While your thinking is sound. After the events of the passed few years and especially the passed few weeks, I think just about anything goes.
And like I said in the other thread. If the NCAA is really about viewership numbers, they are going to want to get the hard core football fans that are not into college, to GET into it.
After all, my dad has a good point. 85 % of the games are uninteresting. And lack of a playoff NEVER gives you a TRUE champion because the best of the best don't all get a chance.
Nobody wants to watch a game where your team is favored by 50+
And where you lose a game and your season is over. I like championships. Just like most fans should. To brag about a division title, or even conference title is stupid to me. It's much better of a game when everyone is realisticly setting thei goal to win it all. But even with 129 teams, after 6 weeks there are only 7 or 8 teams with a chance. And only 3 or 4 who control their own destiny without having to hope someone else loses. And when that someone else only plays 1 good team in their last 5 games it's stupid.