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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1224257, member: 289"]
A national championship tournament should have three characteristics. the first is essential if the tournament is to produce a true champion. the other two are strong preferences of mine.

1) All the teams that anybody thinks could be the bets team in the country should be in the tournament, unless they are on probation.

2) The tournament should have as few teams as possible that don't meet criteria #1 because they clutter up the tournament . When they win, it prevents the the confrontations we've waited all season to see. And if they should win, like some of our recent college basketball champions, people tend to feel that they aren't really valid champions. But this is not a strong enough consideration to violate #1.

3) I hate byes. Everybody should have to win the same number of games to win a tournament. teams that get byes are often not advantaged by them  as they lose momentum while the other team gained it.

That adds up to 8 teams. Going to four teams is a halfway step to where we need to be. It's an improvement but it's not enough. And yet we see people making the same silly arguments that were made against expanding the playoff from two teams
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