re: Both Notre Dame and Miami should be in

Enjoy your downvote, sir.

Notre Dame should have won their conference

Notre dame isn’t winning shite neither is Miami may as well throw a good Tulane team and jmu team in. Only 4-5 schools have a chance

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You said nobody that didn’t make the CFP had could win it anyway so no big deal

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That's not exactly right. In fact that's critically different from my opinion.

Could win isn't what I said. I said we have to include everyone with an argument (based on the regular season) for being the best team in the country.

To me the baby is the regular season not the playoff. To preserve the importance of the regular season and the importance of winning every game you have to judge the results of the regular season as the best evidence possible of whether you might be the best team in the country.

When you expand playoffs by default you devalue how punishing losses are and how much we should care about the regular season.

We can already see people saying things like we should get rid of conference championship games because they might harm the losing team. That's a terrible terrible devaluing for what should be every team's first major accomplishment.

Anyway. TLDR

You include too many teams and bullshite results happen. You have the equivalent of wild card teams winning the NC and college football becomes a sport like the NFL but inferior in every way

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You include too many teams


we are kind of past that point

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Agreed. IMO a playoff with the top five ranked conference champs and the top three ranked at large teams is more than enough

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and with 138 teams or whatever it is you can’t only have 12 teams in the playoff

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The bowls will have to succeed or fail on their own merits On what objective basis does a team that hasn't won their conference and has lost multiple games have a reason to complain?

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Notre Dame would be a favorite against Indiana on a neutral field. Look it up.

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and would get their poo pushed in

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Tell the ACC not to have such a fricked up tiebreaker.

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Well the SEC had a similarly fricked up tiebreaker. Because there were a handful of teams tied with the same conference record, but they didn’t all play each other to settle the tie via head to head. So you end up with 4th and 5th tiebreaker scenarios coming into play. And that will continue to happen more and more with 16-18 team conferences where ties among 3+ teams will happen more and with less likelihood that the tied teams all played each other.

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they would be favored over everyone except Ohio State

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Not after they advance playing like shite