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re: Why 6 > 8

Posted on 12/10/14 at 10:46 am to
Posted by Lordofwrath88
Tuscaloosa
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Posted on 12/10/14 at 10:46 am to
a 16 team playoff would bring in conference champions, so it would actually be about the top 10 or so teams and sacrificial conf champ lambs for the top 6 seeds. You keep saying it's impossible... but I still say inevitable,


and I'm talking like 60 years in the future of adding a berth every now and then.
Posted by Farmer1906
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Apr 2009
50710 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 10:49 am to
I don't even think football will be around in 60 years. If it is, it will not be anything like it is today.
Posted by UAFanFromNOLA
NOLA
Member since Dec 2011
4882 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 11:26 am to
quote:

I don't even think football will be around in 60 years. If it is, it will not be anything like it is today.

I sadly agree. It will be around, but it will be closer to flag football than what we have now.
Posted by VABuckeye
Naples, FL
Member since Dec 2007
35592 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 11:28 am to
I agree with you.

3-6 and 4-5 with the higher seed hosting the game and 1 and 2 get a bye. Seems like a great format to me.
Posted by higgs_boson
State College, PA
Member since Sep 2014
22456 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 11:32 am to
quote:

I don't even think football will be around in 60 years. If it is, it will not be anything like it is today.


Most likely, you are correct.
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
Markey's bar
Member since Oct 2008
84887 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 11:34 am to
6 is perfect because you still get a major reward for getting into that top 2.
Posted by weedGOKU666
THE 'COLA
Member since Jan 2013
3736 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 11:39 am to
Throw thr regular season out at the end and just have a 120 team playoff IMO


More football for everyone, u are unamerican if u don't like this
Posted by Bags of Milk
The Sunny Beaches of Canada
Member since Feb 2013
3322 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 11:52 am to
quote:

a 16 team playoff would bring in conference champions, so it would actually be about the top 10 or so teams and sacrificial conf champ lambs for the top 6 seeds. You keep saying it's impossible... but I still say inevitable,


and I'm talking like 60 years in the future of adding a berth every now and then.



I think this will happen within 25 years. The money is going to be too great
Posted by BamaGradinTn
Murfreesboro
Member since Dec 2008
26991 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 12:31 pm to
Look at how many players get banged up and injured in a typical game. Giving the top two teams a bye could be an advantage that many would see as unfair. I agree.

4 is plenty.
Posted by thefloydian
Member since Dec 2012
4771 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 12:33 pm to
What's best is irrelevant. It will eventually be 16 and college football will turn into a shittier version of the NFL.
Posted by Sev09
Nantucket
Member since Feb 2011
15570 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 12:46 pm to
I like 5 teams with 4+5 playing a play-in game.

The problem now is that you could have 5 clear-cut great teams that are conference champions, and one has to be kept out. We need at least 5. Let's take another look with just 5 teams:

2014
1. Bama 12-1
2. UO 12-1
3. FSU 13-0
4. tOSU 12-1 <--Play-in
5. BU 11-1 <--Play-in
--
6. TCU 11-1
7. Ms State 10-2
8. Mi State 10-2

2013
1. FSU 13-0
2. Auburn 12-1
3. Bama 11-1
4. Mi State 12-1 <--Play-in
5. Stanford 11-2 <--Play-in
--
6. BU 11-1
7. tOSU 12-1
8. Mizzou 11-2

2012
1. Notre Dame 12-0
2. Bama 12-1
3. Florida 11-1
4. UO 11-1 <--Play-in
5. KSU 11-1 <--Play-in
--
6. Stanford 11-2
7. UGA 11-2
8. LSU 10-2

2011
1. LSU 13-0
2. Bama 11-1
3. Okie St 11-1
4. Stanford 11-1 <--Play-in
5. UO 11-2 <--Play-in
--
6. Ark 10-2
7. Boise St 11-1
8. KSU 10-2

Obviously, you'd need to shuffle it around so that the play-in games would be a possible elimination game for a power 5 runner-up.
Posted by Sev09
Nantucket
Member since Feb 2011
15570 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 12:56 pm to
quote:

It will eventually be 16 and college football will turn into a shittier version of the NFL.


Nah, never. The pageantry and tradition >>> the NFL. Even if we go to a 16-team playoff, that's using a field of 128+ teams. In the NFL, half the teams get in. In CFB, it's like only the top 10% still. It'll never get that bad.
Posted by Farmer1906
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Apr 2009
50710 posts
Posted on 1/7/15 at 9:47 am to
I'm going to go ahead a bump this with the thought of, if the playoff was 6, right now TCU would have likely eliminated FSU and have a killer TCU/UO match up and tOSU would have eliminated BU and primed to upset BAMA again. The title game would have likely been tOSU vs the UO/TCU winner.

With what we have now, TCU could be the best team in football yet not gets its shot at it all.

BUT if you go 8 then you get an unworthy Miss State team in there who couldn't even handle GT.
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