12-Team Playoff On the Way; 14-Team to Follow
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RedDenver
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Rewarding "top" seeds is the mistake.
Yep. But if you're going bigger than 8, you'd obviously go to 16.
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runningblind
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I think 12 is fine. Reward some with a bye and have a great chance for competitive first round, on campus games.
Red Five
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100% agree. And I love 12 because it keeps some meaningfulness to the regular season for teams you know are going to make it. Makes winning your conference a big deal.
If you get to 16, may as well do away with conference championship games. Teams playing in those would almost be at a disadvantage as it would be an extra game of wear and tear on the players.
The trick will be to either win your conference or somehow be second best in your division and still be in the top 12. To get a bye or skip the CCG respectively.
RedDenver
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8+ team playoffs end a lot of the meaningfulness of the regular season. All that 12 teams does is give a biased committee a chance to "reward" 4 teams. At least powers of 2 mean every team plays the same number of playoff games.
runningblind
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I don't get at all how it makes the regular season any less meaningful. It is basically the same it's always been, you need to have a really good regular season to get to your goals. If by that you mean a team must go undefeated in order to have a meaningful regular season, then I have never agreed with that argument and never will.
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RedDenver
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If a team can lose regular season games and still win the championship, then by definition it makes the regular season less meaningful than if they could not. You might like it better, but the regular season is still less meaningful. And being able to lose multiple games means the regular season is even less meaningful than if a team could only lose 1 game, etc.
runningblind
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That argument is flawed though. The rules are the same for everyone to win a championship, regardless of if qualifying for a playoff is easier or harder. The regular season still means the same, and so does winning a championship, based on the criteria of the sport. The regular season is part of the season, so is the playoff, they aren't separate entities in any sport.
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I mean ... technically yes.
But that was already the case before we had any playoff. So it really amounts to no difference.
Yeah, I'm not really a fan of guaranteeing spots (other than a G5 spot with qualifiers). All that does is make room for better teams getting left out.
But I agree that the Big/ACC should jump all over this.