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Why College Football Playoff Should Always Remain at 4 Teams
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:10 pm
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:10 pm
I have been a huge proponent of the playoffs but have wanted 8 or 10 teams.
This article does give some good thoughts on why it should stay 4.
College Football Playoff will debut next season and give us a four-team playoff. That is going to be good enough. Any more, and it will significantly reduce the importance of the regular season. A 16-team playoff, as some have proposed, will render it nearly meaningless.
As it is right now, a 16-team playoff will allow 13 percent of all FBS teams to have a shot at the national championship. That's only slightly lower than the 19 percent of Division I teams that get to play in the 68-team NCAA tournament.
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This article does give some good thoughts on why it should stay 4.
College Football Playoff will debut next season and give us a four-team playoff. That is going to be good enough. Any more, and it will significantly reduce the importance of the regular season. A 16-team playoff, as some have proposed, will render it nearly meaningless.
As it is right now, a 16-team playoff will allow 13 percent of all FBS teams to have a shot at the national championship. That's only slightly lower than the 19 percent of Division I teams that get to play in the 68-team NCAA tournament.
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Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:11 pm to parkjas2001
Agree with the article. Any larger than 4 teams and you run the risk of watering down what is the best regular season in all of sports.
With that said, I'd be shocked if it was still a 4 team playoff in 15 years.
With that said, I'd be shocked if it was still a 4 team playoff in 15 years.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:11 pm to parkjas2001
16 is way too much. I like 4 or 6.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:11 pm to Dawg in Beaumont
Should be 8
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:13 pm to BayouBengals03
I doubt it will get past 4 teams.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:14 pm to StopRobot
I bet it goes to 6 with the top two teams getting byes.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:26 pm to parkjas2001
4 is the best, the selection is wrong. It should be from the bcs standings not a assclown filled committee.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:30 pm to heartbreakTiger
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4 is the best, the selection is wrong. It should be from the bcs standings not a assclown filled committee.
Exactly how I feel.
4 is great. Selection committee sucks.
Keep the BCS formula. Top 4 would have resulted in the right matchups 90% of the time during the BCS era. Selection committee won't do better than that.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:38 pm to heartbreakTiger
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It should be from the bcs standings not a assclown filled committee.
I think the BCS did at least one good thing...it gave objective rankings.
With 6 teams, last season FSU and AU would have gotten byes. Bama and Mich St would have played for the right to play AU and Stanford and Baylor would have played for the right to face FSU.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:41 pm to parkjas2001
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I bet it goes to 6 with the top two teams getting byes.
Really have been liking this idea, with the reward of those byes counteracting the ever so slight diminishment of the regular season by going to four teams.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:43 pm to parkjas2001
Has there ever been a year where the #5 team going into the last week of the season had a legitimate argument to being in the National Championship game? I can't think of an example/year.
4 is good but of course the #5 and #6 teams will raise hell and it'll cause just as much controversy as the BCS.
Pandora's Box has been opened. Hope it stops at 6 though with top two teams getting a bye like already stated.
4 is good but of course the #5 and #6 teams will raise hell and it'll cause just as much controversy as the BCS.
Pandora's Box has been opened. Hope it stops at 6 though with top two teams getting a bye like already stated.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:45 pm to CockRocket
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Has there ever been a year where the #5 team going into the last week of the season had a legitimate argument to being in the National Championship game?
Really? LSU in 2007.
AU was #6 in the BCS on Nov 17th.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:47 pm to parkjas2001
Yeah I agree with 8. I know there will always be teams that feel like they got left out but 4 seems to little. Granted, keeping it at 4 almost assures that all 4 teams will be 11-1 / 12-1 or so, if you go up to 8 you could possibly start running into the 9-3s (maybe)
This post was edited on 3/31/14 at 4:49 pm
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:50 pm to theGarnetWay
Last years Top 6 were all 1 loss teams, save FSU. As was Oh St at 7.
The fun would have been at #8. Mizzou was a 2 loss team and #9 USC was also a two loss team.
Who goes? They had the ame record and USC beat them but was behind in the standings.
The fun would have been at #8. Mizzou was a 2 loss team and #9 USC was also a two loss team.
Who goes? They had the ame record and USC beat them but was behind in the standings.
This post was edited on 3/31/14 at 4:53 pm
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:52 pm to parkjas2001
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Last years Top 6 were all 1 loss teams, save FSU.
Going into the bowl season you mean?
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:53 pm to theGarnetWay
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Last years Top 6 were all 1 loss teams, save FSU.
Going into the bowl season you mean?
Yes, looking at the final BCS standings.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:54 pm to parkjas2001
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I bet it goes to 6 with the top two teams getting byes.
That's what I want.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:12 pm to parkjas2001
Should be 8 or 16 4 is just not enough
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:15 pm to parkjas2001
How many times in the BCS era have more than 4 teams gone into the bowl season undefeated?
This post was edited on 3/31/14 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:16 pm to Datbayoubengal
When certain of the P5 conferences go multiple years w/o a representative in the playoff, there's going to be a push to expand past 4 to at least 6, w/ the conference champions guaranteed spots. People need to stop thinking about college football as if it were college basketball. The NFL has 12 of 32 teams make the playoffs each year, and judging from the ratings, that isn't hurting the appeal of their regular season one bit.
My preference, from an entertainment standpoint is 8 teams. At 16, I really think we've gone well beyond the group of teams who have earned a shot at the championship. And compared to 6 teams, an 8 team playoff obviously gives more games, and more room for deserving wild cards. On the other hand, since we don't have games hosted by the higher seeds, I do like giving the top 2 seeds a bye, to more greatly reward them for their performance in the regular season.
My preference, from an entertainment standpoint is 8 teams. At 16, I really think we've gone well beyond the group of teams who have earned a shot at the championship. And compared to 6 teams, an 8 team playoff obviously gives more games, and more room for deserving wild cards. On the other hand, since we don't have games hosted by the higher seeds, I do like giving the top 2 seeds a bye, to more greatly reward them for their performance in the regular season.
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