I think the backup plan is playing in a championship game. Yes, Alabama lost, but it was in a championship game for their first loss so they wouldn't drop out.

True.

But, would a 3-loss Florida team get a playoff birth because they are Conference Champions then?

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And what is up with Michigan only having 4 road games in the whole season?


How in the world does a team have 8 home games and 4 away games? That's [BAD WORD REMOVED].


In fact, Michigan only played 3 games the whole season outside of their own state, and lost 2 of them.


That's a problem too.

Why in the world would any school want to schedule any out of conference road games when they can play the majority of the season at home, with a real advantage, and a real chance at making it to the playoffs that way?


Ridiculous.

 

Football schedules are developed years in advance. 2016 was suppose to be a year where Michigan plays on the road @Notre Dame, but ND backed out of the series.

 

If the schedule had been what it was suppose to be, then Michigan would have gone into 2016 playing preseason #6, #10, #12, and #17 all on the road this year. You can't really blame Michigan for Notre Dame dropping the series out of nowhere.

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True.

But, would a 3-loss Florida team get a playoff birth because they are Conference Champions then?

 

Are you talking strictly this year or in general? Because if Alabama was undefeated and everyone else had 2+ losses then a case could be made (because Florida would be ranked higher than 15 in such a scenario), but a 3 loss championship team wouldn't jump over 1 & 2 loss Championship teams.

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^I still say this thing is a mess.


Take only Conference Champions, some of which may be 2 or 3 loss teams?


Overall record, so teams can start scheduling a bunch of scrubs to play against, and mostly at home?



I hope they just go to 8 teams pretty soon.

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^I still say this thing is a mess.


Take only Conference Champions, some of which may be 2 or 3 loss teams?


Overall record, so teams can start scheduling a bunch of scrubs to play against, and mostly at home?



I hope they just go to 8 teams pretty soon.

 

5 conference champs at 3 at large bids for teams like OSU and Michigan who could be top 4 teams but didn't win their conference.

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Im fine with 4 but I think 8 is inevitable. Too much money to be had and enough people complaining about fairness.

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