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Wait, are you defending the Bills by talking about championships? The Buffalo Bills?

I'm certainly no expert, but based on current staffing levels at the IRS it seems that nobody really cares about enforcement anyways, so not sure why the folks suggesting mark to market cap gains should be required to consider it either.

I 100% felt this way until I watched a couple episodes of Pablo Torre Finds Out and I was like "oh, I get the concept now why people might like this".

"Bad" is certainly relative, but with the exception of the Neuheisel Rose Bowl in 2000, they were ok-to-bad from the early 90s until 2015 or so. '03-'08 stretch is about as bad as it gets for a top 20 job (which you're correct, it absolutely is).

Both based in the names of the native peoples of the area when colonists arrived! Two different tribes that were members of the Caddo confederacy.

I'm fine with the fact that 10 individuals (of which 9 were conference representatives, and only Notre Dame had self-representation) agreed to a system and that system worked as intended. Notre Dame is free to withdraw from the CFP agreement whenever they would like.

But even if they had finished outside the top 25, the whole point of auto bids for conference champions is that they earned it on the field. No suit in a board room has to decide if they are good enough.

10-2 conference champ Notre Dame or 11-1 indy Notre Dame both make the playoffs.

Neither James Madison nor Tulane finished outside the top 25, so not a great argument. (Duke, the conference champ that didn't finish in the rankings, did not make the rankings. So seems like you're on to something!)

If you lose two games, you need massive help to receive consideration. There were 7 teams with 2+ losses that felt they had a case, and there were only 3 spots available. Tough break for sure, but hardly worth the tantrum being thrown. The "simple" part would be to simply win one more game.

The worst part of the expanded playoffs is the wild entitlement that somehow something "earned" was taken from you. There have only been 2 national champions EVER with 2 losses, and one of those was 2007 which was the strangest CFB season of all time.

Nobody would complain if Notre Dame joined literally any conference and went 12-0 every year. That's the entire point of the expanded playoffs, every 12-0 team should be allowed in the tournament.

Oh, Duke didn't finish 10-2 like Notre Dame, and wasn't one of the top 5 ranked conference champions, so it has absolutely no relationship to the conversation at hand? Cool, thanks for the update.

It's really not complicated? Are there any sports that don't reserve spots for conference/division champions in their playoffs?

Win a conference, or be one of the next 7 best teams. Pretty simple.

Duke went 10-2?

I also think it's great they told the NCAA to pound sand! That doesn't change the fact that if Notre Dame was in a conference, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

You're right, pass interference and holding will always be a nice security blanket.