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Originally Posted by Legend
Excellent points...but, when there are no undefeated teams, or 1 undefeated or like a few years ago...4 or 5 undefeated teams, then you have a problem.
This year as of right now, there are 5 undefeated teams...if all 5 remain that way, who should play for the BCS?
Plus, one bad game in the regular season from a otherwise great team...and your season is gone! Add in the power conferences like the SEC and well, it's even tougher (albeit the SEC has won the last 4 BCS championships!).
I do believe the regular season means something....for seeding to the ultimate game...the national championship!
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Those are all good points, except I'd disagree with the "one bad game" example. One bad game is good enough to exit a team from the playoffs and no one disputes that, so it should count if it happens in the regular season as well.
The thing that bugs me about playoff talk is automatic bids. A bunch of conferences are going to get them, and we'll end up with 2-loss teams in the mix. That shouldn't happen.
Ideally, the size of the playoffs should change each year according to how many teams are "true contenders" based on their record and strength of schedule. The rest of the teams go to bowls.
If we end up with 2 undefeated teams, then there's just 1 game. If we end up with 4 undefeated teams, then there's 3 games. If there's 1 undefeated and 4 1-loss teams, then the 1-loss teams have a playoff to see who plays against the undefeated in the championship. Something like that. If some of the undefeateds have a low strength-of-schedule, they can do a playoff as well.
There's already plenty of bowls played both early and late in the bowl season to enable a playoff system, just no agreement on what system would work. I think the NCAA is hesitant to implement a standard playoff system because they don't want a crappy match-up in their "championship game" half the time. Neither do I.