@thehoosierhuddle Calendar is definitely an issue.
If I was the CFB commissioner, I would have conferences get rid of CCGs and play the first round that weekend. I also think all of the games should be home games for the higher seed, there needs to be more of a reward for finishing the regular season at the top, its arguable finishing #5 is better than #1 which is dumb. That would also remove the possibility of #10 getting to host #1 at home for the natty ever again
@hoosierdaddy I think that’s a little bad luck seeing Miami was a host city. CFP final won’t ever be on campus. The first 2 rounds should be.
I agree on CCGs, but they are an ATM for the conference and host cities, so that has to made up with something. Expansion, unfortunately, is happening because of that. 16 teams with 2 AQs from each P4 conference and each G6 champion and 2 at-larges or 24 Teams with 4 AQs from the P4 and each G6 champion plus ND and an at large.
Nix Conference Championship games (I think), have Army-Navy Dec. 5thish and start the first round 12/13ish on campus, second round a week later on campus and so on. The absolute latest the season should end is 1/10.
I am just thinking out loud. I’ll put it on paper Monday.
Notre Dame screws all the math up by the way.
I really think this is OSU pushing for it since the AD is deeply in debt and need a way out. OSU was behind the super conference , the private equity deal and now this.
@lncolnpk Petitti works for the school’s, so in a way yes. But that’s true of every commissioner in any sport.
@lncolnpk OSU isn’t in financial trouble. They ran a deficit because they opted to keep sustaining 30+ varsity teams, if they trimmed down to a more normal level their AD would be fine. They broke $300m in revenue this year
The B1G school facing an existential athletics crisis is Rutgers. They don’t really have a way out with how much debt they have
Here's the problem in the article:
"The 24-team format would consist of the 23 best teams and one spot for the Group of 6. There would be no automatic qualifiers,"
23 best is completely subjective. Thank God Notre Dame played 2 good teams this year or else they would have made the playoffs simply due to their shiny entitled helmets.
What you want to do is keep things how they are, with the conference schedules essentially limiting the Big conference participants.
If they go to 24, then mandate the Power 4 have at least 5 road games against other power 4 teams. I dont want to see a team schedule their way into the playoffs by stacking the deck every year. Which is essentially what they did until 2 years ago when they expanded it to 12 and gave excellence a chance. Imagine how many playoff chances Boise State would have had back in the day if they had it like they do now?
I'm with gruden
of course this makes way too much sense for it to ever happen
List of the key groups in favor of 16 team playoff with the 8 play in home games.
1. Fox, CBS, NBC
2. Fanbases and Schools in the Big 12 and ACC.
3. Fanbases of the top Group of 6 programs.
4. Casual College Football fans.
5. People that want to see more high profile matchups the first
month of every season.
6. Everyone who realizes how great it will be to watch 16 Top 25 on campus games over seven or eight day period between Thanksgiving and Christmas to determine the quarterfinalists.
A college football extravaganza Heaven.
7. All University administrators who see the dollar signs and an easier ability to pay for their athletic departments.
8. Fans, Players, and Coaches who realize risking player injury in a Useless and Inconsequential Conference Championship games is about the dumbest thing going now.
9. Everyone who wants to see the the existing and outdated Bowl System discarded into the holding tank of a Port-a-John.
10. The majority of a fanbase that's only success in its college football history was 30 years ago and now struggles and can't beat a team with a winning record.
11. Everyone who sees the entertainment value in an SEC team playing a Playoff Away game in Minneapolis, Madison, Ann Arbor, etc., shirtless and in short sleeves in the snow in mid December.
12. Everyone who believes in fixing by condensing the end of season college football calendar.
So we're in???They made the basketball season meaningless with 64+. Let’s just play the season as a tournament at this point.
They made the basketball season meaningless with 64+. Let’s just play the season as a tournament at this point.
There are over 300 teams that have access to the NCAA Tournament. 68 Teams is fine, expanding basketball and football is just a money grab.
The bowl games outside of the CFP have lost all meaning and value. What made college football so unique was the large postseason. That has been removed outside of the 12 teams who make the CFP. Way too many programs are excluded from a true postseason experience. Players skip bowl games, fans dont tune in and its just unsustainable.
Bowl Season on ESPN networks delivers strongest audience since 2015-16
@gros-louis yeah, I am unapologetically pro-bowl season.
They will form a super league in basketball, and leave us out. However, I heard several teams will be relegated down and several promoted each season based on performance, so we can earn our way in.So we're in???They made the basketball season meaningless with 64+. Let’s just play the season as a tournament at this point.
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