12-02-2013, 12:18 PM
I don't really care if fans go crazy like that. Besides, in an 8-team playoff Alabama would still make it in, they just wouldn't be guaranteed a spot. The guaranteed spots would go to the winners of the 5 major conferences, then you'd have 3 at larges for the likes of Alabama (or whoever).
I'm certainly sympathetic to the idea that it should be 16, but I'm just not sure that we can justify expanding the season that extra game in order to add a bunch of extra at larges who failed to win their conferences and also failed to win impressively enough to get one of the 3 at large bids. I used to like the idea of a "Death to the BCS" style 16-team tournament with every single conference winner, but watching NIU a couple times this year that just seems so pointless to me, they're clearly so much worse than even a middling major conference team, why give them the slot?
I think with 16 you'd have to pretty significantly rearrange the regular season, and I'm not sure that's feasible.
I'm certainly sympathetic to the idea that it should be 16, but I'm just not sure that we can justify expanding the season that extra game in order to add a bunch of extra at larges who failed to win their conferences and also failed to win impressively enough to get one of the 3 at large bids. I used to like the idea of a "Death to the BCS" style 16-team tournament with every single conference winner, but watching NIU a couple times this year that just seems so pointless to me, they're clearly so much worse than even a middling major conference team, why give them the slot?
I think with 16 you'd have to pretty significantly rearrange the regular season, and I'm not sure that's feasible.