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I'm seeing 3 ugly blowouts there.  That's what we want - playoff blowouts!

Here is my ELA-esque 8 team playoff for this year with fabricated results:

LSU - Memphis  52-13
OSU - Baylor   37-10
Clemson - UGA   38-13
OU- Oregon   42-31


LSU - OU   45-37

OSU - Clemson 35-31

LSU - OSU   28-34  Ohio State, National Champions 2019.  Or 2020, depending.

Not only that, but the One Seed could come up with a key injury to a critical player and suddenly not be nearly as good.

People wanting the top G5 team to get into an 8-team playoff must be a descendant of someone who enjoyed public executions.  That G5 team will almost always be the 8 seed and face #1.  It would become an annual public ass-beating. 


No thanks.

it would make working for the #1 seed of some value

mostly an easier first round win

I love that the big upsets are always big-boy teams that just lost out on a championship to play for....but it's not a thing.  

I used to think in most years, we'd have one 13-0 team and 4 12-1 teams, or 2 and 2 more 11-2 teams, vying for spots.  The last two years have made me question that.

Clemson did play a bad slate, but South Carolina and Texas A&M in general is not a terrible OOC slate.  They can't fix the ACC.  LSU played Texas, which is a top tier matchup usually.  Ohio State plays a 9 game conference slate and did face Cincinnati (and blow them out).  I think the jury is out on whether it's better to play a tough OOC slate or try and soft soap through it.

I think the jury is out on whether it's better to play a tough OOC slate or try and soft soap through it.

Nah, I think as long as you don't play any FCS teams, it's better to play a fairly soft OOC schedule.  Oregon was definitely penalized for playing and losing to Auburn.  Utah and Baylor would've made it in if they won their championship games.  

Baylor played Stephen F Austin, UT-San Antonio and Rice.

Utah played BYU, Northern Illinois, and Idaho State.

I feel like the best possible schedule is something like Ohio State had where all 3 teams had 8-10 wins, but none were really good enough to challenge you.  That way you'd still get a bump against a team like the two above, but you're not risking anything by actually playing a game you could lose.  Maybe you could swap one of them out for a UCLA, Oregon State, or Colorado type team that may win 4-6 games.

As a fan of course, I'd rather see the better OOC games, even though they aren't really incentivized right now.