How many times in the next 10 years should Penn State make the 24-team playoff?

saturdaysarebetter · 2026-11-12T11:43:12-0600

How many times in the next 10 years should Penn State make the 24-team playoff? Your expectations?

And if you would be truly honest with yourself, your number would be higher under James Franklin.

Chumboshifko1 · 2026-11-12T11:46:46-0600

saturdaysarebetter said:
How many times in the next 10 years should Penn State make the 24-team playoff? Your expectations?

And if you would be truly honest with yourself, your number would be higher under James Franklin.

Go pump you Pitt clown.

Psumatt85 · 2026-11-12T11:47:51-0600

saturdaysarebetter said:
How many times in the next 10 years should Penn State make the 24-team playoff? Your expectations?

And if you would be truly honest with yourself, your number would be higher under James Franklin.

9

PSUFTG · 2026-11-12T11:52:07-0600

Well, in the last 10 years Franklin coached at PSU:

PSU would have made the "playoffs"

7 out of the 9 full seasons (not counting COVID year of 2020)

That was - obviously - an unacceptable performance - and neither the "excellence at the highest level" promised by Brozo, nor the expectations that PSU fans should be satisfied with.

So (let's do the math, 7 out of 9, carry the 1, divide and round off...... LionJim can check the math) something MORE than 78% of the time.

So lets round off and say that it would have to be MORE than 80% of the time.
Fair enough?

SkiSkiSki · 2026-11-12T11:55:58-0600

PSUFTG said:
Well, in the last 10 years Franklin coached at PSU:

PSU would have made the "playoffs" 7 out of the 9 full seasons (not counting COVID year of 2020)

That was - obviously - an unacceptable performance - and neither the "excellence at the highest level" promised by Brozo, nor the expectations that PSU fans should be satisfied with.

So (let's do the math, 7 out of 9, carry the 1, divide and round off...... LionJim can check the math) something MORE than 78% of the time.

So lets round off and say that it would have to be MORE than 80% of the time.
Fair enough?

How many of those hypothetical 7 seasons would PSU under Coach "Mike Tomlin" Franklin have made it out of the first round? One for sure where the matchups were favorable. Any others?

LionJim · 2026-11-12T12:04:02-0600

PSUFTG said:
Well, in the last 10 years Franklin coached at PSU:

PSU would have made the "playoffs" 7 out of the 9 full seasons (not counting COVID year of 2020)

That was - obviously - an unacceptable performance - and neither the "excellence at the highest level" promised by Brozo, nor the expectations that PSU fans should be satisfied with.

So (let's do the math, 7 out of 9, carry the 1, divide and round off...... LionJim can check the math) something MORE than 78% of the time.

So lets round off and say that it would have to be MORE than 80% of the time.
Fair enough?

7 out of 9 is .777777…., rounded up is 78%, so a little less than 78%.

Fun math fact: .999999999… is equal to 1. (If you need convincing, assume that they are not equal, then you’d have to find some number in between those two, a little thought will lead you to conclude that this cannot be done.)

Erial_Lion · 2026-11-12T12:22:13-0600

This is a fun exercise if the only goal is to make the playoffs. But my goal of winning a National Title trumps any goals around the % of time we make the playoffs. I've been a fan for enough seasons where we had a really good team, but not the best team.

The Florida Marlins have made the playoffs 4 times in the last 32 seasons. The Cleveland Guardians have made it 16 times. Would I rather make the playoffs 50% of the time, or 13% of the time? I guess 13%, since I'd rather be the team with 2 titles. And I'll take my chances with our current coach over the former one.

1995PSUGrad · 2026-11-12T12:26:24-0600

I think we should make it 10 times in the next ten years.

Bvillebaron · 2026-11-12T12:36:37-0600

SkiSkiSki said:
How many of those hypothetical 7 seasons would PSU under Coach "Mike Tomlin" Franklin have made it out of the first round? One for sure where the matchups were favorable. Any others?

That wasn’t the question. Try paying attention.

MtNittany · 2026-11-12T12:37:08-0600

My Inner Gen Z answers: "At least a dozen."

Bvillebaron · 2026-11-12T12:38:06-0600

Erial_Lion said:
This is a fun exercise if the only goal is to make the playoffs. But my goal of winning a National Title trumps any goals around the % of time we make the playoffs. I've been a fan for enough seasons where we had a really good team, but not the best team.

The Florida Marlins have made the playoffs 4 times in the last 32 seasons. The Cleveland Guardians have made it 16 times. Would I rather make the playoffs 50% of the time, or 13% of the time? I guess 13%, since I'd rather be the team with 2 titles. And I'll take my chances with our current coach over the former one.

Yeah because Campbell is killing it this year.

ApexLion · 2026-11-12T12:40:35-0600

8 of 10 playoff years with Franklin, with 6 soul crushing losses to well coached teams. Two other losses to poorly coached teams. Obviously.

PSUFTG · 2026-11-12T12:44:12-0600

SkiSkiSki said:
How many of those hypothetical 7 seasons would PSU under Coach "Mike Tomlin" Franklin have made it out of the first round? One for sure where the matchups were favorable. Any others?

The question was wrt a "24 Team Playoff".

Unless I "Rip Van Winkle-ed" - we have never had one of those play out.
So there is no way to even begin to approach such a question

WDLion · 2026-11-12T12:53:20-0600

saturdaysarebetter said:
How many times in the next 10 years should Penn State make the 24-team playoff? Your expectations?

And if you would be truly honest with yourself, your number would be higher under James Franklin.

Ten.

SkiSkiSki · 2026-11-12T12:53:30-0600

Bvillebaron said:
That wasn’t the question. Try paying attention.

The question was a hypothetical that I met with and equally meaningless hypothetical. Notice that I did not respond to the original question, but rather to a follow on post. Pull your head out of your a$$.

Chumboshifko1 · 2026-11-12T12:54:19-0600

Bvillebaron said:
That wasn’t the question. Try paying attention.

Laughing at you, goober pile.

wptlion · 2026-11-12T12:58:40-0600

The problem is Franklin shot his load and lost last year. The talent level was depleted....so if Franklin was still here we'd be in the same boat. With a 24 team playoff this team might be just 1 win short of making it. (notice I said MIGHT BE)

psuro · 2026-11-12T12:59:56-0600

I had a post on another thread (since buried) where I made my predictions on how often PSU (and other teams) would make the CFP with 24 teams.

The breakdown was 100%/75%/50%/25% and "once in a while".

I had PSU at 75% and I am sticking by that.
I also had USC and Indiana in that category (because Cignetti has been there such a short time, and I would like to see a greater body of work to elevate them). There were others, (Oklahoma was one).

Programs that I had at 100% include
OSU, Alabama, Georgia, Oregon, Notre Dame. There might have been a couple of others, but cannot recall which ones.

I wish I could find that particular post or recall which thread it was under.

saturdaysarebetter · 2026-11-12T17:11:34-0600

1995PSUGrad said:
I think we should make it 10 times in the next ten years.

Highly realistic. Fire Campbell the first year he fails.

saturdaysarebetter · 2026-11-12T17:12:34-0600

WDLion said:
Ten.

Ah, another highly realistic person.

Blair10 · 2026-11-12T17:39:21-0600

saturdaysarebetter said:
Ah, another highly realistic person.

You have asked posters to respond to your hypothetical question. Some did so respectfully. They should receive equally respectful replies even if you disagree with them. Otherwise, people will not respond to your question.

I agree with poster WDLion. The 24 team format is essentially taking CFB back to the old bowl system where even bad teams qualified. There are simply never 24 very good teams in a single year. There is no reason for a program of Penn State’s stature to miss qualifying for the playoffs in a 24 team format. To miss a 24-team playoff implies the football team is beyond bad and the coach is about to be fired.

Nitt1300 · 2026-11-12T17:52:48-0600

LionJim said:
7 out of 9 is .777777…., rounded up is 78%, so a little less than 78%.

Fun math fact: .999999999… is equal to 1. (If you need convincing, assume that they are not equal, then you’d have to find some number in between those two, a little thought will lead you to conclude that this cannot be done.)

fun fact- math isn't fun
Danica McKellar is

PSUForever · 2026-11-12T19:16:18-0600

Please delete this useless thread.

WVilleLion · 2026-11-12T19:21:49-0600

0 because Penn State isn’t going to pay/afford $8M+ QBs.

MtNittany · 2026-11-12T19:27:49-0600

Erial_Lion said:
This is a fun exercise if the only goal is to make the playoffs. But my goal of winning a National Title trumps any goals around the % of time we make the playoffs. I've been a fan for enough seasons where we had a really good team, but not the best team.

The Florida Marlins have made the playoffs 4 times in the last 32 seasons. The Cleveland Guardians have made it 16 times. Would I rather make the playoffs 50% of the time, or 13% of the time? I guess 13%, since I'd rather be the team with 2 titles. And I'll take my chances with our current coach over the former one.

2003 I was there in "Beer an Inning Park" (as we called Joe Robbie) for game 4 and Alex Gonzalez's home run. It's lightning in a bottle for any fan base, but for the Fish, that was an amazing night. I can honestly say it was more exciting than any PSU game I've been to, and I've been to a lot. Something about playoff/extra inning baseball that stops your breathing.

KingLando · 2026-11-12T19:47:29-0600

6...parity is here to stay
The objective is to make runs when you make it because of skill...not because you were handed the easiest draw in the history of sports.

saturdaysarebetter · 2026-11-12T20:04:07-0600

Blair10 said:
You have asked posters to respond to your hypothetical question. Some did so respectfully. They should receive equally respectful replies even if you disagree with them. Otherwise, people will not respond to your question.

I agree with poster WDLion. The 24 team format is essentially taking CFB back to the old bowl system where even bad teams qualified. There are simply never 24 very good teams in a single year. There is no reason for a program of Penn State’s stature to miss qualifying for the playoffs in a 24 team format. To miss a 24-team playoff implies the football team is beyond bad and the coach is about to be fired.

As recently as last year come to think of it. So it could happen.

1995PSUGrad · 2026-11-12T20:09:36-0600

saturdaysarebetter said:
Highly realistic. Fire Campbell the first year he fails.

You can react however you want to react, but I don't think it's unrealistic to think that we should be a top 20 team every year and without knowing all of the in's and out's of who will get in and and who won't, that should just about get you into the 24 team field. And no, I am not one of the "fire the coach" posters on this board just because things don't go the way we want or think they should.

Nittering Nabob · 2026-11-12T20:29:21-0600

saturdaysarebetter said:
How many times in the next 10 years should Penn State make the 24-team playoff? Your expectations?

And if you would be truly honest with yourself, your number would be higher under James Franklin.

More than Pitt so I guess that would be once.

Nittering Nabob · 2026-11-12T20:32:02-0600

SkiSkiSki said:
The question was a hypothetical that I met with and equally meaningless hypothetical. Notice that I did not respond to the original question, but rather to a follow on post. Pull your head out of your a$$.

Much like Marshall2323, Bvillebaron is another fake account by the same person.

Put them on ignore

MtNittany · 2026-11-12T20:46:15-0600

Nittering Nabob said:
Much like Marshall2323, Bvillebaron is another fake account by the same person.

Put them on ignore

You should spend time metal detecting, or maybe panning for gold. Both better hobbies than doxxing people on the interwebs. More profitable too.

Nittering Nabob · 2026-11-12T20:59:22-0600

MtNittany said:
You should spend time metal detecting, or maybe panning for gold. Both better hobbies than doxxing people on the interwebs. More profitable too.

Tsk Tsk Little Robbie.

MtNittany · 2026-11-12T21:17:31-0600

Nittering Nabob said:
Tsk Tsk Little Robbie.

It's just that no one cares but you, which makes it sort of pointless.

Chumboshifko1 · 2026-11-13T02:24:57-0600

MtNittany said:
You should spend time metal detecting, or maybe panning for gold. Both better hobbies than doxxing people on the interwebs. More profitable too.

The troll likes to argue with "himslef"

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