Yahoo Sports - CFP Doesn't Need Expansion, It Needs Reform

I’ll say that the Championship games are stuck between a rock and a hard place and are all but penalizing us by making the #4 team play #1 while OSU and OU play lesser opponents. Championship games worked as a money maker preBCS but now have no actual benefit other than to solidify a meaningless conference champion in the greater context of defining a national champion. It’s a money making venture at best and an uneven hindrance to good teams at worst

Eliminate the Championship games and expansion is worth considering. Until then, we are stuck with an imperfect system

I hope they figure out a way to keep the conference championships bc like Kirby said last year the SECCG is one of the best games of the year and it would suck to have that game taken away

I'd love to see a 9 game SEC schedule, but crowning an SECC without having the 2 best teams in the conference play each other would be a shame.

I've got no loyalty to divisions.

But I do think that the SECCG is one of the highlights of the season. It is easily the best regional game of the year.

Five P5 champs, 3 at large bids. First round bye for the top 2 teams. whats the problem? Tons of money to be made imo.

This year highlights the problem with automatic bids for P5 Champs, though. The PAC12 has no business being in consideration. UCF has a more legit claim than whichever team wins the PAC12, this year.

If the other conferences could handle their business, then the P5 Championship games could suffice for de facto quarterfinal rounds like it is for the SECCG.

At some point with a Final Four, there will likely come a day when the SEC cannibalizes itself to the point of getting left out, but the likelihood of the Everybody Gets a Trophy crowd getting their way and expanding the CFP field to 8+ is greater before that could happen.

And when it does, it'll be a sad day for CFB.

I don’t like this solely because it excludes teams based on feels and the eyeball test. At some distant point in an alternate reality - would we see this statement:

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The SEC has no business being in consideration. UCF has a more legit claim than whichever team wins the SEC, this year.

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On a long enough time line, with CFB being the cyclical monster that it is, that could very well happen. It bothers me that a team/conference champ would feel entitled to the CFP just because they won their conference.

Does anyone think that Utah or Northwestern or whomever the non-Clemson ACC team is would be a legit contender?

I don’t think Conference Championship games should be scrapped, but the playoff needs to at least go to 6 games.

I’m fine with “best” teams way they try to do it now...

But having a Power 5 conference system and only 4 playoff spots has always seemed stupid to me.

So, if NW pulls the upset at tOSU, you honestly think they deserve a seat at the table?