Yea 4 of those schools have been to playoffs. College football has always been cyclical wheee schools have a 5-7 year run of dominance it’s really nothing new.
Florida won 2 out of 3 from 2006-2008
Nebraska won 3 out of 4 from 94-97
USC won the AP in 03, the BCS in 04 and lost to Texas in 05
Miami won 3 in a 6 year period on the 80’s.
if they had a 4 team playoff this whole time you would see similar runs with 3 or 4 of the same teams years in a row. The playoff didn’t create this college football has always been this way
It won't be allowed to be cyclical if ESPN has its way. ESPN would rather keep everything the same so that they may satisfy their revenue models by not upsetting the apple cart with an 'unexpected' participant. It used to be conference champs who went to the big 4 bowl games. I would rather go back to that model over the current one. Aggy got screwed for a completely mediocre ND team.
Used to be:
SWC
Big 8
Pac 10
Big 10
SEC
Big East
ACC
Notre Dame - Service Academies
Rose Bowl
Sugar Bowl
Cotton Bowl
Orange Bowl
There was never a finish through on a championship. Today we are not allowed to have an unbiased playoff. The media/cumulative monied interests don't want to lose control so we have never had a real champion, only a net "payoff" a la Jeruh Jones.
The Sweet 16 to the Final 4 in CBB is infinitely better than anything CFB has.
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