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Nick Saban Talks About Playoffs

Should the system be tweaked again? Nick Saban seems to think so.

When the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision conferences started discussing a playoff format in earnest, fans and folks within the industry generally fell into two camps. The first group valued crowning a true national champion every year with an undisputed championship that would be earned on the field, many gazing longingly at the FCS-level playoff bracket. Firmly entrenched in the second camp were the purists who would have rather seen college football return to the days of conference bowl tie-ins and a purely mythical national champion before taking the drastic step toward a playoff, though most in that group would have also accepted maintaining the status quo that was the BCS.