Re: Carlsbad's post brought an interesting question to mind.

I'm a bit tangent to the point of his post so I started another thread.

UGA and Bama are both rated just under a 50% chance to make the playoff. That made me consider last year's circumstances. Bama beat UGA and didn't win their division or championship. How do you think that would have gone had they been taxed with winning the conference championship and playing UGA then? I know this is beaten to death but there's another pertinent bit of information.

This is the most flawed thing about the 4 team playoff system. That extra week for a non conference winner puts someone in the playoffs that should have been previously eliminated. Yeah, that's beaten to death but the fact that some team from some other conference should have been in the playoff.

If this is about money it's working.

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Aug 8, 2018, 1:05 PM

That's a fair point, but that's one reason college sports, particularly football, get a bad rap nationally. It's dumb having writers, coaches, and committees tell you who they think are the best teams. We already have the teams playing real games, and if they don't win those games, why should they be allowed to play further?

This whole process of a bracket is based on winning to advance, why shouldn't that apply to the regular season too? So what if an 8-4 team makes the CFP? If they won their conference title, they got there fair and square. Blame the conference for being weak, or the other title game team for choking.

The power five consists of 64 teams, 65 if you add ND. That is [essentially] the NCAAB march madness bracket. Most every team that matters qualifies for it, and they have 12 guaranteed opportunities to prove they are worthy of advancing.

If the best idea people come up with to eliminate conference champions is to remove that game, then you let a committee pick teams at random, and who does that help? There will be controversy every year to the point where we will be asking for those title games back to get automatic qualification. Think of the schedule shifting that would happen to make the end of your season easier to make sure you appear before the committee on a winning streak.

if it was 8 teams, look at last year:
Clemson, Miami, Bama, Auburn, UGA, OSU, PSU, Stanford, UCF, OU, Wisconsin, USC, TCU, ND all have a fair case as a top 8 team (off the top of my head). But much like march madness, not everyone deserves to be there or are capable of winning a title.

If you are worried about an 8-4 team gaining automatic entry, don't you achieve the same risk adding teams who aren't thought to be among the 4-5 best?

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Carlsbad's post brought an interesting question to mind.