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Message: [QUOTE="OregonOrange, post: 294582, member: 1359"] I believe it begins with pre-season rankings. Certain teams always seemed to get ranked high pre-season based on how they did last year and who's returning. As we see year after year, some teams have a prediliction for failing to deliver, i.e. Notre Dame and some conferences fail to deliver in post-season play. With a playoff system, you are distilling the best team by non-conference, head-to-head play. Make that on a truly neutral site, in varying weather, and you introduce enough variables, imo, to produce the better team to advance. Injuries and drama, not withstanding. So find a way to not rank until mid-season, transparently, and the playoff becomes much more interesting to everyone. Unless of course your ego won't allow it. Someone a few years back posted an analysis of past BCS scenarios and determined it would take a 12 or 16 team playoff to be fair. [/QUOTE]