So... Basically all P5 Championship game participants only? Nah. Just let the last 5 at large teams be the remaining highest ranked teams based on the BCS formula.
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So... Basically all P5 Championship game participants only? Nah. Just let the last 5 at large teams be the remaining highest ranked teams based on the BCS formula.
While I like your idea, all this talk about expanding the playoffs simply moves the bar. Or, more succinctly, expands the bar of complaining about missing a playoff spot. So, though currently, certain schools are screaming louder, by expanding the playoffs you'll have more schools screaming. Choose your poison. Furthermore, it would dilute the bowl system. But, one could argue more revenue because of sustained draw. So, in the end, I can see expanding to eight, thus lengthening the season by 2 games (for those qualifying), but only if ALL schools can extend their season through extended practices AND revenue share all playoff proceeds with all DIV I conferences. We'll still have more schools crying, but the additional revenue will help parity without bias. Just my opinion.
The playoffs do need to be expanded. You're telling me that out of 120ish FBS schools, only 3% or so should be admitted into the championship rounds? Lol. It should be 8 or 12, but no more than 16. There's too much blue blood bias at play in the 4 team system. Expanding the playoffs will never eliminate all controversy, that's absolutely correct. But you're affording more opportunities to the best "other" schools to put up or shut up.
If a team earned their way into a league championship game, they should have priority over a non league championship team. They lose and drop in ranking behind another league team who was sitting at home not risking anything. Do not like that at all. Just my opinion.
130 D1 football schools.
16 team playoff is 12% of schools
12 team playoff is 9% of schools
8 team playoff is 6% of schools
4 team playoff is 3% of schools
I believe either a 8 or 12 team playoff is fair and enough. If you don't make that, get better. I would think there would be less support for number 13 whining in a 12 team format or number 9 whining in an 8 team format. Atleast I could ignore them easier than a number 5 or 6 in a 4 team playoff.
16 team playoff is 12% of schools
12 team playoff is 9% of schools
8 team playoff is 6% of schools
4 team playoff is 3% of schools
I believe either a 8 or 12 team playoff is fair and enough. If you don't make that, get better. I would think there would be less support for number 13 whining in a 12 team format or number 9 whining in an 8 team format. Atleast I could ignore them easier than a number 5 or 6 in a 4 team playoff.
I get that, but you end up with conferences with lopsided divisions. There maybe be multiple teams that are better than the best team in the other division. Just think about the Big 12 North and South days. The South was usually way better.
You could eliminate the problem by eliminating conference divisions, and requiring the top 2 teams in the conference to play in the conference championship game, like the Big 12 today.
How do bowls continue if you expand to 8? Would think they really end up being total exhibition games if that happened. I do think something needs to change though.
Idk, guess they are, if you expand the playoffs to 8 then having bowl games seems even weirder. How do you set up like the rose, orange, etc? Those would be played as first round games? Just seems weird.
Maybe the playoff should just be expanded bigger than 8 and just end the entire bowl system.
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I don’t get the logic that expanding the CFP would make the other bowl games nothing more than exhibitions. Almost all the Bowls are nothing more than exhibitions, and never have been anything else. There are currently 40 Bowls (in a non-Covid year), so 37 are purely exhibitions as it stands. If anything, expanding the CFP would give us more games that “matter”, not fewer.
Pre-BCS, there might be two, max three if things got real weird, that had any bearing on determining the National Championship. Usually it was one. Now we get three every year. Going to eight teams would give us five.
I know this wouldn’t be popular, but I would do something similar to the old format. Rose have Pac 12 vs Big 10 champ, Orange could have Big 12 vs SEC champ, or something like that etc. and then pick the 2 best performing teams from the NY6 games for the national championship. Still doesn’t get rid of the human bias, but I really don’t think there were many years the champion was messed up. Would restore the importance of top level bowls and allow champion level teams to prove themselves in the NY6. That will never happen though.
Thank you, yes. My math skills have the holiday off, evidently.
