And for argumentative purposes, Florida and Stanford would take the next two spots because of they have the best resume and best-win+conference title, respectively.

I love the Aggies, but how do they make the top 8 over LSU??? A&M lost to LSU at home…. (Now the kicker missed 2 sub 40yd FGs and an XP and they lost by 5, but thats another argument)

In any given year, you’re talking about maybe… maybe 20 teams that have a legitimate chance to win a national title. And not because of how they play, but because they’re talked about (polls). For the other hundred-ish schools, their seasons don’t matter, since they never really had a chance.

Then, hope your school doesn’t have a loss, because chances are (with a few notable exceptions) as soon as you lose the rest of your season is going to be meaningless. Talk to Oregon or Kansas State about that.

So we’ve got a hundred schools playing schedules/games that don’t matter, and another dozen or so whose seasons stop mattering somewhere along the way.

For all that I enjoy college football, I would be hard pressed to find a regular season that mattered LESS.

Get to a playoff, and let every conference champion play.

To be honest though… I don’t like the committee aspect of this. Let the polls pick the top 4 and lets play…

Bottom line: I think a four team playoff almost raises more questions than answers in most years. An eight team playoff only expands the season by ONE additional game for 2 of the teams and it largely eliminates a lot of controversy. If you’re #9 or #10, you don’t have much argument room when talking “national championship”. There won’t be many teams with only one loss left out of an eight team playoff. There will be when only four get invited. History has proven that very few teams run the table. Everyone stubs their toe at least once during the year. Four needs to be multiplied by two if you really want to have a true playoff.

college student athletes.

what is the FBS’s issue again as to why they cant a full blown playoff? the players will miss class time….hell, they are missing class time now, especially players in sports other than football…

Stanford??

These experts know they lost twice don’t they?

Dumbest thing about college football is the lose early, be ‘hot’ late thinking.

If Oregon lost to Stanford week 2 instead of November that same game would be deemed a ‘fluke.’

If Stanford lost to Washington mid November the same people would be asking Well, how good are they if they lost to Washington.

I know it won’t happen while I’m alive because too many casual fans and ‘experts’ are prisoners of the moment, but a loss in September should be the same as one in November. It’s not that hard to think that way.

If you look at any team listed above they have the worst loss. A team worthy of being in the top 4 doesn’t lose to an average team, being hot late be damned.