The 4-contender national championship is going to get a lot of criticism after the results come out later today.
It will probably be revamped to an 8-contender play-off field eventually, because too many ‘good’ teams with equal or better records got bypassed.
College football will probably need to move to a system that resembles the NFL — with basically equal conferences.
The 4, then 5, then 50 bowl games used to sort of determine the ‘national’ champion. Now, the bowls don’t seem to mean as much as they did 30 years ago.
A four-team playoff.
Can you imagine college basketball beginning—and ending—it’s playoffs with a Final Four?
It makes no sense. It’s just stupid.
Look at who fought tooth-and-nail to keep the BCS and you have the answer to the mystery of why we persist in this arcane bowl system of reading bird entrails and consulting Oracles to select playoff teams.
It will probably be revamped to an 8-contender play-off field eventually, because too many ‘good’ teams with equal or better records got bypassed.
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Plus that would mean more money.
That can never happen as long as some of the colleges, including some of the big ones, and some of the conferences, cling to the antiquated notion that athletes should be literate past the sixth grade level, and at least pretend to attend classes.
It's time to pull the plug. The system is driven by the chase for television dollars, and academics have been so prostituted that it's time to sever the link and just have an NFL developmental league. Same for basketball.
“It will probably be revamped to an 8-contender play-off field eventually, because too many ‘good’ teams with equal or better records got bypassed.”
I firmly believe an eight team playoff is in our future but probably not as most imagine.
I expect the big five conferences to establish their own Division leaving the rest of Division 1A behind. The big five conferences will reorganize into four large (16+ teams). Each conference will have a conference playoff to determine the conference champion. This conference playoff will be the first round of the eight team playoffs. The four conference champions will advance to the round of four and then the round of two.
A lot of folks will be disappointed that the mid size conferences will be left out but there is no way one can have a college football playoff at the major power level with more than eight teams. The logistics of more teams in a playoff are too formidable.