Bama, Ole Miss, Miami, blah blah blah. Don’t lose to 6-6 teams and you can get your chance.
I’m starting to think 8 teams are perfectly acceptable.
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I’m sick of seeing Lane Kiffin and Bama fans whine after every underdog loses a playoff game. 17 all of you.
It certainly doesn’t need to go beyond 12.
It’s not about who can win the title. It’s about the illusion of hope for fanbases that now have nothing really to cheer for.
Bowls used to be consolation prizes, and they are now devalued.
I think 16 is the correct number.
Bowls used to be consolation prizes, and they are now devalued.
I think 16 is the correct number.
So, try to appease as many morons as possible?
That actually has been the official mission statement for college football for at least 10-15 years, so I fully expect it to happen.
Whatever is best for the integrity of the sport, in any particular category….just expect the exact opposite to happen. You’ll be right every time. NIL reform, transfer rules, eligibility rules, revenue sharing, size of the playoff, criteria for selecting playoff teams, and on and on. Just expect the biggest dumpster fire option to be chosen every 17ing time.
The problem isn't the playoff. The problem is conference schedules. OM & Kiffin have the least claim to this as their conference schedule sucked
Yeah, pretty much. At this point, anything that keeps people engaged is a good thing.
So what? The teams with the better regular seasons deserve that advantage. The higher seeds should host in the quarterfinals and semifinals too.
It'll probably settle at 16, but maybe even more, it's all about money. Why would anyone not want more CFB? If the match doesn't appeal to you, just don't watch that game.
I would prefer 16 or 24 with Automatic Quailers from every conference like in baseball, basketball. Give every team a defined pathway to a national championship. Otherwise, relegate those conferences to a league that does so…
Neutral field matchups are so dull. You really think Clemson deserves to play on a neutral field with Texas, who had a much better season? Of course not!
If Clemson is going to eliminate Texas, they at least need to go on the road and do it, to make up for the fact that their season as a whole has been so much weaker. It should be homefield advantage for every round other than the championship, just like in every other football postseason in the country.
If not, what incentive do teams have to keep fighting if they start out 10-0? If 10-2 is the same as 12-0, those last 2 games don't matter.
Exactly. The basketball tournament could drop to 8 teams and almost always have the same champion, and have it really mean something special if you make the field, but nobody wants that. Because it's about the journey, not merely the final result.
If they don’t like getting left out then they can either win their games, or leave the SEC and join an easier conference.
16 teams, no byes. Take the top ranked 16 teams regardless of conference championships ect. Average the AP, Coaches, and playoff committee polls for the top 16.
And then, have more than one game on television at a time, in case one of them is a blowout.
And then, have more than one game on television at a time, in case one of them is a blowout.
Has anyone ever said that about the NFL playoffs? Nope. We want the teams who earned a homefield advantage to get it.
If my interest level in these first 4 games is any kind of barometer at all.....8 is plenty.
You can’t possibly have “more” of something that no longer exists.
The NFL is a far superior product as far as professional football goes. The current minor league version is a laughing stock.
I can agree with this and it’s not a bad thing. I mean we do the same thing with basketball. You win 2 games in the basketball tournament and hang a prestigious Sweet 16 banner. Same thing.
I mean I can kinda see why Lame is becoming unhinged. A playoff appearance banner in Vaught Hemmorhoid or Davis Wade would be program changing.
It doesn’t make much sense that you win a conference championship and get a bye for a neutral site game
This isn’t basketball. There aren’t 12 teams that can win a title in football. I know it’s about putting more games on tv but they’re shittee games and only prove that most of these teams can’t compete at this level.
1. Get rid of conference championship games
2. Get rid of bowls (or move them to August as part of a 13-game regular season)
3. Expand to 16-24 teams and give each conference 1 autobid
4. Start the playoff the first Saturday of December and finish it on January 1, giving us an awesome December, including a bunch of weeknight games
5. Get rid of redshirting and give everyone 5 years to play 5. No more players quitting midyear to preserve a redshirt.
6. Allow binding multi-year contracts to protect both players and teams
It'll work itself out. If Alabama and Ole Miss hadn't ѕhit the bed in late November, they would have been playing more competitive games than SMU and Indiana did. Just some bad luck that it all went this way.
This is along the lines of my thinking. Except use the bowl games to play the neutral site games.
At the very least, they should change the rules requiring the top 4 seeds to be conference champions.
If Arizona State and Boise State were playing this weekend instead of Texas and Penn State, we probably would have seen more competitive games.
If Arizona State and Boise State were playing this weekend instead of Texas and Penn State, we probably would have seen more competitive games.
There has been a 4-seed (Top 16 team) and a 7-seed (Top 28 team) that have both won the NCAA men’s basketball tournament just in the past 10 years.
So taking the Top 8 wouldn’t necessarily yield the same champion at all….not to mention that you have countless upsets of 1-seeds and 2-seeds before the Elite 8, and there’s no telling how many of those teams would have performed differently if they just went directly to the Elite 8.
Basketball is just a different animal though. The best of the best still usually have multiple losses to teams with less talent. One great player makes so much more of a difference than football. You really can’t compare the two.
The champions bye needs to go for sure.
Since championship games aren’t going away because of money, those champions shouldn’t get rewarded with byes. Make it an autobid and let a committee/computer modeling pick the field of 12 and rank them 1-12. Top 4 get the byes. End of story.
I’d just maybe tweak the BCS formula a little and just go with that to pick the 12.
Probably too much money to give up
Interesting concept.
Concur, but no auto bye or auto seeding
Heck yeah, but at the very least move them up one week (I'm assuming they are trying to protect the Army/Navy game).
I'm in.
I'm surprised this sin't already the case.
8 was always plenty. But this isn’t about how many teams the playoffs should have. It’s about how much money can we make from these 1st round games, of which 3 were pretty obvious blowouts the day the bracket was announced. They could have had better games though if they’d chosen a couple of SEC teams instead of freaking Indiana & SMU for the last 2 at large bids.