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The Case for 8
As a college football fan, I am exasperated by some of the talking heads of college sports bemoaning a transition to an 8-team playoff in college football. It is evident that this would not only be a good idea, it would help make college football more enjoyable for all involved. The goal of college athletics is to help develop young men and women into responsible and honorable people of integrity. The current college football system does not allow for that. We should be taught to respect all involved including our opponents. The current system causes many major power 5 conference teams to schedule non-conference opponents that are much weaker as the teams fear one loss will not allow them to be one of the four subjectively chosen teams. Also, in these extremely lopsided non-conference games the major power 5 team is expected to win by a huge margin which does not teach our young men to be respectful of the opponent. It only teaches them to show no mercy and run up the score on an obviously lesser opponent to make the subjective choice easier for the committee. By including all power 5 conference champs plus 3 at large teams in the college playoff, you allow teams to schedule much more competitive regular season non-conference games as no one fears the loss with keep them from being subjectively chosen. Then coaches do not have to chide their fan bases for not showing up to watch them pummel a much smaller university. You could even structure the non-conference games a bit so that the conferences played each other based upon their ranking in their conference from the previous year. An early season Ohio State verses Alabama game would draw much more attention than either of them playing a tiny university non-conference game. The 8-team playoff allows for many more regular season non-conference match ups between ranked teams. It also puts more emphasis on winning the conference title. If teams know winning their respective conference title gains them a shot at the national title, then they are more focused on the conference championship. As of right now, the conference titles are meaningless unless you are in the SEC as shown by the subjective choices of the committee. This would also dramatically broaden the interest of the country in the national college football process instead of it only being focused in the southeast. Thank you for taking the time to read this and feel free to re-post it anywhere you can.
As a college football fan, I am exasperated by some of the talking heads of college sports bemoaning a transition to an 8-team playoff in college football. It is evident that this would not only be a good idea, it would help make college football more enjoyable for all involved. The goal of college athletics is to help develop young men and women into responsible and honorable people of integrity. The current college football system does not allow for that. We should be taught to respect all involved including our opponents. The current system causes many major power 5 conference teams to schedule non-conference opponents that are much weaker as the teams fear one loss will not allow them to be one of the four subjectively chosen teams. Also, in these extremely lopsided non-conference games the major power 5 team is expected to win by a huge margin which does not teach our young men to be respectful of the opponent. It only teaches them to show no mercy and run up the score on an obviously lesser opponent to make the subjective choice easier for the committee. By including all power 5 conference champs plus 3 at large teams in the college playoff, you allow teams to schedule much more competitive regular season non-conference games as no one fears the loss with keep them from being subjectively chosen. Then coaches do not have to chide their fan bases for not showing up to watch them pummel a much smaller university. You could even structure the non-conference games a bit so that the conferences played each other based upon their ranking in their conference from the previous year. An early season Ohio State verses Alabama game would draw much more attention than either of them playing a tiny university non-conference game. The 8-team playoff allows for many more regular season non-conference match ups between ranked teams. It also puts more emphasis on winning the conference title. If teams know winning their respective conference title gains them a shot at the national title, then they are more focused on the conference championship. As of right now, the conference titles are meaningless unless you are in the SEC as shown by the subjective choices of the committee. This would also dramatically broaden the interest of the country in the national college football process instead of it only being focused in the southeast. Thank you for taking the time to read this and feel free to re-post it anywhere you can.
