re: I know I will get blasted by lsu fans but?

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We just want the other competitor in the west to play a comparable schedule.

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It's pretty much this.

The more I think about it, the more I hope this new playoff leads to less focus on perfect season (which encourages scheduling shitty rent a wins) and puts all the focus on being the best team. I'd rather ALL the games on the schedule be against quality opponents and see a 2 loss team regularly make the playoffs. The reason it doesn't happen now is because unlike the NFL there's no guarantee that your peers are going to play a somewhat comparable schedule. Sure it's great that every game matters in college and you can't sneak into the college football title game despite barely winning more than half your regular season games but NFL teams don't get to schedule the Sisters of the Poor as a regular season game.