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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 2013719, member: 628"] I'll admit I'm lost. You said you want the games to be meaningful and later said you'd prefer the playoff be abolished. Right now there are three games of utmost meaning when it comes to deciding a champion: the two semifinals and the final. Back in the day, pre-playoff, even pre-BCS or pre-Bowl Alliance, how often were there more than 3 games that had national title implications? If the nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 teams were not playing each other they all had meaningful bowls, so that'd make for one more than now. I don't recall that being a frequent occurrence though. I'm not advocating for abolishing bowls, I'm merely saying that making one is not a measuring stick anymore. It used to be that when you said a team made a bowl game it indicated that team had a good year, likely a top 25 finish. Now it means they finished .500, maybe. [/QUOTE]