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Are those "extra" games really that important?This is pretty dumb because you can easily say that for those 2 games you considered pointless the 12 team playoff made 10s more regular season games even more important/good or with higher stakes for teams in every confrence as they all were jockying for positions that didn't exist last year with only the top 4 teams being involved in the National Title race... Syracuse v Miami was a perfect example of that....additionally with only 4 teams making it to the playoffs last year certain confrence title games were always going to run the risk of being irrelevant, what did the ACC title game do for FSU? What value did it offer? again you have to actually activate your brain sometimes larger than 1+1 = 2
Was Miami really a contender? Or any fringe teams?
Thery're not. It's all window dressing.
The solution is get more games and meaningful ones is to have the SEC/B1G have their own playoff and the other conference have a G5 playoff like the fcs does.
Maybe have a few of the top ACC teams join the B1G or SEC
That way we can have more meaningful games without pointless blowout match ups against programs that are in clearly different tiers because this new format is trash.
Just like a 3 loss Bama, who really gives a shyt about these fringe playoff teams? They have no realistic chance of winning shyt against the few elite teams.