It's a disgrace that will ruin the best regular season in sports.
Four is, and has always been, the right number.
If 4 is perfect, and leads to a suspenseful regular season, why can I already predict the 2025 game?
Alabama 90%
Auburn, LSU, Georgia 90%
Clemson, Oklahoma 90%
Notre Dame, Ohio State 65%
Everyone Else65%
If there was no playoffs, the SEC/NFL would have always been better than the rest of college football/AFL.
But the Jets beat the Colts—- and it was deserved.
The Chiefs then beat the big bad Vikings
****, conversely, the New York Giants would never have been given a chance to beat the Patriots.
Those results didn’t cheapen the season, it made it all the more memorable.
The winning team wasn’t given much hope, won the games in their portion of the league to qualify, and kept winning until the worthy underdog became world champion
For the “regular season” to matter. Win your major conference! You get an automatic birth.
Give the top rated non-major a ticket.
Pick 7 and 8 from all teams, but no conference can have more than 2 participants.
I could go for 6 as described above, but then I’d have to deal with the f-wad Irish minions and the sec apologists.
These are thoughts I heard a long time ago, and realized they were as logical as they were complete.
I don’t mind hearing a better idea than the above, but I haven’t heard it over the last 10-15 years of listening for it.