If this past year had been 8 teams then 3 SEC teams would have made the playoffs. The expansion logic is killing me.
My only argument is if you’re selecting the 4 best teams, then quite possibly there’s a team that is undeniably good or better than the the top 3 and didn’t play for a conference title(*hint hint*)...otherwise expand to 8 and make it “fair” for all the P5 conference champions to get in with 3 at-large bids. But the problem with that is It will water down the remaining NY6 that are not semifinals, which I think the committee really wants to avoid along with the backlash of putting a team in everyone and their mother knows isn’t close to being a contender (see USCw, 2017)
Secondly, with 8-teams, schools should consider getting rid of the 12th game, to compensate for a 1st round being played after Conf. Champ week, but that’s robbing the networks and schools of money, plus the Mercer’s and Northern Somewhere State Universities of the world will miss out on getting destroyed for a million dollars by a P5 school.
And if you have a 8-team playoff then it becomes a participation trophy for teams we know don’t belong, so the only sense is to keep it at 4 and no more than 5 (via a play-in game similar to March Madness)
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