re: [The Athletic] What An Expanded Playoff May Look Like

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Are 16 seed teams worthy in college basketball?

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The difference between CBB’s best is far smaller compared to CFB. Often times the 2nd ranked team is capable of smashing the 15th ranked team by 30 points. In the sport of basketball, the blowouts aren’t as large.

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Miami (OH)

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8-6 team wow

That’s why G5 teams should not get auto bids. Under no circumstance does a 5 loss G5 belong in a playoff.

I can’t see a situation in which G5 teams get an auto bid. They might do P5 champs and the rest being at large bids which would include 1-3 G5 teams, but no way does a G5 conference get treated as equal. You might argue it doesn’t matter but I’m going based on how we’ve seen G5 conferences treated by the higher ups of CFB. They don’t get much respect. It’s all about the ratings. A playoff featuring Bama, AU, ND, Michigan, etc. is going to bring in far higher ratings then one featuring FAU, Memphis, Miami (OH), etc.

So under a proposed 16 team playoffs you would probably have quite a few 3 loss teams. Maybe even some 4 loss teams some years.

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there's absolutely no guarantee the other games are absolute chaos

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We’ve already seen that most of the playoff games have been blowouts. People don’t know if a game between 10th ranked ND and 23rd rank Cincinnati is going to be upset. They won’t tune in unless it is already in the process. I don’t think the higher ups will take that risk.