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Originally Posted by transplant99
Do you think that is more room for error in determining the top teams when they are selecting 2 or selecting 8?
I mean I dont ever recall the 9th ranked team at seasons end clamoring that they were robbed of a chance to play for the NC...but I can certainly recall teams as low as 5 and 6 all having very strong arguments and most assuredly teams ranked 3 and 4 having absolutely valid arguments. None moreso than Auburn/Boise and Utah in 04. (And just as a side note the team i cheer for benefitted from that at the time because they started the year ranked higher therefore got to play for the NC)
Obviously there is no perfect system, but again no one can tell me the current one is the best one available...because it isnt and has been proven as much.
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This sort of summarizes my feelings on it, the 9th ranked team shouldn't have the ability to win the NC. They are the 9th ranked team because they lost games. Putting those teams, or the 6, 7, 8 teams into a playoff kills a big part of what makes the regular season exciting.
Look at this weekend for example, I'm amped for the OSU - Miami game despite having no horse in the race simply becasue it has massive NC implications. The loser could potnetially claw their way back in, but it would be tough. If we go to an 8, or even worse 16, team playoff I probably go from locking into the game for 4 hours to casually checking it out at the bar along with a baseball game and poker. It totally kills what makes college football special, the importance and intensity of every single weekend. I can go back through the last few seasons and find tons of games that I watched intently that I wouldn't have cared at all about had I know that all that was at stake was playoff seeding. College football isn't about getting hot at the end of the year and going on a run, it's about battling through an entire season.
I'm a big time advocate of the plus one system, not in the 4 team playoff sense though. After the bowls we typically have 2 teams that have separated themselves, have those teams play the NC game. I know that still has holes, but it's a step that increases the chances of the actual best teams meeting in the title game while at the same time not turning the big regular season games into an afterthought.