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Message: [QUOTE="Orangepace, post: 1216299, member: 322"] Typically, I would agree with you that the best game should be the NC game. However, this is year 1 of the FBS playoff and politicking alone will have an impact as they try to "validate" the rationality behind a playoff system, or even letting the #3 and #4 team compete for the NC. The only difference between the new system and old is the additional of a semi-final round before the NC. If the semi-final games are blowouts or completely one-sided, the rationality of a playoff comes into question. It would be better politically for the semi-finals to be tough/close games and the NC to be a blowout than it would for the Semi's to be blowouts and the NC to be close. A blowout in the NC game would leave everyone with the thought, "well that team was clearly the best." Easier to pallette that in the first year than people saying, "why play the semi's if the #3 and #4 teams really couldn't compete anyway?!" No? [/QUOTE]