Iowaggie said:
The problem has been Commissioners and ADs trying to keep the major bowl games relevant.
8, 12 or 16 should have long been an option over 2 or 4 when 120+ colleges are participating in the sport. And higher seeds should be hosting playoff games, not bowls (until championship games)
I think it was partly this and partly keeping schools like Baylor, TCU and others locked out for whatever reason. Hell, we may have been one of the ones they wanted to keep out. But it was clear 6-8 years ago that they wanted the Bamas, Ohio States, Notre Dames, etc. IN and schools like Cincy, FAU/South Florida (whoever it was) out until they didn't have any other options like the last 2-3 years. Maybe it was ratings, maybe snobbery. Who knows for sure.
Everyone thought after the SEC-CG that Bama was the best team in the country. I was probably one of those people, too. Well, guess what? They're not. Who knows, maybe Georgia still is the best. We don't know who the best team is, and we'll never know for sure in most years regardless of what system you use. You can have 30 regular season games and declare the team with the best record, but then people will argue strength of schedule. You can play 10 regular season games and have a 32 team playoff and then the perceived best team loses early and everyone cries about seedings, the officiating, didn't get enough home field advantage, whatever.
The bottom line is you come up with a system that makes sense for EVERYONE and you go with that one. You don't worry if Bama, or whoever, because you're not catering for one team or a set of teams. If Baylor, FAU, TCU, or Buffalo for all I care, wins, they win. Right now, there are so many fingers on the scale things are immeasurable.
