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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 1229470" data-attributes="member: 360">Under the current system, teams with two losses have no business complaining (at least, not if two major-conference undefeateds are playing for the whole thing, which they were last year). But any rational playoff would've involved at least 8 teams, which means that USC would've been in it. I have to think that USC would've been the favorite in an 8 team or 16-team playoff last year. There isn't a I-A playoff, and probably won't ever be, but if there were, teams that were hot late in the season would be dangerous. Certainly Ohio State and Miami played better over the course of the entire season than USC. And it's possible that looks were decieving and that Miami or Ohio State would've beaten USC if they'd played. Two years ago, a one-loss Oregon team embarassed a two-loss Colorado team that was just as hot at the end of the year as last year's USC team. But USC didn't lose their bowl game; they blew out a one-loss co-champion of the Big 10 (with the Heisman runner-up at quarterback). So I don't think USC's late-season success last year was smoke and mirrors. And I really don't like the polls & bowls method of determining a national champion. It doesn't give a team any chance to recover from a bad loss, injuries, or for young players to mature over the course of a season. This year's dangerous team with too many losses is probably Florida. I'd hate to run into them in a playoff, though they'd probably only get an invite in a 16-team affair.</blockquote>

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