‘We don’t need to wait another six years’: College football leaders ready to discuss eight-team Play
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With the current 4 team format, The chances of Iowa state getting in after winning the big 12 are slim to none
I thought this too, but FCS already has a 24 team playoff system. Now a team like NDSU would be looking at 11 regular season games, 3 playoff, and an additional 3 more playoff games.
No way Alabama allows northern teams to get home games in December or Jan. When was the last time Bama played at a northern home stadium past october?
I read it as he accidentally put FCS when he actually meant G5.
This is all so f*cking dumb.
We've had an eight team playoff in front of us for decades;
Rose Bowl (Pac/Big Ten)
Orange Bowl (Big 8 / ACC)
Sugar Bowl (SEC / SWC or at large)
Cotton Bowl (SWC / at large)
We could simply go back to the traditional Bowls and a plus 2 (or honestly a vote and a plus 1)
Rose (Pac 12 / B1G)
Orange (Big 12 / ACC)
Sugar (SEC / at large)
Cotton (AAC / at large)
Realignment and this stupid playoff committee bullsh*t sucks for CFB.
We've had an eight team playoff in front of us for decades;
Rose Bowl (Pac/Big Ten)
Orange Bowl (Big 8 / ACC)
Sugar Bowl (SEC / SWC or at large)
Cotton Bowl (SWC / at large)
We could simply go back to the traditional Bowls and a plus 2 (or honestly a vote and a plus 1)
Rose (Pac 12 / B1G)
Orange (Big 12 / ACC)
Sugar (SEC / at large)
Cotton (AAC / at large)
Realignment and this stupid playoff committee bullsh*t sucks for CFB.
Anyone else think this thread was about colleges playing 8 man football?
I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that his complaining fell on deaf ears at that time but now there are enough others shouting to be heard.
The 5 P5 autobids should be determined by their own conference. How the conference determines who they want to send is up to them.
Only if it is published criteria in advance. I don't want the SEC to be able to give their auto bid to the borderline team knowing that their best team is a shoo in to get an at large bid.
A 1 loss isu big 12 champ would never make it either in today’s format
Not sure if I'd go the FCS route...they already have their playoffs/championship.
I think the G5 schools are the cindarella of football.
I don't think the Big 12 would ever get an automatic bid unless the playoff was expanded to 12 or more teams. All things being equal, each team in the Big 12 would have around a 40% better chance of getting an automatic bid than the 14 teams in the Big 10 or SEC.
So with this does the season extend to late January? Viewership wise I'd think there'd be conflict with the NFL playoffs or NFL interest.
If you're going to put those stipulations on, then let's also require a 9 game conference schedule. The SEC only playing 2 inter division games is ridiculous.
Two points:
1. Anyone wanting to go back to the exact BCS formula is off-base, in my opinion. Remember, the BCS used the Harris Poll (garbage) and the USA Today Coaches Poll as the “Human Element” and was often the cause for all of its controversial ratings in picking two teams. Computers will do just fine with more teams to put in the playoffs.
2. Tinfoil hat here, but does anyone else think the selection of 4 teams was heavily advocated by ESPN, and set with a long term contract, to precipitate the final grand realignment into 4 conferences (Big 10, ACC, SEC, PAC 12)? Is expansion met with such resistance based on that goal, where some of these obviously better systems haven’t been considered? I also wonder how successful that strategy is, if in fact it is the goal. Or will going to 8 have some detrimental effect and cause more realignment?
1. Anyone wanting to go back to the exact BCS formula is off-base, in my opinion. Remember, the BCS used the Harris Poll (garbage) and the USA Today Coaches Poll as the “Human Element” and was often the cause for all of its controversial ratings in picking two teams. Computers will do just fine with more teams to put in the playoffs.
2. Tinfoil hat here, but does anyone else think the selection of 4 teams was heavily advocated by ESPN, and set with a long term contract, to precipitate the final grand realignment into 4 conferences (Big 10, ACC, SEC, PAC 12)? Is expansion met with such resistance based on that goal, where some of these obviously better systems haven’t been considered? I also wonder how successful that strategy is, if in fact it is the goal. Or will going to 8 have some detrimental effect and cause more realignment?
