The Time Is Now for an Eight-Team Playoff in College Football

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  1. X Misn Tx

    X Misn Tx 2,500+ Posts

    The Time Is Now for an Eight-Team Playoff in College Football

    Why not put an emphasis on winning your conference by directly rewarding those that do just that? Give five playoff spots to the five Power Five conference champions. If these games are as important as advertised, make them mean everything.

    The three remaining spots could then go to those most deserving in an at-large selection process that the committee could oversee. This would cover conference-less Notre Dame, Georgia and potentially a program like Central Florida
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    I continue to prefer the idea of an 8-team playoff. It cuts out the BS. Yes, the 4th rated at-large would have a beef, but who cares about them. The difference between the 4th and 5th best teams is crucial. The difference between the 8th and 9th teams is not.
     
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  2. Ajo Macho

    Ajo Macho 500+ Posts

    Seems like just yesterday, the difference between #2 and #3 was crucial. Mayyyyybe the #4 team deserved a shot at the national title. But the fifth-best team? They should've won all their games if they wanted a national title. We can leave them out.

    And then it'll expand to six, and everyone will whine about #7 getting left out. And then it'll expand to eight, and everyone will whine about #9. And then, and then...

    I prefer a setup where the regular season is as important as the postseason. The championship should go to the team who had the best season, rather than a team that had an above-average season with a winning streak at the end.
     
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  3. ShAArk92

    ShAArk92 1,000+ Posts

    kicker is ... this year?

    Seems like it's Bama's to loose. Ga gave 'em the best run in their CCG ... but ultimately folded under the juggernaut which is the crimson tide this year.

    Given that ... the diff between 4 and 5 really isn't all that after all ... THIS year.


    But philosophically, I agree ... the conference champions should determine the seeding.

    Conference realignment probably needs to happen, too. Have still found no understanding in a team who is barely a C3 Corvette's range from the Atlantic ocean being placed in a conference with teams west of the Mississippi R.
     
  4. ViperHorn

    ViperHorn 10,000+ Posts

    You should have to win something in order to get into the CFP so all conference champions - 5 Power 5 and the 3 highest rated Group of 5 Champions. TS ND - get into a conference or hope for a New Year's Day Bowl bid.
     
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  5. Htown77

    Htown77 5,000+ Posts

    I like the idea of doing away with conference championship games and having the 8 team playoff start on conference championship weekend with the playoff games being played at home sites. Conference champs were determined without games for most of college footbalk history. In the case of 1 loss co-champs, they are both likely to be in the top 8 anyway. Determine the bowls after the first round with first round losers still making bowl games.

    The top 8 playing home games this week is better than pointless championship games which often are unnecessary rematches (TX-OU), stupid (What did Clemson v. pitt accomplish) or irrelevant (the Pac12 title).
     
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  6. utempire

    utempire 1,000+ Posts

    Considering the sec only plays 8 conference games they must have a conference championship game. I would go with a 6 or 8 team playoff, remove a non-conference powder puff (sec). I wish they could enforce all conferences to play a 9 game conference schedule, it would be a more fair playing field.
     
  7. X Misn Tx

    X Misn Tx 2,500+ Posts

    I like having conference championships, but acknowledge that when 2 of the top [however many... 4?] teams in the country have to play in a ccg, it hurts the loser.

    I like a large enough group to include these teams, and the UCF types. It gives them a shot.

    I wouldn't raise up arms if they eliminated the ccgs and inserted the round of 8 there.

    Sidebar... Conference Champs would be determined by records and a plethora of tiebreakers?
     
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  8. bck031

    bck031 1,000+ Posts

    When I saw the title, I thought about Central Florida.
     
  9. Htown77

    Htown77 5,000+ Posts

    They generally have been for major bowl games. That said, most of the time, if two legimate contenders end up as co-champs, they both almost certainly finish in the top 8 and both make the playoff anyway. In 2014, for example, Baylor and TCU finished 5 and 6 and both would have made the playoff in this scenario. The only really tricky year would have been 2008 with a three way tie with UT, OU and Tech, Bama and Florida both 12-1, Utah and Boise both undefeated and the ACC champ had 3 losses. Tech and Boise probably get left out. That said, the Big 12 title with OU v. Missouri in no way helped so having a conference title game unfortunately would not have achieved anything that year regardless.
     
  10. X Misn Tx

    X Misn Tx 2,500+ Posts

    i meant to determine a conference championship. i wouldn't want that.
     
  11. 2003TexasGrad

    2003TexasGrad Son of a Motherless Goat

    The difference is how do you pick one conference champion over another, or in last years case, how do you put in a team that didnt play for their conference over a team that won their conference?

    Auburn had a better division record than Bama but the committee said whatever.

    This is why 8 teams is best. So we dont have that ****.
     

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