re: For or Opossed to BCS playoff?

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You are using what to determine 2nd best- the poll you'd like to see less of?

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I'm using whatever you are using to decide that LSU, Oklahoma State, Oregon and Wisconsin get in and West Virginia and Clemson are left out. If you want to just be arbitrary and say, "these criteria can discern which teams are better if the teams are conference champions, but the formula doesn't work when applied to a team that isn't a conference champion," then so be it. But that's as uselessly arbitrary as any poll, BCS system, or any other terrible solution.

If you think the formula is fair enough to distinguish between conference champions, then it should be fair enough to put a non-champion in ahead of teams that didn't fair as well, even if they won their conference. Otherwise, you're just arbitrarily excluding more of the best teams. And I think that makes a playoff even worse.

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If a CBB team goes 60-0, but loses out in the Super (read conf championship)

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A Super Regional is not similar to a conference championship. The #1 team does not face the #2 team in a Super Regional. That's why they have seedings. But if the #1 and #2 teams are in the same conference, then one of them is going to be eliminated before the post-season even begins.

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If there is such a rule, it would shut up a lot of the crying, media influence

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Actually, it wouldn't. There was such a rule, in both the NFL and MLB, once upon a time. Then the whining (and the opportunity for more money) got to be so great that we were given the "wildcard" spots.