Mizzou in, or out?
Had to start with that since this is a MOsports board.
NCAA, please expand the playoffs to 8 teams. There used to be so much debate about which two teams to put in the championship game, and you wisely expanded to four teams. But there’s almost always going to be a fifth or sixth team that has a good argument for making the top 4.
You don’t really see any arguments for Penn State, Clemson, or Washington being deserving (the current next tier of rated teams at 8, 9 and 10). Ie if the #9 team gets left out, pretty much nobody is saying they got screwed.
Let numbers 9 and below bowl eligible teams all play before new year’s. Then my tourney would look like this, for example, yearning for the old days of the big four bowl games on New Year’s Day:
11am - Orange Bowl
#3 TCU vs. #6 Tennessee
2pm - Cotton Bowl
#4 Ohio State versus #5 Alabama
5pm - Sugar Bowl
#1 Georgia vs #8 Clemson
8pm Rose Bowl
#2 Michigan vs #7 USC
(The old Big 10 vs PAC 10 matchup)
SEC, Big 10, Big 12, PAC 12 and ACC all represented.
January 8 - NCAA Final Four games at two prescheduled locations.
January 15 - Championship game at TBD
(Just six days after this years scheduled ‘ship)
New Years Day I’d be glued to the TV like the good old days.