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Eight teams will completely devalue great confernce championship games like the Bama/Georgia matchup we just had.

Four is a good number in my opinion.
 
My ideal situation for a college football playoff
Power 5 champs get automatic bids (winning your conference still needs to mean something)
3 at large - based on committee rankings
Seeds determined by committee rankings
As a reward for having a great regular season....top 4 seeds get a home playoff game in the first round
Rounds 2 & championship are among rotated bowls like they are now
Round 1:
8 @ 1 (Washington @ Bama; pac12 vs sec champs)
7 @ 2 (Michigan @ Clemson; at large vs acc champ)
6 @ 3 (osu @ nd; big 10 champ vs at large)
5 @ 4 (UGA @ Oklahoma; at large vs big 12 champ)
Committee could have ranked ucf ahead of Michigan this year and they'd have been in under this scenario.

Round 2:
Winner of 8/1 vs winner 4/5 @ bowl "X"
Winner of 7/2 vs winner 6/3 @ bowl "y"

Championship:
@ bowl "z"
 
Completely ludicrous but every simpleton has been begging for this so the NCAA is bound to succumb.

Current system is ideal because 1 loss is the cutoff point. It's remarkable how it comes down to that range and nowhere else. This season Ohio State was excluded with only 1 defeat but that's proper given the particulars of that defeat.

Dump it to 8 teams and now you're not only letting the sloppy 2 loss teams into the mix, but also some 3 loss teams will make it with regularity. We'll have the always genius "how they are playing now" argument. So instead of looking at the top ranked teams to see if they can survive, the spotlight will be on somebody like Washington this year, with 3 losses but trying to wiggle back in. Now that's a thrilling prospect, watching some team that lost multiple times desperately arguing for 8th and not 9th in the final ballot.

This would be a feast for the SEC. I'm not sure the people supporting this move here have bothered to figure that out. There would be 3 SEC teams as often than not. SEC title games like Alabama/Georgia would be essentially meaningless because both would get in.

The only positive I see would be teams like UCF getting a shot, or Boise State multiple times while Peterson was there.
 
I forgot to mention the perfect example of why this is a moronic idea. Jim Harbaugh is now being treated as a failure by some fans. Can't beat Ohio State. What good is he? There are reports he won't be at Michigan much longer, although I tend to doubt those claims.

Michigan was thumped by Notre Dame and Ohio State in the two spotlight games of its season.

Meanwhile, drop it to 8 teams and 2018 was a rousing success for Jim Harbaugh and company. Michigan is in comfortably.
 
I’m against it until Mark Emmert leaves.

Otherwise they’ll just rig it to favor more SEC teams.
 
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Liberty City El said:
I said all P5 champs, meaning ACC, B1G, Big XII, Pac-12 & SEC champions, plus one at large for an undefeated G5 champ.

Using that formula there would never be 2 SEC teams in the playoffs.
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I hate this version. Because what if Pitt upsets Clemson. We get 7-5 Pitt in the playoff?
 
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I can deal with 1 loss non champions getting into the current playoff system but with an 8 team system teams with multiple losses will get a chance to play for a title. Not a fan of teams not being punished for losing in the P5.
 
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