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Though an 8-team playoff may still leave some people unhappy, it would allow a much better process, and more better games.

• Take the Power 5 conference champions
  
• Committee chooses one non-power 5 conference team to participate if it has at least 11 wins
  
• Committee selects two at-large teams, or three if there is no qualifying non-power 5 team, with no more than one at-large per conference (No, the SEC doesn't have 3-4 of the top 8 teams)
  
• Committee seeds the teams
  
• Play Quarterfinals at the home stadiums of the Top 4 seeds the week before Christmas
  
• Play the Semifinals on New Year's day as they have mapped out this year
  
• Play the Final a week later as they have mapped out this year
  

This:
Allows conferences to crown their champions and select them for the playoff as they wish.
Provides arguing about who the at-large teams should be, but does anyone really care after the Top 8, ever?
Let's schools host a national playoff game - how cool is that?
Gives two weeks between conference championship game weekend and Quarterfinals.
Gives almost two weeks between National Quarterfinals and Semifinals.
Finishes up the playoffs before Winter quarter/Spring semester classes start.

This year it might look like this on Dec. 20:

5 Baylor at 4 Ohio St. Noon ET
6 TCU at 3 Florida St. 3:30 ET
8 Mich St. at 1 Alabama 6pm ET
7 Miss St. at 2 Oregon 9pm ET

Last out:  Ole Miss, Arizona.  Honestly, can either of these teams really complain?  Arizona got blown out in their CG, Ole Miss didn't make it to theirs, and both teams had three losses. 

I think Stanford really needs an 8-team playoff if it wants to play for a national title in football, because Stanford will be hard-pressed to ever go 11-1 in a regular season and win the Pac-12, which is what it will take to get in the 4-team system most years.

Ever since they announced the 4-team playoff I've felt that 8 would be better. Hopefully Bowlsby is doing some serious lobbying to that effect at this point, and hopefully we don't need to wait for the contract to end before seeing it, because that'll be like 2027.

[stupac2]

Though an 8-team playoff may still leave some people unhappy, it would allow a much better process, and more better games.

• Take the Power 5 conference champions
  
• Committee chooses one non-power 5 conference team to participate if it has at least 11 wins
  
• Committee selects two at-large teams, or three if there is no qualifying non-power 5 team, with no more than one at-large per conference (No, the SEC doesn't have 3-4 of the top 8 teams)
  
• Committee seeds the teams
  
• Play Quarterfinals at the home stadiums of the Top 4 seeds the week before Christmas
  
• Play the Semifinals on New Year's day as they have mapped out this year
  
• Play the Final a week later as they have mapped out this year
  

This:
Allows conferences to crown their champions and select them for the playoff as they wish.
Provides arguing about who the at-large teams should be, but does anyone really care after the Top 8, ever?
Let's schools host a national playoff game - how cool is that?
Gives two weeks between conference championship game weekend and Quarterfinals.
Gives almost two weeks between National Quarterfinals and Semifinals.
Finishes up the playoffs before Winter quarter/Spring semester classes start.

This year it might look like this on Dec. 20:

5 Baylor at 4 Ohio St. Noon ET
6 TCU at 3 Florida St. 3:30 ET
8 Mich St. at 1 Alabama 6pm ET
7 Miss St. at 2 Oregon 9pm ET

Last out:  Ole Miss, Arizona.  Honestly, can either of these teams really complain?  Arizona got blown out in their CG, Ole Miss didn't make it to theirs, and both teams had three losses. 

I think Stanford really needs an 8-team playoff if it wants to play for a national title in football, because Stanford will be hard-pressed to ever go 11-1 in a regular season and win the Pac-12, which is what it will take to get in the 4-team system most years.

Ever since they announced the 4-team playoff I've felt that 8 would be better. Hopefully Bowlsby is doing some serious lobbying to that effect at this point, and hopefully we don't need to wait for the contract to end before seeing it, because that'll be like 2027.