Not to mention the more teams there are in the playoff, the less urgent each regular season game becomes. We've already seen this - this weekend, Alabama was in even if it lost. ND, we found out, was in, even in a blowout loss.
That's crap. The very worst regular season of American sports is college basketball. A loss is a shrug. A loss is nothing. You can't name a huge, important regular season college basketball game from the past decade.
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The more you expand the playoff, the closer you inch to that.