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This is why realignment is bad for the fans and college football in general. It locks up teams into a limited pool of opponents (within a conference) while curtailing flexibility & innovation (OOC games).

Limiting competition while restricting freedom is not the American way. Realignment is therefore un-American.

This conference realignment gobbles up teams from other conferences not on the basis of geography or football tradition, but on the basis on money and TV market. It's very similar to the banking industry where banks like Citigroup, JPMorganChase and Bank of America gobble up other banks. Do you think this is good for the consumers? Too big to fail is good for banks?

Well, then join me in demanding some banking regulation and break up those banks, as well as those super conferences. Gotta do what's right.

Bama: would bring in a ton of recruits and a ton of money to the programs not sure about the match up with the recruits they are landing. But what the hell ....would be a wonderful rivalry if we could keep the games closer the the last one.

Tenn: I would love to beat them and its close to the house. Huge stadium to bring in Tv ratings money and recruits.

Arkansas : A decent SEC school and even closer to the house. We already got them in basketball and they would do a home away .

Cal: great area for recruiting and also a winnable game

NC: again great recruiting grounds and a winnable game as well

Arizona: no way could be a bad loss, the risk out weighs the reward

USC: great recruiting as well but also could be a backfire.

Florida: Could be a great rivalry but not sure about them even doing it.

Ole Miss : love this match up and would be a great venue for away games...again close to the house...

EDIT: Please watch your language. - TW

I really hope the playoff eventually expands to 16, would love to see some of the smaller schools that manage to build good teams (like Boise) atleast get a shot.

I think those schools now have a decent shot of making it. Multiple non-BCS schools have entered the postseason in the top-4, so theoretically, those schools would qualify for the four team playoff system. And with 8 teams, there's almost no way a non-BCS school that went undefeated and beat some solid BCS teams would be left out.

I certainly wouldn't complain about a 16 team field, but I actually heard a pretty good argument against it the other day. If you think about it, a team that starts the year in the top-5 (USC, Alabama, etc.) would have a decent shot of qualifying for a 16 team playoff with as many as three losses. Whereas with an 8 (or 4) team field, the regular season really doesn't lose any significance.

Yep. And ideally, the 8-team playoff format would give the higher seeds home-field advantage at least in the first round. So even though you could still potentially make the playoffs with two losses, you'd still want to do everything in your power to have home-field advantage in the first round.

I think the homerun is Tennessee. They are a traditional power in the SEC, but are a dumpster fire so we'd get a lot of hype for beating them and it would help with recruiting in the south.

Great points about Tennessee. My only concern is that the in-state talent in Tennessee isn't very good. But in terms of potentially hammering an SEC school with a lot of tradition, that's an excellent choice.

This is what I want.

I don't think it'll happen. First the Bowls will try and throw more money at the conferences/schools to keep themselves relevant/solvant. Because of this the conferences will keep the playoff as small as possible, until there is an outcry from us again to expand it. Even then it'll happen slowly, from 4 to 6, then 8 then maybe even 10. This will keep fans happy and bowls happy.

The B1G will try to get playoff games to be campus sites, trying to remove some of the travel burden on its fans. However, because the B1G is the only conference without a warm weather destination, it'll cave as it did this time around and will agree to play the playoff games in the bowls/south. Forever cementing playoff road games as a possible "home team." The only way the southern schools would agree to play playoff games in the north would be if the B1G would agree that those games have to be played in the closest dome. It's likely that the championship game will be won by a number of Midwestern cities that have domes, so the arguement will be that if the weather is taken out of the equation for the championship it should be taken out in the playoffs as well.

As much as I'd like there to be campus sites hosting playoff games as the D-1AA does, I don't see it happening because the "mighty" SEC won't be willing to let, say a 5th seed Florida go to 4th Seeded Michigan and lose a game they very well could have won because they won't be able to replicate for practice a frozen ball to catch, handoff or kick. There are enough warm to milder climate schools to get that off the table and into a dome, should "home field" become part of a playoff equation.

I would actually be entirely happy if it stays the 4 team format forever. I always felt that's perfect. I don't really want a large playoff just because everyone else has one, playoffs were solely created to make money for pro owners through extra home games and I think college football has a flair that is special. I'm no fan of this creeping professionalization of it all.