I will not even try to argue that I don't think Georgia is one of the 4 best teams. I will not even try to argue that I don't think Alabama is the best team. What I can tell you...
I am not even remotely interested in a four team playoff that involves only two conferences and features a rematch of a conference championship game as one of only two semi-final games. There are too few games played in a football season for that. If we are going to have a playoff with only four teams the regular season has to eliminate somebody, no matter how good they are. We have entered a cycle where the CFP voters have become more and more emboldened to shrink the circle of teams that have a chance to be involved in this playoff and fans in general know that. The NCAA basketball tournament is wildly popular largely because of the feeling of inclusion and that everybody has a chance. And I will add – we all know a post season tournament doesn’t really identify the best team anyway – it identifies the team that won the tournament. Football could go a long way toward replicating that popularity by at least letting the regular season do some of the work in deciding something. The game would be many times healthier and have fan popularity similar to the NCAA basketball tournament if the post-season playoff included conference champions only – no at-large teams. If the SEC wins it every year fine – hand them the trophy and applaud them. But the SEC already handed out their conference championship trophy.
I am not even remotely interested in a four team playoff that involves only two conferences and features a rematch of a conference championship game as one of only two semi-final games. There are too few games played in a football season for that. If we are going to have a playoff with only four teams the regular season has to eliminate somebody, no matter how good they are. We have entered a cycle where the CFP voters have become more and more emboldened to shrink the circle of teams that have a chance to be involved in this playoff and fans in general know that. The NCAA basketball tournament is wildly popular largely because of the feeling of inclusion and that everybody has a chance. And I will add – we all know a post season tournament doesn’t really identify the best team anyway – it identifies the team that won the tournament. Football could go a long way toward replicating that popularity by at least letting the regular season do some of the work in deciding something. The game would be many times healthier and have fan popularity similar to the NCAA basketball tournament if the post-season playoff included conference champions only – no at-large teams. If the SEC wins it every year fine – hand them the trophy and applaud them. But the SEC already handed out their conference championship trophy.
