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I'll stand here and advocate for the 12-game playoff.
(1) We already made the switch to a playoff format, where teams would get second chances against teams they had lost to earlier in the season. That came about with the conference championship games, and was reinforced with the four-team playoff.
(2) For all the talk about how Arizona State (B12) didn't belong, they sure look liked they belonged against the loser of the SEC championship game. That's not nothing. The bigger point is that the big conferences have always argued that their teams are far superior to everyone else--and to parrot the Big Ten and SEC, even the Pac 12, Big 12, and ACC didn't belong. (Let's try to overlook that a Pac 12 team stepped into the Big Ten and dominated it.) Clemson won several national championships recently, Tennessee, Alabama, aTm, and South Carolina haven't exactly shown just how amazing the SEC is relative to everyone else. The reality is that the margins between these teams, even across conferences, is smaller than the fans of the helmet schools want everyone to believe. The 12-team playoff gives the ASUs and BSUs a chance. As Oregon just demonstrated, the fact that they lost doesn't mean they shouldn't have had that chance. Could it have worked as 8 teams? Sure. But 12 isn't necessarily wrong just because we've had a few uncompetitive games.
(3) We all know that winning a game by a couple of points doesn't mean that team is necessarily the better team. It was better on that day, but we've had this discussion over and over again. So if we're trying to find the best teams, we shouldn't punish a team (too much) for one or two small losses.

I wish we could go back to the NCAA/bowl system, but that's probably more nostalgia than anything else. What I really wish is that Wisconsin was one of the teams that made it into the 12-team playoff. :-)

They didn't dominate in Madison. 

They didn't dominate in Madison.

they also didn't dominate the Buckeyes in the first contest
I wouldn't say they dominated Penn St.

OSU totally took them to the woodshed

the Ducks must have been over confident on their earlier close win.  they just got schooled in how tough the Big Ten really is.  

next season might not be as easy for them 

And if "can't go pro until 3 years have passed" was an NCAA rule, I'd guess it would result in a lawsuit and the NCAA would get their hands slapped HARD. A player like Smith could just declare for the draft and dare the NCAA to find some way to enforce it, and then sue, and win. 

But it's an NFL rule. Which means he can't just declare for the draft and sue the NFL if they won't accept his declaration and allow him into the draft, because if he loses the lawsuit that could impact his NCAA eligibility. Which he'd probably have to sue over, and then could be left out in the cold for two years if he loses that one too. 

https://twitter.com/sarge__msu/status/1874594744250270196

That seems crazy...

Until you realize that 5 years is standard in CFB with a redshirt (which would put Smith in his Sr year in HS in Gabriel's 5th year), and then there was the COVID year, and then there are medical redshirts and other exceptions (not sure which Gabriel benefits from, but suspect it's the extra COVID year plus a medical(?) redshirt in 2021 when he only played 3 games due to injury)...

And Smith being a freshman in college when Gabriel is in his 6th year in college isn't ALL that surprising at all. 

This isn't one of those examples of some dude who is in their 8th or 9th year when accounting for medical redshirts/exemptions. 

Oregon lost because they wore cheap shoes.

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