You think the SEC is hated now just think how bad it will be if this happens.

[BulldogBear]

It is simple actually. Don't do anything that takes significance away from the regular season. College Football has the most meaningful regular season in all of sports worldwide. One could argue it is the only sport that the regular season is meaningful at all. Eight team playoff with the first round disguised as bowl games might be okay. Sixteen just kills it. Then you have 8-4 teams competing for the championship. Honestly that's crap, especially because some might win it. What we really don't wanna see is any of the NFL crap where teams turtle up and lose the last two games of the season because they are "safely in." Four is fine. Go back 25 years and find where there were really more than four schools really being legitimately argued about. Occasionally there are five schools, sometimes only three. Four is the right number and was the right compromise between bowls and playoffs. You can argue about a school being left out until you're playing a full 130 team playoff. Someone will always be the last one out. When you get a playoff sometimes people lose focus on the goal. It becomes about including that last position instead of deciding a champion. With sixteen or more you're going to find the last few in and out haven't really had "championship" type seasons and have no business being there. Hell, you probably will even run into that with 8 sometimes.

If certain schools feel their season is over after two losses then that is a different issue and it's mental. Same thing goes for the 5th wheel in the CFP. If you can't play for school pride, state pride, or your teammates honor then there's a deeper issue.

My opinion is that a large playoff creates bad football not better football. Four is the right number.

By the way I do love the bowls but we need about 10-12 less of them. 6-6 mid majors don't need to be in bowls. And although we benefited, losing teams don't need to be in bowls either.