All kidding and faux tough guy by me aside the proposed 8 team playoff with how the big 12 is currently set up would never get us in where the current 4 team playoff wouldn't
So we never get in?
And again I stand by my statement I think there is a better chance we eventually find a way to win a national title by having a season where we are considered a top 4 team and winning two games, than not being considered a top 4 team, winning a CCG, winning a campus qtr final game, a bowl semi, and a national title.
This is literally true though of any team though. 8 teams would mean more games for all teams to play and win for the Natty, and it
would be easier to any teams that got into a 4 team playoff to win, there are less opportunities to lose. The difference is that scenario 2 of not being a top 4 team but getting in via CCG at least offers the chance to win a Natty, even slim. After all upsets do happen and the optics of making the playoff, even if guaranteed automatically due to winning a CCG looks good to a program, whereas in reverse, such as Penn St. and lesser so OU, you could play the line of "you were good enough to win your conference, but can't even make the playoffs! lolz". That looks bad. Also, if we are a top 4 team and make a 8 team playoff than it shouldn't necessarily matter, we'd
should win the first round and make it to the "final 4" anyways. If you can't win that game via upset, that you probably weren't a top 4 team anyways.
Related but slightly off topic I think there are legitimately any given season 3-10 teams that on any given Saturday could beat any team in the country with more than just a fluke win/upset. The move to 4 was a great upgrade from 2 cause you ice'd out several teams that could make a case for being #2, or even #1. The first playoff proved that with a "4" seed in tOSU winning the whole thing. 1 data point for sure but that immediately legitimized the 4 team playoff. But years like this year you push the argument down to teams in spots 5, 6, 7. I for one absolutely believe a Michigan or Penn St. could beat a Clemson or Washington, and both of those teams are basically coinflips away from switching up their result with tOSU. I think the move to 8, hopefully eventually pushes the argument down to where we talk about teams 9, 10, 11, where there the argument changes to more "this team shouldn't be playing in the playoff" than "there are teams out there that could/should be" and even still there are many teams that still could down at the 9, 10, 11 spot. You got to draw a line somewhere, but 4 is still IMO too short of a satisfactory answer. We literally never have these arguments in any other sport of who should be in and who should be out other than bball and that takes it out all the way to teams 68 and 69. Those teams ain't winning the tourny and that tournament also freaking guarantees conference champs a place in it's tournament.
