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Mountain West Conference proposes 16-team college football playoff

The Mountain West plan would make it easier for champions of all 11 Football Bowl Subdivison conferences to qualify for the post-season as long as a team is ranked among the top 30 in the country. The rest of the tournament would be filled with at-large selections, and a committee would determine the seeding. Teams not making the tournament could play in minor bowl games

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Big Ten/SEC will scream bloody murder as this will (at least theoretically) eliminate their heretofore LEGAL monopoly.

Well the article dispels a lot of the arguments that the "monopoly" leagues currently have - mainly money. It's beyond me why the Presidents of these Universities have done a dis-service to their institutions for years, especially now in a time of economic downturn & shrinking or at best case, steady endowment levels (read: not growing), that they turn a blind eye to an economic windfall.

I'm not saying 8 is the right # or 16 is the right # but if football playoffs are such a bad idea then the playoffs that exist in every other friggin NCAA sport must be a stupid idea too right?

In the end it won't be a Mountain West proposal that will tip anything, I think the BCS & the schools will need to lose & lose big in court to force them off their collective lazy fat asses.