re: NCAA Playoff Committee Selected

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2008...choose 4

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Realistically, you can't. I'd say Florida, Oklahoma, Texas and Southern Cal, but that's post-hoc speaking. (OU and Texas won their bowl games while TT didn't *and* TT played the weakest opponent of the three; Southern Cal blew out Penn State in the Rose Bowl; the rest either come from AQ conferences and are the product of soft schedules, or lost their bowl game to aforesaid undeserving teams.) Making an argument at the time would have been virtually impossible.

4 is better on the whole, though. This and 2007 were the exceptions to the rule. I'd probably favor a 6-team playoff (top 2 teams get 1st-wk BYEs), but that's as far as it should go. (With six teams you add Alabama and Utah/Penn State/Texas Tech and call it a playoff in 08.)

The best thing that could be done is a variable-number playoff. For your 2002, 2005 type seasons, just do #1 vs #2. For your 2011 type seasons, do 4-team playoff. For your 2007 and 2008 seasons, do 8-team.