Much as I suspected (I'm referencing this post and the one prior to it, simply cutting down the quoteception), you base your entire argument on what other people are saying. Yet I'm so ridiculous for taking a look at it and seeing it for what it is. You refuse to respond to logic so I have nothing else to offer you.
All you are doing is playing with words, while ignoring the essence of the thing itself. We all know what a playoff is, it is multiple teams playing in order to reach quarter finals, semifinals and then the finals. In some cases this is subdivided further or to a lesser degree. Also playoffs eliminate multiple opponents until there are only two standing for the finals. However in general knowledge terms a playoff is not 2 teams playing in a final. It's a cute play on words and misdirected logic your using, but that's all it is.
All you are doing is spreading a misconception. Playoffs can exist with any number of teams but 1. Any post-season, championship-determining game, or series of games, is a playoff. The two best teams "play off" for a title. That's where the term originated. To say that I'm the one contorting it is completely off base. Fans may use the term to reference a specific style of postseason (same style, just bigger), but it means the same thing as it did initially. I've given a dictionary definition, outlined the logic I used (and you can too!), given hypothetical as well as real world examples. You can't just say I'm wrong and you're right because you feel like being right. "We all know what a playoff is" is not an argument. In fact, as you and several others have proven, it's absolutely untrue.
I, for one, am not happy with going to a playoff. I will be considerably less happy if it expands to 8 teams. Those numbers are arbitrary and will always leave someone out. The complaint about the BCS is that it's two teams picked by some dudes who talk about sports. Now it's going to be 4 teams picked by dudes who talk about sports. The committee is there, I know, but they can't just pull a team from left field and run with it. There are smart people on the committee, but they do have to stay within the "expected" choices. Otherwise ESPN and other sports networks will smear them like they smeared the BCS.Regardless of how many teams should be the minimum for a playoff I'm going to say what we are all thinking.
Until the FBS level of College Football reaches 8 teams to crown a true NCAA national champion we won't be happy as college football fans.
On the selfish Husker side, the BCS is a much easier path to adding a national championship to our history and for that reason I will miss it.
Now, I get what your saying Dutch I really do. The term playoff is derived from two teams playing off. But look at a bracket and what is the final game usually called? The Championship right? Thats what the top game of the BCS was called, "The BCS Championship Game". You could falsely slap Conference standings around that game and claim the regular season is a playoff but that would be more smoke and mirrors by the aforementioned Bill Hancock and his cronies in the depths of hell, er, BCS headquarters. You said two teams play one game for a wild card spot in baseball, how does that prove me wrong? That proves me right. That wild card spot lands them a spot IN the Playoff.
Again, I can't reccomend this book enough. All should read to see how truly bastardized the bowls have become.
The three outfits that are quietly reaping the rewards: ESPN BCS SEC
Typing enough convoluted BS I can also turn the mating of the wild otter into a college football playoff, but it would still be BS. No point arguing further, this is like going in circles with someone who doesn't believe that there were moon landings.
