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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I think both systems are exciting in their own way. My question is how practical is a playoff in Div 1?
Let's say it's a 16 team playoff.
These are college kids, can they play an extra 3-4 games without burning out? When would these games be played? Are we dragging the season into February? How will fans travel? A school will send maybe 20000 fans to 1 bowl game per year. How can they send this many kids to 4 games since the games will be once a week and all over the country.
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Start earlier, eliminate conference championships and maybe have the first round be at the higher seed's stadium rather than a neutral 3rd site. Also, there's about 6 months off between the end of the season and the bowl championship games. Shorten that up. I think Ohio State had to wait like 5 weeks between games before it got stomped by Florida.
I dont like the idea of a playoff game either. It really wont help a great deal and will just create more problems. 16 teams is a bit much (I would say 8 or 12 (with the top 4 teams getting a bye in the first round)) but then schools will be whining because they barely missed the cut line for the playoffs.
People do a lot of whining about the championship and about the BCS, but how was it back in the day when there was no championship series.