8 team playoff minimum

[TheContractor]

Bull chit The top 16 for sure would be worthy and I think 24 would be near ideal. With no bowls the competition to make it into the playoffs would be intense. The top 24 teams would be excellent and there would only occasionally be a 3 loss team. Look at some the teams that have played in the BCS the past few yrs, Hawaii, U Conn etc. what nonsense, in the playoffs you wouldn't get to the big games unless you earned it.
The regular season would mean plenty and a top 8 seed means a bye.

The bowls are nonsense , an anachronism from a different time. When they go away, the playoffs become intense and meaningful.

It's astounding that people can not see this. The college football regular system would become even more important. Win or go home.

The NFL has it right, colleges need to follow suit. They already do in the lower divisions and it works great.

It will happen not just because of the competition advantages, but because a playoff system will likely generate two or three times the money of the bowl system with its abysmal tv ratings.

This is just the start, the playoffs are coming

How does the regular season become more important when more teams with worse records get in. Completely disagree with your statement.

NFL is proof a 6th seed has done very well in playoffs. Thats not showing importance to the regular season.

Yes, UCONN, Pitt, Utah have made BCS bowls and thats exactly what an 8 team playoff protects unless they have the SO&win-loss to deserve it.

 

[DocHorn]

How does the regular season become more important when more teams with worse records get in. Completely disagree with your statement. NFL is proof a 6th seed has done very well in playoffs. Thats not showing importance to the regular season.

Yes, UCONN, Pitt, Utah have made BCS bowls and thats exactly what an 8 team playoff protects unless they have the SO&win-loss to deserve it.

So your argument is the. NFL regular season is meaningless? Tell that to the 20 teams that didn't make the playoffs

The point is the regular season becomes more important to give yourself a chance in the tournament, don't make the playoffs, go home. None of the bowl nonsense.

 

[GTownBOI]

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[DocHorn]

In addition the playoffs gives all the teams hope, even the U Conns and Wyoming's

etc.

Playoffs are the direction college football should go, it will make the regular season even more important, at the end of the yr when UT plays BU like this yr, it would be a win or go home situation, the ultimate pressure cooker

 

[Embrey]

Very good arguments on all sides of this issue. I didn't qualify this in my original post but I am for trashing the entire bowl structure.

IMO, the bowl structure as it is serves two purposes:

1. To make $, which is great. And

2. It allows coaches to sell their snake oil to the faithful.

Taking all the arguments into consideration, I think we can all agree that to be in the postseason should mean you are a damn good team. Rewarding mediocrity will only give us more mediocrity.

 

[TheContractor]

So your argument is the. NFL regular season is meaningless? Tell that to the 20 teams that didn't make the playoffs
The point is the regular season becomes more important to give yourself a chance in the tournament, don't make the playoffs, go home. None of the bowl nonsense.

NFL is set up differently, if you set up college ball that way then we can communicate. NFL has 32 teams 2 divisions If you didnt know, 37.5% make the playoffs. College football has roughly 119 teams, so by your math you want a 45 team playoff. This isnt basketball. College sports are run differently then pro for a reason. So that ends the comparing of college to pros i hope.

U never answered the question. I find it astounding that you can not comprehend that adding more teams diminishes regular season value. Yes Playoffs are needed but the question is how many teams deserved to get into the playoffs. The first team out will always complain and thats fine. But at some point you have to draw a line.

If you have 4 super conferences then its easy. conference title game is first round of playoffs. 4 champs get into playoffs.

If you have 5-7 big conferences thats when the issue arrises. IF that is the case then you cant have more than 8 bc you diminish the value of a regular season. This is assuming all the conferences have a title game. If you goal is the keep the regular season meaningful, ever game in the regular season meaningful (and mine is bc i think CFB has what no other game has and i think that is great) then letting more in devalues that. The more you add to the playoffs the less important each regular season game is but it allows you to make a mistake and not pay for it.

you can not argue letting more teams in the playoffs and saying regular season is more meaning full. i hope you get that. and its ok if you don't bc we will never agree.

 

[DocHorn]

NFL is set up differently, if you set up college ball that way then we can communicate. NFL has 32 teams 2 divisions If you didnt know, 37.5% make the playoffs. College football has roughly 119 teams, so by your math you want a 45 team playoff. This isnt basketball. College sports are run differently then pro for a reason. So that ends the comparing of college to pros i hope.
U never answered the question. I find it astounding that you can not comprehend that adding more teams diminishes regular season value. Yes Playoffs are needed but the question is how many teams deserved to get into the playoffs. The first team out will always complain and thats fine. But at some point you have to draw a line.

If you have 4 super conferences then its easy. conference title game is first round of playoffs. 4 champs get into playoffs.

If you have 5-7 big conferences thats when the issue arrises. IF that is the case then you cant have more than 8 bc you diminish the value of a regular season. This is assuming all the conferences have a title game. If you goal is the keep the regular season meaningful, ever game in the regular season meaningful (and mine is bc i think CFB has what no other game has and i think that is great) then letting more in devalues that. The more you add to the playoffs the less important each regular season game is but it allows you to make a mistake and not pay for it.

you can not argue letting more teams in the playoffs and saying regular season is more meaning full. i hope you get that. and its ok if you don't bc we will never agree.

I comprehend just fine. You seem to want the regular season to be so important that only a handful of teams make the playoff system, and then what maintain a chitty bowl system?

I am saying that adding teams to either 24 or 32 would create an exciting playoff system that will crown a true champion. It would allow about 20 to 25% of the d-1 teams to make the system, thus giving hope across the board to the Boises and Wyoming's. I think it is important for those schools to have hope .

I also think the bowl system needs to die, only the most rabid college football fans watch bowl games along with the fans of the teams involved. The ratings suxx and most of the games are not even close to sell outs, they are meaningless games

A playoff system allows meaningful competition with the drama of potential upsets.

If you want to win , you have to be prepared to play each week.

It would be a killer system and would quickly become a fan favorite.

The regular season would be about two things, make it into the tournament, get the best seed possible.

I don't think that diminishes the regular season, it changes it.

The bowl season is meaningless, it just is. Some years you actually get a MNC game that seems appropriate, some years not so much. With a playoff system, the 2 teams left standing for the champ game will have earned their way.

If it means restructuring college football, then so be it, it's about time.

The NFL has the template, college needs to get their act together and create a truly exciting and significant post season playoff system and get rid of the stupid bowls

 

[Embrey]

OK, I will bite. Why does there have to be such an emphasis on the regular season?

My initial response to this argument is look at the Big 10/B1G.

Prior to the BCS era we heard for years how wonderful midwest football was and if you didn't understand then you were just a hayseed.

Enter the BCS and the B1G took its rightful place as sub-par.

When they all were allowed to play each other we were led to believe they were great.

When they had to play someone other than the Pac 10/12 champ, not so much.

They always tried to sell me on the regular season deal.

And the 4 super conferences. Are you saying you want to lock out all the little guys again?

 

[Tecohorn]

4 is just fine and way better than what we've had in the last 100 plus years.... # 5 bitching is funny compared to the bitching in the BCS era... Injuries and travel would become a nightmare for many at 8 and 16 teams...

 

[DocHorn]

4 is just fine and way better than what we've had in the last 100 plus years.... # 5 bitching is funny compared to the bitching in the BCS era... Injuries and travel would become a nightmare for many at 8 and 16 teams...

Doesn't seem to bother the lower divisions that have a playoff system

The higher seed would be the home team

Get down to 8 or 4 teams and you could travel and call it Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton etc. but until then it would just be home team is the higher seed