ACC against playoff expansion until current deal expires

[Buckaineer]

During a conference call on Friday, Phillips was clear about the ACC’s stance on expansion and what its universities feel is the best course of action at this point in time.

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Stewart Mandel
@slmandel

ACC commissioner Jim Phillips: "The membership of the ACC is very much aligned in its position that now is not the time to expand the College Football Playoff." There you have it.

11:37 AM · Jan 14, 2022·TweetDeck

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According to The Athletic’s Stewart Mandel, Phillips said that his conference has felt this way since the “middle of November or so” and has received feedback from players, namely from Clemson, saying that they “do not want to play any extra games.” Phillips went on to say that the ACC is more focused on working with the other conferences on “much larger issues,” like NCAA reform.

https://www.heartlandcollegesports....hillips-is-against-cfb-expansion-before-2026/

 

[quinnjj]

Smart! Trying to force Notre Dame’s hand.

 

[Buckaineer]

Most media present this as the SEC always has a lock, but that is only because they want them to.

If there were NO rankings of any kind until the playoff committee rankings and it was based on a simple formula for wins/losses, home/away/neutral, points scored/points given up and such real information instead of the opinions and fake "fpi" hypotheticals as now, things would likely look much different come playoff time.

That's what the conferences should be looking at to "fix" the playoff first, not working to give this or that conference guaranteed slots no matter results or opinions.

 

[WVUALLEN]

Make it 10 conference champs and 6 at large teams.
11 game season and no conference championship games.
Play 8 conference games 3 OOC games.
Seed the teams for the playoffs.
No team would play more than 15 games with this formula.
SEE FCS That is how it's done.

ESPN doesn't want a fair formula because they could not make billions that way.