AppDawg wrote: ↑Wed Dec 24, 2025 8:27 am
AppWyo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 23, 2025 6:07 pm
If a team is really that good, they should be able to win their conference. That is the only way to make it fair and guarantee the best teams are in the playoffs. Anything less is just a beauty contest. You will never have the very best teams in the playoffs until you do, because some conferences are sleeping with the judges.
1000%. In football, if not good enough to win your conference not good enough to win Natty.
That is usually the case but when the playoffs expanded it means things like that are more likely to happen. More than 4-8 teams just dilutes the playoffs in my opinion. Ohio State won the title last year but did not win the Big Ten. Illinois State is playing for the FCS title and did not even finish top 3 in the MVFC. Expanding the playoffs does not fix anything except it makes the TV networks and leagues more money. It actually just makes optics worse due to things like that happening, more arguments over who is #12 or #16 as opposed to top 5, etc.
