(01-10-2018 01:32 PM)Win5002 Wrote:  The idea that keeping a small CFP makes the regular season more meaningful is a complete red herring. Logic only dictates with more playoff spots available, a larger number of games during the regular season have an impact on selected teams and the corresponding seeding of teams.

There's a point of diminishing returns though.

The more playoff spots you have, the more games lose a sense of urgency. The upset of a power school doesn't quite matter as much, the conference championship race doesn't quite matter as much, and on and on.

College football is insulated from this to some degree because there aren't that many games in the first place. You only play 12 regular season games. With that said, the great appeal of college football is that the results will weed out a truly special team from an average team.

In all honesty, I'm not sure that an 8 team playoff would diminish the importance of the college football regular season. I can understand, however, why the powers that be would be concerned at the prospect. So from their perspective, maybe it's just better not to find out where the line is. Maybe it's better to go with what works.

At some point though, we're going to have to create a system that is equally beneficial to all the major conferences. Perhaps that is more akin to a "champs only" system and perhaps that will involve a resolution to conference realignment.