Expanded playoff wont mean better games

Eye test sucks! Must be conference champions! Pick on resume only!

> Committee picks straight on resume

These games sucked! We need more eye test teams and non conference champions!

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March Madness is awesome and so is the NCAA baseball tournament.

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It's the single worst way to crown a 'champion' in all of sports.

A single elimination tournament in a high variance sport involving 68 teams? Asinine.

It exists solely because of office pools and gambling and shite. Not because it's a good system.

College basketball has the worst regular season in all of sports because of its ridiculous postseason. Every match up between top 10 teams is almost completely meaningless. Both teams are making the tournament, who cares, maybe if you win a few of them you get a #1 seed instead of a #2.

The ironic thing is, despite college football historically having the most bizarre and maddening system for crowning their champion, it on average produces a higher quality champion than almost every other major sport.

They've wanted to expand March Madness to 128... First thing they talk about is first 4 out and who got snubbed. Personally I wish it was best of 3 series starting with the Sweet 16

No one should want expansion

We can’t find four worthy teams now

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Not to mention, many argued that UGA should have been in the playoff as one of the best four. We saw what happened last night.

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Yeah, they played in the Sugar Bowl because they didn’t make the 4 team playoff.

A double elimination at the point of the Elite 8 after the 64/32/16 would be the way to go, IMO.
Would quasi-mirror NCAA baseball.

If the playoff expanded, it would still be Clemson and bama. The only three teams who possibly could have beaten bama this year already had their chances. LSU, Georgia and Oklahoma.

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Because we're not short sighted

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Actually, that's exactly what saying that more teams are needed with a sample size of 5 years is. Especially when matching up the 2 best teams has happened without fail to this point.

Adding another round definitely favors Bama, not only because of the mulligan thing, but because their depth can survive those 3 tough games. Be almost impossible for the UCFs of the world—who expansion is partly trying to placate—to win 3 of these games in a row. They may pull off a 1st round upset, but they just wouldn’t have enough to win 2 more.

That said, the decision shouldn’t be reactionary to what Bama is doing right now. They are a machine the likes of which college football has never nor likely will ever see again. An aborration. I used to be really against playoff expansion—because I truly believe college football has the greatest regular season of any of the major sports. “Every game matters” was what I always said.

But they really don’t. Most games have very little bearing on conference and national championships. Now, there are a few games that mean “everything,” and that’s exciting. The LSU-Bama(from 6-7years ago), LSU-Florida, Iron Bowl, Florida-Georgia,Michigan-Ohio State, Texas-OU, Notre Dame-USC, etc...games wont mean “everything” anymore. But many more games will mean “something.” That’s a trade Im willing to make, providing the top seeds get homefield in the quarters. There has to be a reward for going 12-0 as opposed to 9-3. I had always clamored for a 6-team playoff, with the top 2 seeds getting byes, but that may be too big of an advantage and really doesn’t address the issue of inclusion.

I think conference championships should matter. There is—or used to be until recently—an innate value in winning your conference. The setup we have now has rendered them almost meaningless save for using the CCGames as de facto quarterfinals. So, it’s gotta be P5 conference champs, 2 at larges, and the highest “ranked” G5 conference champ. You’d have to use a pre-determined BCS type formula for that “ranking.” The committee can stick around for seeding and trying to eliminate re-matches in the 1st round. Yeah, you may get a 3-loss 2001 LSU in there every now and then. But that’s something I think we should be able to live with. And home field in the quarters is such a big advantage that I don’t think you’d have to worry about teams resting players for fear of losing one of those top 4 spots.