How can you institute a hard cap of 3 and take 16? Your obviously using inferior teams and skipping over higher ranked teams just because the conference already might have 3. You don’t think that’s stupid? Never happening sir
First off.. that is not what I said. 3 in a 16 team playoff. I literally said "Go to 16 with no byes if you want 4." And, somehow, you missed that in what was a very short message.
No, a hard cap of 3 for 12 is not stupid.
They do something similar in basketball and have done so for many years. The expansion SHOULD be geared toward guaranteeing the conferences have a fair shot and proving that the rankings are legitimate.
The 2 team MNC game saw an all-SEC game or two. That was bogus. Those teams had played each other and it made the in-season result(s) worthless. Prior to a 2-team MNC game, the bowl system saw teams other than number 1 and 2 ranked teams emerge with MNC titles based on how they did in their bowl games vs what opponent. But that could never happen in a 2-team MNC game. Though we have seen split polls with ties where both, I think, TCU and UCF claimed an MNC. Perhaps Utah as well... and Auburn.. because they all ended up undefeated.
We have seen arguments in the 4-team CFP that the SEC should have 3 slots. How ridiculous, how "stupid". If we kept going with that, eventually, we would have seen that. 4 of 12 would give a single conference too much chance to win a MNC. And it denies other conferences that same chance.
I could see the argument now: But a 12-team playoff allows the champions of all teh conferences to compete.. if those teams have a legit shot, then they should win their conference championship games and get in and prove it. But, ahh, why wasn't that standard applied to the 4 team CFP? Last year, Georgia would not be in because they lost the SEC championship game. But last years game rather supported the SEC claims as each SEC team won its semifinal rather easily. But that was not the case in the first-ever CFP where there was many complaints about Ohio State even getting in
as many thought Baylor or TCU deserved it. But Ohio State would go on to win the CFP's MNC in that first year. If they had kept it to 2 teams, that would not have happened.
And this is why I do not like the 12-team format. No team should get a BYE. Every team wanting that CFP title should be forced to play the same number of games. The rankings system can skew who is seen as "earning" a BYE. So have no BYEs at all. If expanding to 16 is worthless as it adds poor teams with no shot.. then forcing teh top 4 teams to play said opponents is no risk to them and is more fair to the other 8 non-bye teams in the following game. Or just drop down to 8 team CFPO with a hard cap of 2 per conference max.
And, yes, I was for the Big Ten, Big 12 and PAC12 for going their own way with their own more FAIR playoff system and not including the SEC with their demands for unfair criteria.. like BYEs and no limits on how many conference teams can get in. It would garner less money, much flack from the pundits... but the result would have been a more fair playoff system that, eventually, the SEC would have to surrender to. The SEC grew more and more powerful and more and more demanding the way things have been and this system with no limits for a conference will just allow that to continue. While the game results are largely NOT random chance, there is some chance in it.. and giving the SEC 4 out of 12 because they demanded that be possible was, for me, too much of a concession. In the projection used in this tread, the ACC would have 1 chance in 12.
