re: Why not move to a 6 team playoff vs. an 8 team playoff?

I seriously can't believe someone sane would want a 16 team playoff.

Do you really want to see the same 10-12 teams in the playoff every year with 4 randoms?

The entire regular season becomes a seeding contest.

The field has to be small enough that a single loss could keep you out. And 2 losses almost guarantees you are out.

If you really want 3 and 4 loss teams playing for a national championship you're crazy.

Games like the Egg Bowl and Iron Bowl this year would be absolutely meaningless and hollow, they'd only affect seeding.

Last year's Iron Bowl was huge, in a 16 team playoff nobody would give 2 thoughts about it again once the playoffs started, because Alabama and Auburn would have both been in with high seeds.

The people who want a 16 team playoff just want to see THEIR team in the field, regardless of whether or not they're deserving.

Football isn't like basketball or baseball, you can't play a series of games, it's single elimination.

A huge field would not lead to a better champion, it would lead to a champion determined way more by luck and injuries and what happens in 4 games vs. what happens in 12-13 games.

That's one great thing college football has over the NFL in my opinion. The Super Bowl champion is very often not the best team, or even one of the best 2-3 teams, however the national champion in football is almost always one of the top 2-3, if not usually THE best.

A small field rewards a team for having a good regular season and keeps the regular season games very meaningful.

If you want to see a shitty regular season look at college basketball. "big" games don't matter at all, two top ten teams play late int he year, who cares, they'll both get #1 or #2 seeds, etc.