By JIMMIE TRAMEL Sports Writer on Jan 25, 2013, at 3:26 PM Updated on 1/25 at 3:31 PM
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Bored by the last couple of BCS national championship games?
Looking forward to a future when college football will have a four-team playoff?
Breaking news: The playoff is already too small.
The NFL has a playoff. Guess what? If the league had only a four-team playoff, five of the last seven Super Bowl champions wouldn’t have been in the field.
College basketball has a playoff. If it was only a four-team playoff, 16 national champions since 1979 would not have been invited to postseason. Among players who would never have won an NCAA title ring if we had only a four-team college basketball playoff: Magic Johnson, Carmelo Anthony, Danny Manning and Isiah Thomas.
I could give more examples, but how much research is necessary to prove what we already know to be true?
College football -- content with a two-team “playoff” until the BCS got Kevorkian-ed -- is thinking too small.
A bigger playoff isn't feasible? If you say that and pretend to believe it, then Oprah is standing by to hear your confession someday.
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