re: Big 12/SEC Announcement coming today

the whole best teams thing is a giant red herring argument to me - when you go back and look there are just too many examples of teams winning when they were not expected to for the "I can just tell who is better" to be credible.

I do want a playoff and have gradually come around to the idea of a six team field to include the top four conference champs and the top two at large teams... that I think avoids any possibility of a split title (making the AP pretty well irrelevant by the end of the season) and gives a real and fair opportunity to teams from different conferences.

I have never felt that teams like LSU 06, Michigan 06, UGA 07, USC 07, Florida 09, Bama 11 were deprived of anything or deserved to be a four team playoff... the only reason you end up giving those teams second chances with a six team playoff is mostly necessity by design... because if you don't include at large bids you run the risk of leaving out a highly ranked team that might otherwise finish higher in an opinion poll like the Associated Press. None of those teams really deserved a second chance but that's the price you pay to make your playoff bulletproof.