SEC and Big10 have the power in the room. SEC wants 16 team playoff to start 2026. Big 10 agrees with the caveat that it goes to a 24 team playoff in 3 years. The SEC doesn't agree and won't commit to that. If there isn't an agreement by Friday, it will remain at 12 teams for next year. Big Ten, SEC still deadlocked on College Football Playoff format - ESPN https://share.google/Heecs531rYsh7pr35
Change all the conference championship game requirements to the top 2 teams with most conference wins as the first decider. Incorporate the Conference Championships as round 1 of the playoffs. Nobody cares about G5 football and even less about a game that puts them against a P4 team. Can’t win your conference….cant win a NC. I don’t know why it’s that difficult.
I like the first round games on campus sites. Instead of giving the top 4 a first round bye, which hasn't worked out very good, the incentive for a top 8 seed should be rewarding them with a first round on campus game. These on campus games help highlight the college game atmospheres and the stadiums of each school. A 24 team plan only creates more byes.
Cool. Not only will traditional rivalry games be played sparingly anymore, when they do they'll actually be meaningless for post season play. When they planning to have the first team switch schools? Would be a great way for UCF to get some championships without playing for them. Maybe offer the Cornhuskers some cash to leave Lincoln NB for Orlando and bring their 5 national titles history. Combined with UCFs pretend title they'd lead the state.
I understand the shortcomings of the bowl games but I sure like having games on all during the holidays.
I used to feel this way but I’ve watched fewer and fewer of them every year. I’ve been a proponent of a 16 team playoff but I saw what the 24 team playoff would look like this year and it was actually very compelling with a lot of great matchups.
Because the major conferences are so large and unwieldy now that you're regularly left with multiple tie breakers between teams that didn't play each other that get more and more arbitrary as they parse through minutiae trying to decide on those "2 top teams." This would have been a great model years back when conferences had divisions where everyone played everyone else and the two division champs met in a championship game. Not so much anymore. Plus "can't win your conference...can't win a NC" has now been demonstrated with an expanded playoff to not mean can't at all. Just "hadn't been allowed to try." Now that non conference champs get a shot, they have been making the most of it by and have won an NC already. Hopefully Miami won't become another example. The best and fairest way to settle the issue is on the field, and the expanded playoffs has been a big step in the right direction.
24 is idiotic. It'll happen anyway, then 32, we'll be told how awesome it is when a 6 loss team gets in. I miss the days when 1-2 losses ended your hopes.
FCS also doesn't do conference championship games. That would be key to making a larger playoff format work.
24 play off team format, would require the championship games to be eliminated. Something the SEC doesnt want to get rid of...which is understandable. A clear winner, as opposed to tie breaking rules..
24 is too many. 16 works. Top 16, no automatic qualifiers, no conference game(conference champs will be determined by how far you advance in the playoffs), one bye, no cupcake games. All games to be played on campus except for the NCG. Every conference schedule will consist of 11 in conference and 1 OOC against a traditional P4 rival or 12 conference games. ND will need to join a conference or be left out. Sorry G5 you're not invited, form your own playoff. Everyone gets a week off after the regular season. 4 weeks straight through done by the first week of Jan. This format would have had 7 SEC, 4 B10, 3 B12 and 2 ACC(ND being 1)
I can’t think of any other major sport that had a system like that. It’s a terrible way to do it, IMO. Instead of being determined on the field, it was either done by a committee of humans or a computer. The games had no meaning once you lost two games. Like it or not, the expanded playoffs have teams fighting to the end, and it makes for more exciting football.
Right- and just to add, when 1 loss ended your title hopes then the eventual Champ ended up with some luck and an easy schedule. Does anyone deny we had the best team in the nation in 96 and 06? But we were so so lucky to get a shot. Nebraska had to lose to TX in their conference game, PLUS OSU had to beat Arizona State in their bowl. So much luck- but again, is there a doubt we were the best. And in 06 UCLA had to beat USC or we would not have gone to the title game. Plus the voters had to not listen to Herbie and send Michigan to the title game.
