(05-04-2021 01:20 PM)Wedge Wrote:  I agree with JR that it makes no sense to compare pro leagues to college sports in the way that graphic does.

It's valid to compare FBS to FCS playoffs. FBS and FCS are both college football within the NCAA, each has roughly the same number of teams overall, each has the same wide disparity between some teams that are the very best in the division on the one hand, and some teams that aren't very competitive in the division on the other hand. I've said on this board in several threads that if I was the dictator of FBS there would be a 24-team playoff in FBS, as there is in FCS.

It's not valid to make size comparisons between college football playoffs and the playoffs of college sports that are played more often than once a week. College basketball playoffs have teams playing twice in a weekend, college baseball and softball playoffs have teams playing as many as four times in a long weekend, etc. Those sports provide the opportunity for a larger playoff in a shorter time period, whereas football's once-a-week format is self-limiting.

Agree with this completely. If the NFL isn't a great comparison, the FCS surely is. If a league where about 10 dudes have a shot at getting a job playing the sport can endure a 24-team format, then I don't see why the league where a good portion of the guys on the top 25 teams are pretty much interning for an NFL job can't get a 12-team format done.