College football has always had the best regular season in sports because every game mattered. Adding more teams to the playoff dilutes the importance of the regular season. There were some interesting matchups in the playoff, but it lasted 1-2 weeks too long. They should be looking to reduce the size of the field and move the championship game up. The championship game should be no later than 1 week after New Year's Day.

themissinglink said:

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College football has always had the best regular season in sports because every game mattered. Adding more teams to the playoff dilutes the importance of the regular season. There were some interesting matchups in the playoff, but it lasted 1-2 weeks too long. They should be looking to reduce the size of the field and move the championship game up. The championship game should be no later than 1 week after New Year's Day.

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Going to best eight is fine now that they proved conference champions suck…

This is 25% of an SEC team's football schedule: UTSA, Utah State, and Samford.

Adding teams to the playoff doesn't dilute the regular season as much as playing cupcakes does.

Playoff committees seeding teams based on number of losses, regardless of level of competition rewards that type of scheduling.


Conference schedules that have teams barely playing over 50% of conference opponents reward the luck of the strength of schedule.


Having 4 power conferences that rarely play each other make comparing conferences and their teams a brand beauty contest.


We love the regular season of college football not because it is so meaningful and well done because it really isn't, we love it because it is college football.

themissinglink said:

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College football has always had the best regular season in sports because every game mattered. Adding more teams to the playoff dilutes the importance of the regular season. There were some interesting matchups in the playoff, but it lasted 1-2 weeks too long. They should be looking to reduce the size of the field and move the championship game up. The championship game should be no later than 1 week after New Year's Day.

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I hear what you are saying about every game matters and I honestly do not think that mindset will go away any time soon. Generations of fans automatically think "our margin of error is gone" after 1 loss already, I dont see that changing. Most teams outside of the media darlings will have no room for error, going 10-2 for a team like A&M or Missouri in the SEC or Texas Tech/Okie State in the Big 12 or Minnesota/Iowa means having to win a play in game otherwise be out with no shot at an at large bid because you're too big for cinderella and too small to be a blue blood.

VP at Pierce and Pierce said:

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themissinglink said:

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College football has always had the best regular season in sports because every game mattered. Adding more teams to the playoff dilutes the importance of the regular season. There were some interesting matchups in the playoff, but it lasted 1-2 weeks too long. They should be looking to reduce the size of the field and move the championship game up. The championship game should be no later than 1 week after New Year's Day.

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I hear what you are saying about every game matters and I honestly do not think that mindset will go away any time soon. Generations of fans automatically think "our margin of error is gone" after 1 loss already, I dont see that changing. Most teams outside of the media darlings will have no room for error, going 10-2 for a team like A&M or Missouri in the SEC or Texas Tech/Okie State in the Big 12 or Minnesota/Iowa means having to win a play in game otherwise be out with no shot at an at large bid because you're too big for cinderella and too small to be a blue blood.

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And even if it were accurate, my guess is the powers that be would argue adding the possibility of "Cinderella" making a run to the crown is more profitable than every game "mattering".

Hard to sort out what anything means anymore but I too hope we do not see fall-off in terms of weekly effort.

I'm far less concerned with team effort and far more concerned with league, tv execs, and ref effort to protect certain programs. Anyone with their eyes open in the past few years has witnessed some bad bad calls on the back of some WTF scheduling for certain brands.