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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2858329, member: 289"]
You are dealing with players in their late teens and early 20's and we have a set up where they could lose a game played in August and be eliminated. I always remember the 1999 Arizona team, who had shocked people by going 11-1 the year before and there predictions of a run to the national title game. They were scheduled to play at Penn State in the Kick-off Classic. They got crushed and were so demoralized they limped to a 6-6 finish.
[URL="http://www.jhowell.net/cf/scores/Arizona.htm"]Arizona Historical Scores[/URL]
If they could have come back from that and had a shot at a playoff by going 11-1 again or by winning their conference championship, they might have had a much better record.

It has always seemed unfair to me that we put these teams with kaleidoscopic line-ups of not fully mature players through this "single elimination tournament" (but not for everyone) regular season and yet in the pros where they have teams that can stay together for years and feature full matured adult players we give them 4 exhibition games, they can make the playoffs with a 7-9 record - see:
[URL="https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/sea/2010.htm"]2010 Seattle Seahawks Statistics & Players | Pro-Football-Reference.com[/URL] 
...and can make and win the Super Bowl with A 9-7 record - see:
[URL="https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/nyg/2011.htm"]2011 New York Giants Statistics & Players | Pro-Football-Reference.com[/URL]
...is clearly unfair.

We need a more forgiving system in college and the NFL a less forgiving one, (four 8 team divisions and just put the champions in the playoffs).
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