re: 12 Team Playoff

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But can they ever realistically catch-up? Automatic tie-ins and more at larges seems to me a way to keep interest and keep the game from being an regional sport. Otherwise the Bama's and Ohio State's will continue to dominate and the rest of the country loses interest

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It always has been a regional sport though. The South, Midwest, and Texas/Oklahoma care about college football win, lose, or draw, the East Coast and West Coast are a bunch of fairweather dipshits who only care if one of the local teams is in the top 5-10, and in the Northeast you have some older Catholics who half heartedly follow Notre Dame, transplants, and tens of millions of people who simply don't give a damn.