Again, basketball and other sports have so many more games, so each one individually doesn't mean a whole lot.
Good example, I don't watch much of the NFL until the last week or two and then only the games with playoff implications.
Possibly, we saw the propaganda machine front and center from Peter Burns, Paul Finebaum, and Clay Travis after UGA lost. Maybe the Big Ten needs to start doing that with their talking hair? At any rate if 8 means that lowest SEC seed like LSU or Florida has to travel to South Bend, Indiana or Ann Arbor, Michigan in a hypothetical December game it is going to be great theater. SEC wonks claiming it is the strongest conference in the land crying crocodile tears over the weather will never not be funny.
The main problem is that it's a mystery on who gets in week to week.
I think expanding the playoffs is a knee jerk reaction to fixing certain situations whenever it benefits the person holding that view.. B1G is left out 2 years in a row so Delaney now wants it expanded. UCF is left out so they want it expanded. I believe the committee does a good job selecting the top 4 teams and expanding the playoff isn't necessary. There could be some upsets in the playoffs but it's more likely that the top 4 teams will be battling it out to get into the championship game with an expansion. It won't be a surprise when Alabama and Clemson play this year for the championship and I don't see OSU, UCF, Michigan or Georgia advancing too far in an expanded playoff. An expansion will also create unanticipated situations that people will get upset about. Rematches such as Georgia-Alabama or OSU-Michigan aren't compelling nor are games such as Alabama and some outmatched G5 team that might sneak in. Nobody will be happy when 3 or 4 SEC teams get into the playoffs and two SEC teams play in the championship game. What if OSU or Michigan tank their game to avoid playing in the CCG knowing that their resume is good enough to still make an expanded playoff? I like the 4 team playoff because 1 loss can keep a team out. Most OSU fans are probably OK with being left out and had Oklahoma been left out most of their fans would be OK with it realizing their team has a major deficiency. An 8 team playoff would probably just shift the squabbling over who should get in from 1 loss teams to which 2 loss teams are most deserving. Of course the solution to that is expand to 16 teams. Let's at least stick with the 4 team playoff for a while to see how well it's working. If the top 1 or 2 ranked teams consistently win the championship then a 4 team playoff is probably sufficient.
