As I've stated, I couldn't have been more wrong on kicking and screaming in defense of the four-team playoff.
One of the great benefits to the 12-team that I hadn't considered:
The ability to follow narratives and to get acquainted with teams as they advance (not unlike NFL or NBA playoffs).
With the four-team, the regular season ends (and conf championship games) and then you take a month off. Then two games are played. Then the championship. That really leaves a void of a progression that we are seeing now.
Case in point: We all got much more closely acquainted with Texas in the run-up to the first-round game.
So now, after watching them closely in two more games we all have a pretty dang good feel for them and what it will take for them to hang with Ohio State.
And so on.
That part of it is really cool IMO.
Thoughts?
One of the great benefits to the 12-team that I hadn't considered:
The ability to follow narratives and to get acquainted with teams as they advance (not unlike NFL or NBA playoffs).
With the four-team, the regular season ends (and conf championship games) and then you take a month off. Then two games are played. Then the championship. That really leaves a void of a progression that we are seeing now.
Case in point: We all got much more closely acquainted with Texas in the run-up to the first-round game.
So now, after watching them closely in two more games we all have a pretty dang good feel for them and what it will take for them to hang with Ohio State.
And so on.
That part of it is really cool IMO.
Thoughts?
