re: The new “opt out” bowls

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What? An 8 team playoff means you play 7 games.You can incorporate every single on of then add the championship game.
Whats so difficult to figure out?

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Apparently it is difficult for me to figure out. How do you get 7 games from 8 teams?
I know I am forgetting or not seeing something.

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You just keep adding nonsensical hypotheticals to booster your arguments.

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Do you not even realize that going to an 8 team playoff is a hypothetical? Or do you just imagine that y'all are the only ones that can make hypotheticals and nobody else can?

We were told if they would just start a playoff with 4 teams that would fix everything. now it is 8 teams. Why do you think it will stop there? I mean, in 7 years there has been 1 team ranked at #4 that has proven they belong, but now we are to believe that there are 8 teams that have a shot to win it all?

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How in world do you know this? I would absolutely watch 3 of the 4 in the scenario we discussed earlier along with almost every other CFB fan.

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Are you of the assumption that people want to watch blow outs? Look at history and learn from it. I would rather stick a fork in my eye than watch another 38-0 game and listen to talking heads try to convince me that Cincinnati really does belong in the playoffs and they actually could win it!

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And here are some other scores:55-19,41-14,42-14,37-14,21-0 and 42-20. You wanna guess where these scores are from?

Might as well go back to the old bowl system because the BCS obviously wasn't working with all these blowouts,correct?

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The BCS wasn't working. That's why we are where we are. We now have a playoff.

I'm not arguing for the elimination of the playoff. I am arguing against the expansion of the playoffs.
The finals of the playoffs has been more successful than the semis for sure, but now you want to see more blow outs. You want to kill the sport? Tell everybody they will see epic games and everybody has a legitimate chance to win and then trot out lopsided scores for over half of the games. If 1 verses 4 produces 38-0 and 30-0 scores what do you think #1 verses #8 is going to produce?

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I don't get the thinking that all future playoff games will somehow be "blowouts" because of whats happened in past years.

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Certainly not all but why do you think the vast majority (like they are today) won't be? Do you somehow see parity coming to the sport?

Every year we see Ohio State, Oklahoma, Clemson and Alabama with an occasional wild card team sprinkled in.

Why inn the world do you think this is going to change?
Who do you see that is going to suddenly gain on these teams? Honest question. Maybe us if Kirby learns, but I don't see any other team in the country that looks like they are about to start challenging to get into the playoffs.