I knew this was going to gain momentum as soon as the Big 10 got left out. If the SEC had somehow been left out for even 1 year, we would have an 8 team playoff the next year.
‘We don’t need to wait another six years’: College football leaders ready to discuss eight-team Play
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Good point -- putting some restriction on at-large teams that are not independents hosting a first-round game does make sense. Say Alabama had lost to Georgia and dropped to #4 a few weeks ago and had to pay a game in Norman or something.
I say back...
That sucks. Should have won your conference.
If you are as good as you say you are, you should be able to go into their house and win.
Eight teams starts to threaten to reduce the meaningfulness of regular season games, but the imperative of having a first-round home game helps restore that a little. The advantage having a home game in December for top-tier teams is going to be titanic.
Losing a game might not keep you out, but it makes your path much harder.
I still like 6 teams better. Major incentive to get that bye
What the hell is Surlyhorns...an unholy merging of Surly with a Longhorn? A Purple Cow?
Shudder.
Undefeated: you're in.
Just asking: how often do non-P5 teams go undefeated, and how often do multiple non-P5 go undefeated in a season?
Edit: unless I guess you don't end up at the top 8 per the BCS formula.
Honestly, this probably has more to do with heading off the anti-competitve and collusion lawsuit that is rumored to be headed towards the CFP from the G5 schools.
Texas won't have to worry about coming up to Iowa for the playoffs - I doubt that they would match conference teams in the first round.
Hadn't thought about that side of things. Let's say ISU keeps climbing. We win the Big XII and take a top 4 spot in that scenario. I'd love to have a playoff game at Jack Trice. But then, thinking of the Drake game, would we want an end of December game in Ames? NFL has had some ice bowl games, but pretty sure people won't stand for a playoff game on a icy/muddy/snowy/frozen field. On the other hand, we'd lose the advantage of hosting a game if we move it somewhere else.
I don't like the idea of just picking the Top 8 teams. I like the Conference Auto Bids and some at larges. Maybe use the P5 champions, UCF, and the top 2 teams left. Something like that.
You have to do an auto bid for league champs, otherwise its only going to be more controversial and we'll still continue to see the same 4 or 5 teams every year. This puts value on winning your league and if teams aren't worried about dropping a game or two, they may be wiling to schedule a more difficult non conference schedule.
If the Big 12 champ did get an auto bid, I'd like to see the conference drop the championship game. Seems silly at that point since you already played a round robin. The only benefits I see from a conf champ game at that point is: potential for favored team to get a better seed and $$ for the conference.
Several #5 and even #6 teams over the years ending up with a claim that they could be #1 after bowls or playoff. Never a #9 team anywhere near this claim.
8 and keep it there for many decades.
I'm sure they weren't thinking of Iowa. More likely Columbus or Ann Arbor. South Bend, State College, East Lansing and Madison are other possibilities.
Honestly 4 is good enough. Ohio State and Georgia didn’t do enough to get in this year. Georgia lost twice, and Ohio State got blown out by a 6-6 team. If we expand to 8 people will just ***** that #9 and #10 should be in.
Not bad, but there will be an uproar that someone didn’t deserve the at large spot and someone else did.
I disagree. You can make very strong arguments for both TCU and Baylor in 2014 but neither of them got in. You could also make arguments that they both had a very real chance of winning it that year if given the chance.
Also, what happens if this 4 team playoff goes on for years and one year the champions of all 5 P5 leagues are undefeated. Who "didn't do enough" to get in? A "system" with holes that big isn't good enough.
