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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 2927135, member: 3850"] Sooo? Football Championships are not determined by a 65 team tournament....basketball think doesn't really work here. With a 12-13 game season, the regular season is also the playoff... Michigan plays Ohio State, Ohio State plays Penn State, Alabama plays Auburn and LSU, Oklahoma plays WVU...etc. On any given Saturday...top teams will be playing each other, and the whole warp and woof of the college football fabric vibrates when a top 15 team loses. If the regular college season isn't much of a playoff for a team (very weak SOS), it is indeed difficult to participate in a playoff. Yes...a team is at a disadvantage for making the play offs if they end up regular season not playing top 30 teams. It isn't basketball...but even in basketball, the strength of your opponents will determine which side of the bubble you fall... Basketball has a higher "cut line" than the 4 currently in football...and always will. When the football playoff moves to eight...the arguments will be at who was left out at #8. I don't blame fans of the G5 for spouting gibberish about how inclusion into the football playoff should be disconnected from performance measurements....like the 1984 BYU NC team that beat their schedule...but really beat no one (and thus ultimately brought about the BCS and CFP). [/QUOTE]