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College Football Playoff first round provided evidence one change is needed to format

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We have made it through the first round of the College Football Playoff. While every home team ended up advancing, none of the first-round games were particular

Something needs to be done after the garbage first round of playoffs.

No automatic bye for conference champions seems good.

This article stops short of saying the Big12 and ACC should only get one team in, but I'd support that until proven they aren't week conferences.

Strength of schedule needs to be a bigger factor, an 11-1 Indiana never deserved a spot. My ideal default would be 6 SEC, 3 Big10, and the other automatic qualifiers.

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I don't know what anyone expected. The bigger you make the playoff, the more blowouts you're going to get. If you want a more competitive first round, contract the playoffs to 8.
- I expected them to use better judgement in including at large teams. Swapping Indiana or SMU for Alabama/Ole Miss/South Carolina would have been better games. Putting Boise State and Arizona State in the first round and giving Texas and Ohio State byes would have better first and second rounds.
  6/8 teams playing this week likely had no shot at winning the whole thing anyway, but we could have at least had some more competitive games.
  
  Sec teams? Like Tennessee that got absolutely rocked by OSU?
  It's a super weak argument. Only Sec homers think their conference is the end all, be all. We need less sec favoritism, not more.
  Indiana did well- ND was just better. You could put any of those teams you mentioned and they get the same result, if not worse for having to play in the cold.

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Yeah, I think people like to pretend it's an "any given Sunday" type of deal but not really in ncaa atm. I hesitate to say each conference must have x places because I think the conferences have gotten a little more even with NIL and Nick Saban's retirement. I agree with you on strength of schedule should matter more. That would fix most problems except the problems of weak conferences being in big media markets. I like the playoff system and don't mind it having been expanded. I think things will start to settle out with good players moving for more playing time that the major conferences will even out in terms of talent and pur Golden Age of SEC supremacy will come to a deserved end.
- The middle has gotten better, but the low end is much worse. The high end is still the high end though, most places can't compete. What is happening is that schedules are wildly imbalanced which makes it look like more parity, Indiana was 0/1 top 25 wins, Georgia was 4/2.
  Until proven otherwise the ACC and Big12 are irrelevant l, Clemson isn't the powerhouse it was anymore and is trending down.
  
  I would argue they've both been irrelevant for almost 20 years. I think the ACC will spend it's basketball money to pay for some good football programs. Miami is often believed by their fans to be a good program if not a good team.
  When was Clemson a powerhouse? When they could pretend that being undefeated in a poverty conference meant something. I feel the same way about the pac-10 except they have been showing more parity since the money could legally flow. I think it's easy to go into the post season well rested when a team doesn't play anybody.

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