The rankings shouldn't come out until at least Week 3. Preseason rankings is a massive crap shoot. .
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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The rankings shouldn't come out until at least Week 3. Preseason rankings is a massive crap shoot. .
The college football playoff rankings already don’t come out until several weeks into the season. But they’re still similar to the AP poll. They won’t admit it, but the AP poll anchors the opinions of the media and eventually the CFP committee members.
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For the champion of the 5 highest ranked conferences. So essentially it’s an auto bid for the P4 and then one yearly sacrifice for the G5
From what I've heard that SMU alumni base makes TX look like they are " the poors"
Not sure only Utah/Kansas ranked is a meaningful thought. With player turnover in college, a teams success can vary for a lot of programs. MSU saw that a couple years ago. The Pac12 is benefitting from very experienced QB's in 2023. But can USC, UO, UW match that talent in 2024? Bama is showing there are no guarantees
Recruit rankings aren't the end all. Schools like Ohio State, Georgia, USC, Texas will always gobble up the 4/5 star kids. But as A&M has shown recruit rankings and NIL money is no guarantee of winning.
NIL or employee status might actually benefit the Big12 and ACC. Immediate playing time might be more desirable than being a backup. Playing time could mean more money.
IMO where the Big12 needs to be consistent is 3-4 teams each year in top 15 in preseason polls.
If this whole damn thing wasn't driven by money both those schools should have been in, their fan bases are a lot like ISU's Ksu etc.
I still remember when ISU wondered if we were going to survive.
Yeah but you get those teams up there by having the recruiting. Yes recruiting doesn’t automatically translate to wins, but the teams that consistently win have elite recruiting. That’s why those teams stay ranked year after year, they reload they don’t rebuild.
USC/UO/UW have 32 4 stars or higher between them, they will be fine.
ESPN gets 3 picks, Fox gets 3 picks, and NBC gets 1 pick.
Maybe, but there is a reason those 3 schools all hired new coaches 2 years ago.
The current auto-bids for the CFP are only on the table until they renegotiate the whole 12-team thing for 2026 and beyond. I agree that the Big 12 champion will definitely have a place at the table, but nobody knows what the hell this thing is going to look like after 2024/2025.
I think it blows up after 2025. The small conferences have the voting power to keep the P2 from controlling this. I think the P2 walk away if they don’t get what they want to create their own playoff with inviting the ACC and Big12. The ACC and Big12 wouldn’t have much of a choice other than join them even if it’s not in their best interest for that to happen.
They can just threaten that and the G5 will step in line or miss major paydays
No one knows how the 12-team playoff is going to play out, but I just cannot see the SEC and Big easy getting 9 or 10 teams a year into the playoff. 7 to 8 with sometimes 9 between them, but not 9 to 10 every year. I would guess that anywhere from 3 to 4 spots will be there for the taking from the ACC, B12 and one from either the AAC or MWC most years.
The Big12 almost broke the playoff format the first year they started the four team playoffs. Baylor and TCU were both top four that year then they decided winning the conference championship game(which the Big12 didn’t play) mattered. Now the Big12 has a like sized conference to the B1G and SEC. It’s not a ten team format compared to a 14 team format anymore. Plus obviously the playoffs expanding. The Big12 will have no problem getting 2-3 teams in every year. Wins are what matter the most, always have been and always will be. When you have 16 schools in a conference, it’s a lot easier to get multiple 10+ win teams in the same conference than it is just with ten teams. That’s been the biggest difference between the Big12 and B1G/SEC. With more teams it’s been a lot easier for them to have more teams with more wins. Winning cures all.
The B12 got screwed over plain and simple in 2014, both Baylor and TCU earned the right to get into the playoff and both were jumped by Ohio State, which had lose that year to a halfass VT team at home in the first game of the year, while the only lose TCU had was to Baylor by 3.
