IMO, if you're going to have a playoff, get rid of relying on the polls. If you use conference champions you get two things, conference races that are still meaningful, and getting rid of opinion polls.

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this conference champions thing is a pile of crock. The goal is to find the best team and you could easily have a conference winner with 3 losses but an sec team with one loss not make it based on things I am reading on this thread. I want to see the best teams face off, however many we start with.

First of all any Alabama fan saying that the conference champion is a crock of shite should be ashamed of themselves.

But if you're going to rely on polls, why have a playoff at all?

Alabama sitting there with twice as many SEC championships than the team with the next most...?

Last year was a fluke, 9 times out of 10, Alabama is going to be the one with the SEC title. The argument of 'next best conference team' smacks of Auburnism.

You want to go to the playoffs? Win your conference. The advantage for the SEC team there is that they will be bettter prepared for the playoffs after having played a tougher schedule.

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Posted by mrbroker

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Posted on 5/17/12 at 7:14 am to WildTchoupitoulas

all conferences are not created equally..therefore given the big east or the Acc a pass to the playoff but not considering say the other major conference who has a team ranked in the top 4 but not a conference champ means you aint bringing in the best 4 or 8 or how ever many.

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Posted by Govt Tide

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Posted on 5/17/12 at 9:07 am to WildTchoupitoulas

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IMO, if you're going to have a playoff, get rid of relying on the polls. If you use conference champions you get two things, conference races that are still meaningful, and getting rid of opinion polls.

You can't get rid of the polls because you have to pick the 5 or 6 (depending on how many conference champs you go with) highest ranked conference champions. You really need a ranking requirement for 2 reasons: First of all, you need it to determine the highest ranked champions because there are 11 conferences so you have to pick the 5 or 6 highest rated conference champions. Second of all, you need rankings to be involved because you need some kind of ranking requirement to keep a playoff from being a complete joke. You can't gaurantee certain conferences bids because a non-top 20 team like West Virginia would go over a much higher rated conference champ like TCU which is totally unfair.

No offense, but I'm getting a little tired of the conference champions only crowd arguing about their format increasing the importance of the regular season. That's total bull####. In fact, the exact opposite is true. Non conference regular season games become completely meaningless under that format because all that matter is winning your conference. The conference champion only format in both a 4 and an 8 team playoff with no ranking requirement is a cluster#### disaster waiting to happen when a 6-6 UCLA team or a team that lost all their non conference games but wins their conference gets into a 4 team or an 8 playoff over a team like last year's #2 ranked 11-1 Alabama team. I don't understand why some of you can't see that.