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Originally Posted by JPhillips
I still think there's just no good way to prove who is the best team given the small number of games teams play. I think conference champions as the goal is better for the sport overall.
Once OSU lost to Michigan, I have no interest in whatever bowl they play in. How many starters are even going to play in it?
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I think this is the issue. If you want the "best," you just decide it by poll or committee or whatever. One team, who is the best. It's a judgment, a beauty pageant, justified by whatever metrics suit the argument (and corresponding arguments against the rest that fits the narrative). That's all it is.
Once you decide to have a playoff, it becomes a tournament. The best team doesn't always win. Sometimes the best team doesn't even qualify for the tournament. If you've accepted a playoff, you are accepting that the team who wins simply won a tournament.
That's why I particularly hate the idea of a playoff whose participants are solely chosen by subjective standards. It's the worst of both worlds.