re: Same Scenario Next Year With a Four Team Playoff...

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I still don't understand how this is the only division of football anywhere that doesn't have a true playoff system. It is really sad.

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it's not sad

CFB is one of the most stratified sports leagues on the planet. it may be #2 to La Liga/EPL, but that's a stretch

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Can't be any more insane than giving mulligans to teams that finish second in their division

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that depends entirely on who is in the division and who is in contention while NOT being in that division

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it gives meaning to the conference games above all others, bc those would be playoffs in their own right.

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that's a stupid idea b/c not all conferences are created equal, and if you create a NATIONAL playoff, you have to put the best teams from the entire nation within the bracket. leaving out better teams b/c they come from the same conference removes the entire point of a playoff

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plus do you want to see rematches?

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who cares?

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a team like 2011 (or 2013) Alabama had their chance to qualify, and they should have thought about it when they didn't win their own division...

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would the system have been better off letting in an inferior team? no

and hell, you're even looking at a dreaded "rematch" once Oregon was allowed in

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ok this year would be in contention...

UCF 10-1/Louisville 10-1/Cincinnati 9-2
Florida State 12-0/Duke 10-2
Oklahoma State 10-1/Baylor 10-1/Texas 8-3
Michigan State 11-1/Ohio State 12-0
Marshall 9-3/Rice 9-3
Bowling Green 9-3/Northern Illinois 12-0
Fresno State 10-1/Utah State 8-4
Stanford 10-2/Arizona State 10-2
Missouri 11-1/Auburn 11-1
UL-Lafayette 8-3

well you know which ones obviously wouldn't be getting in...