Zubaz
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1). I'm not sure this is true, considering NFL is the most popular sport in the country, dominates college in the regular season ratings, and has a pretty expansive playoff system, but ok I will stipulate to this.Why do you think college football is considered to have the best regular season in all of sports?
2) There's no reason to believe that the proposed will hurt the regular season and plenty of reason to think it INCREASES it. Pac-12 games haven't really mattered after mid to late October for the last four years. It was a foregone conclusion that the Big 12 was out of the playoffs by late September this year. That wouldn't be the case anymore. G5 games (60+ teams and 30-some games every week with literally no chance of making the current playoffs) are important for the first time since.....uh....ever? Meanwhile the all-important byes basically keep the likelihood of any "rest games" the same as they are now. Not seeing the downside.
There aren't 12 teams even remotely capable of winning a 4-game tournament in major college football.
Not going to agree on this point at all. You're saying that 2010 Boise at #10 couldn't have possibly made a run? 2008 Ohio State couldn't have gotten hot? 2012 A&M was arguably among the hottest teams in the country at the end of the season, you don't think that team was capable of something? Upsets happen in college ball *all the time*, the idea that the gap between #11 and #7 is so great that nobody would even care to watch them is hooey.I think the intrigue about which teams are seeded #9-12 is going to quickly fade once people realize those teams are just fodder for the teams with byes.
EDIT: You also appear to be arguing team structure and roster depth would remain static, but current elite playoff teams are able to recruit based on that elusive playoff access to score the best recruits. In other words, if an elite level recruit is choosing between Ohio State, Alabama, Miami, and USC, we know two of those teams can sell their playoff history. Expanded playoffs open that up quite a bit to change the equation 5-10 years down the line.
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