…there will be definitely be politicking still. All you have to do is look at the NCAA Basketball tournament. There are 65 teams, and yet there are still teams that feel they get jobbed, and they should have been in the tournament.

Of course, the big difference is you are arguing over the 65th or 66th best team. The same would be true if CFB had a playoff. We would not be arguing over 2 vs. 3. Instead we would be arguing over 4 vs. 5. It may seem like a small difference, but there are not many teams that far down the poll who at least did not have a shot at winning their way into the BCS title game. Even this year for all the arguing that would go on about who should and who should not be in the BCS game. None of those teams will have too strong of an argument, as they have all lost game. The problem of course comes in where you have a season that a team wins all of its games from a BCS confrence, and yet does not get in the BCS game. That would almost always be solved with a playoff.

lest we pick on our slightly-retarded, meth-addled kindred spirits in the Redneck Southwest, that Urbie did some serious politicking in 2006. My advice to OU: Don’t schedule D1-AA (I refuse to call teamsFCS) teams, and win your head to head. My advice to the ‘Horns: Take care of your business on the road. TTU: Well, just get a defense. USC: quitting s******* the bed against teams that you are allegedly better than. PSU: Not much you can do…your conference is down this year (a la SEC), but you have to beat all of the ones on your skeddie. If you can’t handle a decent-to-good bowl team on the road, then no sir…eliminated (which, also, is why I think UF should be dq’ed this year as well…their body of work is no where close to UF or OU).

That’s one of the worst ones I’ve heard yet. I don’t know how they would determine the 64 teams, but if you took something like CBS’ 120 Ranking, it would include teams with losing records making the playoff. Sure, they’d likely be eliminated early, but it’s still a ridiculous number. I guess an adjustment could be made that no team with a losing record could be in it, but still. The logistics of such a thing would be insane. At what point would you have to start drawing up the field of competitors? What kind of road support would there be if a team from North Carolina had to play in Oregon on one week’s notice? Regional early rounds would be a terrible idea because it would favor regions were the teams are weaker. Not a good idea at all at least as far as it’s been presented.

teams is insane. BBall is not like football. You only have to move a few people with not much equipment in BBall.

Honestly, a 4 team playoff would be all that is needed. If you win all your games you would automatically make the 4. I can not remember 5 undefeated teams in a season. But, to make it fair, require all teams to play some ranked people, or just drop out of D1. I guess this year Utah played enough to get in, but Ball St. did not. After the undefeateds use the BCS system for the rest. If you lose a game you have no one to blame but yourself. In essence the whole season is a playoff for the final 4. But make it so any D1 team has a good enough schedule that they could look at themselves and say, “If we win all our games we are going to the final 4.”