re: NCAA Playoffs Look Like A Reality in 2014

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I'm not in favor of any playoff situation that leaves out the number 2 and 4 teams for no damn reason

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the reason would be they didn't win their conference. Go lock on page 1 of this thread i broke out the rankings of the top 4 conference winners for the BCS era. This year was the lowest, most years the top 3 were all conference winners.

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Besides, if it just comes down to conference champions, then that means teams have absolutely no incentive to book OCC match-ups or even really care about them

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I think you have it backwards. This year Stanford was #4 at 11-1, #5 was 11-2 Oregon. OU beat SU head to head. Their other loss was to LSU. If they play Wyoming instread, Oregon might have been in the BCS CG, but certainly would have been ranked ahead of Stanford.

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Why play your starters in big OCC match-ups that have no bearing on your playoff chances? As long as you win your conference, you are set for a playoff.

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Its only the top 4 conference winners, all but 3 years of the BCS that's top 5 or 6. You aint getting in the top 6 with 3 loses.

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We've already seen how voters and the computers will terribly overrank programs who play weak schedules like they do with TCU and Boise State in the past, so what's stopping some BCS program that is really getting nowhere fast like a Mississippi State or an Iowa or a Oregon State from jumping from their current conference over to a far easier one where they can go 11-1/12-0 every year and make the playoffs as the 4th seed in the playoffs?

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LOL. Wut? The biggest reason is $$$$$$. What would stop them from doing it anyway genius, as you mention Boise and TCU have already been in the top 4.