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Originally Posted by Mr. Plow
Let's be honest, making a bowl game isn't exactly what it used to be. Now, you get teams without a winning record or sitting at .500 making bowls.
It's like Jim Boeheim wanting to expand the NCAA tournament to 120 teams or whatever the ****ing number it is so that EVERYONE gets a shot. **** that.
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I agree, but I like bowl games. It gives me something to watch, and they don't muck up the championship because the only game that "matters" in that regard is the NC game.
The tourney, awesome as it is, doesn't usually crown the best team. Instead, it crowns the hottest team. Adding more teams would only exacerbate that. 64 teams was perfect, IMO. It was enough to let in the conference champions without watering it down too much with at-large teams. I don't care enough about the sport to demand that the best team be crowned champion, so the gimmick is well worth it to me.
I'd like to see an 8 team playoff in football as long as there were still bowl games for the rest. Hell, I think preseason bowl games would be a cool way to get good early matchups like basketball does with holiday tournaments.