I'm not a playoff guy. I love March Madness, and it's great for all involved but there are simply too many teams. If you want to find a national champion you don't need 64 teams, of which more than 50 have ZERO chance of winning. This is what will happen to football once the can of worms is opened. Texas as a 1 seed would play N.Texas then have a huge 2nd round game vs N'Western who stunned Houston in a 12-5 match up.
I disagree 1000000000%. I am loving every second of March Madness. There has been maybe 2 blowouts total. 3 games yesterday went into OT, one went into double OT. I think I heard that 7 games yesterday were settled by a total difference of 9 points. That = Close and exciting games. Id love to see this in football. However, 64 teams in football would be too much. The grind of the game would take its toll if you had to play 6 games in a row without preparation or time to heal your bruises. 12/16 teams would be a better assessment for a football tourney. Basketball however? No. I love this time of year. Dont ever change it.
I'm not arguing with the greatness of it for a fan. I'm pointing to the size of the tournament, and obviously football would never get to 64, but even 16 to me is ridiculous. I'm willing to bet it would start at 8, which is tolerable and next thing you know it's 16 and so on.
A 16 team football tournament is completely unnecessary. There are normally only 5-6 teams at the most that have any claim they belong in the NC game. A 6 team tourney would be good except then there would be the same silly problems about who gets the bye, so I would go with 8. Football is different than basketball because there are fewer teams and the disparity is much greater. Teams are much deeper and the play is much more physical, making a lot harder for smaller schools pull off an upset.
Allowing all the conference champions to compete gives the championship legitimacy. It is a true national championship, not just the championship of the power conferences. Similarly, a 16 team football playoff which included all the conference champions in addition to four at large teams would be more legitimate than a championship that only includes the eight media darlings.
This thread is just dumb. Teams like Ohio, Murray St., and especially St. Mary's all beg to differ. 64 teams is absolutely perfect. Players love it, coaches love it, and fans have the best time of the year. It's an innovative phenomenon that is not paralleled in any other sport around the world. Now that they want to expand to 96 teams, I agree that's just ridiculously stupid and greedy. But as of now, nothing provides a more satisfactory 3 weeks than March Madness baby.
The consensus number 1 in the nation, Kansas, just lost to a 9-seed directional school. In the second round. Long live the playoffs!!!!
The regular season argument is simply irrelevant in football. Too few regular season games. Even a field of 16 is tiny compared to the percentage of teams that get into an NFL or NBA playoff. Think of 2008. Who from the Big XII makes the playoffs if the regular season is irrelavent? The most a team could afford to lose would be 2 games, which could also give room to have larger early season football matchups. I always say, the only people afraid of a football playoff are those who have never gone through a state high school championship run. The excitement of that and March Madness say to me that college football is the one that has it wrong.
