NCAA Approves Playoff in 2014(SIAP)

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I'm not sure which is better: the end of the BCS, or the end of pompous BCS supporters.
 
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DeepSpringsVol said:
I hope 4 is just the foot in the door to more like 16.
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Not if they go ahead with the 12 year contract like is planned

4 teams means the big boy conferences can keep all the riches this will bring. There will be some sort of way to provide that small schools can make the dance so the big conferences don't get torn a new ahole with antitrust suits, but it will be decades before this playoff expands.
 
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milohimself said:
Not if they go ahead with the 12 year contract like is planned

4 teams means the big boy conferences can keep all the riches this will bring. There will be some sort of way to provide that small schools can make the dance so the big conferences don't get torn a new ahole with antitrust suits, but it will be decades before this playoff expands.
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I sure hope you're right. Most years, there aren't 4 teams in the nation that deserve a shot at the NC, much less 8 or 16. Some years, like last season, there aren't even 2.
 
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This is mostly window dressing for a money grab, and marginally better than the bcs at best, which was marginally better than the bowl system of old.

An adequate post season will be impossible until the fbs is reduced in size by at least half
 
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Once they see how much $$$$ the semifinal games bring in and start imagining how much more $$$$ quarterfinal games could generate, the ADs and presidents will be happy to do whatever they need to do to get out of the 12 year contract early and expand to 8 teams.

I think an 8 team playoff with 5 champs (SEC, ACC, B1G, Big12, Pac12), highest-ranked champ from another conference, and 2 at large teams would be a really exciting playoff. (And since 6 teams would be conference championships, you'd have several de facto Round of 16 games at the conference championship week).

That said, I do think what we're getting now is a nice compromise. Gets us to 4 teams - which in most seasons is enough to include any team with any reasonable claim on the title. Keeps the bowl system and the importance of the regular season (which I buy).
 
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The question you need to ask, like the question that gets asked by anybody that matters in these situations or when expansion is considered...

Does that move add more to the pie than it divides the pie up?

With a four team playoff, more money is had and you can rest assured that the top four conferences will be reaping the large majority of the spoils.

If things get bumped to eight teams, then it's almost certain that one or more representatives from smaller conferences will be in the picture, and diverting more money away from the big boys. If the additional revenue made up for it, then we would be hearing more talk about more teams.

As it is, four is the balance because four is what keeps the most revenue in the hands of what is an increasingly smaller group of institutions
 
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So will this quell summer talks of speculations of various conference realignments for...how long?

(since speculation of such has seemingly become the main summer go-to for college sports journalists during the summer dead period)
 
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I feel like 4 teams is as far as it really needs to go. Expand it too far, and you have a situation like the NCAA Tournament where the ninth-place Big East team wins the title.
 
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govols120 said:
I feel like 4 teams is as far as it really needs to go. Expand it too far, and you have a situation like the NCAA Tournament where the ninth-place Big East team wins the title.
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As a Kentucky fan, I'd love a 4 team playoff in basketball but that isn't what makes the NCAAT great - the playoffs will be best when they expand.
 
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so at the end of the regular season last year, the SEC had the no 1, 2 and 3 teams in the AP, does that mean that the 4 team playoff would be 3/4 SEC?
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
I eventually hope for 8 but no more than that. I think 16 would be way too many.
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What's the difference? When have you ever seen a team finish the regular season eighth in the ap and thought they deserved a shot at the title?

At least with sixteen you could have all conference champions qualify automatically and everyone wouldn't complain about it. But then the season goes 17 games...
 
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milohimself said:
What's the difference? When have you ever seen a team finish the regular season eighth in the ap and thought they deserved a shot at the title?

At least with sixteen you could have all conference champions qualify automatically and everyone wouldn't complain about it. But then the season goes 17 games...
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I saw a USC team finish 5th a few years ago that lost a game early and by the end of the year was playing better than any team in the nation. Top 4 takes them out of it when they probably would've at least made a championship game.
 
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