I do support a 4 team playoff. Actually I think 6 is about the perfect number, give the top teams byes like the NFL. I feel there should be a big advantage for teams that have incredible regular seasons like FSU last year or Notre Dame in 2012. That also allows room for a top midmajor contender which the 4 team really doesn't. They never play a hard enough schedule to compete resume-wise with the top teams from the power conferences. I really think the midmajors should split off from the power conferences, but that's another thread.

 

For 2008, UF beat Alabama in the conference championship. So Alabama is out. The Big 12 South was pretty bizarre with OU, Texas, and Texas Tech all beating each other and OU somehow earning the birth to the championship game which they won. I wonder what the tiebreaker was. In that instance, it sucks for the other teams, but you've got to go with the conference champion. Don't like it, take it up with the Big 12. OU earned the conference championship by whatever rules the Big 12 set out and that makes them more deserving than the others to my mind. They're all competing under the same strictures.

 

Utah has a decent schedule while Boise State's had one quality game against Oregon and that was it.

 

So UF, OU, USC, and Penn State are the most deserving.

 

My point is that if you want to be given a shot to win the championship, show you're the MOST deserving team in the regular season. If you make a good case for #1, it takes something bizarre to be left out of a 4 team playoff. If you just do enough to be in the conversation for #4 it's your own fault if you're left off.

 

As an FSU basketball fan I understand the pain of the bubble, but you don't have to go to 16, 32, or 64 teams to get everyone who deserves the title. The conversation just gets watered down the further you go talking about who deserves a shot at the playoffs. That statement leaves someone in the cold no matter how big you go.

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