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Playoff Expansion seems inevitable, my money was not on 12 teams
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<blockquote data-quote="Wexahu" data-source="post: 3018025" data-attributes="member: 72863"><p>Oh, people will watch, I'm not saying they won't. I'll watch, no doubt. But people will watch about anything. I just remember people complaining about how the semi-final games in a 4-team playoff sucked because a team or two didn't belong and it was a foregone conclusion who would win. </p><p></p><p>Just going from 2 teams to 4 has gradually resulted in arguably less parity in college football in maybe forever. And I'm sure you'll say, yeah, because the same teams go to the playoffs every year (which they really don't, there's been 11 playoff teams, there hasn't been the same 4 teams go twice). And as far as the sell to recruits, what's easier? Hey, come to Ohio State, Alabama, Clemson or Oklahoma and you'll be in the playoffs every single year almost guaranteed, or come to another school and hey, you might make it once if you're lucky. Personally, I think it's cool that a team like Ohio State can lay a [ Finebaum ] against Purdue on some October Saturday and have that cost them. Keeping it very selective makes every game critical.</p><p></p><p>And I suppose what is going to happen is all these extra games are just going to further expose the gulf between the elite teams and everyone else (especially the G5 teams). And everyone will still complain. But we'll see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wexahu, post: 3018025, member: 72863"] Oh, people will watch, I'm not saying they won't. I'll watch, no doubt. But people will watch about anything. I just remember people complaining about how the semi-final games in a 4-team playoff sucked because a team or two didn't belong and it was a foregone conclusion who would win. Just going from 2 teams to 4 has gradually resulted in arguably less parity in college football in maybe forever. And I'm sure you'll say, yeah, because the same teams go to the playoffs every year (which they really don't, there's been 11 playoff teams, there hasn't been the same 4 teams go twice). And as far as the sell to recruits, what's easier? Hey, come to Ohio State, Alabama, Clemson or Oklahoma and you'll be in the playoffs every single year almost guaranteed, or come to another school and hey, you might make it once if you're lucky. Personally, I think it's cool that a team like Ohio State can lay a [ Finebaum ] against Purdue on some October Saturday and have that cost them. Keeping it very selective makes every game critical. And I suppose what is going to happen is all these extra games are just going to further expose the gulf between the elite teams and everyone else (especially the G5 teams). And everyone will still complain. But we'll see. [/QUOTE]
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