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BIG BOI 23 said:
i think that would work and just let 1 and 2 sit back and watch 3-6 battle it out the first week
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exactly. And if the nominated conference champion isn't quite to the level as the others, then give them a lower seed and let them earn their way up. Also rewards the #1 and #2 for working hard the entire season without taking the foot off the pedal when the conf champ was in hand.
 
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#53
Hypothetically speaking let's assume Bama wins, Oregon wins, FSU wins, Baylor wins, Ohio State wins. Can you imagine if the top 4 teams had home games for the first round of the playoffs? Bama host Michigan State, Oregon host Miss. State, FSU host TCU,
Baylor host Ohio State. You talk about intriguing television.
 
#54
#54
If it was an 8 team playoff my perdiction for the top 8 after next weekend would be

1 Alabama vs 8 Mississippi State

2 Oregon vs 7 Georgia Tech

3 TCU vs 6 Wisconsin

4 Baylor vs 5 FSU

Michigan State could be 8 but i dony think they would have Michigan State over a 2nd SEC school
 
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I'd do 16, with every conference champ making it in plus 6 wildcards.

This ensures the crappy conferences ALWAYS have a chance, no matter how low, to go all the way.
 
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alexbond45 said:
I'd do 16, with every conference champ making it in plus 6 wildcards.

This ensures the crappy conferences ALWAYS have a chance, no matter how low, to go all the way.
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I like a 12 team playoff with the 10 conference champs and 2 wild cards. Give the top 4 seeds a first round bye.
 
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MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
I like a 12 team playoff with the 10 conference champs and 2 wild cards. Give the top 4 seeds a first round bye.
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IMO, I don't see division 1 going over 8 teams. It would be too much like the other playoffs and we would need to cut down games during the regular season and possibly cut out conf championship games. That will never happen. Eight is perfect number, you get 5 major champs and 3 wcs. It will be awhile before we see that as well. Anyone know how long the contract is for 4 team playoff?
 
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roddo518 said:
IMO, I don't see division 1 going over 8 teams. It would be too much like the other playoffs and we would need to cut down games during the regular season and possibly cut out conf championship games. That will never happen. Eight is perfect number, you get 5 major champs and 3 wcs. It will be awhile before we see that as well. Anyone know how long the contract is for 4 team playoff?
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I think it's 12 years, but I doubt it's that long before we reach 8 teams. I like the 5 conference champs and 3 wild cards idea - Anything that allows who is "in" to be determined on the field as opposed to 13 people in a room is a step in the right direction IMO.
 
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Vol in said:
I think it's 12 years, but I doubt it's that long before we reach 8 teams. I like the 5 conference champs and 3 wild cards idea - Anything that allows who is "in" to be determined on the field as opposed to 13 people in a room is a step in the right direction IMO.
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Damn, that's a long time. I hope I can make it to see that play out for a few years.
 
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I don't want college football to become like the nfl. In college every game matters.would you be happy with the 8th seeded team winning it all will 3 losses? In nfl the best team dosen't win the Super Bowl usually. How many times. Has a 10-6 team from the wildcard got hot and won it all? I don't want college fball teams resting players and having bye weeks,because the last game is meaningless because of the 8 or more team playoff. I don't want college fball to become like the nfl. 4 teams is fine with me. It all usually ends up working its self out.
 
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slayer76 said:
I don't want college football to become like the nfl. In college every game matters.would you be happy with the 8th seeded team winning it all will 3 losses? In nfl the best team dosen't win the Super Bowl usually. How many times. Has a 10-6 team from the wildcard got hot and won it all? I don't want college fball teams resting players and having bye weeks,because the last game is meaningless because of the 8 or more team playoff. I don't want college fball to become like the nfl. 4 teams is fine with me. It all usually ends up working its self out.
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I'd be fine with the 8th seed winning. I don't want them to ever go over that team number. I don't think a team could just fluff off the last game. Seeding would be based on strength, so you could fluff off the last game but that might get you playing one of the top seeds in first round or kicked out of th top 8.
 
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#63
If you go to an 8-game playoff, you have to cut the schedule (for all teams) by a game. The 12-game season is already too much--for those few naive saps who actually believe in the concept of student-athlete and getting an education while you are IN COLLEGE. With 8 you'd have two teams play 3 more games. That's 15 games--and make it 16 if a team is in the conference championship game before the playoffs! A college team playing 16 games?! You can't have that. And I doubt schools will want to cut a game from the schedule because it means losing a sizable chunk of revenue.

That said: A 4-team playoff certainly hurts the SEC--no doubt about that. Look at Miss. State: I still say that there are one of the four best teams in college football, have had an excellent season--but the schedule eventually got the best of them, having to play both bama and Ole Miss on the road at end of a tough SEC season. And so now only 1 SEC team will be in the playoff. One could argue that miss. state laid an egg against ole miss, and they played poorly--but winning SEC road games against good teams is H.A.R.D. Miss. State deserved better.
 
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armchair said:
If you go to an 8-game playoff, you have to cut the schedule (for all teams) by a game. The 12-game season is already too much--for those few naive saps who actually believe in the concept of student-athlete and getting an education while you are IN COLLEGE. With 8 you'd have two teams play 3 more games. That's 15 games--and make it 16 if a team is in the conference championship game before the playoffs! A college team playing 16 games?! You can't have that. And I doubt schools will want to cut a game from the schedule because it means losing a sizable chunk of revenue.

That said: A 4-team playoff certainly hurts the SEC--no doubt about that. Look at Miss. State: I still say that there are one of the four best teams in college football, have had an excellent season--but the schedule eventually got the best of them, having to play both bama and Ole Miss on the road at end of a tough SEC season. And so now only 1 SEC team will be in the playoff. One could argue that miss. state laid an egg against ole miss, and they played poorly--but winning SEC road games against good teams is H.A.R.D. Miss. State deserved better.
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Division ii winners play 15, but those athletes are not in college.....wait...i don't follow your reasoning.
 
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I honestly don't ever want to see two teams from the same division play each other in the playoffs. They already played each other once. And if they are that good, it is likely the whole nation already saw them do it. See the farce of a National Championship a couple years ago between LSU and Bama. I have SEC fatigue too, and frankly I think the playoff would be instant not watch for me if more than one team made it.

There is no denying that the SEC has been the strongest conference, and I do think until they are consistently knocked off, they deserve the 1 seed at the end. But the second you add enough wildcards to allow two or even three teams that didn't win their conference into the mix, that instantly devalues the regular season exponentially. What has helped fuel the entertainment factor for me this season is watching the drama unfold as five teams fought for four spots.

An 8 team playoff would not be able to be implemented on top of how things are run now. The champs already play 13 games, so the Final game's participants would have played 16 which is an NFL season. That means they would have to cut out either a regular season game or the conference championship games.

Not only that there is a fine line of how far they can drag the fan's dollars in their willingness to travel to very expensive games three weeks in a row. One bowl game is one thing, but three in a row? or really even two is a whole other ball of wax. The home game for the higher seed thing looks good on paper, but may cause issues people not willing to be the traveling team.

I think the only issue with the CFB is not the overall system. It's the fact that they went from a very accepted ranking system to a committee of 13 fallible human beings. However, the main reason they did that was to prevent the nightmare scenario of 2/3's the field being from the hot conference that year. Which would be bad for the 80% of the country that aren't exactly real fans of that conference. It will never be 100% fair, but to me that is a major part of the drama that makes College football so fun to watch over the entire season.
 
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