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Post by Bevo on Nov 25, 2022 14:46:09 GMT
I think the DIII national championship (going on right now) is good example of a fair and inclusive system that still values the regular season AND conference championships. All 27 regular season conference champs automatically qualify + 5 'at large' entries for a 32 team field ( no byes required). 218 of the 250 DIII football playing schools are eliminated via the regular season. That's a meaningful regular season. What do you think ?....and please, no " nobody cares about DIII ". That's not the point. A fair, inclusive system is the point.....a system that values champions, regular seasons, and on field elimination competition is the point. 32 is not nearly enough. Should be at least 64, or better yet … 128 I think you don’t understand what “meaningful regular season” means. It means, you CARE, deeply whether you win or lose a game in early October. You know, your season depends on it. When you survive a series of such test, the value just builds… exponentially. With a huge playoff, a team like OSU, or even Texas, could lose 2, 3, even 4 games and STILL win a National Championship… by winning a lucky final game against some other school that went undefeated all year, beat 11 Top 10 teams, but lost their QB in a semi-final game. The season’s accomplishments meant nothing. All that mattered was the ONE crapshoot game.
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Post by bluehen on Nov 25, 2022 23:23:38 GMT
A 16 team playoff would be a huge playoff ? Ask the players and coaches of the 116 teams that get eliminated by the regular season if that regular season was meaningful or meaningless. Lots of ways to look at it. Also ask the players and coaches of regular season championship teams that are prevented from competing for a national title about the meaningfulness and fairness of that. Also, Bevo, IF winning a league championship was an automatic ticket to a playoff wouldn't conference championship games become more meaningful and critical than ever . In the big picture, playoffs make way more games meaningful and offer the greatest late season drama ( vs small exclusive voted Invitational events ). That's why all the other team sports (incl football) prefer inclusive playoffs over Invitationals.
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