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Wilner: B12 and P12 will likely compete for 4th CFB playoff spot.
It's before early, but...
* If we assume the Pac-12 champion is not undefeated …
* And if we assume Alabama wins the SEC with fewer than two losses …
* And if we assume Florida State/Clemson wins the ACC with fewer than two losses …
* And if we assume Michigan State/Ohio State wins the Big Ten with fewer than two losses …
Then the Pac-12 champion could very well be competing with the Big 12 champion for the final playoff berth.
(Notre Dame and/or Houston might be involved, as well, but that’s for another time.)
Story. Seems a little far-fetched at this point that any P12 or B12 team other than Furd or Oklahomo could make a playoff game competitive.
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Oh wait it's because you didn't actually say any of those things.
There have been two play offs. Oregon was in one of them STFU
But still.
We have all the screenshots we need.
There's a good chance that this is the year of absolute carnage and drives home the all conference winners need to be in the playoff discussion.
UW will keep UW out of the playoff.
hth
I'm ok with that.
The lower divisions get this right. Unfortunately the FBS is too tied to the dreckfest bowel system to do what's right. In that event, this is the best system. 8 fixes nothing IMO.
Here's how I see 8:
5 conference winners = automatic bids
1 non Power 5 = automatic bid
2 at large bids --> covers any independents like Notre Dame assuming that they stay out of full fledge ACC membership
You could argue that by keeping only 1 bid for the non-power 5 that that's limiting but you'd have very few instances IMO where you can make an argument for 2. It also will encourage top end non-power 5 teams to actually test themselves in the non-conference to increase their quality of schedule ... that's good for college football IMO. In the few instances where you do have two top end non power 5 teams (take the year that Boise and TCU played in the Fiesta Bowl), they will be covered by the remaining at large bids. Likwise, it will encourage teams to pay less attention to these shit non-conference games and instead focusing on increasing the quality of their opposition to help differentiate themselves.