(11-04-2015 10:28 AM)MUsince96 Wrote: For people who want more than a four team playoff, they should be hoping Notre Dame sneaks into the final 4. That would result in a minimum of two power conferences being left out. Two conferences being left out starts the discussion to expand it to 8 a lot quicker than they would have.
And if one conference gets 2 teams in + Notre Dame; leaving 3 power conferences out. Forget about it, they might make it an 8 team playoff next year.
What I don't understand is why they don't go to the conference champions plus 2 at-large. It would extend the season by one week.
Right now, to win the National Championship, you play a 12 game season, a conference championship game, a semi-final, and the title game (15 total games).
If you went to the 10 conference champions plus 2 at-large bids you would need to eliminate one out-of-conference game. This would then be 11 regular season games, a conference championship game, opening round, quarter-final, semi-final, and title game (top-4 seeds get a bye to the quarter-finals). 16 games max (15 if you have a bye).
Literally, everybody gets a shot and if those power conferences have two teams worthy of getting in, they'll get one of the two at-large bids. Right now, they just want to tell you that you can't possibly have one of the best teams in the country and to prove it, we won't let you prove it.
They say to go play the tough games, etc., but (a) those games aren't equal because they're always AWAY games, (b) as shown above, SOS doesn't mean much to the CFP committee, and © those games don't necessarily demonstrate great match-ups when a middle of the road MAC team is going against a top-tier BigTen team on the road more often than not, the record isn't going to be pretty. This would allow it to be settled on the field with appropriate matchups. In FCS it's always said that the CAA is like the SEC (they're better than everyone and they get the boost in the polls because of it). Well, come playoff time, the CAA has to prove it. They may make deep runs, but they don't take home the trophy all the time because they don't get autobids directly into the championship game (or even put both teams from the same conference in the championship game like the BCS did one year).
One of the biggest fallacies in college football is that Conference A has a few weak teams at the bottom, so the top team in that conference can't possibly be one of the best. The teams at the bottom in Conference B are slightly stronger than Conference A's, so the top team in that conference must be the best. The two are not related. You can be the best team in the country in a down conference. It drives me crazy. The system above allows you an opportunity to play and prove it.
