re: Miami was #10 in the Playoff Rankings…

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I wouldn’t call it fairer. Just different. You cant tell me a team that lost to SMU and Louisville is a top team. They are just hot at the right time

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What about a team that lost to Bama, the same Bama team that got smoked by a horrible FSU team? Is that a top team? I would argue that uga also got hot at the end of the season. The secs best ooc win this year was A&M over ND, the rest of your “good” wins are just in-conf wins against teams that didn’t deserve to be ranked where they were.

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And all of the Big10 teams played weak schedules.

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Prove it in the bowl games and the playoff games. Just because the SEC had more ranked teams doesn't necessarily mean they were better teams, just more pull for the rankers.

It pains me to say this, but the naysayers were right all those years opposing a playoff. The regular season is becoming less and less important.

I wouldn’t want to go back to the BCS era, but four teams is probably the right number.

"I wouldn’t want to go back to the BCS era, but four teams is probably the right number."

Eight is probably the right number. At four, you might not have Oregon in there. And they are clearly no worse than the second best team in the country.

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When you get in and around the top 10 teams (not auto qualifiers), you are getting teams that are dangerous on any given day. It doesn't mean that a team that wins is the better team necessarily, only that they won that particular matchup on that particular day.

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That’s possible. But it’s also just as likely to be the opposite. It’s impossible to know which teams would win on which days if we’re talking hypotheticals.

I do know that teams like Bama and Ohio State more often get benefits of the doubt compared to teams from other leagues like the ACC and Big 12. How many times did one of them sneak into a 2 or 4 team playoff ahead of a less prestigious program who might have actually been better but didn’t get that benefit of the doubt?

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"Bowl games are meaningless."

Very convenient for you to think this after what happened this year. Are playoff games meaningless? The SEC took some bad losses there also. Good thing they had a couple of SEC-SEC matchups to ensure that an SEC team would advance. I'm not sure Ole Miss was better than Texas Tech for example.

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The Bowl games are meaningless because they don't look for the best matchups it's a matter of who the best team from the affiliated conference has available.

So for example, Missouri was like the 10th best SEC playing the ACC Champion, or probably 3/4th best ACC team.

Only the games against the Big10 were somewhat even 4 vs 5 in the playoffs.

And then many teams end up having opt outs and what not. They don't have much meaning.

As I pointed out, I'm not sure why you think the Big10 is doing well in the playoffs.

Texas Tech was a pretender from the start. Did you watch their games? I predicted months ago they would get killed by any team with a decent defense because their offense wasn't good and their QB threw a lot of floaters. They played a weak schedule and lost to bad teams and their best win was over BYU.

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Well, there is that Indiana 38-3 win over Alabama and that Oregon 23-0 win over Texas Tech. Unless Oregon loses by more than 35, they will look pretty good even in a loss.

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Alabama was the 5th highest ranked SEC team, and the only playoff team with 3 losses.

Texas Tech isn't a good team and they don't really play in a power conference.

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"Alabama was the 5th highest ranked SEC team, and the only playoff team with 3 losses.

Texas Tech isn't a good team and they don't really play in a power conference."

Alabama played for the SEC conference championship. Don't make it sound like they were some middle of the pack team in the SEC.

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The committee is the one who ranked them, tell them.

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Eight is probably the right number.

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With 8 we wouldn’t have gotten Miami this year, and since we have the goofy welfare programs for the five conference champs, the playoff would have looked like this:

1. Indiana
2. Ohio State
3. Georgia
4. Texas Tech
5. Oregon
6. Ole Miss
7. Tulane
8. James Madison

Yuck.

I think 12 or 16 is the right number. 16 doesn’t add any extra rounds and it ensures the Top 8 all get a game on campus.

Here is what I a learned through this year CFP.

1. Miami deserves to be in the CFP.
2. Being compared as equal and a coin toss, ND deserved to be in the CFP.
3. No conference should have more than 3 teams in the CFP. If your not tops in your conference, you don't deserve a chance to play in CFP.
4. The SEC is a mirage that is now built to protect the mirage of being loaded with top teams.
5. Losing 2 games in the middle of the season to bad teams is no longer an automatic disqualification to the CFP.
6. Losing two close games in the regular season to CFP teams is disqualification from the CFP.
7. The SEC and BIG10 have automatic bid to CFP and now those conferences believe the loser also get an automatic bid to the CFP.
8. College football is more fun to watch than the NFL.
9. The transfer portal made college football more interesting than boring bowl games.
10. I do not know what amateur athletics is anymore.