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Originally Posted by valo403
This is the thing playoff advocates overlook, going to a playoff kills the importance of the regular season. Lose a game in September to Stanford? Who cares, doesn't matter. A showdown between two top 5 teams? I'm not making as much effort to watch it if it doesn't really mean much beyond seeding for the playoffs.
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But that happens already.
USC lost to Washington and that hasn't stopped them from being in the running for the National Championship.
In 2007 LSU had two bad losses and they still won the NC.
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Originally Posted by JayP
An 8-team playoff has the exact same "issues" there are now except it will be the #9 and #10 teams moaning instead of #3 and #4. I'd say there would be even more crying as there's a lot more teams that can make the argument for being that last seed in the playoffs than there are teams that can make that argument for being in the National Championship game.
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If you are a two lose #9 or #10 team you have a lot less claim to be in the running for a NC then a 1 loss #3 or #4 team. You may have some whining but it would be from teams that have a lot less to whine about.