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[NukeTheBookies]

The 8-team playoff is the dumbest idea that will absolutely happen but never should. Unfortunately, this is a strange year where there are no dominate or even really good teams and instead we have about 6 "solid" teams so it gives this idea more weight than it should. Every team this year (other than maybe Alabama/Oregon) would be at least a 9-point dog to the last 8 National Championship winners.

Do people not realize how bad the #6-8 ranked teams are compared to the top-3 are at the end of the year historically? The more teams you let into the playoff, the more you are going to reward teams who play shitty schedules and avoid losses. I'd actually rather have a 3-team playoff where the #1 seed gets a bye and #2 plays #3 than this 8-team playoff that people are asking for.

 

[ERockMoney]

Yes, the SEC is that good. Sorry you can't see that objectively. Oh, and Florida is playing FSU this weekend. UGA playing Ga Tech. Both ranked OOC teams. I don't hear anyone talking about that as "chicken shit".



So what you're saying is you don't want to see the best conference get the best teams in college football in the playoffs. I see.

The beauty of this is that w/ 8 teams making it THE BEST "teams" will get in....regardless of the conference they play in. With the 4-team playoff there's so much biased against the SEC (not wanting them to have more than 1 team). The 8 team playoff will eliminate that biased, so they CAN put the best teams in.

Here's the other beauty of it; neutral field. Miss State very well could be better than Alabama - on a neutral field. But Bama got the benefit of playing at home (not saying Bama wouldn't win on a neutral field either). But we don't know because they won't rematch on a neutral field - unless they both make the playoffs.

The 8-team playoff puts THE BEST teams, regardless of conference, head to head.....on a neutral field.

But w/ that said, Alabama will somehow manage to fill 75% of the seats!

That's not what I'm saying at all. I don't care how many teams a conference gets in, but I'd like to see the regular season and conference championships still mean something. I was simply pointing out the SEC as an example. As the best conference, their conference championship every year would be nothing more than an exhibition with a look and feel like and NFL pre-season game or a week 17 NFL game where both team have the playoffs wrapped up.

With eight teams, conference championship would be somewhat obsolete and huge regular season matches between the conferences best would be somewhat meaningless because both teams could already be playoff bound. Last year, would Auburn-Missouri and Ohio State-Michigan State feature back ups, freshman, maybe play your starters for a half? Instead of the classic Auburn-Alabama game, we may have had a vanilla gameplan resting starters in the second half becasue they would have already both been locked into the playoffs. Eight teams destoys the regular season IMO.