Playoff expansion is the wrong way to go

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VolJarhead said:
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I miss the conference ties to particular bowls and the disputed split national championships. Every bowl mattered. I can't count how many times this bowl season that I read about how such and such bowl was pointless and there was no reason for players to risk injury. Bowls mattered more before the BCS and I hate what the playoffs are turning bowl games into. I am a fan that would like to dissolve the playoff. Is college football profiting more from the playoffs? That is the only way it would go back.
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It is the only way to go if you want to determine who is the best team.
 
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madbamahater said:
It's very simple. If you don't win your conference, you don't go to playoff. That's right, this would mean Georgia's road ended in SEC champ game in ATL.

To me, if you don't win your conference, you have no business playing for all the marbles.

Expand the playoff and only have conference champions duke it out for the title.

Yes, there will be very lopsided and unfair matchups. But it expands the field and it honors conference title winners and it shuts everybody up. No more crying and complaining your team didn't get "picked"....because no team is picked, it's literally played out on the field.

This also gives a lesser opponent a chance. A snowballs chance in hell, but a chance nevertheless.

I for one, have little interest in watching Bama play Marshall. But, you know what? We don't have to watch Bama and Georgia twice in one month.....

***there could be a "wildcard system" put in place or play in games, but now we are back to....."our team didn't get picked for this" scenario.....

The current system is as corrupt as college football has ever been. Why? Because, you still have the human element of picking who gets in.....
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If Alabama and Georgia are the best two teams in college football, they should play each other for the national championship.

All conferences are not created equal.
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
If Alabama and Georgia are the best two teams in college football, they should play each other for the national championship.

All conferences are not created equal.
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Why should Georgia be rewarded with another chance after getting humiliated in the conf. championship?
 
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How about 16 teams, no conference championship games. You would still have your East and West conference winners but they wouldn’t meet until the playoffs. The East/West conference winners automatically qualify and then the remaining slots would be based on rank.
Yes, the 1 vs 16 and the 2 vs 15 and maybe the 3 vs 14 might all be blowouts but the other games might get very interesting.
 
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madbamahater said:
It's very simple. If you don't win your conference, you don't go to playoff. That's right, this would mean Georgia's road ended in SEC champ game in ATL.

To me, if you don't win your conference, you have no business playing for all the marbles.

Expand the playoff and only have conference champions duke it out for the title.

Yes, there will be very lopsided and unfair matchups. But it expands the field and it honors conference title winners and it shuts everybody up. No more crying and complaining your team didn't get "picked"....because no team is picked, it's literally played out on the field.

This also gives a lesser opponent a chance. A snowballs chance in hell, but a chance nevertheless.

I for one, have little interest in watching Bama play Marshall. But, you know what? We don't have to watch Bama and Georgia twice in one month.....

***there could be a "wildcard system" put in place or play in games, but now we are back to....."our team didn't get picked for this" scenario.....
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Well, let's just refine your method just a little more. Go undefeated or shut up. If nobody pulls that off then we don't really have a team worthy of a championship. Give everybody a participation trophy and move on. I mean all conferences are created equal right? How in the world can a lowly one loss SEC team be expected to stand up to the champion of the eighth best conference.. Nothing like that has ever happened right? Our two teams just skimmed by their competition the other night.

The first move would need to be conference reduction. Split the the SEC into two conferences. That would eliminate that nasty rematch Bama vs GA issue with a simple no cross conference games stipulation. When our two additons show up a simple 7 game conference schedule with 5 creampuffs should do the trick in your scenario. Can you imagine the blow back the first time two SEC teams meet regular season, the CC game and then again in the CFP? Way possible.

We can follow suit and really return to the BB draw in March to a much more manageable number too. Purge the tourney of all those pretenders. Story lines be damned.

Onward in our pursuit of perfection.
 
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ptcarter said:
That ship sailed. I also have fond memories of waking up on New Years day and the bowls were played one after another.. the big ones, Cotton, Sugar, Orange, Gator, Rose and I might be missing one. With that few bowl games, it really was something to make a bowl, and when you woke up on Jan 2, it was officially the off season.
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NY Day used to literally be my favorite day of the year....I still don't know why they can't put the playoff games on NY day instead of NY Eve. Regardless, teams like UT, UF, Penn St, Aub, maybe a Miami or FSU or Oregon/USC...the fastest way for traditional powers who are down a notch or two currently to elevate faster is to be in the playoffs so you can recruit to that. Currently there's only about 6-7 teams who can legitimately tell recruits, "come here and you'll be in at least one playoff game before you graduate." You can start two weeks after conf championships and still sprinkle mid/lower tier bowls in the mix. Alot more money potential is the #1 reason they'll probably move to larger playoff pool...and alot more excitement
 
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Don't think I'll be interested in Play Offs til Saban retires.
 
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Read article posted in another thread yesterday. Author argued for expanded playoffs as only way to level playing field in CFB. Said most Kids want to compete in championships. That's how Bama can go in and pluck Young out of L.A. and GA gets Bowers from Cali, as well. If more teams get into playoff, then it will dilute Bama and GA. Now it looks like aTm is making power moves in NIL. Throw in OSU and Clemson, albeit not this year. Also I expect maybe USC bounces back in a couple years. Maybe Miami under Christobol, as well. If USC and Miami can get right, that would block GA and Bama from recruiting all top talent out of So Cal and FL. Couple that with an 8 team playoff.
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
If Alabama and Georgia are the best two teams in college football, they should play each other for the national championship.

All conferences are not created equal.
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No they shouldn't. All other sports don't work that way. Its who gets hot at the right time. Are you suggesting the best 2 teams in the NFL regular season should just automatically play each other in the super bowl every year?

Just have a final 4 with your top college basketball programs every year? No, of course not. So, why is division 1 college football the ONLY sport this happens in?
 
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Doberman said:
It’s simple. Tired of Bama, UGA, Clemson, Ohio St ?

Expand the playoff, and expand the destinations for the top recruits.
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Exactly. If recruits can see that there are more avenues to the playoffs than just the same 6 teams every year, the hope is that over time so many of the top blue chip athletes won't all be going to the same 6 schools every year. Maybe that blue chip QB who lives in San Bernardino California doesn't fly all the way to go to school in Tuscaloosa or Clemson. Maybe he stays home and goes to USC or UCLA.
 
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Expanding the playoffs will make the bowls meaningful again and essential players would not choose to opt out of playoff games.

Bowls that are not part of the playoffs are nothing more than exhibition games now, no matter what they used to be considered.
 
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madbamahater said:
No they shouldn't. All other sports don't work that way. Its who gets hot at the right time. You mean to tell me the best team all season long wins the super bowl every year? No.
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Georgia was dominant all season, had one bad game, then destroyed the champion of what was thought to be the nation’s toughest conference this season.

Bad argument.
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
Georgia was dominant all season, had one bad game, then destroyed the chapmpion of what was thought to be the nation’s toughest conference this season.

Bad argument.
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No its not a bad argument. Cinci is better than UGA, because they played Bama tighter than UGA played Bama.....
 
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