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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
And this is what bothers me about anti-playoff folks. Because a smaller program like Troy (which has made phenomenal prgoress since moving up to D-I by the way) can't maintain a consistant competitive level with the 'top teams' or the 'top conferences' they are undeserving of EVER having a shot at a national title. I can't understand that line of thinking.
The media has made the SEC into this invincible conference made up of invincible programs and pumped it up to such proportions that if it is not represented in the title game most people don't legitimize that particular championship in their heads.
What is everyone afraid of? If Troy doesn't deserve to be there they will LOSE.
Anymore there are about five or six programs that have a legitimate shot at the title under the current system and people are happy with that?
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You honestly think that a team that wins the Sun Belt deserves to be in a playoff and deserves to reap the massive rewards that brings? Seriously? I can't understand that line of thinking. Is rolling out a couple of lambs to slaughter really an upgrade? I bet the nation will be so excited for that 70-0 Alabama win. We get those games in the early non-conference season now, something that apparently is the BCS's fault according to many, and now you want to move a couple of those games into the playoffs?
Why should Troy get the reward of a playoff when there are 40+ better teams out there simply because they play in a terrible conference?
And again it's about a disconnect with reality. Why would any of the major conferences, or even the MWC and WAC, want to split the pie with conferences that have never in their history shown that they will produce a team that can compete with the very best in the nation? It's not a matter of not consistently showing an ability to compete, they never have.