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Dodd, your little Michigan-Ohio St. scenario doesn't make sense. How in the hell would these teams be "locked in" to a 4 team playoff already? Most years, teams in the top 4 have no more than 1 loss heading into the bowls. Losing later in the season is worse than losing early. The loser of this game would be out of the top 4 about 90 percent of the time unless you had a crazy situation where all other teams had at least 2 losses. No team would ever say, well, we're gonna take it on faith that we are locked into the top 4 so we can just tank it in this game and hope the voters keep us up there. Perhaps this might hold water in a larger playoff, but 4 teams, no. The best thing about plus one is that there is less of a chance that an undefeated champion of a BCS conference will be left without a shot at the title.
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