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But in other leagues the path to playoffs is the same for everyone as the regular season is balanced. Like the Flames and Maple Leafs have equal chance of making the playoffs, or the Cowboys and Steelers have an equal chance. There is no Boise State playing a weak schedule in the NHL.

Yes and no. For instance the Red Wings feasted on weaker teams in their division for years. The NHL doesnt have a balanced schedule at all. Neither does the NFL. Just look at the NFC West for proof of that...weak division that will still get a team in the PO's no matter what.

If THIS schedule was good enough to get a Fiesta Bowl spot is certainly would be enough to get playoff spot in a 16 team tournament.

Of course it would. So what though? Those arent the clubs they would be facing in a playoff system. They would still have to face the best of the best in any sort of 8 or 16 team playoff.

Just as an example from last year and using the final AP poll as seedings.. Boise would of had to play Ohio St in its first game. They win that one and they would of had to face the winner of Florida/TCU. etc etc...It can work quite easily.

If all the little conferences had one team that went undefeated (let's say, BSU, TCU Marshall and Troy ALL went undefeated, would you put them all in the tournament?) That's not fair as teams in the BIG conferences would have to kill themselves to make the playoffs

No. Pretty obvious, that much like basketball, SOS would have to come into it...which would almost demand teams schedule stronger OOC games...including power conference teams like florida that have devoured Presbyterian, Troy and Western Carolina (as an example) over the last couple years. Play a sched like that and have a loss or 2 in conference and you arent likely to be ranked high enough to make a playoff system. And if the Boise/Utah/TCU's dont schedule OOC games with decent teams then they too would be left out. I am not saying just because a weak conference team goes undefeated ( which wouldnt happen all that often in such a scenario) that should automatically qualify for the post season. What I am advocating though is that lets not have some unknown computerized system determine unequivocally who the top 2 teams in the country are and thats the only two teams that can even play for a NC. Its a tragically flawed sysem without question and was never more in evidence when an undefeated SEC team didnt even get to play for a NC. Its a joke.

I do not understand anyone other than school chancellors/presidents being opposed to seeing more important games played at the end of the season. Almost every coach i have heard asked on the subject favors a PO system. I have little doubt the athletes themselves would LOVE a chance to play for the whole shebang. At seasons start there are what...10 teams that really have a chance any particular year and a lot of that is based on what people think those clubs may play like? Its assinine.

Change can be a very good thing, tradition aside, and should be embraced when it is for the greater good. This is, by far, for the greater good than a system that has been in place, with the BCS curveball, for over a century.