Billy
Maybe Ottawa does not belong in the playoffs but that type of thing happens in sports all the time. LIke I said in a nearliers post.
In baseball this year the 4 place Mets have a better record than 1st place San Diego but they dont make it.
apparently…
Just because that is what happens in Baseball, doesn’t make it right. Last time I checked the MLB is horrible (sorry I just really do not like pro baseball)
And redwhite2005, if you would actually read my post you would clearly see that I said, andf I quote “if the season ended today” and then I put Calgary in the crossover.
AH Billy you are correct that is an important part of your post!
Amen to that, CFL brother! 
I respect the fact that you don't like baseball but it is irrelevant to this point
To say that it is not fair to have a better record and not make the playoffs is why I brought up baseball, and hockey in the first place. In many other sports It happens all the time and you never hear them complaining about it. Furthermore a one game playoff system makes it even worst.
You say that Ottawa does not deserve to be in the playoffs but does a 4th place team deserve to be in the cup because of one bad bounce? If it was a best 2 or best 3 system then I would rethink it. In a best of system the betters team will come out on top but we cannot do that in football.
I think it is worst to see the 4th place team in the cup because of a tip or bad bounce.
Here's a few things:
---The playoffs are unnecessarily huge. HOWEVER, I understand why they are, and I will defend it to the death. Contact football sports leagues thrive with this six-team setup. You see very little people dogging this or the NFL's number of playoff teams. The NRL and AFL in Australia play an expanded version of the six-tem bracket (first round determines byes in second round, some teams can lose their first game). Nobody seems to be against the fact that 2/3 of the league makes the playoffs, and rightfully so: they have to go 3-0, while division champs have to go 2-0.
---The crossover is an appropriate situation (although I don't understand it PLEASE SOMEONE FIND ME THE CROSSOVER RULE) for the size of the playoffs in this league. The only other option I see is a full-league table.
I think that even after Eastern expansion (and Winnipeg should stay in the West IMO), the crossover should remain...possibly. A better option could be this:
2 Division Winners recieve first-week byes.
2 Division Runner-ups (not wild cards) recieve first-week home games.
2 Wild Cards receive away games at division runner-ups in the first week.
In week 2, the division champs will host the winner of the game hosted in the other conference in week 1 (effectively a semifinals crossover).
This eliminates the mystique of the divisional system, which I know some of you are against, and I'm not completely sold on it, but I still think that if a team that is 4th place is better than a team that is 3rd in the other division, they should get precedence. But no cellar-dwellers.
What you have just proposed is the crossover.
I say if you are in one division thats the division you make the playoffs in
I say keep the CO but award the division troupies to the division winners of the season instead of the game, have a big award ceremonie in each Semi Final for the top teams before the game to decide if they are going to the GC against the team that won in the 1st round.
It really doesnt matter whether its an East or West crossover team that makes the playoffs, the odds are pretty slim that they will get beyond the first round in either division anyways......if you want to get rid of the crossover then go back to the unbalanced schedule and have division rivals play eachother 4 times like in the old days or wait until they get the 5th team in the east, until then live with it.