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Seems like the "parity" is an illusion.
Are there not 4 CFB teams that are close in talent?
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A 16 team playoff will fix this
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No such thing as parity in college football. You have roughly 8-10 teams with a legit shot to make the CFP each year and maybe 2 or 3 with a legit shot to win a national title.
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I mean, Cincy looked more the part than UM. Maybe we need more G5 in the playoffs
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Actually would in the sense you wouldn't have over a month to prep for one opponent.
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I think it would probably keep kids from opting out
Parity only exists below the very top of the food chain. Throw out the elite teams, and the rest can probably mixed and matched without a lot of difference. At least that is the way it seems.
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It would keep the best team from winning though.
Teams like A&M could beat Bama and Georgia, but then would turn around and lose to Cincy.
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Right? We’ve had like two good semi final games in the history of the playoff, can’t find 4 great teams in a given year, but everyone insists we need to expand the playoff…
Been seeing a lot of people saying it's almost best to just ignore the elite haves of college football/stop looking at it through the lens of the playoff because once you get past them there's just so much craziness and fun, wild games. Like instead of being mad that only like four teams regularly have a shot to win a title each year go enjoy McElwain getting dumped with Frosted Flakes after winning the Sun Bowl, and honestly they're not wrong.
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This is why I’ve changed my opinion of Staying with 4 to expanding. If you guarantee at least 1 team from every region of the country a spot in the Playoff then all the top recruits will be more inclined to stay home in their region. At just 4 they are all going to Bama/UGA/Ohio State/Clemson
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Always was. The only thing the playoff has prevented is controversy between #2 and #3 that happened every 7-8 years under the old format.
Expanding the playoff from a competition standpoint would be dumb.
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I see absolutely nothing wrong with this.
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Yup. An expanded playoff does nothing Until the talent gap doesn’t exist like it does. Michigan recruits really well. But we don’t recruit anywhere in the ballpark of Georgia. There used to be not a huge difference between top 15 classes and top 5 classses, not so much anymore.
For comparison, Georgia took in 20 five star recruits in the last 4 recruiting cycles. 41 top 100 players. 1/2 of their team is comprised of top 100 players. Michigan has a total of 7 top 100 players in the same four year cycle.
I don’t know what the solution is but we’re going to keep seeing 3-4 teams dominate the sport until that’s spread out more.
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That’s crazy.
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It’s really these 4 teams, with two fringe teams and then everyone else.
2021 College Football Team Talent Composite
In order to create the most comprehensive Team Recruiting Ranking without any notion of bias, 247Sports Team Recruiting Ranking is solely based on the 247Sports Composite Rating.
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And occasionally these other two
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Oh for heavens sake, give it 10 years and the landscape will look different and people will STILL be complaining
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As I watched both games yesterday, I seem to agree with someone on here that said just go back to being #1 vs #2. The semifinal games have been blowouts except for maybe 2 or 3 of them. The Purdue and Tennessee game was much closer as was the Houston and Auburn game. Some of today's games will be closer and more exciting than the combined 61-17 score for the playoffs semifinals. I was a fan of expanding the playoff, but not so much now. Now, we are going to see Bama vs UGA again. Wonder how the ratings will look?
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If we go back to 2 teams, the final this year would have had Bama beat Michigan by 8 TD’s.
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Who does the recruiting for Michigan?