CFP expanding to 12 teams starting in 2026

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#26
The NCAA needs to be done for.

Doing more harm than good.
 
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I don't have a problem with it. I still think the same teams are going to win, but the first round games will have to be better than what they have been with the 4 team playoff.
 
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bamawriter said:
They are insane if they expect fans to travel to up 4 bowl sites during the holidays. Those stadiums would be graveyards.
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They’re gonna pack them into 1 and market the hell out of it and the excitement of let’s go to x,y or z will be gone.

I could see this happen in Jerry world.
 
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UTwild82 said:
I don't have a problem with it. I still think the same teams are going to win, but the first round games will have to be better than what they have been with the 4 team playoff.
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It sucks that they believe this will have Cinderella’s like basketball.
 
#32
#32
Game is changing. NIL. Conference realignment and consolidation. TV contracts at insane levels.

All about the Benjamin's, and they are going to ruin it.
 
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Quarterfinals, Final 4 and Title game at rotating sites . They just can’t get out of their own way. Every level of football from high school to the NFL has a playoff at home sites until the title game, but not D1. No they have to glad hand these bowl dicks in Tampa or Orlando or Tempe. Ridiculous.
 
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VolPack22 said:
Just saw this. I preferred the 6 or 8 team playoff. 12 just seems too much. But you knew they weren’t going to pass up the extra $.
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Not sure why. College football of old is dead and buried. I like UTs chances of making a 12 team playoff. 6 or 8, not so much.
 
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Should the SEC stop the championship game? It has twice allowed two SEC teams into the CFP, but no need now for it as far as the conference is concerned. Now a good chance for 3-4 teams to get in and less chance for injuries.
 
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Didn't expect all the bellyaching over this. I preferred 8 but I'll take 12 over 4 any day. It's more football. Who cares if they games aren't great, most bowl games are s*** but they still play them.
 
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GreveHaller said:
Great. More 3-4 loss team in the NC race.

The participation trophy crowd wins again
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How? What does it matter if an extra team plays in a game that's a playoff game vs. playing a bowl game? And furthermore, bowl games themselves have been the very defnition of a participation trophy for a very long time now.

People throw the "participation trophy" line around so much the phrase doesn't even have any meaning anymore.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
How? What does it matter if an extra team plays in a game that's a playoff game vs. playing a bowl game? And furthermore, bowl games themselves have been the very defnition of a participation trophy for a very long time now.

People throw the "participation trophy" line around so much the phrase doesn't even have any meaning anymore.
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simple. I'll slow it down for you

if you cant win your division, you dont deserve to play for the conference championship

if you cant win your conference, you dont deserve to play for the national championship

letting any team that hasnt won is nothing more than giving a participation trophy

yeah, I know it hard for babies to understand that not everybody wins and not everybody gets a trophy.
 
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GreveHaller said:
simple. I'll slow it down for you

if you cant win your division, you dont deserve to play for the conference championship

if you cant win your conference, you dont deserve to play for the national championship

letting any team that hasnt won is nothing more than giving a participation trophy

yeah, I know it hard for babies to understand that not everybody wins and not everybody gets a trophy.
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First of all, participation trophies were invented by boomer parents that were butthurt their kids weren't getting a trophy. So if anyone was being a baby, it was the boomers....as usual.

Second, there's an irony here of someone getting butthurt and whining over the concept of "participation trophies". And who is being the baby, the ones whining that college football is changing? Grab a towell and cry in it.

And third, you didn't address hardly anything in my post, just used it as an attempt to be an edgelord internet tough guy. You completely ignored my point that college football has been giving out "participation trophies" forever; they're called bowl games. And I guess NCAA basketball, baseball and pretty much every level of football must really trigger you. I guess Ole Miss really didn't deserve that "participation trophy" in college baseball this year.
 
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Will the Bama and Georgia fans travel to all 3 playoff games? going to get quite pricy for the average Joe fan
 
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GreveHaller said:
simple. I'll slow it down for you

if you cant win your division, you dont deserve to play for the conference championship

if you cant win your conference, you dont deserve to play for the national championship

letting any team that hasnt won is nothing more than giving a participation trophy

yeah, I know it hard for babies to understand that not everybody wins and not everybody gets a trophy.
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Every single level of football has an extended playoff, pop Warner, high school, FCS, NFL. It’s been that way for decades. Just because D1 college football finally decided to move beyond an archaic post season model doesn’t mean everyone gets a trophy.
 
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GreveHaller said:
simple. I'll slow it down for you

if you cant win your division, you dont deserve to play for the conference championship

if you cant win your conference, you dont deserve to play for the national championship

letting any team that hasnt won is nothing more than giving a participation trophy

yeah, I know it hard for babies to understand that not everybody wins and not everybody gets a trophy.
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I agree participation trophies are out of control but I didn’t take making a college football playoff as a participation trophy issue. I took it more as wanting the best teams playing at the end rather than 1 team slipping up and not winning their conference but being better than another team who slipped up but won their conference getting in. There’s no denying that all conferences aren’t equal. Going through the Pac12 is nothing like going through the SEC.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
Every single level of football has an extended playoff, pop Warner, high school, FCS, NFL. It’s been that way for decades. Just because D1 college football finally decided to move beyond an archaic post season model doesn’t mean everyone gets a trophy.
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The "participation trophy" line makes no sense in a playoff because if you make the playoff and don't win....you don't get a trophy. Unless you mean you get a trophy for winning the quarterfinal game which is also say the Peach Bowl......which they already give a "participation trophy" for winning.

So it's literally no different in that regard than it has been forever in FBS football. And I'm sorry, if you get into a playoff and you beat everyone and win the National Title....again how is that getting a participation trophy? You freakin' won all your games, you are the champion. That's how tournaments work. That's the exact opposite of the concept of a "participation trophies".

Having legit criticisms of the playoff and format is one thing, but the tired "participation trophy" whining isn't one of them.
 
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hUTch2002 said:
I agree participation trophies are out of control but I didn’t take making a college football playoff as a participation trophy issue. I took it more as wanting the best teams playing at the end rather than 1 team slipping up and not winning their conference but being better than another team who slipped up but won their conference getting in. There’s no denying that all conferences aren’t equal. Going through the Pac12 is nothing like going through the SEC.
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If anything about FBS is "participation trophy" it's that for at least the past 30 years it's been decided that every .500 (in some cases not even that good) should get a bowl game.

And even then, it's still like every other move that's been made; it's more about money than anything. Also nobody is forcing me or anyone else to watch.
 
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