(01-01-2018, 10:42 PM)imtheblkranger Wrote: The playoff system is a joke to begin with. It's a glorified big board ranking.

Have all the power 5 conference winners get in and then a wild card. Take the damn committee out of it.

That doesn't help UCF this year though because Alabama would have gotten the wildcard.  It needs to be 8 teams and no more with the 5 power conference champions getting automatic bids and then have 3 wildcards.  There will always be that 9th team that gets screwed, but with 8 everyone has a path to playoff if they take care of their own business.  Right now, smaller conference teams don't have a path to the playoff as was evidenced this year with UCF.  

I'd further stipulate that an undefeated smaller conference team automatically gets one of the wildcard bids as long as they've played at least 2 power conference teams during the regular season.  UCF had two power conference teams scheduled this year but one of the games (Georgia Tech) was cancelled due to the hurricane and was never able to be rescheduled.  The system I've outlined wouldn't have protected UCF this year either, but it was extenuating circumstances that cancelled that GT game and that's not going to happen every year.  And had they known ahead of time they would need that 2nd power conference team on their schedule to qualify for an automatic bid, I'm sure they would have tried to move heaven and earth to get one scheduled on a bye week to meet the requirement.

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