(12-14-2018 09:24 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  In contrast, if we are talking about an 8-team playoff with auto-bids, that won't be possible. Most conferences will be limited to just their conference champ making the playoffs, at most there would be two or three at-large teams.

To use your hoops example, the most bids a conference has ever received was the 2011 Big East with 11 bids. That's ~16% of the field. In this football playoff with 2 or 3 at-large teams, a single conference could theoretically put in 3 or 4 teams. That'd be up to 38%-50% of the teams. How is that not satisfactory for all but the greediest of organizations?