re: Explain to me the +1 scenario

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Yes, +1 is just 1 versus 2 determined after the bowl games.

If instead, 1 has to play 4 and 2 has to play 3, you're no longer in the +1 realm.

That's a four team playoff.

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While I like this idea, there better be WRITTEN standards for determining the final 4 teams. Not "eyeball tests" or "quality loses". Real standards.

Also, what does this do to address teams that will play an extra game due to conference championship games, etc?

This years set up would have been great:

LSU vs Stan
Bama vs OSU..

Except for the fact that LSU was the only team out of those four that played a conference championship game. LSU and OSU were the only two that technically won their conference.

So, Stanford gets in over Oregon because Oregon had the balls to schedule LSU in week one? That's bullshite as well. Oregon schedules a Bama schedule, and they don't have that extra loss that eliminates them from this imaginary final four.

I could go on and on about the flaws of this as well.

IMO, this "Plus 1" just gives ESPN an opportunity to add their one or two more of their darlings in the mix, regardless of who was on their schedule and regardless of who they beat or lost to.

Give me standards in writing. As a fan of CFB, I'm sick of these unwritten rules that change depending on who needs to benefit from them.

/of my pointless rant.