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I still think, however, that you will witness the regular season schedule being devalued. You take the upset out of the equation - for instance - Texas was all but eliminated from national championship competition when they were defeated by Arkansas at home. But under your system, who cares? Texas sure doesn't - they know they could easily get one of your "at large" bids to get into a playoff.
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They should care, because that would still hurt them in the rankings, and depending on when the loss is could knock them out.
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As for allowing all conference champions in, this includes conferences like the Sun Belt?
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Yes. Basketball does it, so why not football? It does two things:
it gives lesser programs a chance to play for a title if they win their conference, while taking away any reason they could give to whine about not being there.
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Finally, look at the Oklahoma/K-State game last nite. Oklahoma wouldn't have even started Jason White last nite if we had a playoff system. They would have been in and they would have known it - and I doubt they'd much care if they were a 1 or 3 seed.
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That seed could mean the difference between playing TCU and playing Miami of Ohio, or a better team.
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I have other arguements against, it dj. You add four possible games to the schedule of playoff teams. Would you eliminate non-conference games? College kids shouldn't be playing eighteen game schedules. If you do eliminate non-conference games, then the teams that don't make the playoff have less game to play! Do you really think, for instance, that Florida State deserves a chance to play for the national championship? Florida? After losing three games? I don't think so - but your system has them in.
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This is a good point. I think I just make it a flat 11-game schedule, and if you want to play exhibition games before hand, they don't count except likely when your team tires out at the end.
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Finally ( I promise this is it) someone is still gonna be crying rivers about being left out. You have five at large seats for teams like this years, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Washington State, Ohio State, West Virginia, Tennessee, etc. Who are you gonna leave out? Do any of the teams I just listed really deserve to play for a championship? I say no.
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This goes back to the regular season staying important; if you win your games, you have nothing to worry about.
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Sorry about the rant. This system is pretty good in alot of areas, djtestudo.
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Thanks for the comments. I just made a lot of it up as I went along, so I knew it wouldn't be perfect.