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Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar
And I was just pointing out that it's silly to act like everyone has a fair chance in CFB. The BCS system was awful and I think the playoff is only slightly better.
Only one of the four 1 seeds in the '22 NCAA tourney belonged. How do we know that doesn't happen in CFB? There is no way to know, other than to allow more teams in.
There are too many teams in the NCAA tourney, but at least you know that every team with a viable chance has a shot.
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But where do you draw the line?
Okay, CFB decides to expand to 12, but then there’s a group of teams muddled together after the Top 5 or so, how do you decide which teams get to go and which ones get left out in the cold? Generally, in college football, the Top 4 or 5 teams are gonna be the ‘best’ teams and the teams that deserve to have the opportunity to play for a championship. A team that is 9-3 and finished 3rd in its conference and finished ranked #12 on the season had a great year. But do they deserve to play for a Natty? IMO, hell no. But that’s what will be happening in the new ‘expanded’ playoff. And just wait till we start hearing all the crying from the #13 team and the #14 team and the (you get the idea). WE should have been in instead of the #11 team or the #12 team! It will get unbearable listening to all the bitching and complaining from fanbases, coaches, players, boosters, administrators, etc. So then we’ll eventually cave into the bitching and expand again! Yea. Now you’ve got an extremely watered down field of teams, most of which have NO business having the opportunity to play for a National Title getting the Oprah treatment. Eventually no one will care about the CFP if it heads that direction.
You can’t treat college football like college basketball. They’re different sports with different physical requirements that require different turnaround times for games, more significant injury risks. How many extra weeks you gonna take away from these kids forcing them to play all these additional games if they happen to be ‘lucky’ enough to be one of the chosen. Does anyone give a shit about potential injury risks to these kids, several of which will be playing on Sunday’s soon enough. I guarantee their parents do. And probably their agents. And hell, the kids themselves. ‘Gotta look out for me’. Can you blame them? So you’ll see ‘Star’ players pulling out of CFP games on a regular basis because who wants to risk a future career of millions and lifetime security for your family to satisfy an organization that wants to subject them to additional injury risk by playing a drawn out CFP that instead of only 2 games is now 4 games (and eventually more than that if they continue to expand, which they will). How do I know that? Because it’s all about money and at the end of the day the NCAA will make as much profit off these teams and players as they can because they don’t give a damn about what happens to them when they’re finished with college and ready to head off to their future NFL career. (or whatever they choose to do in life after football)
They’ll squeeze them for every last dime they can, damn the future consequences of those actions though.
Mark my words. Expanding the CFP will ultimately ruin college football and the players will end up being the collateral damage from it.
But the NCAA won’t give one flying ****.
And THAT’s why you keep it at 4. It’s fine the way it is.