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Gobbler-100

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If they're going to have a playoff, there should be auto-qualifiers.


Playoffs w/o auto-qualifiers aren't playoffs: they're invitation tournaments.

To me, in a perfect world, we would go back to the pre-Bowl Coalition/Alliance/BCS era, have all the major bowls on NYD, and let them invite/partner with whomever the hell they want. It was unspeakably awesome and people who don't remember it that way are idiots who shouldn't be allowed anywhere within 5000 miles of college football-related decisions.

BYU winning the national championship for no reason was great. Split national titles were great. Having multiple games with the potential to impact the title going on at the same time on NYD was great. The rarity of 1 vs 2 bowl games was great. It was all chaotic and weird and hard to explain to people that didn't pay as much attention as the fanatics did and I loved it and they killed it for money.

But kill it they did, and given that I've had to sit here and watch this slowly evolving stupidity since 1992 they should at least go the full nine and make the "playoff" a reasonably proper exercise where (most of) the participants are decided on the field, rather than by a committee. Give me the 10 conference champs and let the 4 most highly regarded computer ranking systems pick 6 at-large teams. The committee can still get their grubby hands on it by seeding the teams if they want. Just put the major bowls out of their misery and let them die with some semblance of dignity. Let the 2nd tier bowls continue on and - again - let them invite whomever they want.

(In response to this post by Hokie `04)

Posted: 10/22/2018 at 12:05AM


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  I disagree -- Vippie1 10/23/2018 10:46AM
  It seems like this is a year that should argue for playoff contraction. -- Gobbler-100 10/22/2018 12:23AM
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  Why do you want to expand the playoff? -- Hokie `04 10/21/2018 1:19PM
  If they're going to have a playoff, there should be auto-qualifiers. -- Gobbler-100 10/22/2018 12:05AM
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