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Expanding the playoffs ENHANCES the regular season
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Expanding the playoffs ENHANCES the regular season


Nov 14, 2019, 1:56 PM

Look no further than the NFL. More matchups during the season around the league mean something because each division winner goes to the playoffs.

Right now in CFB only about 5% of the teams are worth watching, and that's only if they are playing a team inside that 5%.

If each P5 division sent a team to the playoffs there would be dozens of games this weekend with playoff implications.

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Re: Expanding the playoffs ENHANCES the regular season


Nov 14, 2019, 2:09 PM

However, expanding the playoffs HURTS other bowl games. We already have some stars not playing in bowls to prepare for the NFL combine. I think this trend will increase as the non-playoff bowl games become less important.

Last year's Rose Bowl was OSU-Washington. With an eight team playoff, it becomes Michigan-Washington State. Which is more valuable and will draw more money?

(I assume CFU would be in the playoffs as the highest rank G5 school)

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Re: Expanding the playoffs ENHANCES the regular season


Nov 14, 2019, 2:18 PM

TinCup14® said:

Look no further than the NFL. More matchups during the season around the league mean something because each division winner goes to the playoffs.

Right now in CFB only about 5% of the teams are worth watching, and that's only if they are playing a team inside that 5%.

If each P5 division sent a team to the playoffs there would be dozens of games this weekend with playoff implications.


Very true and some good points. However, with the way it is now, every game is a playoff game. Clemson really cant lose at all or they are out. I like that every game every week, for the most part, has playoff implications.

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Re: Expanding the playoffs ENHANCES the regular season


Nov 14, 2019, 2:23 PM

A) Why are major college football stadiums much bigger than NFL stadiums if it’s not worth watching?

B) Who wants to waste their time watching a crappy division winner waste a playoff spot?

C) Refer to A

Furthermore why would the next two weeks matter to us? We could do like NFL teams and rest our starters against Wake and the coots and LOSE. You know why? BECAUSE IT WOULDN’T MATTER. Smh dude

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Re: Expanding the playoffs ENHANCES the regular season


Nov 14, 2019, 2:24 PM

In the NFL, more games mean something to the teams playing.

In college football, more games mean EVERYTHING to the teams playing.

I would rather have more games that make or break a season instead of the elite teams coasting through because a loss or two doesn't hurt while the average teams fight for the scraps just to say they reached a playoff.

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Re: Expanding the playoffs ENHANCES the regular season


Nov 14, 2019, 2:53 PM

The elite teams wouldn't coast until they wrapped up their division, and if you still had teams playing for home field advantage and seeding the games would still matter.

In the current setup if you lose two games, one for some teams, your season is over. With a playoff system those teams would still be playing for their division or an at large bid. So again, you'd have many more meaningful games.

And I'd argue that in the current setup the big regular season non conference matchups that nobody wants to lose turn out to be meaningless anyway. A 12-1 conference champ whose only loss is at the start of the season to another elite team is going to make the playoffs most of the time.

Not to mention, in a playoff system you would get BETTER non conference matchups in the playoffs.

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