One Post wrote:
We have been over this before. The CFB playoff committee overlooked more or less 100 years of tradition to exclude FSU from last year’s playoffs.
That's the problem with your anecdotes though. You keep on picking the times where the OSU-Michigan game led to a national title but ignoring all the times it didn't matter. The same is true of FSU playing 0 meaningful games this year in hindsight.
One Post wrote:
It’s just this simple. When you use the regular season as the gateway to the postseason and you allow more teams into the regular season, you might create more smaller value games, but you essentially do away with all of the black hole level gravity games. It’s just a fact. It’s not a good thing or a bad thing, just a thing.
"When you use the regular season as the gateway to the postseason". What type of sentence is this? It's absurd. Every sport at every level determines a championship through the use of the regular season qualifying some group of teams to make the playoffs where every team either beats every team that beat every other team in the group. Now, if you want to go back to the days where voters picked a national title after all the teams played in different bowl games then I can understand that. Right now, you are just created this straw man that no other league is held to where the regular season doesn't matter if you can lose a regular season game and still win the title.
One Post wrote:
You like a less valuable regular season and a more inclusive postseason. That’s great. But what you can’t argue is that with a more inclusive postseason you retain the value of the regular season. If you think that’s the case, I’ve got two words for you. Farleigh Dickenson.
How can you claim that there is much value in the regular season of a sport if the 250th best team has a better shot to win the national title than the 1st best team?
That's an interesting point. FDU, while not winning the national title, had the most significant and important game in the history of the school. They had many games prior to that were very important in making the NCAA tournament. Had the playoffs been a smaller pool of teams they would have had no access to the playoffs at all. So, it's a great example of how an expanded playoffs can actually increase the total amount of important games.
As I pointed out with SMU, Indiana, Ole Miss, and Alabama, they basically spent the month of November fighting hard to make the playoffs. Every game was vitally important to them. So yes, Oregon had a buffer where they could drop a game and still make it.
Now, bring it down to the 4 team playoff. There would have been 6 teams in November fighting for those spots and all of those teams would have been in the SEC, Big Ten, and Notre Dame.
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