The good that will come out of conference expansions...

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A lot of pundits are saying this might actually put us further from a playoff because the conferences will be making so much money now they won't want to rock the boat.

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Christ this is going to be boring as frick.

I just don't see how you can determine who the actual best team is in a conference that large. If you can't do that, how are you supposed to determine a national champion?

I'm thinking that if the SEC adds two more teams, that would mean seven teams per division requiring each team to play six of its division rivalries, thus leaving only two slots for playing conference from the other division. This would more likely than not lead to dumping the permanent opponent from the other diviaion. Ergo, we don't play Florida every year (except for when we meet them in the conference championship game). This is a big positive note in my book!

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The good that will come out of conference expansions...
is that we'll see a playoff sooner than later.

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This will be the worst thing to come of expansion, IMO.

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This will be the worst thing to come of expansion, IMO.

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With all due respect to your opinion, please enlighten me as to why it would be the worst thing to happen.

You don't have the eliminate the bowls entirely, so there is no need to sound the alarm. The Little Caesar's Bowl will be just fine. I understand those games are huge sources of revenue for smaller schools and for teams that are postseason eligible, and they rightfully deserve a reward.

But you have to understand that increasing the number of teams in every major conference poses a number of problems:

The inability to determine a true conference champion due to not scheduling each team within the conference thereby eliminates head-to-head matchups. Thus, we have no way of knowing who's better if only a limited number of conference games are played in these super conferences.

College football is all about the rivalries, the drama, and the pageantry. This expansion process could prove beneficial if the right steps are taken to determine a true conference champion and subsequent national champion. But, there needs to be only four major conferences.

I know it's probably out of the question, but in a 16-team conference, you have one of several options, but here are two:

1) You play a 15-game regular season schedule (all conference games); the two division winners play each other for the conference championship. The winner of the championship game advances as an AQ to the four-team playoff.

2) You keep the current 12-game regular season schedule, but the teams within the conference do not play outside of their division. Therefore, they play seven conference games and five non-conference games.

***This option preserves rivalries (i.e., KU vs Missouri, Nebraska vs Colorado, Texas vs Texas A&M, Texas vs OU, OU vs Oklahoma State, etc...)