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No B1G in the playoff.


bilsker said:
That would be so incredibly rare that it isnt even a consideration.
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No its not rare ... its possible. What if Texas beat Oklahoma in the B12 championship? You'd then have 2 3-loss teams in the playoff (with Washington). What if NW beat tOSU in the B1G championship?

What if the playoff were in place in 2012 and an 8-5 Wisconsin Badgers won the B1G?
 
wcbsas said:
No its not rare ... its possible. What if Texas beat Oklahoma in the B12 championship? You'd then have 2 3-loss teams in the playoff (with Washington). What if NW beat tOSU in the B1G championship?

What if the playoff were in place in 2012 and an 8-5 Wisconsin Badgers won the B1G?
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So be it. What's the big loss? Who got left out that didn't control their own destiny? Nobody. OKLAHOMA misses out on the playoffs and that's ok. After losing to Texas TWICE, including in the title game I'd say that Texas would have been the best team in the Big 12.

You've presented one scenario in 2018 that didn't happen and one in 2012 that did.
 
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wcbsas said:
No its not rare ... its possible. What if Texas beat Oklahoma in the B12 championship? You'd then have 2 3-loss teams in the playoff (with Washington). What if NW beat tOSU in the B1G championship?

What if the playoff were in place in 2012 and an 8-5 Wisconsin Badgers won the B1G?
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Ifs don’t mean jack. The fact is Texas didn’t beat OU and Northwestern didn’t beat OSU. And Wisconsin was only in the CCG in 2012 because both Penn St. and Ohio St. were ineligible. That’s a once in 100 years scenario.

If the playoff expands to 8 teams, AQs for P5 conference champions is a no-brainer.
 



I want a 6 team one. Make finishing in the top 2 mean something significant. First two games are at #3 and #4 seed, then the "final four" is held like it is right now.
 






Six teams get the college football world to that point more quickly than eight would because it erases the “best” designation and blurs the class line between P5 and G5 once. And once you’ve done it once, it’s easier to do it twice, which only increases the pressure to start getting more of the “best” teams back into the postseason.

If a large playoff field is your aim, six is the perfect starting point.
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Goodness, going from 4 to 8 is perfect...you generally end up with the 2-3 teams that actually are the best, plus another 2-3 very good teams and then a couple complete pretenders (like UCF and the second best BIG or SEC teams). Six teams wouldn't give the pretenders a chance to show just how outclassed they really are. It'll save the schools money on fake NC Rings and parties. There won't be any arguments for whoever finishes 9th because #6, 7, &, and 8 will be beaten so badly each year that people will start to realize how silly it is to have more than 4 teams in the playoff.
 
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