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Gordon Monson: A 24-team playoff will help BYU and Utah, and all of college football

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Some people are freaked out over the move at the top level of college football to a 24-team playoff for two now-familiar, connected reasons. 1) It will dilute the postseason, and 2) it will diminish the importance of every game of the regular season.

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