Cfb needs 16 team playoff

I used to think this, but changed my mind. 12 gives some juice to conference championship (a bye definitely means something) that is completely gone if every team has a first round game.

12 is also good for engagement because there are legit arguments about the last team in. It sucks for Vandy to get left out, but no one wants USC to get a shot at OSU which is where we would be with 16 teams.

If we do go to 16, at least 2 of the extra spots need to go to conference champions (7+11)

Let's just make it a 136 team playoff and start the first round of the playoffs on the first weekend of September.

No matter what number you make it, people will scream for more teams.

Make it 16, then it will be “we need 24” or “it has to be 32”

This is the first year of this format, we haven’t even gotten to the selected teams that make it.

Someone will always be unhappy no matter what you do.

They need the BCS formula without the AP component removed and the Vegas spread incorporated.

That will never happen though because that’s like taking stock trades away from congress.

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and don’t punish losers of CCG

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How would you do this without releasing playoff seedings prior to Championship weekend? That would mean you can't play yourself out but can't play yourself in either. Occasionally giving the third place team a slight unearned advantage is worth it to occasionally get a CCG with a playoff spot on the line.