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Message: [QUOTE="Btstimpy, post: 1202480, member: 2043"] All P5 leagues are hard to win. There may be a perception of a third place team in one league being better than a champion of another, but they don't play. In a Conference the third place team is already deemed not as good as its conference champion, and it didn't win its conference. So it should be out in the playoffs. The other conference champions have probably not played each other in the regular season. They've each proven the best in their respective leagues. Now they can prove it inter-league. If one conference champion isn't so good, then they won't get very far in the playoffs. One of the downsides of the NCAA basketball tournament, or March Madness, is that it completely overshadows the college basketball regular season. Most of the public only tunes into college basketball in March. Having the conference championships evolve into "who cares?" hurts interest in the college basketball regular season. You can still make March Madness if you don't win your conference. College football needs to implement a playoffs where it is extremely important to win the conference championship IMO. If this is the case, then it will mean every regular season game is extremely important. I get what you're saying though in that it could become like March Madness where many at large bids are available, but the College Presidents really don't want it to interfere with exams in December or to be a two semester sport. So there will continue to be very limited weekends to work with. They could go to 8 games and have a quarterfinal with at large teams. We'll just move the complaints about seeding from 4 to 8 like we've done from 2 to 4. Swofford's point is to make it large enough to have a spot for all 5 Conference Champions plus some extra. I'm just suggesting "Why have extra?" There are other bowls for them. The answer to your question about why have equal participation, it is to limit the complaints of bias by the media and the committee. There is a pot of money to be divided, so if each P5 will be getting some, they each should participate. [/QUOTE]

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