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Yes I would rather watch UCF/Alabama or UCF/Clemson because if UCF beat LSU then for 2 straight years we have a team that may or may not be playoff/title caliber but we just have to go oh well, get a better schedule/conference. Of course that completely overlooks that the schedule is made years in advance and they already tried to get into a P5 but were told no.

Yes there will be blowouts but an 8 team playoff is guaranteed to have more exciting games than a one-off game and we aren't left with any lingering questions about how good a team is.

Like I'd see your point if we kept ending up with a 1 against 2 in the final every year but we don't. The 4 seeds has 2 out of 4 wins. We literally had a final last season that was 3 against 4. So it's not unreasonable to think maybe someone in that next cluster who could have won it all.

Some years we have a clear 1-2 who are better than everyone else and some years we don't.