a focus on rivalries and tradition, restoring old conferences with regional integrity. I believe this creates a college football landscape that not only resolves some of its most essential problems, but compromises on some of its most controversial topics.
Here is an in-depth document:
It features:
Conferences & Protected Games, Playoff Format & Calendar, Statistics, 2025 Simulated, Strengths, Caveats & Limitations, and Maps
For the sake of brevity, however, here's an abridged version with only the key elements:
Conferences
Power Four, Eight Divisions
The Pacific Conference
PAC-NorthWest
Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, Boise State, Utah, BYU, Colorado, Colorado State
PAC-South
USC, UCLA, California, Stanford, Hawaii, Fresno State, Arizona, Arizona State, UNLV
The Southwest Conference
SWC-”Big 8”
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Nebraska, Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Memphis
SWC-Classic
Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, TCU, Arkansas, LSU, Baylor, Houston, SMU
The Southeastern Conference
SEC-Central
Alabama, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Auburn, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky
SEC-Atlantic
Florida, Florida State, Miami, Clemson, South Carolina, Duke, UNC, NC State, Louisville
The B1G Conference
B1G-West
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Indiana, Purdue, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Illinois
B1G-East
Notre Dame, Penn State, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, WVU, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Rutgers, Maryland
Mid-Majors
WAC Western Athletic Conference
San Diego State, Sac State, San Jose State, Nevada, Air Force, New Mexico, New Mexico State, UTEP, Wyoming, Utah State, UTSA, Texas State, North Texas, Rice, Sam Houston, Tulsa
MAC Mid-American Conference
Toledo, Bowling Green, Western Michigan, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Miami (OH), Ball State, Ohio, Akron, Kent State, NIU, NDSU, Missouri State, Arkansas State, Marshall, WKU
SBC Sun Belt Conference
Tulane, Louisiana, Louisiana Tech, ULM, USF, UCF, FAU, FIU, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Kennesaw State, Southern Miss, South Alabama, UAB, Troy, Jacksonville State, MTSU
NEC Northeast Conference
UConn, UMass, Boston College, Syracuse, Buffalo, Army, Temple, Delaware, Navy, JMU, Liberty, ODU, Wake Forest, Charlotte, ECU, Coastal Carolina, App State
Each Power team plays:
8 conference games, 1 mandatory cross-divisional game within their respective conference, 1 mandatory power matchup (cross-division or cross-conference), with 2 flex matchups per University.
Protected rivalries fill mandatory cross-divisional and cross-conference slots where a long-standing matchup exists.
Sample Protected Cross-Divisional:
Texas vs Oklahoma: SWC (Classic ↔ Big 8)
Georgia vs Florida: SEC (Central ↔ Atlantic)
Kentucky vs Louisville SEC (Central ↔ Atlantic)
Sample Protected Cross-Conference:
USC vs Notre Dame Pacific ↔ Big Ten
Iowa vs Minnesota: SWC ↔ Big Ten
LSU vs Alabama / Ole Miss (alternating) SWC ↔ SEC
16 Team Playoff
16 teams. No byes. First two rounds on campus. Semifinals at NY6 bowls.
Qualification
8 Power conference champions - automatic bids (one per division)
4 mid-major champions - top 8 mid-majors play 4 play-in bowls; winners qualify
4 at-large bids - top 4 ranked remaining teams; also allows for room for round-robin tiebreaker losers. Other at-large bids can be determined by committee or computer system outside of ties.
Seeding
Round 1 seeding features the #1 ranked team face the #16. They play at home. This creates an advantage for being the strongest team during the regular season without having protracted time off with byes.
Order can be determined by overall ranking or ensure that Power conference winners are designated 1-8.
Bracket and Calendar
(Play-in) Mid-Major Championships hosted in Bowl Games (i.e. Sun Belt Cheez-It Bowl)
Round 1: Higher seeds host on campus (1v16, 2v15, ...)
Round 2: Higher seeds host on campus
(Break) Non-Playoff Bowls
Semifinals: New Year's Day. Rose Bowl permanent host; second semifinal rotates among remaining NY6 bowls (Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, Cotton, Peach). The NY6 bowls not hosting a semifinal in a given year becomes the highest-tier non-playoff bowls for that season.
Transfer Portal opens the Monday after the Semifinals
Championship: Second Saturday of January
Transfer Portal ends the following Friday
Like I said, this enforces a return to traditional conferences, repairs plenty of traditional rivalries and has enough flexibility to mitigate challenges. There is a larger return of importance to the regular season while still keeping an expanded 16 team playoff.
That doesn't mean there aren't issues with this proposal. I put this in the "Caveats & Limitations" section on the document. The main one is the SEC. It works best at 11+ teams which is incompatible with this figure. In particular, LSU removed from the SEC will probably be cause for indignation. There are some factors that I believe help this, including Arkansas and A&M as regular season games with Alabama and Ole Miss as rotating protected rivalries. Furthermore, there are flex slots to schedule more SEC games if possible. However, I will not say this fully remedies this, so unfortunately this will just be an awkward result from a move like this.
If there are challenges or issues you have with this, in particular regard to your team, please let me know with a comment! The thing about this framework is it has room for editing in multiple directions. Expanding conferences to 10 teams, for one, or switching around teams, for another. If you read all of this, thank you! I really appreciate it, this actually took me a bit of work. Have a good day!
u/chefbeezy — 1 month ago
▲ 79 r/Destiny
I am a radical environmentalist who's main issue is far and away environmental degradation. I think there's a far easier score here on bipartisan messaging for Dems to excercise.
Populism and nationalism are significantly dominating right now, which is languishing in the discourse of Israel. I want to immediately say that I dislike both of those things, but they can be utilized in certain ways that do not undermine the integrity of the party. There is a real bipartisan realization of the importance of nuclear and renewable energies investment. Particularly, there is already a growing online aesthetic latching on to the intelligence and power of things like nuclear specifically. Nuclear science is difficult, it's at the forefront of human innovation, you're boiling rocks to make massive amounts of power. I know we're talking about social media here but that's the lifeblood of a lot of slopulism today, you have to engage with it. Renewables have also been quietly exploding in energy efficiency in the 21st century.
And here's where there's better messaging: China is at the forefront of all of it. Framing this as a race in the fashion of the space race or the arms race against Russia immediately pushes heavy populism and nationalism tones, which I, again, dislike but its powerful for bipartisan support especially in the current zeitgeist of this political sphere. It's the same with regenerative farming, far better for the environment but also far better for human health (MAHA) in a multitude of ways and it involves pushing for changes in terms of investment into small, local farming which more heavily involves republicans. Environmental issues are inherently bipartisan no matter how much republicans (derogatory) want to frame it as, going harder on this and owning it early is money.
The moral and crisis framing (which should be the real issue honestly it still has my heart) gets subverted a little, while it still can be involved won't be at the forefront anymore. That would probably anger lefties unlike me who cannot think of this as a win no matter what thing and have too much self-importance at stake. It would just be included in the messaging as a secondhand to the framing.
"We are far behind in the industry of tomorrow, one that will define generations to come, to China. We must emerge as the pinnacle of renewable energy and nuclear energy development to secure a firm hold on what will be a vital sector of the American economy, to secure a stable American jobs for the future of the nation, and to become energy independent for centuries to come. Oil propaganda campaigns have prevented us from taking this next step in our history to secure profits and the heart of it all rests in the Republican party. Just like we took one dominant step during the Industrial Revolution at the beginning of the last century, we must take another step today."
or more simply
"We must not lose to China at this pivotal moment of energy transition"
Republicans, I think, would genuinely struggle with that. Not because they have a moral compass of course, but because the framing of it as being of economic security issue, a job security issue, an energy issue, and a nationalism issue hits the nail on the head of like the two only facets of current American political discourse: the economy and nationalism/populism (extremely bleak but yeah I mean that reflects reality). It also involves conspiracy and propaganda which people love nowadays (even bleaker, still reflects reality) involving big oil which actually fucking exists. The aesthetic underpinning on social media is also already there. Where pussyfooting around on the environmental shit which I think is primed to quickly hit Israel levels of dominance in American politics, I already see it happening in that same sphere (there's a track oilpac on Instagram at least). This does implicate Dems who take big oil money, but honestly fuck them for that too. They can at least say they are supporting a party to transition away from it and that we will still need oil while we do so.
I don't know I could be rambling about. Obviously this messaging already exists, I'm talking about going a lot harder on it. The groundwork is already there. CHIPS act is a huge win whenever brought up, associated with Biden. Rare Earths, Uranium specifically, American Rare Earths specifically, these are industries that are gaining a ton of traction. Even Moloch who hates climate activism because he is a demon incarnate is involved with those things. People love the idea of American maglev railroads (I'm people). Divesting slowly from oil and military and towards domestic investment into this sphere is already just a huge win we just need to rip it into our hands loudly and proudly.
u/chefbeezy — 2 months ago