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Originally Posted by jbergey22
An 8 team playoff? You dont think teams 9-20 are going to have complaints?
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It's much more appropriate to disregard the claims that teams 9 through 12 (not 9 through 20, come on) are championship-worthy, than it is to dismiss teams 3, 4, and 5. Teams 3, 4, and 5 are likely conference champions with one loss at most. Teams 9 through 12 and down most likely aren't. In a 16-team tournament, who gets left out? Some combination of TCU, Oklahoma State, Georgia Tech, Georgia, BYU, and Oregon, probably. Those teams didn't only lose one-point games like Texas and Florida and Penn State.
Speaking of conferences... I can't stand this argument that Utah isn't a championship contender because their conference wasn't strong enough. The easiest solution in the world is to make them prove they're not a fluke by matching them against another high-ranking team. (And now that Utah actually beat Alabama, the argument is, "Well, Alabama didn't care." We don't know that that's true, and besides, that doesn't matter. Only the scoreboard matters. Not to mention that if a top-5 team can show up to a postseason game and not care about it, that can't possibly be good for the sport.)
(And if we didn't know it already, the BCS is about what's good for business, if anything. "They" really couldn't care about the sport except whether it's profitable or not.)