In the Pete Carroll era there were 19 losses. About half of them had direct national championship implications. 

What if there was a real playoff system, as there is in every other major sport in the world?

Even curling has a playoff system, so where does that leave college football on the scale of all-time archaic championship determination systems?

Consider the mess in what has become the greatest March Madness tournament in recent memory. 

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