re: Did playoffs get it right?

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Honestly you should be happy Oklahoma got the brunt of that skulldragging. Gives you the option to say "if only..."

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bullshite, I would have been more happy our team getting the chance to play for the NC whether we won or got our arse kicked.

I'm going to have to agree with Saban in that he can see the inevitable expansion of the playoff system, and how do you work that within the bowls?

There's too many bowl games, of that I think we can all agree.

I'd like to see the Playoff system go to 6 games, if you do that, you can still work within the bowl game framework.

1 and 2 seeds get a bye. 3 plays 6 at home, 4 plays 5 at home 2 weeks after the season ends.

Tell the Rose Bowl they can either be part of the solution or bypassed by it. Pick one since they're the hangup in this. Play the semis on new years day.

Championship game TBD after by locale and date.

This gives the power 5 the option to earn their way in, all of them. Gives another team who may be deserving a chance to get in also. Oh and tell Notre Dame to pick a conference or else.

Gives the two teams at the top who look like the best teams a reward for a very successful regular season.

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1 and 2 seeds get a bye. 3 plays 6 at home, 4 plays 5 at home 2 weeks after the season ends.

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My fear with that is that there's such an advantage to getting that bye and there are many years where its just not a clear cut difference between #2 and #3 to warrant that kind of advantage.

If we're going to declare the #1 & #2 teams are worthy of that advantage by giving them that kind of favorable setup, then we should just save everybody's time and return to the BCS format.

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Nobody knew at the time what Alabama would do to them (and might have done to Stanford or OSU) in the semifinal.

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Good to see you people are back to form.

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Sure I can. Ohio State, no and I wouldn't care to. Stanford is an easy case to make.

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False. Stanford had two losses, one of them was a bad loss to freakin' Northwestern. MSU had one loss and beat the same Oregon team that Stanford lost too. Easy choice for the committee.

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MSU dominated OSU. The game should not have been that close.

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let's not rewrite history. MSU did not do much themselves. OSU never trailed. It was one of those games where a team that played somewhat badly beat a team that played pathetic. The MSU defense dominated..the rest of the game not so much.

OSU did not deserve to play in the CFP..but put it all in perspective..Michigan punts the ball successfully with less than 10 seconds in the game and OSU is in...Ole Piss plays a better backyard game of smear-the-queer on 4th and forever..and Bama doesn't. 2 once in a million plays...and the whole playoff is different.

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You're saying that with the benefit of retrospect.

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Funny, that's exactly what it looked like you were doing by discounting losses to top 15 teams.

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Even the Stanford coaches and fans were't complaining because they knew.

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That's not why they weren't complaining. They just aren't as trashy as TCU and Baylor fans.

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And no, two losses are never better than one when it comes to playoff chances.

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Only in the SEC run BcS, right?

The MSU miracle win was mentioned above and how that one play effected OSU and the playoffs. That would have taken a little shine of the OSU record though. Not sure how the committee would have dealt with Stanford v OK v OSU

No, Alabama lost to a team that lost to a team that lost to Toledo