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Baredevil
It’s not people saying #16 deserves a shot, it’s people saying every conference champion deserves a shot. An 8 team playoff would have excluded Washington this year and people would have cried about how dare they leave a conference champ out and ignore the 3 losses.
Wait wait wait...why would Washington have been left out? Serious question
Because people are suddenly averse to auto-bids? You're saying Wazzu deserved a spot because slightly better record, even though they lost h2h to U-Dud? What 4 other teams would have gotten in over Washington?
The next best team in the ACC was a 3-loss Syracuse...nope
The Big Xii's second place team was 4-loss Texas...nope
The B1G would have sent Ohio State and... 2-loss Michigan?
In the SEC, you had 2-loss Georgia, and then several teams with 3 losses or more.
So that would have given us (in no particular order):
1 Alabama
2 Georgia
3 Oklahoma
4 Ohio State
5 Michigan
6 Clemson
7 Notre Dame
If people are saying Wazzu would have gotten in over UW, then we need to do away with the CCG's, once and for all. They serve absolutely no purpose other than a money grab, the risk is too high that you'll lose or suffer some key player injuries, and they are apparently keeping the best teams out of the playoff