BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

If you are going to go to 14, then just make it 16 and be done with it

 

I like the first round byes, it gives the regular season some meaning. I hate the conference guarantees. Looking at the final rankings last season, If you took the CFP ranking going into the post season last year, ACC would have had only one team in - which is fine.
Of course the problem is - the conference championship games mean everything now. It would be better if only the top two conference champions received first round byes.

 

I don't understand why UMass would want to be in the MAC rather than the CAA. What attraction is there for anyone in Amherst to play a school from Ohio? In the CAA there would be some regional rivalries.

 

Which means we have to then get into a dick measuring contest over who the "top" two conferences are, which may or may not be objective. This is fine. If you can't finish in the top three of the SEC or the B1G you weren't winning anything beyond a Citrus Bowl in the first place.

 

Fine, but half the first round games will be wipeouts.

 

I just don't want this to be a situation where the SEC and Big 10 champs get the top two spots automatically, because they are the Big 10 and SEC. The SEC was down last year.

 

And I just don't want a situation where 11/14ths of a playoff is the SEC/B1G/Notre Dame with the rest of the breadcrumbs being sprinkled amongst the remaining leagues. At least with this, one third of the spots at minimum are going to non-Fat 2 leagues.

 

To me, it simply comes down to if you've played a season where you have a "claim" to being the best team in the country - you should be in. Yes, even Liberty. They earned the right to get pounded in the Fiesta - I don't care what Finebaum thinks. The Fat 2 teams have multiple chances to prove this in league play, one loss won't eliminate them - but if you lose two or three, no way you have a claim. Maybe you get in - but it shouldn't be at the expense of an undefeated G5 school. F --k the "eyeball test" - settle it on the field.

 

We're going to see 4th place Fat Two teams get into the playoff at least part of the time. Book it.

 

I'm seeing a lot of teeth gnashing over this but, as a guy who went to an ACC school, this doubles the amount of teams I expected the league to get in a playoff and Phillips should sign this yesterday.

 

The question is how long this deal holds. It is entirely possible that a Not As Fat Two splits off and skims the cream and most of the ACC is in a lesser playoff with the rest of the Have Less. There are some schools currently at the SEC/B1G teat who are going to find out how the other three quarters live.

 

The SEC was down last year . . . and still had five teams in the top 12.

And six in the top 17. If we're now calling Texas and Oklahoma SEC, eight in the top 17.

I suppose it's possible --- and I hate guaranteed anything other than conference champions --- but I don't think you're going to see any years without three easily deserving SEC teams in a 14-team playoff.