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Originally Posted by Gugstanley
This has been threatened before and didn't go anywhere. Hopefully multiple states get together and make the push for a playoff. http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=294&sid=5245930
Voters even admit they don't watch all of the teams. The current system is a mess. If the polls and BCS are such a great Idea why doesn't the NHL just use power rankings to determine the two teams playing for Lord Stanley's cup?
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See this is the problem with all the playoff talk. People don't even analyze the problem and think snapping their fingers and adding a playoff will fix all the issues with the BCS. Voters will still just as important in any logical playoff scenario as there will have to be some at-large playoff bids.
In almost every logical playoff scenario Utah is still left on the outside looking in.
A 4-team playoff would clearly have included Florida, OU, Texas, and Alabama. Not many people would be complaining about those picks, but clearly they wouldn't have been the right ones (after Bama's loss) in retrospect.
An 8-team playoff would logically feature the 6 major conference winners and 2 at-large picks. The 2 at-large picks would almost assuredly have been Texas and Alabama.
A 16-team playoff would never work.
I always find it funny when you see people's reactions to big bowl games and it's always something like "wouldn't it so much better to see Texas, USC, Florida/OU winner, and Utah in a playoff?". You can't just make up a playoff system as you go along.