The 6 team is only for the one or two years a decade there are 5 or 6 great teams. Most of the time 4 is exactly what you want/need but there are years where a deserving 5 team can get screwed over IMO. So to be fair and nice I think it should always be 6. As far as the two byes I’d be ok with using the bcs computers for those spots every year. They can complain about who got the byes but if it’s by computer it is what it is. Basically 6 is the most I’m comfortable with and there won’t be a year where a deserving team gets left out. You’d be the guy to ask about this point I’m about to make but to my eyes there has never been a #7 team who should’ve ever even sniffed a championship game and that’s why I hate the 12 team. They keep trying to turn cfb into college basketball and it sucks
The portal, I guess, makes this possible, but it's still stupid.
If we look over the great landscape of college football, I can only think of a couple of times when one might reasonably argue that a team ranked outside of the top 3-4 was the best team in the country. But we accepted the fact those teams LOST, which basically made (almost) every game a playoff. And a lot of those circumstances were eliminated by:
a) the consolidation of the SWC into the Big 12 (which meant more losses and fewer 0 and 1-loss teams
b) the scramble for the independents sans Notre Dame to join conferences (mostly the ACC)
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Consider, for example, 1990.
By the end of the season, there was a general feeling based on nothing more than hunch that "Miami is the best team in the country." But Miami had lost to the same BYU team that gave up 59 points to Hawaii and then 65 to aTm in BACK-TO-BACK contests. Sure, BYU beating Miami was probably a fluke - but the fact is that BYU had over 400 yards of total offense against what some thought was the country's best defense, beat them in every meaningful stat and won the game despite turning the ball over FIVE times (and getting only 3 back). They then lost to Notre Dame, 29-20, in South Bend.
Where did this idea of "Miami is the best team in the country" REALLY come from?
1) they blew out an overrated one-loss Texas team in the bowl game, 46-3
2) they were living off the reputation of 3 national titles (and 3 near misses) in the previous 7 years
3) since Miami would beat BYU if they played again, it "didn't count"
4) idiots who write about college football are impressed with offensive powerhouses and always ignore teams whose stronger unit is the defense
5) since Miami had statistically beaten Notre Dame (15 of their 29 points were on FGs and one TD was a 94-yard kickoff return by Rocket Ismail), that loss ALSO didn't count
What's funny is how the way the pundits spun it, Colorado's Fifth Down win was "really" a loss while Miami's two losses were "really" wins.
With all of the consolidated conferences, we don't need anything more than the Top Four. Hell, I think Georgia probably should have been in the Top Four in 2023 over Texas, but how in the world can you really do that when Texas did beat Alabama and Alabama did beat UGA? They probably should have been in over Washington, too, but how do you do that?
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