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Message: [QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 4116657, member: 5685"] If you are going to have auto bids for all conference champs then you better go well past 16 teams. Do we really pine for these matchups? The G5 games are mostly just a waste of time. Even more so if those games are hosted by the higher seeds. 1. Bama vs 16. Northern Illinois (93rd in Sagarin) 2. Michigan vs 15. Utah State (55th in Sagarin) 3. UGA vs 14. UTSA (62nd in Sagarin) 4. Cincy vs 13. Louisiana (that is interesting but it is 2 G5s) 5. ND vs 12. Pitt 6. Ohio State vs 11. Utah 7. Baylor vs 10. Ole Miss (moving them to avoid rematch with Bama) 8. Okie State vs 9. Michigan State (moving them to avoid Michigan rematch) If you expand to 20: 13. BYU vs 20. Northern Illinois with the winner playing Cincy 14. Oregon vs 19. Utah State with the winner playing UGA 15. Oklahoma vs 18. UTSA with the winner playing Michigan 16. Iowa (moving them to avoid B1G matchup vs Michigan) vs 17. Louisiana with the winner playing Bama These games wouldn't be all that good. IMO BYU, Oregon, and Oklahoma win easily. Iowa likely wins but Louisiana at least has a chance. Then for the round of 16: Bama would roll Iowa but it is a better game than Northern Illinois. Michigan Oklahoma has intrigue while Utah State does not. UGA would probably win easily over Oregon but at least there is a chance unlike UTSA. Cincy vs either BYU or Louisiana is an interesting game, only because Cincy isn't that great. Typically this game wouldn't be that great. So you get a better round of 16 by going to 20. But in doing so you are making this a P2 vs G8 tournament. The future B1G/SEC have 8 of the 20 teams. The future B12 gets three teams, P12 two teams, and one team each from the other 6 conferences. This will be typical. Looking at 2019 it is SEC/B1G 10 teams, P12 two teams, everyone else one team each. It is cute that the G5 gets a seat at the playoff table but the expansion greatly benefits the SEC/B1G and hurts the ACC/B12/P12. In terms of quality IMO 7 is the magic number. It also rewards the #1 team and the #1 team isn't going to be challenged by the 8 seed anyway. It also is made for TV as you have 3 games (12pm, 4pm, 8pm) in one day. 1. Bama gets a bye 2. Michigan plays 7. Baylor 3. UGA plays 6. ND 4. Cincy plays 5. Ohio State The ACC and P12 get left out for not having a Top 10 team. [/QUOTE]

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