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Are You Happy With A Four Team Playoff ?

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It's better than the BCS but personally I'd be happier with either an 8, 12 or 16 team playoff.
Why not go 12 ?

Top 4 get a bye so 5-12 play the first week.
If this weeks standings were the final ones then Bama, OSU, Mich and Clemson would take the week off.
USC would play Washington
Wisconsin VS Louisville
Penn St VS Okie St
Oklahoma VS Colorado
then re-seed ...lowest winner plays Bama and so forth .
 
More than 4 games completely invalidates the regular season.

We're already gnashing teeth over the possibility of the BIG 10/11/13/??? getting 2 teams in. Think about this. If we had an 8 team playoff, it's conceivable that they would get 3 teams. From the same conference, of which 2 probably wouldn't have even played in their conference championship.

We already have the first round of playoffs - the conference championships.

I don't want a 3 loss, hot / lucky team at the end being able to say they were champs over a team who won their conference.

Win your games - you don't have to worry.
 
4 is almost perfect but I could be talked into 6. I just hate the concept of two teams getting an extra week off and it's complicated with a one semester sport. 12 and 16 is completely out of the question and kills what makes college football what it is.
 
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I think 4 is great. It only extends the season by a week and still makes every regular season game super important. I'd also be okay with 8. More than that and it devalues the regular season too much and extends the season to much for the student athletes. And I definitely don't want to see a bunch of 3 and 4 loss teams in the playoff.

And as I said in another thread, the semi-finals should be on New Year's Day every year. Make that day special for football fans again. And get them back on over-the-air TV so people who can't afford cable can still watch.
 
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6 is best. 5 P5 champs plus the next best team. Top 2 get byes. This:

-Rewards conference champs
-Makes every game still important as you want to get into the top 2
-Encourages strong OOC scheduling

But I'd rather have 4 than 8. Too much of a slippery slope once you start expanding.
 
Why not go 32, or 48, or even 64.

Don't make college football like the NFL. The college season is special, in my mind there are not 6 or 8 teams that deserve a shot at the NC.

The argument for a bigger playoff is never a comparison of the first team out to the top team in, it is a comparison of the first team out to the last team in. In that context you never stop expanding.

4 is sufficient. Every regular season game should matter, each should potentially put a team out.
 
4 is pretty damn good. We usually know who should be #1. Often there's a question about who is more deserving between #2 and #3. Almost always, #4 is going to be a controversial pick of a team that doesn't quite measure up to the others. This is about perfect. And it maintains the pageantry of the bowl games within that New Year's Six.
 
Buffnik said:
4 is pretty damn good. We usually know who should be #1. Often there's a question about who is more deserving between #2 and #3. Almost always, #4 is going to be a controversial pick of a team that doesn't quite measure up to the others. This is about perfect. And it maintains the pageantry of the bowl games within that New Year's Six.
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I was opposed to any playoff past two but 4 has worked well.

As you say most years you know coming in who is the #1 team but you also frequenty have one or two other teams who have a legitimate claim to saying they had the best entire season and didn't get a chance to play that #1. Go past 4 and you are really stretching things to argue that teams have a legit argument to having the best year.

Hard to justify multiple 2 or more loss teams getting shots against 0 or 1 loss programs.
 
This is the year that a playoff isn't needed at all. Alabama is the only deserving team. But we know that doesn't happen often.
4 is an improvement over voting a champ. 6 is better given we have 5 conferences plus a slot for an at-large team.
 
Nope. When you have a team get in that doesn't even play in their conference championship game, but a team that goes 11-2 and wins their conference championship is left out that isn't right. Need to go to 6 or 8 so at least every conference champ gets in.
 
I don't like that two teams from one conference can get in. That's bull****. I'm believing that the committee, or whatever they are, do not have the subjectivity to properly judge. I can't believe Clemson, who lost at home to an unranked team, is still in the top 4.
 
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I don't like that two teams from one conference can get in. That's bull****. I'm believing that the committee, or whatever they are, do not have the subjectivity to properly judge. I can't believe Clemson, who lost at home to an U ranked team, is still in the top 4.
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I think they are more than subjective enough to properly judge others.
 
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I think they are more than subjective enough to properly judge others.
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Maybe I stated it wrongly. Maybe they're subjective. But with teams playing completely different schedules, subjectivity is difficult. Sometimes you don't know how good the conference competition is until the bowl games.
 
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5 conference champs plus an at-large team? Top 2 get byes?
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yup. makes regular season super important and creates separation within the playoff teams. Endless bitching would result. Not sure how it works with conference championship games though.
 
DBT said:
Maybe I stated it wrongly. Maybe they're subjective. But with teams playing completely different schedules, subjectivity is difficult. Sometimes you don't know how good the conference competition is until the bowl games.
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Don't make me UBL this goddamn thing.
 
I like 4. 8 would be ok if the P5 champs got auto-bids. Anything more than that is horrible and would largely ruin college football.
 
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