Best reason to have a playoff?

To have an actual champion like every other sport.

The real reason is to have a bunch of good football games to watch... and most years this will include an extra LSU game!

Sounds like something to go under the BCS column to me.

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Because until we do, we will keep having this discussion every damn year.

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I don't think you get the fact that this is EXACTLY what the University Presidents want and like. The game is at an all time high in popularity. The attendance records keep falling, and the Cash keeps pouring in despite the state of the Economy.

People on this board are already predicting who will be on the LSU KICKOFF team next year!!!! ESPN just paid a gazillion dollars for the rights to broadcast the BCS.

Don't think for one minute that they care if people are "upset". Next week at work, 99% of the country won't give a frick about Utah or USC or Texas. I already don't.

Don't fight it bro. It is what it is.

people like communism

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8 teams is fine as long as the top 4 get to host the 1st round.

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won't ever happen

and this is actually an oft-forgotten logistical problem of a playoff

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Do you really expect a fan-base to travel for their conference championship game and then the 3 weeks of playoffs?

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maybe, maybe not

what i do expect is for pro-playoff people to forget the fact that colleges often aren't located in metropolitan areas, while every NFL team is in a metropolitan area. the difference in available money to be spent is very, very different

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To keep the sanctity of the regular season more intact, in an 8-team playoff, I'd actually like to see the top seeds host both the quarters and the semis.

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i just don't see the NCAA allowing schools to host "home" playoff games

you're talking about $9-12M in net profit those schools could make that only 4 schools could make

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I think it'd have to be split up somehow.

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not gunna happen, and i don't see how you could

even if slice off 10% and you split it up amongst playoff teams, that's still more haves and have nots

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Are you telling me that Richmond and Montana fans have more disposable money than LSU and USC fans?

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Attendance #s

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8. Richmond, 2,994, vs. Eastern Kentucky

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let's not bring richmond into this

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I know one day I'll run into a foreign sports fan who will ask me to explain college football

I will then explain all of it and I worry that he will laugh at me. A lot.

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The BCS is a lot closer to the system the EPL, Serie A, etc uses than a playoff.