burningmetal

Does not crown the division? I'm talking about a conference. Those 7 national titles came from 4 different teams, and If you'll look at the top six teams from just this past year in the SEC, you'll notice that five of them were a play here or there from being in the national championship game, and one was fortunate enough to get there. Can you name another conference in recent memory, or ever, who could say that?

And what will the playoff system solve, I wonder? If the SEC fields 3 of the top 4 teams as it did this year, you will be watching a playoff consisting of 75% SEC. The rest of the nation will be whining and moaning again. Then what? Do we expand it to 8? Then maybe 16? Where does it end?

The obvious answer is it doesn't. Either constant complaining, or constant playoff expansion.

Just because people might think something is unfair doesn't always mean they're right. Sometimes things are just better left alone. Absolution does not and cannot exist in sports. You can never make everyone happy. There are 68 teams in the current NCAA basketball tournament format. And I can give you a 100% guarantee that this year, just like ever other year, there will be another 8-12 teams complaining that their "bubble" was stronger than someone else's bubble, and they got screwed.

I have to blast a bit on your Saban comment, lastly. I'm not a Les Miles fan, as I believe despite his relative success, he has done far less than most would with the kind of talent he's had. But that national title came 3 years after Saban left "the house". That leaves very few of his players left, and it also means that they weren't under his coaching for long, and for those who redshirted, they never played for him. If you give Saban credit for that, then you might aswell give Mike Shula credit for "building the house" that Saban inherited, because he also won his first title with them in his 3rd year.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, the NFL would fine and suspend me.