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Clay Travis: An 8th Team Would Be a Major Shift in the NFL Playoffs

Clay Travis: An 8th Playoff Team Would Be a Major Shift in the NFL Playoffs

Clay Travis is reacting to some news out of the NFL that the league will expand the playoffs to 8 teams from the AFC and 8 teams from the NFC, if a game is forced to be cancelled at some point this season.

Clay and the Outkick crew all believe that at some point there will be at least one game that gets cancelled due to COVID. If they are right, then this new 8 team playoff expansion will be implemented.

If the plan does get triggered, Clay believes that it will be significant in a few ways. First off, there would be no byes at all. As we stand currently, the Steelers and the Saints are the two #1 seeds in their conferences. This new wrinkle would force every single team to win 3 games in order to make it to the Super Bowl.

In ordinary years, the top 2 teams in each conference get a bye week to start off the playoffs, but in this scenario, no team would get byes, and Clay argues that this, combined with essentially no home field advantage for anyone, will offer significant changes in this year's playoff picture in the NFL.

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