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Originally posted by gov135
Who or what decides the top two? Who or what decides the top eight? Who or what decides the top fourteen?
See, playoff people are always crying about two things:
1. "Computers decide who plays for the national championship." But wouldn't computers decide who gets in the playoff? Who gets the all-important bye? Who gets the home games?
2. "The number three team is deserving. They were robbed, if there was a playoff they would get a chance." Isn't the same thing going to happen to the number nine team? The number fifteen team? You are always gonna have someone on the outside looking in, no playoff system will correct this.
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You are right, there are going to be some teams that don't get in. With this system, we have 14 teams with a chance at the title instead of 2. There will be many more happy teams this way. You can't make everybody happy.
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Most importantly to me, the playoff system totally devalues the regular season. As it stands right now, every week is a playoff in college football. If you lose, you are eliminated. Just like a playoff. Are you gonna tell me with a straight face that a team like Texas with two bad losses deserves to play a team like Miami in the playoffs? Look, college football is popular week in and week out due to the upset potential - with a playoff system, noone would even care if they lost a game or even two. The regular season would become worthless.
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The regular season would not be worhtless. How many teams can lose 2 games and still be in the top 14? Texas isn't in there now, so no, a team like that wouldn't be in the playoff. I bet TCU would care if they lost a game or 2. So would teams like Wash. St. and LSU.
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Originally posted by gov135
I understand your playoff schedule would end at the same time - you mentioned you would use the four weeks between the end of the regular season and the January bowls. But you are still potentially adding four games to the schedule. Do you take away all the non-conference games? Do you not require each team plays every team in their conference? If you take away the non-conference games - this means all teams that do not make the playoffs series only get to play nine or ten games per year. Those that do make it would play closer to the full thirteen. Or do you have teams playing seventeen, eighteen weeks a year? That's alot from a student athlete.
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You don't take away any of the regular season games. Some teams would end up playing 16 games or so. Yeah, 17 weeks a year, that's tough. I don't know how basketball players, golfers, wrestlers, swimmers, and track athletes can do it!!
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Nothing against your schedule, bish. I found it very refreshing from the usual eight team presentation. I'm not even necessarily against a playoff system. I just think that the questions above need to be adequately answered before we move to a playoff.
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I think we all agree that what we have now isn't fair and we need a change soon!!!