Breaking: 12 team playoff in '24

I understand the NFL comparison, I just don't want college football to be like the NFL. I like the idea of every game, your season hangs in the balance.

If college football just wants to be NFL-lite, more and more people are going to go for the product with the better football.

College still has some things going for it, the atmosphere and tradition are special and the NFL has nothing to replicate it. But college football needs to stop trying to be like the NFL.

 

There will be two SEC teams in the final 4 every year.

 

You would have to have championship games for all conferences. You are right. And only those conference championship games where the two contestants are in the top 12 at the time the playoffs would commence would count as playoff games.

Why should two top 12 teams have to play in a conference championship and then one becomes part of the 12 teams that play in the playoffs? That is not fair.

 

OK. Like they wedged into the 4. Now they’ll be out long before the last 4.

 

projected ranking after games today.


1 Georgia 13-0 SEC Champ
2 Michigan 13-0 Big 10 Champ
3 TCU 13-0 Big12 Champ
4 Ohio State 11-1
5 Clemson 12-2 ACC Champ
6 Alabama 10-2
7 Tennessee 10-2
8 Utah 10-3 Pac12 Champ
9 USC 11-2
10 Penn State 10-2
11 Washington 10-2
12 Tulane/UCF Group of 5 Champ

 

It's absolutely necessary with this 16 team conference deal.

 

16 anyone?

Why College Football Playoff expansion could push out to 16 teams sooner than you may think

 

Why not 32 or 64? make the whole season the playoffs.

 

At least

 

16 is better with no byes

 

There’s 100 teams that don’t have to worry about it.

 

Who would be left after round one. Which team that wasn’t in it had the best chance to be in round two.

 

I think the byes are important for a couple reasons and hope they stick with 12 for a few years to see how that plays out before entertaining 16 teams.

1 - I want the regular season to keep its importance. With 16 teams, there's no real difference between being #3 and #6, you're both playing a team outside the top 10 in the first round and then play each other on a neutral field in the quarters. Do they really want to turn this into college basketball where every tunes in for the tourney but tunes out the regular season?

2 - Asking college kids to play 4 playoff games is a LOT. Asking fans to attend 4 playoff games, three at neutral sites, is a LOT. If we go to 16 teams and ensure each finalist will be playing their 4th playoff game, you're gonna have some injury depleted squads.

 

Only the bye teams get a game less. It’s an advantage that 3-4 probably don’t deserve anymore than 5-6. 1 playing 16 seems far enough to me, that enough advantage but 12 is fine too, I just don’t like byes. Line em up and play.

 

This all day long. And they are smart for integrating the bowls into the playoffs. But I just found out that they will try and get some of the early games of the 12 team playoffs on campuses.

That I just saw Sankey mention of SEC Nation.

 

Yepper, squeaking in at 12 while sitting players will get you your ass handed to you game one. That extra loss may have taken your 6 seed that looked a lot more winnable.

 

Sad.
Even with this expansion we are eons away from being part of the discussion

 

Not true. We would’ve been in the 12 team playoffs 3 out of 4 years under Mullen.

 

We're miles away right now though. Finally ran out of Mc's recruits that Mullen was successful with.

Maybe by 24, we'll be close, though. I think that's a real possibility.

 

Disagree. Maybe a few years away in winning a championship, but not miles away from sniffing the playoffs. We could easily be next year’s Tennessee.