Quote:I think 16 is too much. When you start letting that many teams in, you devalue the regular season too much. You also get teams that have no business competing for a NC in. I'm fine with 2 SEC teams in the playoff, even in a 4 team system, if that's how that's how things shake out. I don't think a team that finishes 5th in their own conference should be competing for National Championship, though, and that's the kind of stuff you'd have happening in a 16 team playoff. 

 

If you go to 16 though you give those mid majors a shot at getting into the playoff field.  Who is to say that a team like Marshall couldn't win the national title (we all know they cant, but there have been instances in the past where those teams had a shot)

 

Say last year...a team like UCF would not have made the 8 team playoff, but they hopped in and beat a team that would have been in the top 4.

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