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I used to be one of the seemingly many people that believe the playoff should be expanded to eight teams, the idea being the PAC-12 will no longer be frozen out and a Cinderella team like Cincinnati or UCF would have a shot at the championship, but I’ve come to a sad realization
The idea of auto bids takes all the drama out of non conference matchups for 95% of teams, because if you lose, who cares? Just win your conference and it doesn’t matter, you have the chance of three loss teams in the playoffs just because winning a conference is all that matters
Even more than it is now, the media will pull more and more attention away from all the football which doesn’t affect the all important playoff, got a 6-4 Stanford playing a 5-5 Oregon State? Let’s talk Alabama and the playoffs, and unfortunately that happens now anyways
There’s so much importance to these sorts of matchups that don’t affect the playoffs and it’s ridiculous to say a college football game doesn’t matter because it matters to every player and every fan and that’s who college football is for, not the media companies and ADs
Instead of seeing a G5 team run to a championship, what’s gonna happen instead is a three loss blue blood is going to be the Cinderella story of the year, the regular season is gonna lose meaning and the Clemsons and Bamas of the world are going to have an even easier chance
The tradition of bowl games will continue to diminish, the Rose Bowl has only been played between the PAC-12 and Big Ten champs once since the playoffs began, what’s gonna happen with eight teams in the playoffs? Nobody is going to care about these historic bowls anymore
The best solution is to scrap the playoffs and add a +1 national championship at the end of bowl season, will we ever see it again? Probably not, but it’s the only solution to the playoff madness we’re seeing nowadays, ok rant over
