re: 4 not enough?

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IMO, if you're going to have a playoff, get rid of relying on the polls. If you use conference champions you get two things, conference races that are still meaningful, and getting rid of opinion polls.

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You can't get rid of the polls because you have to pick the 5 or 6 (depending on how many conference champs you go with) highest ranked conference champions. You really need a ranking requirement for 2 reasons: First of all, you need it to determine the highest ranked champions because there are 11 conferences so you have to pick the 5 or 6 highest rated conference champions. Second of all, you need rankings to be involved because you need some kind of ranking requirement to keep a playoff from being a complete joke. You can't gaurantee certain conferences bids because a non-top 20 team like West Virginia would go over a much higher rated conference champ like TCU which is totally unfair.

No offense, but I'm getting a little tired of the conference champions only crowd arguing about their format increasing the importance of the regular season. That's total bull####. In fact, the exact opposite is true. Non conference regular season games become completely meaningless under that format because all that matter is winning your conference. The conference champion only format in both a 4 and an 8 team playoff with no ranking requirement is a cluster#### disaster waiting to happen when a 6-6 UCLA team or a team that lost all their non conference games but wins their conference gets into a 4 team or an 8 playoff over a team like last year's #2 ranked 11-1 Alabama team. I don't understand why some of you can't see that.