While I am on the subject of college sports playoffs, the NCAA basketball tournament is generally done well. Nobody ever disputes who the champion is.
I would propose one change, due in no small part to the fact that I attended a smaller college and got to see the injustice done to smaller schools in the selection process.
In the field of 65, there are 31 automatic bids. I would suggest that any conference champion automatically receive a seeding be seeded no lower than 12. I am tired of seeing a school that WON its conference having to play in the "play-in" game or get a #16 seed. That is just disrespectful.
Let teams selected at large play the "play-in game" and have to face powerful conference champions in the first round. You'd get to see really quickly whether they really deserved to be selected since they could not or did not win enough to EARN an automatic bid.
In the big picture, this would change nothing as the eventual champion would largely remain the same. But it would make for some more interesting matchups and upsets - particularly in the first two rounds.
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