And your model still sucks. The worst thing about this stupid 12-team playoff is the reserved top seeds for conference champions.
The College Football Playoff needs to expand
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ok 2 conferences then idiot...learn to grasp the bigger concept in life
Ive never understood it either.
“Hey! This college football stuff is great and unique! Lets change it.”
Exactly. Had ohio state beat michigan, oregon would have had to beat ohio state three times possibly to win the natty. Absolutely stupid.
dumb ass, the B1G and sec need to sheet, piss or get off the pot...this slow grind to 2 conferances is foul at best...if you want the 2 conferance mini nfl...then do it allready....and save all the beeecthing...and wasting folks time...
Your incoherent, subliterate rambling is tiresome. You’re arguing with your own submoronic imagination.
Do people realize they don't have to watch the first round? What is the downside to an extra weekend of meaningful CFB?
There is a very good chance neither of those teams makes it past the next round, especially Georgia. The playoff is working even if there are some early blowouts and the seeding needs to be based on the final ranking, not conf championships.
I would expand it to 16 teams with no byes, and quite honestly we ought to just drop conf championship games. The teams with the best record in their massive conferences are the champions. Why do we need to potentially see Georgia-Texas a third time, and Georgia's starting QB was injured playing in a conf championship. With the playoff in place those extra games just do more harm than good
Traditionalists. Using emotions rather than logic.
The game has changed. Transfer and NIL means there aren’t just 3 teams that can win it. There’s probably 8-12 each year.
If you are talking about reducing the number of teams that get into the volleyball tournament and changing the selection process then your logic would make sense. But as it is you are comparing apples to oranges.
Conferences all want the chance to get a taste of playoff dough. Most years the last 3-4 teams aren’t going to be particularly competitive, but they can hang a playoff banner. The expanded playoff number plus the reality of the transfer portal should produce more competitive play in these first games in the coming years. It’s just going to be harder for the top teams to hoard talent.
I have always thought 8 was the right amount of teams. Either that or 16 because teams having a bye while the other team plays a top caliber opponent is an unfair advantage. The reason I think 8 is better than 16 is because realistically, there aren't 16 teams with a chance to win in it all. Usually on 3 or 4 but if you start with 8 you could still have the conference champions, whether its 4 or when it was 5, plus have room for a couple of at large bids for a Cinderella and those excellent teams. The seedings this year were completely stupid. Does anyone really believe that Boise or ASU are deserving of a top seed and bye in the first round?
For some reason i get the feeling that the rich will get richer they will find away around the 105 and hoard more top players
So it takes 3 weeks for the NCAA basketball tournament to finish..
It’s going to take 4 weeks to finish the CFP. Football has more game planning from one opponent to the next not to mention the physicality of the game alone..
Basketball tournament plays two games with in 4 days and there is one day to prepare for the next game.
Expanding CFP is ridiculous.
It’s going to take 4 weeks to finish the CFP. Football has more game planning from one opponent to the next not to mention the physicality of the game alone..
Basketball tournament plays two games with in 4 days and there is one day to prepare for the next game.
Expanding CFP is ridiculous.
Going from 12 to 16 won’t add another round/week
Anything more than that obviously will
Still takes a month to play it, more games more of a chance for key players getting injury’s making more difficult to move on winning the championship.
16 teams would allow more 3 loss teams involved that DEI.
Reason why the regular season should mean something..
Just because the NFL has 9-8 team making the playoffs doesn’t mean CPF needs 16 teams.
Right?
People posting that it will "blow" are insane. Just don't watch it???
For instance, I could not care at all about volleyball or girls basketball, guess what I do, I don't watch it.
Also, to all the people that think it will blow, but you still post here, guess what, you are going to watch all the first round games.
This is an interesting take and the opposite of how I look at it. This season, if there were no playoffs or if there was just the 4 teamer, well, the season the was effectively over for about all but 6 teams by week 9/10.
This year, the season was still up in the air for about 20 teams even going into week 10/11, for me, I feel like that makes the season mean more, not less.
I get your point though and it also makes sense. With that said, I think the Irish would have been "eliminated" after week 2/3 this season.
Not to mention a 12 team playoff gives us a chance to play for something. Top 2, not a chance. Top 4? No way. Big ten gets 4 in we can at least hope for an Indiana like season.
The ONLY reason Cfb has increased in popularity is due to technology and streaming. If we would have had the coverage in 93 when ND handled FSU at home to only see them lose on a walk off to BC a week later with those implications, there would be a lot more excitement for the sport than we have right now. Everyone thought Nebraska didn't belong on that field and that it should have been a rematch. Vegas had FSU as 17 1/2 point favorites. They made it because they went undefeated and proved they belonged. It used to be on merit. What did you do? Did you lose? If so to who and where? Now everyone gets a participation trophy. It's so bad, people are pissed that a 3 loss team that lost to a 21 point underdog by 21 points and also lost to a team that lost to a 3 win Georgia St the week prior. Another 3 loss team lost to Kentucky and Florida. And people are pissed because they want to take the spirit out of competition. They want to be entertained. Go watch the Bachelor, gays.
It's the money, networks and gatekeepers at ESPN who is ruining it. I was willing to give it a shot for the campus site first round alone, but when they start campaigning because SMU can't go to Penn St in December I see the writing on the wall. This is gonna be the NFL in a few years and it's going to suck. Once the SEC and Big Ten go to 24 and kill the other 2 conferences, I'm gonna find a different team outside that bullshit.
So neither of you have or will complain about anything Nebraska Cornhusker football? Whether that had been Frost, now Rhule or any future coach or player? You'll just "not watch it"?
When they say it'll blow, they don't mean it'll blow as much as the WNBA.
Just that it'll blow compared to what (they think) it could be. At least that's how I feel.
I knew this would eventually happen. The playoff expanded to 12 which is plenty, but inevitably someone comes along to complain that some worthy teams were left out. But if you expand it even further then all of a sudden the regular season games start to lose their meaning. If a team like Alabama wants to be included then here is an idea: don’t lose 3 regular season games. 12 teams allows you to include all major conference champs and a bunch of at large teams based on ranking. That is enough to determine a legit national champion.
And if you add more teams you end up like the NFL, crowning its champion in February.
And if you add more teams you end up like the NFL, crowning its champion in February.
Wish I could, but I can't stop watching or supporting the Huskers. Other teams? Absolutely. I stopped watching bowl games if it wasn't a playoff. I could absolutely stop watching these playoffs if I didn't like it.
That's where you're wrong. I'm as big a college football fan as there is but this is ridiculous. The politics of it are ruining the sanctity of the game.
I watched about 15 minutes Total of all 4 first round games because they Sucked! There's no reason to play meaningless games just to say "it's more games to watch".
The format sucks, the games sucked and unless they change the format and only have the best teams in, it'll be the same basically every year. No reason to have 12 teams.
Well, that is 15 more minutes than any bowl game (except the Huskers) for me!
So...
$EC finished in top 3 in conference, mandatory in, check the ESPN/CFP bylaws fine print.
