re: Future Playoffs 16 Teams

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Bleah. There's just no need for 16 teams (or 8 IMO), and even if there were your schedule is screwed up.

Look... since the '98-'99 season there have only been, in my opinion, two cases where it could reasonably be argued that the two most deserving teams didn't play for the title:

'04 Auburn clearly got screwed.

'11 Okie State and Stanford had a case against Alabama. Oregon not so much with 2 losses, but then they did win their conference over Stanford.

Point is, if the BCS rankings were used in a 4-team playoff we'd get Auburn after '04 and Okie State and Stanford after '11. We'd have what to me are pretty clearly the top 4 teams in the country, the only exception maybe being Oregon vs. Stanford at #4 in the '12 game.

I just don't see a legitimate reason to make the regular season less meaningful. I know they're not going by BCS standings, but I'd be really surprised if the 4 are much different than 1-4 in BCS. #5 may get screwed and set off a lot of people, but the same would be true with 8 or 16 teams. Want to be in those 4? Win!

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I'll give you '04, but I disagree with '11 and I'll add '12 to the list. Last year, it was beyond painfully clear that Notre Dame wasn't the team that belonged in contention. Probably should have been Oregon. NC games shouldn't be that brutally uncompetitive because a team got really lucky that most of their tough teams on the schedule were on down years. #1 USC turned out to be a 7-6 team. #8 Michigan turned out to be 8-5. Oklahoma was their only truly tough game.

I would argue that, although it rustled jimmies, 2011 was probably the season when the BCS worked out the best. SEC vs. SEC be damned, the two best teams got to play each other for the title. You could argue that Oklahoma State deserved consideration because OSU and Alabama each had one loss. You could say since Alabama's loss was to LSU, they already got their chance and we had seen the outcome. But then again, OSU lost to freaking unranked Iowa State. You can't suffer a loss that harsh and not have it come back to bite you in the arse when you're having one of these conversations.

My opinion is that the Big 12 screwed Okie Lite out of the NC by not having a Big 12 Championship game. If OSU had that extra win over a ranked opponent, then they would be 12-1 to Bama's 11-1 and it would almost certainly have given them that bump they needed since Alabama didn't get to play in their conference game.