Effed up playoff system

[BryceC]

As a whole you would by far. Certainly way better than the Hawaiis and Miami (OH)’s a 32 team field would have. And definitely better than Miami (OH) in a friggin playoff game because I’m assuming you’re including G5 teams. How is that any less boring than the non-cons you hate? Do those kinds of games deserve to be in the playoff but not at the beginning of the season?

I’d

We can talk about non-cons going away all we want but it's never going to happen. There's too much money in it.

32 qualifiers means you're going to have dog shit teams playing the Ohio States of the world in the early rounds of the playoffs, tell me how that's better than cupcake non cons, and how it's different than what's out there now. You're just taking the David/Goliath games and moving them to the back end of the season instead of on the front end.

In my model you have as many of the best teams as possible in the playoffs, no ambiguity, and you don't have the ridiculous matchups you'd potentially see with a 30 seed playing Ohio State in the 2nd round. That isn't any better TV than an Iowa/UMass game. It also lets you keep CCGs but they actually mean something. You have to win it to advance in the playoff, right now that Indiana/OSU game didn't mean shit in the grand scheme of things. If Indiana craps out early in the playoffs and OSU doesn't, suddenly the B1G championship for Indiana looks like a wet fart...they don't feel like B1G champs at that point.

Like I said you could go 24 teams and have the top 8 get byes if you’re really worried about bad matchups.

I care more about basketball than anything so I’m used to bad matchups and first round blowouts. I’m kind of fine with it.

Frankly yes, I’d like to see the bad matchups in a tournament format where the outcome would be huge. Last year Notre Dame lost to N Illinois at home and frankly it didn’t matter.

In the playoffs it would have.

 

[BryceC]

I disagree, Georgia vs Alabama and tOSU vs Oregon draw WAY more ratings that these 1st round matchups and now you want to dilute them even more.

Probably so. But would those two games draw more ratings than 16 games? Of course not.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

Probably so. But would those two games draw more ratings than 16 games? Of course not.

What if you don't really care about ratings and just want good quality matchups without watering down the system?

I'd just crown one conference champion for every conference and fill in the last spot with one at-large and be done with it. Makes the regular season important and interesting and pretty much a playoff-system in itself. No reason to complicate everything, IMO

This, or maybe take the top two in each p4 conference and 1 from the rest of conferences.

 

[BryceC]

What if you don't really care about ratings and just want good quality matchups without watering down the system?

I'd just crown one conference champion for every conference and fill in the last spot with one at-large and be done with it. Makes the regular season important and interesting and pretty much a playoff-system in itself. No reason to complicate everything, IMO

This, or maybe take the top two in each p4 conference and 1 from the rest of conferences.

Basically every game last year was a bad game/matchup in the first round.