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This is what I'm talking about when I say a poll based eight or 16 team playoff won't work. Once you start a playoff, even a plus one, you have to let all 11 conference champions in. The BCS conference's legal position is already shaky enough. If they were to create a real tournament, they would have absolutely no justification in keeping the mid-major conference champions out.

They don't want to include the mid-majors because they don't want to distribute the post-season money equitably to them. Right now the BCS conferences keep most of the money.

Of course, once you let the Troys and Buffalos in, you are going to have to have a lot of wild cards, otherwise the playoffs will be a joke. The power imbalances among the conferences are so severe, just about every year there are two conferences where the teams that finish second, third and fourth in the conference are much much better football teams than most of the other conference champions.

Bump Georgia and Texas Tech so Troy and Buffalo can play for the title? Heck, LSU will want in too. And why not? That's how the NCAA basketball tournament grew from 8 teams to 64 teams.

That's why the minimum number of teams in a playoff is 24 and it will probably be 32 before they're done.

Every year journalists and bloggers cry out for a four, eight, or 16 team playoff as the only reasonable solution to the frustration fans feel over the BCS.

BUT IT IS A SEDUCTIVE LIE!

Most fans don't want a 24 or 32 team playoff.

You know what they say: Be careful what you ask for. You just might get it.