Is THIS the Future of College Football Playoffs??

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If so, it’s easier for coaches to maintain their jobs for the near future. How difficult is it to be ranked in the top 25 (24)?
 
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How long will it stay at 24 before they will want to take it further. Thats the real question, it would be nice to have some stability. 8 or 16 is what most college football fans prefer, but to the movers and shakers looking at money over product IMHO. GBO
 
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Woodlawn VOL said:
How long will it stay at 24 before they will want to take it further. Thats the real question, it would be nice to have some stability. 8 or 16 is what most college football fans prefer, but to the movers and shakers looking at money over product IMHO. GBO
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I mean we’ve had a 12 team playoff for 2 years and now they want to expand again 😆 strictly a 💰 grab.

24 you could have a bracket of 6 teams in 4 different regions, a Final Four idea for the winners of each “region”. 🔝 2 seeds get byes (in this case 🔝 8 in the country). 9-24 play one weekend and then the idle teams play those winners (so on and so forth).

I thought 8 or 12 was fine, but they’re going to get the CFP expanded because there’s so much pressure now to win since it’ll be harder to do so. 👀 and 💰
 
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As a fan I prefer 8 but as a realist that isn’t going to happen. I don’t like teams getting a bye either. If they insist on more than 16, then go to 32 (which they will do eventually probably) and do away with conference championships. Make the championship game nearer to Jan 1st so the portal/transferring won’t be so rushed/hectic and will be more aligned with semester end/start.
 
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PandamoniumReigns said:
Conf title games serve little purpose.

They aren't used for determining who is in and who is out outside of the perfunctory Automatic bid. But that can be decided by regular season.

Eliminate it and force Notre Dame to join a Conference. There should be no independents.
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YEP. Especially when conferences got 16+ teams there are more than 2 teams that deserve to play a ship, in a conference that big. Might as well flip a coin.
 
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I'd prefer 16 teams and no byes.

I hope by eliminating conference championship games, this means no automatic bids for conference winners. It should be based purely on ranking.

Also get rid of the pointless auto bid for a G5 team and give them their own playoffs/championship game! They have zero business competing in the Power 4 playoffs.
 
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ND still has enough pull to refuse to join the ACC and the B1G doesn't need them nor the money they would bring via their media draw. Should they be forced into a conference? Yeah. Will they be? Not a chance. In the South we tend to underestimate the strength of the ND football brand nationwide. They control a lot of football eyeballs.

Autobids are what made the lesser conferences sign off on accepting a CFP system, so if there's a playoff it will have autobids. Period. The smaller conferences won't sign off on a playoff system that doesn't guarantee them a spot whether they deserve it or not.

A 24 team playoff is a money grab, for sure, and money.... not common sense will make the decisions in college football now.

Expecting the coaches, who have contracted bonuses for making the playoffs, to favor a smaller, more restrictive, harder to make playoffs is like expecting your puppy to want less treats.
 
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MDsweetT said:
I mean we’ve had a 12 team playoff for 2 years and now they want to expand again 😆 strictly a 💰 grab.

24 you could have a bracket of 6 teams in 4 different regions, a Final Four idea for the winners of each “region”. 🔝 2 seeds get byes (in this case 🔝 8 in the country). 9-24 play one weekend and then the idle teams play those winners (so on and so forth).

I thought 8 or 12 was fine, but they’re going to get the CFP expanded because there’s so much pressure now to win since it’ll be harder to do so. 👀 and 💰
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I think there will be byes 1-8 and I also have heard that the format will also mean that teams 1-8 also get to host a home game at their stadium (which they should). The more college football on college campuses the better IMO. Hopefully they also do away with a committee, but I have my doubts.
 
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GOOD! The SEC Championship Game is a dinosaur that needs to go extinct. It does NOTHING for any of the SEC team's interests in the playoffs. It only lines the pockets of school presidents and they have plenty!
 
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Raebo said:
As a fan I prefer 8 but as a realist that isn’t going to happen. I don’t like teams getting a bye either. If they insist on more than 16, then go to 32 (which they will do eventually probably) and do away with conference championships. Make the championship game nearer to Jan 1st so the portal/transferring won’t be so rushed/hectic and will be more aligned with semester end/start.
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If they expand the playoff, the only way to end around Jan. 1 is to start in early August.

Listen, everyone with a clue understands that 8 was always the optimum number, but at this point just set it at 16, with the first two rounds being at campus sites, and have a final four at bowl sites.

But since logic and what's best for the sport are irrelevant to the powers that be, it will go to 24 and then 32, as you said, and probably beyond that, because greed begets more greed. By that time CFB will fully and officially be a professional minor league anyway.
 
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sami said:
If they expand the playoff, the only way to end around Jan. 1 is to start in early August.

Listen, everyone with a clue understands that 8 was always the optimum number, but at this point just set it at 16, with the first two rounds being at campus sites, and have a final four at bowl sites.

But since logic and what's best for the sport are irrelevant to the powers that be, it will go to 24 and then 32, as you said, and probably beyond that, because greed begets more greed. By that time CFB will fully and officially be a professional minor league anyway.
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They wouldnt be able to do 2 rounds of hosting because there are too many major bowls involved in the playoffs. 1 round is all we could get. The remaining rounds would have to go to the Cotton, Peach, Fiesta, Rose, Sugar, and Orange bowls. Plus the championship game.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
They wouldnt be able to do 2 rounds of hosting because there are too many major bowls involved in the playoffs. 1 round is all we could get. The remaining rounds would have to go to the Cotton, Peach, Fiesta, Rose, Sugar, and Orange bowls. Plus the championship game.
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From what I hear, they’re going to try and get teams 1-8 to host a game. That definitely needs to happen
 
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bpalmer28 said:
Can we also shorten the number and length of TV timeouts?
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I would expect the opposite of that to occur. There’s going to be more content to consume and potentially a greater number of networks involved . I heard a rumor going around that CBS could possibly lose the nfl in the next year due to a renegotiation. They could have some extra $$ floating around .
 
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Woodlawn VOL said:
How long will it stay at 24 before they will want to take it further. Thats the real question, it would be nice to have some stability. 8 or 16 is what most college football fans prefer, but to the movers and shakers looking at money over product IMHO. GBO
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IMO eight is the best number of playoff teams with 16 being acceptable. 24? Nothing but a money making scheme and coaches protection racket. This isn’t basketball for goodness sakes.
 
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