re: Lincoln Riley, Saban say fans who want to expand CFB Playoff field will never be satisfied

Oregon does not engage in high level recruiting?

Well last year you had Coog High, San Diego St, and UCF play on the first day of bowls. They seem to recruit at high levels


The previous year you had
BYU Utah and Arizona

In 14 you had
Utah and Western Michigan

I will give you 13 as well
Wazzu, USC, San Diego St


So your high level recruiting theory is crap.

Completely disagree. People won't be satisfied until teams that deserve to get in stop getting left out. Conference champions should be in, regardless. Whether you want 6 with one more wild card or 8 with 3 more, that would solve just about every dilemma there is.

If you don't win your conference or aren't one of the next best 1-3 teams then you don't have any right to complain you didn't get in.

Your premise is a good one but logistics is bad.

But here is a problem I see with your premise, how can you tell a conference winner they do not deserve a chance to play for a championship, now that we have moved to a playoff system?

As much as I hate to admit it, I think they're right. Hell, the basketball tournament has 68 teams and people still bitch.


There's a reason no one watches regular season basketball. Not exactly a good model to hang your hat on.

24? No thanks


I'm firmly in the 2 only camp or simply change it up every year. Want to let Ohio St and UCF in and go 6 this year? Ok, that's cool. Only have 3 clearcut next year, then have 2 and 3 have a play in game.

Like I said, still haven't solved the conf championship issue but again, I don't know how to do it without making other things that make CFB great devalued in such a big way.

What Saban is angling for is to just give it to Alabama every year and be done with it, no need for a fussy playoff with multiple chances to lose a game.

24 still makes regular season important and fills the requirement of NCAA Official Championship.

Me personally 12 is right number. The only reason I would do the 24 bracket was due to bylaw requirement.

Take the FBS Winners
Take top 2 non Winners

If you want to include The Indys as a conference, fine then add them and take away a At Large.

But this year we would have had using CFP rankings

Auto Qualifiers
UCF
Clemson
Oklahoma
Ohio St
FAU
Toledo
Boise
USC
Georgia
Troy

At large
Alabama
Wisconsin


The Bracket would have been
9. Boise vs 8. UCF, winner plays 1. Clemson
12. Troy vs 5. Ohio State, winner plays 4. Alabama
10. FAU vs 7. USC, winner plays 2. Oklahoma
11. Toledo vs 6. Wisconisn, winner plays 3. Georgia


In the first round that Toy and Toledo game would be a massacre, but weve seen that in the 4 model already. The FAU USC game would be a dream for the media. UCF Boise would be the old guard vs new guard.

The 2nd round you got potential
OU USC
Alabama tOSu


You have to win games to get in if cant win conference, you reward teams for doing what their first goal is, winning a conference.

This thing would be a cash cow.

You can use the New Years 6 games as the 2nd round and beyond. Play opening games somewhere bid or high seed gets home game?

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Just leave well enough alone and stop trying to water it down with more teams.

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Every other major NCAA sport has way more than 4 teams in their title tournaments/brackets.

Having #5 and #6 bitching about being left out is entirely different than #17 and #18 being left out.

If you rank top 6, it's not unreasonable that you have a legit gripe about being left out.

At #17 and #18, that's on you.

Personally, I want to see playoff expansion for more quality football. Not because I'm some purist who wants a "true" champion.