Real talk. Is next years 12 team playoff too many? Not enough? Perfect?

Upvote for too many.

Downvote for not enough or just right.

Let me know what you think.

I think it's too many personally. I wanted 6 or 8 personally, I don't think there's enough parity in team strength on a given year for more than 6-8 teams to be good enough to win a title. On any given year there's 2-3 national championship quality teams, 2-3 teams that on a good day are good enough to to beat the national championship teams, and them another 2-3 teams that if all the stars align are capable of winning.

Let's look at 2022, top 4 was UGA, UM, OSU and TCU. UGA, OSU, and UM were all national championship caliber teams. TCU was a team that on a good enough day with enough things going their way was able to knock off UM, but when nothing went their way got annhilated by UGA. Then we look at our next 2 (#5 & #6) in the rankings and see Bama and Tenn as the next 2. Both of which I think were significantly better than TCU but were knocked out of the running for a playoff due to insanely difficult schedules and a fluke game (looking at you south carolina, i still have no idea how spencer rattler turned into Patrick Mahomes for 1 game). But both of those teams had a reasonably shot of winning a title in a 2-3 game playoff setting. Once we move past #6 we run out of teams that have any real chance of winning 3 games against the best teams in the country.

So for that reason I think 6-8 would have been the perfect number.