(02-25-2018 08:42 PM)ColKurtz Wrote:  No other sports league has a membership where anyone is admitted, no matter their ability to be competitive at the highest level. Liberty can just choose to be in FBS without the rest of the "league" voting on it. All they have to do is meet certain qualifications. Imagine if a town in Maine or Alaska could throw together a football team and declare themselves an NFL franchise and demand access to the Super Bowl.

There's never really been a true playoff in FBS. It was teams playing for the most prestigious bowls. Then came attempts to match the 2 top teams so that split national champions weren't decided by dueling polls. The current playoff is to match the 4 best teams.

And half the FBS isn't excluded. Just because UCF was snubbed this year doesn't mean an FBS can never get in. Houston could well have gotten a bid a couple years ago if they hadn't collapsed. If UCF had beaten Auburn in the regular season they would have had a case. But even an undefeated Wisconsin was in danger of being left out this past season for the same reason UCF got snubbed - weak schedule.

Even if UCF had made it in, its still not a rational system.

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