Remember 1960's and 1970's College Football ??
I sure do

The SWC, the SEC, The Big 10, The Big 8, and The PAC 8 Oh yeah, and Norte Dame. 4-5 New Years Day Bowls, not 33 meaningless TV events disguised as football games

Everything was regionalized. It was a BIG deal to win your Conference and go to a New Years Day Bowl

The Natty was voted on by sportswriters and it was great if you were in that mix, but the Cotton Bowl, The Sugar Bowl, the Rose Bowl and the Orange Bowl all meant SOMETHING

Then along came ESPN and the BCS/4 team Playoffs and all of a sudden, you HAD to be one of only 4 teams in the hunt for the Natty or you NEVER got featured on the Mouse network end of season Ad BlitzThey became recruiting Kingmakers

It is my guess that with a 12 team or 16 team playoff, along with SuperConferences, things will revert back to a more regional feel

"Making The Playoffs" will be the measure of your team, giving it a regional feel The top 3 or 4 teams from each of the Power 4 Conferences New Year's Day Bowls, back to the future

I, for one see it as a positive

16 team playoff means Notre Dame will actually have to be good to make the final game

Sid Farkas said:

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16 team playoff means Notre Dame will actually have to be good to make the final game

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And the regular season would mean nothing.

cj774 said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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16 team playoff means Notre Dame will actually have to be good to make the final game

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And the regular season would mean nothing.

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I'm not really in favor of 16 teams (my preference is 8), but the regular season would mean more, not less, if more teams had a shot. Right now, most teams are out of the playoff hunt with one loss. So half way through the season, 80% of the teams are playing for a meaningless bowl or worse. With 8 teams, a Nov 27 matchup between 10-1 Texas A&M and 9-2 LSU could mean both teams are playing for a spot. But they need to find the balance between having more meaningful games late in the season, and not watering the playoffs down with 3 loss teams.

The CFA broke the NCAA monopoly/trust design that enriched a few schools and the NCAA executives. That was a good thing. The use of a forced and tortured form of amateurism supported that model and was an additional layer based on complete market control that also failed to achieve its primary objective ms of fairness and avoidance of liability. Certainly when we couldn't afford to fly regional made a ton of sense. But you can make it halfway around the world in normal days for a fraction of a month's pay now.

Things change. Nostalgia always highlights the positives and ignore the underlying reasons for change. Enjoy the nostalgia. But it's like a baby smiling: is that really just gas being passed??

cj774 said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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16 team playoff means Notre Dame will actually have to be good to make the final game

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And the regular season would mean nothing.

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I've said this for years when people talk of playoff expansion, but if we actually move to two super conferences, regular season games will still matter.