re: Travis Gregory Stano says SEC should get 3 playoff teams

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Do you disagree with this statement? Don't you think the four best teams should amke the playoff?

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Yes, I disagree with that statement. When you are picking the top 4 teams and you are using the "eyeball" test and you are picking teams from the same conference because of how it looks to the media and to defenders of that conference, you devalue the entire game of college football. Either the conferences mean something or they don't.

The SEC is better off if we only get the conference champion in the playoff. That makes winning the SEC that more important. If the second place team in the West can sneak in with an 11-1 record after getting beat by the team with an 11-1 record who still has to go to Atlanta and play a team with an 11-1 record, then how is that right? The team that beat the team who doesn't go to Atlanta but who loses in Atlanta stays home because they are now 11-2?

All of this will make the SEC regular season mean less. It is the best thing in sports right now and we are screwing with it by adding new teams to the conference and trying to get Alabama in every playoff scenario because we decide at the beginning of the season that they are one of the best four teams whether they beat everyone on their schedule or not.

You should have to win your division and your conference to get in. I have said that all the way back to the time that Nebraska and Oklahoma got in after losing the Big 12 championship. If you can't win your conference, then why are you playing for a NATIONAL title?