The Case Against the College Football Playoff

I didn't click the link but I don't see how taking 4 teams instead of just 2 could be a bad thing.

Does he say anything substantial? I happen to prefer the BCS to the playoff, but in the bits that I read, he didn't say anything that didn't just seem like pure whining. Then he had the gall to call it "data" at the end.

I prefer the BCS over the playoff, but college football fans all but demanded a playoff. Now we have it and folks are still bitching and whining.

You can't satisfy everybody.

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I happen to prefer the BCS to the playoff,

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I like 4, I just think it eliminates a lot of controversy.

However, if I had my way we would keep the BCS exactly as it was and just take 1-4. Having a small committee made up of humans with their own biases just doesn't sit well with me, although I suppose I can't say they've done anything egregiously wrong yet.

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8 team playoff or die.

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I'm a traditionalist at heart, and I hate what corporate money has done to the sport I loved as a child.

That said, if the alleged purpose is to crown a 'true' champion like they do in other classifications of football (and in the pros) then there really isn't any reason not to realign the conferences and create a true 8-team playoff. Use the current system to select the participants, but play the first two rounds at the home stadiums of the higher seeds, sometime between the first Saturday in December and New Years Day. NC game a week later.

CFB is already being turned into NFL-lite, why not go all the way.

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8 team playoff or die.

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too many. If after 12 regular season games and conference champ weekend you're still in 8th place, you've done something along the way to lose yoru shot at the title. The undefeated #1 team and the however many loss 8th place team shouldn't be on the exact same even footing for a title, otherwise what was the point of the regular season?

Then the argument is "well it excludes conference winners. Take all the P5 champs and 3 at large". Ok...well what if VT had somehow upset Clemson this year, they'd get an auto-bid for the national championship which they damn sure wouldn't deserve.

4 is perfect. It expands from 2 which allows teams that legit deserve a shot a chance (ala 04 Auburn) but it's still keeping the sanctity of the regular season.

I want an eight team playoff for selfish reasons.

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8 team playoff or die.

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Nah. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the current Alabama + 3 Teams model. Pretty much perfect.

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I'm a traditionalist at heart, and I hate what corporate money has done to the sport I loved as a child.

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I am not sure how old you are, but it was corporate money that gives all us the chance to watch our teams every week. When I was a little kid and a brand new "Bammer", I had to listen a lot of games on the radio. There just wasn't enough slots to cover everybody. Back then they used to say that Bama was the most televised team in the country. I am sure it isn't so anymore. I am speaking 35 years ago, before the Notre Dame and NBC contracts. So it must've really sucked for the rest of the teams. I for one think the influx of money has not only raised the visibility of everybody's team, and has also raised the level of play, and has been great for the sport. It is way better now than then.