re: We don't need 8 teams in the playoff, we need four balanced conferences

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We need all the major conference champs to get in, and we need 4 balanced conferences.

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In order to have four truly "balanced conferences", you'd have to do something really stupid like send Auburn out to the Pac 12...remember the years when the Atlanta Braves played in the NL West? OK...that's an exaggeration...but you'd have to send teams out of their historical affiliations. You want "balance"? Then you can't have Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, LSU, Miss. State, Florida, and Tennessee in the same conference. The SEC has had far more teams, from top to bottom, be consistently competitive over the years. To achieve true "balance", you'd have to break them up.