re: Bring back the BCS System!! Better for college football long-term

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ecause not all conferences are equal. Some years, the second place team in one conference could easily win all the other conferences - but they're stuck in the best conference. We see it in the SEC West. If LSU dominates every game we play but lose to Bama by one point, are we completely out of the playoff conversation - all because we didn't win our conference.

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I’m ok with this so long as it applies to everyone, and Notre Dame is forced to join a conference with a conference title game.

The issue is one year saying “you have to win your conference”, and then the next year win 1-loss Bama or Ohio State fails to make the conference title game, suddenly, that doesn’t matter anymore.

Here’s what I want:
1. Another FBS/FCS split. I want fewer teams in FBS and for FBS teams to only play other FBS teams, and for P5 teams to mostly play P5 teams OOC.
2. All P5 conferences be standardized:
a. Have the same number of teams
b. Play the same number of conference games
c. Have the same conditions to make the conference title game
d. Play the conference title game the same weekend
3. Have winning one’s conference be a requirement to make the playoff
4. All independents have to join a conference
5. Either have first round of playoff or conference title game at the home stadium of the higher seeded team

I just want some consistency, rather than “whichever argument puts Bama in”

I’m so damn sick of human polls, marquee OOC games at neutral sites, “the eye test”, rent-a-wins, and blue-blood bias.