Doesn’t matter we can’t find 4 quality teams to play in the playoff now.
The current system is grossly in favor of the SEC right now but that’s because they are producing the strongest teams.
12 teams will increase the money pot but there will be blow outs as well. This is about guaranteed spots and what basically amounts to welfare. Let the 12 best teams play with no guarantees as it’s not rocket science. The fact it isn’t getting done just proves the other conferences are scared they won’t have equal representation and honestly they shouldn’t unless their teams step up.
I believe you share a misconception of what the 12 teams CFP will do ... have more blowouts. One of the features of the CFP12 is that it is configured in a way that you will have a lot better games, even if there will be blowouts. By that I mean no matter the number of teams that get in, you are still going to likely get the same results once you get to 4. Even if more teams get better, it seems that there are always 1 or 2 teams that are just way better than everyone else. You can go back 50 years and see this. It's not a new thing.
Because there are more games, and some will be blowouts, your statement is factually correct. But I don't think it will be as bad as you think it will be. With the first round byes, you get 5 v 12, 6 v 11, 7 v 10 and 8 v 9. I contend that the difference between teams 5 and 12 isn't much. Just looking at this past year, we saw that with Utah v. USC, OkSt v. Baylor, and many other games featuring teams not in the top 4 where they were very competitive. So the first round games should be competitive because those teams are basically interchangeable. I am going to go with 3 competitive games, 1 not.
In the second round games, if it goes to chalk, you have 1 v. 8, 2 v. 7, 3 v 6, 4 v. 5. Assuming that 1 and 2 will blow out whoever they play, those two games are likely blowouts. But, 3 v 6 and 4 v. 5 are likely to be good games. So we have 2 competitive, 2 not.
Then in the semis it is typically not competitive, and the finals is. So that's 1 competitive, 2 not. Total all that up and you get 6 competitive games, 5 not. That's 5 more competitive games than we get now. With a ton of fans involved that weren't before.
This is what you would have had in round 1 this year:
Byes to Bama, Michigan, Cincy and Baylor.
Pitt @ UGA
Utah @ ND
Mich State @ tOSU
OkState @ Ole Miss
First, those are way more interesting as they are 4 home field games in the second week of December. They would all have been better games than any bowl games that were played. Our game might not have been competitive, but we are the outlier as the best team but laid an egg in the SECCG.
The second round would have been:
Bama v. winner OkState @ Ole Miss
Michigan v. winner Mich State @ tOSU
Cincy v. winner Utah @ ND
Baylor v. Pitt @ UGA
Bama and UGA probably win easily
The other two games are likely very competitive.
That means that so far we would have had 8 games, at least 5 would have been competitive.
Semis would have been:
Bama v. UGA
tOSU v. Utah
Having our game as a semi would have been a let down, but the winner would have take on tOSU which would have been a great game, I am guessing.
UGA v. tOSU - UGA National Champs.
That is actually an exciting playoff right there, with way more competitive games than you get with the 4 team plus NY6 bowl games with people opting out.
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