You don’t have to be the best team to get into the playoff, you’re just supposed to be one of the four best. There’s no reason that two of the four best teams can’t be from the same conference. The conferences aren’t equal. No one seems to argue against Georgia being one of the four best teams in the country. They just dismantled the #2 team. People want an inferior team to make the playoff for the sake of conference diversity which just doesn’t make sense to me.
which is the argument the rules should be changed. There is no other sport in this country that is done this way. Imagine the Yankees and Angels each winning their division but not making the playoffs because some random group decided the Guardians and Twins were better teams. Holy shit that wouldnt last out a year.
Then expand the number of teams in the playoff. Keeping out one of the four best teams in the country just because they lost to the 1 seed and replacing them with a team from a worse conference with a worse record is silly. The conferences aren’t equal. The SEC is the best conference in college football, and it’s only getting better by adding Oklahoma. They’ve won 5 of the 8 playoffs. The SEC has the most appearances and the most playoff wins. When one conference is so dominant you shouldn’t just forbid two teams from a conference from making the playoff.
Not every team plays in a conference, and the conferences aren’t equal. The SEC title game was #1 v. #3. The B1G title game was #2 v. #13. The ACC title game was #15 v. #16. The PAC 12 title game was #10 v. #17. The Big 12 title game was #5 v. #9. So, the SEC was the only title game between top 5 teams. In what playoff format does the #1 seed get the toughest opponent? Because that’s what happens in your world where conference championship games are an expansion of the playoff.
