Diego Roll Tide
Well-Known Member
If the point is to accommodate all P5s plus G5 teams with the best case, 8 makes far more sense. This season, that would’ve allowed the 5 P5 champs, Cinci, and CC along with an at large (which would’ve been ND).Given all that, who should have been in the playoff and why?
What is the point of a 6 team playoff? Why should 2 teams get a bye? If you’re going for ratings, why have the top 2 teams sitting on their asses in this extra week of football that going to happen anyway?
Whether that SHOULD be the point (i.e., whether it should be expanded) is a different question. If one is looking at ratings, I doubt many who took a pass on Bama/ND were going to be giddy over Bama/Oregon or Bama/CC. And the only team with a decent shot at “crashing the party” was OU - hardly “CFB new blood”. WRT the recruiting angle, I find it hard to believe HS kids watching would suddenly have an epiphany “why go to tOSU or Bama when I could go to Cinci or CC?”