re: The CFP is the worst system for determining a champion...ever.

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It could all be fixed by requiring a team to win its conference to get in.

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in a 4 team playoff there really is no excuse for this not to be a hard requirement

if it was 8, different story

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It could all be fixed by requiring a team to win its conference to get in.

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i get the idea of this, but conferences are not created equal. It works in the NFL because of supposed parity via the draft and salary cap. Plus, scheduling is a lot more diverse.

In college, you can go a a couple of seasons without a Pac 12 team playing an SEC team. Which means, you'll never know if those two conferences are representing the same quality of football.

for instance, i think its pretty fair to say that LSU, Bama, and UGA (maybe even UF) would all win the Pac 12 this year.

with that said, you would be punishing 3 of those teams just because they play in the SEC and rewarding say Oregon/Utah just because they play in the Pac 12.

The only way that would make sense is to put another level of criteria on the Conf Champs, like, they have to be ranked in the top 16 or something like that.

ETA - or you need to force teams to schedule more P5 opponents every year to get more of a gauge on quality of play throughout then entire nation.