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Originally Posted by Bearcat
I'll never understand this view... The system as it stands now dilutes the postseason, just look at the last couple of NC games and the awful bowl matchups. If, in this system, one loss meant you were SOL, I'd understand; but a pretty good 2-loss team won the NC last year. In the current system, you basically want to stay under two losses, with exceptions, and the same would be said for a playoff system.
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In this system, the way to put yourself in the best position is to win every game possible and play a good schedule.
Yes, LSU was a two-loss team that went to the championship game. But they got there because, among other things, West Virginia lost to Pittsburgh on the final weekend of the season.
My team, USC, wasn't in the championship because we failed to beat Stanford last year. The year before that we weren't in the championship because we failed to beat UCLA in the last game of the season.
In a playoff scenario, none of those games would have had any affect on the championship because both West Virginia and USC would have been in the tournament.