Never isnt tge answer is it. Penn State would not have made the top four but didn't they win two games already. Oregon got beat right off the bat and they were the number one team in the country. Kids play playoff games people watch the TV and nobody gives a shit about anything but playoffs anyway. Georgia would've been a top-seeded regardless and they lost also.
I think the format will change. You still won’t like it and neither will the first four teams that get left out.
Its fine with 12 or 16 in any order really. If they lose on the field, its all good. If a team gets left out of 12 or 16, they shouldve won more games. Indiana didnt earn it but neither did ol miss. Ol miss wouldve been in if they didnt lose to us.
What the NFL has figured out is that it doesn't really matter which teams make the playoffs or win the Super Bowl. The schedules are based on a formula that looks at last years records, with the goal of having as many teams as possible stay in playoff contention all the way to week 18. One year, the entire league will go 9-8 or 8-9
Sarcasm alert....... I say we leave it up to some strange men wearing bright colored blazers with bad combovers that show up at games in early November and by handshake invite two teams to their city in hopes they end up with a decent match up come January. This would almost guarantee the number 1 team almost never faces the number 2 team after the season and we would leave it up to some pompous media guys to vote who they think should be the champion. Besides no one really wants to see any conference championship games after all. Not that the real fans of college football would matter (NTTRFOCFWM), my new acronym.
No way I think the 12th or 13th or 14th ranked teams should get a shot at the national championship. This isn’t basketball with dozens of games and double digit losses making a final 64. It would be a freaking joke for a 2 or 3 loss team to put it all together and make a late run at the national title. The regular season becomes almost irrelevant if a #16 team can make the cut. BS on the money-grabbing monster playoff. I get that sometimes teams get overlooked in the rankings, so make it the top 8. If you can’t make that cut, you shouldn’t be in the running for the crystal ball. Anything beyond 8 is nothing more than a circus designed to take in as much TV cash as they can. Is anything sacred anymore?