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Playoff Expansion seems inevitable, my money was not on 12 teams
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<blockquote data-quote="Zubaz" data-source="post: 3017991" data-attributes="member: 3528"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zubaz, post: 3017991, member: 3528"] 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. 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. 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. 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. [/QUOTE]
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