Yeah, we've been diametrically opposed this past week you've been posting and now you're showing that you've got it all backwards.
Blowouts mean you've included teams that didn't belong. The teams winning the blowouts are the ones that would be included in a small playoff. That's the point. You have this all backwards.
The more you let in, you do so for entertainment purposes. It's a 3 year-old who gets its hands on the whole gallon of ice cream. More = better, wheeeeee!
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The more exclusive you make it - to guard against allowing those who don't belong in - the more things are tilted towards competition. Closer games = competitive games.
You are so close. If you were right, the playoffs would be tight, exciting affairs, and we would be disturbing something of great entertainment. Of course, we have gotten some great games, which would be would get under any playoff format. We have also gotten a lot of duds, which would also happen under any playoff format. Your entire premise, that we must have fewer games to have fewer blowouts, is not based in reality. We are getting plenty of blowouts now, and in fact many are predicting blowouts in both semifinals this year.
Further, you are leaving out the whole premise of sports in the first place. If the best team always won, there would be no reason to watch the games at all. There would be no entertainment, because we already know what's going to happen. Our current system is designed to encourage these types of games. You can pick 6 teams at the beginning of the season and be almost guaranteed get four of them right for the playoffs. That's a problem! There are 127 FBS teams. 121 have almost no shot at the beginning of the season to even play for a championship, much less win won.
Finally, the defense is shameful. The whole thing always comes down to things like, well, they can't beat Alabama, so they shouldn't be in the playoffs. We must reserve the playoffs for other teams who also probably won't beat the best team. No other playoff works this way. And by having this system, you are encouraging it to work this way. No player who wants to be in the playoffs should consider a school that isn't Alabama, Clemson, or Ohio State. You get a handful of other schools up there, and that's it. It would be galactically stupid for a football player to consider other schools, which is why these teams are getting better and better recruits. That's the system you want, and it kind of sucks, and there are better systems.
It's like a three year old who can't imagine anything except the ice cream right in front of him right now.
