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Matt L.'s avatar

In the NFL, 14 out of 32 teams qualify for playoffs, or 43% of overall teams.

What Dickert suggested is the same 43%. There are 65 Power 5 NCAA football teams and 28 to playoffs is 43% of overall.

If the 43% formula is good for NFL, why isn’t it good for CFB?

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Doug's avatar

I’d you want the NFL, watch the NFL. CFB is a very different sport.

NFL has an Extremely high level of parity 1-32. FBS is two completely different levels of football (3 if you really want to be honest about it) and the disparity of quality and talent in each of those levels is much wider than the NFL.

Number 28 would lose by 50 to number 1. We don’t need a whole round of those games to tell us what we already know after 12-13 games

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