BREAKING CFP moving to straight seeding this year.

[BamaInBham]

This is a slight improvement, but honestly not what they should be worrying about. If last season's playoff is any indication, then the bye doesn't have that much effect. Teams with a bye performed poorly, and even when you look at the NFL (mainly talking about when they had 2 byes per conference), there wasn't a ton of correlation between playoff bye, and champion. If they really want to fix things, then it should be straight seeding with ZERO automatic bids. The automatic bids are the real issue, not who gets a bye. I'm sorry, but the ACC champ does not deserve an automatic bid to the playoff for winning their conference if they didn't even play any of the top 4 teams in their conference in the regular season.

They will not do this because the motive for expansion was never to yield a “true” champion but to gain and retain interest in the season and playoffs for the rest of the country outside of the southeast/SEC and midwest/Big 10.

 

[colbysullivan]

They looked at last year and realized “Maybe something isn’t right when Arizona St and Boise St get first round byes in year 1 of this new system.” They never should have gone with this retarded format in the first place. College football is dead.

 

[Redwood Forrest]

The US chess federation pairs half way down.
1 vs 8, 2 vs 9, 3 vs 10, 4 vs 11, 5 vs 12, 6 vs 13, 7 vs 14.
This way there is no 1 vs 14 playing.

 

[Ole Man Dan]

List em 1-12
If they are outside the top 12, let em play in a bowl game.