Ohio State was the last team into the first College Football Playoff, and Baylor was the first team out. People yelled about that, but it was fine.
Baylor AD hopes College Football Playoff will expand to 8 ‘within 5 years’
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Now, Baylor AD Ian McCaw is the latest to predict the Playoff will expand to eight teams at some point, hopefully “within five years.” Baylor rival TCU has also proposed such a thing recently, as have dozens of coaches and the ACC commish.
McCaw also argues that there’s a significant difference in quality between teams that rank barely outside of No. 4 and teams that rank barely outside of No. 8:
“If you’re [No.] 9 or 10, it’s hard to argue you should be national champion,” McCaw said, via ESPN. “But right now, if you’re No. 5, and you’re a conference champion, and you get left out, you can make a pretty good argument that you could have done what Ohio State did last year.”
Last year, No. 5 Baylor lost to No. 8 Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl, which might not have happened if Michigan State had been ranked No. 9.
(No matter where you cut off the entry point, you’ll always have a hard time arguing for that entry point, see. That’s why these things tend to expand forever.)
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... is gonna be a lot of fun for almost everybody.
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