16 team playoff this season

I’ll die on the hill that the BCS was the pinnacle of college football.

I don’t give a shite about the playoff and what this era of college football has been like for a fan compared to what came before it.

Let's stop and think for a minute about why these teams are "unworthy", because playoffs have worked for decades at every other level of college football (and college sports, for that matter).

The long-standing bowl system created the Haves and Have Nots. The BCS and then the College Football Playoff reinforced it, because if you weren't in a particular conference, you weren't "good enough".

What is FBS football going to look like in 10 years when the conference you're in doesn't automatically dictate your ceiling? Hell, we still had Have Nots even in the "marquee" conferences like the SEC and Big Ten, but who were the big stories this year?

Indiana and Vanderbilt, perennial cellar dwellers.

The playing field is being leveled. What we thought was the best system in the past was the result of what the people in charge wanted you to think. Now, I'll admit, I'd rather see a system like the BCS used to determine who makes the playoffs rather than these bullshite "eye tests" and the ever-changing criteria of a human committee.

We need to go back to a system where only a handful of teams have a postseason.

24 Team Playoff.

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I’ll die on the hill that the BCS was the pinnacle of college football.

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Amen

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I’ll die on the hill that the BCS was the pinnacle of college football

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Yep. Last year should have Oregon/UGA. Sorry everybody else. And this year should be UGA/Indiana, too bad TT. See, that wouldn’t be okay. We finally have the playoff we should have had for the last 70 years. Stop bitching.

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Yep. Last year should have Oregon/UGA. Sorry everybody else. And this year should be UGA/Indiana, too bad TT. See, that wouldn’t be okay. We finally have the playoff we should have had for the last 70 years. Stop bitching.

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Right. You just said the quiet part out loud. You would be okay with the BCS because the SEC would always get the benefit of the doubt. Georgia gets a mulligan, Texas Tech doesn’t.

Also, why Georgia? They lost at home to Alabama. Ohio State would have one loss at a neutral site to the number one team.

Thats a shitty system.

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Everyone blames the playoffs for killing the bowls but it is the transfer portal and NIL that play just as big a role.

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Not NIL, but transfer portal for sure.

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because playoffs have worked for decades at every other level of college football (and college sports, for that matter).

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People say this, but there’s no evidence of it. Almost every good FCS program outside the Missouri Valley and Big Sky has left FCS for FBS in the past 15 years.

Since 2010:

FBS Alabama has 5 national titles
FCS NDSU has 10 national titles
DII Northwest Missouri and Ferris State have 3 each
DIII Wisconsin-Whitewater has 4

What evidence is there that a large playoff is better or creates parity? At the scholarship level, FCS has far less parity than FBS

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The long-standing bowl system created the Haves and Have Nots. The BCS and then the College Football Playoff reinforced it, because if you weren't in a particular conference, you weren't "good enough".

What is FBS football going to look like in 10 years when the conference you're in doesn't automatically dictate your ceiling? Hell, we still had Have Nots even in the "marquee" conferences like the SEC and Big Ten, but who were the big stories this year?

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I think the conference you’re in determines how good you are more than ever before. The financial gap between the SEC/Big Ten and the ACC/Big XII is enormous. Then the gap from the A4 to the G5 I think is bigger than ever.

The two G5 teams in the playoff are much bigger underdogs than the mid-majors of the BCS era would have been (TCU, Boise State, Utah).

People pushing for 16 teams are quickly forgetting nothing changes with the people making the decisions. It’s all scripted so 16 teams or 24 or 48 teams won’t change anything.

What it really shows is there are too many teams in each conference. Eight games and two are all SEC matchups.

If we swap Bama, with Miami they're going against Aggy. ND, they're going against Ole Miss.

If Oklahoma were in the Big Eight and Aggy were in the SWC where they belong you could just swap Texas with Vanderbilt.