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Originally Posted by FlamingLonghorn
I can argue it wasn't the best game in college history, maybe top 20. Had a top 5 finish though. Why would it have meant less? Because you can come up with a bunch of hypotheticals that can ruin a team in a 4 team playoff? Those same hypotheticals apply to the last two weeks of the season. What if Winston gets injured in the first quarter of Duke and they lose? What if bad weather causes Ohio St to lose to Michigan St? No one is going to be benching players because they are sure things. Losses are still going to knock you out especially if you get beat big. Will there be controversy? I am sure, but most seasons likely less than there is now. It won't ever approach College Basketball level as at the most we will only have 8 teams in the playoffs out of 120. Getting a spot will be very difficult and hopefully if they move to 8 it will include Byes for top 2 seeds for teams to play for.
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Your missing out on several points. I'll quote your lines and reply below:
Why would it have meant less? Because you can come up with a bunch of hypotheticals that can ruin a team in a 4 team playoff?
I'm saying the regular season will mean less. The iron bowl would have meant squat. And pointing out that people somehow think that a 4 team playoff will somehow create a legit Nat.Champ. It won't, it will be just be different. All we have right now is 16 years of BCS experience that people draw on to show the problems. All of them would hate to admit that most years it gets it right, very rarely do people at the end of the year say the Nat.Champ is illegitmate and that one team got screwed out of their big chance. Moon and Transplate probably could spend paragraphs complaining that Auburn deserves a shot over OSU, however probably don't have much to say about last years game, or the year before ... or most of the last 16 years. They and many, many others see one side of the coin. In the current system or the next one there are flaws, we won't be better off. The only difference will be a less meaningful regular season.
Those same hypotheticals apply to the last two weeks of the season. What if Winston gets injured in the first quarter of Duke and they lose? What if bad weather causes Ohio St to lose to Michigan St?
I agree, and in either the top 2 or top 4 scenario you will have people with 20/20 hindsight showing flaws in the system. Again my point is that a 4 team playoff won't create a more legitimate National Champion.
No one is going to be benching players because they are sure things. Losses are still going to knock you out especially if you get beat big.
Flat out untrue. In a top 8 scenario Auburn should bench starters because they are in either way. Alabama should sit starters in the Iron Bowl. OSU probably sits players vs Michigan because either way they just need to win the B10 to be in.
It won't ever approach College Basketball level as at the most we will only have 8 teams in the playoffs out of 120.
Yea, i agree, it won't get AS BAD as college basketball, I'm saying it moves in that direction. And any move in that direction, to me, kills what is the best thing about college ball.
Getting a spot will be very difficult and hopefully if they move to 8 it will include Byes for top 2 seeds for teams to play for.
That's confusing. I don't understand how you have a top 8 system with byes. Possibly you mean a top 6 system? if so, sure. 6 is better than 8. 4 is better than 6, and 2 is better than 4 as far as I'm concerned.
My main point is that what nobody thinks about is that what we have now is haters looking back at the last 16 years and pointing out things that didn't work well. Sure there's a few examples of that, but in reality there are way more examples of the current system nailing it. And creating a top 4 system won't fix a single thing. There will be times when a top 2 is all you need, and sometimes you need 3, maybe a 4th (very rarely 4 tho I think). So have you solved anything? No, just diluted the regular season.