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Old 10-20-2009, 02:18 PM   #925
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Originally Posted by valo403 View Post
Likely to occur? Why? This is exactly what I'm talking about. Claiming something is likely to occur is complete make believe without some basis behind it.

I don't think the conferences will go for a top 8 system because it offers no guarantee that their champions will be involved and thereby deprives them of the monetary and non-monetary gains that would come along with playoff participation. See what I did? I gave a reason why.

There may be a way to make a playoff work, and whether you setup a system and then work backwards or the other way around doesn't really matter, but you can't create it in a vacuum.
Likely to occur because the system has been moving closer to that way for awhile now. Also, eventually the outcry from the public and money from TV/sponsorships is going to force the issue.

The BCS has narrowly avoided some real disasters lately but it isn't crazy to see an instance where a Cincy-Boise St. type game occurs and that would be a real hit to the BCS system.

I don't think that it is happening in the next five years but things are going to change and it just makes to much sense to have a play-off for it not eventually occur.
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