re: Give Your take/Opinion/Thoughts on what you think college football needs to do -Playoffs

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No, there is no poll, there is no ranking, and there is no strength of schedule. What conference champ plays what other conference champ is pre-determined and baked into the structure, much like how traditional bowl ties used to work before the BCS. The Pac 12 Champ always played the Big 10 Champ in the Rose Bowl. The SEC Champ always played in the Sugar Bowl. Rather than abandon those bowl tie-ins as a relic of the past, you bake them into the system and remove the arbitrary human “eye tests” from the equation all-together.

Imagine a scenario where a 12-0 SEC West Division Champ plays against a 9-3 East Division Champ in the conference title game. Meanwhile the Big 12 Championship game features two 10-2 teams. No matter who wins the SEC Championship game or the Big 12 Championship game, the winners will be matched up against each other in the Sugar Bowl.

The reality is that the biggest impediment to the playoff is the Rose Bowl. They want their prestige and to be played on New Years Day featuring their traditional teams. CFB’s strength is it’s pageantry, traditions, and rivalries. Rather than throw out the Rose Bowl as the Big 10 vs Pac 12 Champ on New Years Day, I decided to imagine a system that EMBRACES this tradition rather than sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.

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