[Kasi]

It’s fine the other college football divisions have had 16 team playoffs for decades. High school football also has tournaments Nothing wrong with that. Once they made the championship all important and killed the idea of random bowl games (a quaint idea that was an outlier but also made zero sense) the cat was out of the bag and this is the logical result. Similar to the NFL they’ll have their 12-16 team playoff.

But yes these results are really going to spark a renewed emphasis on strength of schedule and record. Indiana and SMU were bad inclusions as they beat no one. Ole Miss and South Carolina are likely pissed now not to mention Bama. Does this mean we probably get five SEC teams and 3-4 Big Ten teams every year? Likely does but it’s kinda hard to argue right now that that isn’t merited. Now maybe the NIL will bring more parity and drag down the quality of those teams but it’s not happened yet.

But I think we can say with certainty that these playoffs would be far more interesting and competitive if we had 2 three loss SEC teams in instead of a mediocre SMU and Indiana. Everyone complained about Bama losing to OU and yes it was a bad loss. But OU had 6 losses but they also played Texas, LSU, Missouri, South Carolina, Bama, Tennessee and Ole Miss. The only top team they missed was Georgia. Put SMU into OUs spot and they’re getting six losses or more there too.