I don’t think it needs to go that far IMO. If it were up to me I’d keep it at 12. Make championship weekend just a 13th game for everyone. And have all P4 conferences play 11 conference games. Top 2 in each conference gets in auto. Other 4 are at large.
With 5 conference champs I think 8 was right number
That the at-large issue, it will most likely be SEC and B1G ten with all those spots.
They need an objective formula ranking or blind poll even
You can't base a ranking on a player being out. Literally no other sport would determine a playoff spot or seeding on something like that.
Then they need to formally split. This is 100% the way it should be done with the current conferences.
I agree in principle
I would be shocked if players don’t end up sitting out playoff games. So I agree, can’t seed based off who is out.
Which is why you can try to Jerry rig the seeds all you want and it won’t create the matchups people want
Just because no one else does it doesn't mean it's wrong.
Or maybe a lot of people lost interest weeks ago when all but a few teams had games left? I totally forgot the game was even on on Monday. Woke up Tuesday and saw it on ESPN.com.
there's certainly something to the season going to near the end of January when NFL playoff action is starting and distracting. 3 days in a row of later nights watching football is going to dissuade the casual fan a little more from watching. Last year's CFB season ended prior to the NFL starting playoffs. Certainly something the NCAA will look at i'm sure is moving things up. Don't think they'll want to eliminate any games but seeing that big of a drop may make the broadcasters take a 2nd look at how much they're offering for contracts if it impacts their advertisers
Possible. It's a lot of football.
Even EPSN themselves in the week leading up was promoting their NFL Division Round game on Saturday (Texans/Chiefs) as much or more than the CFB game.
ESPN is pretty dumb for paying that much for a product.
Yeah, good point on the playoffs and 3 night games in a row. Even if you're a huge fan of all things football, it'd be like eating pizza for dinner 3 nights in a row. First night is delicious, but by the third, you really want something else. And it's about time to get to whatever chore you put off over the weekend.
Sour grapes from SEC fans?
Then it's completely subjective. It should be about earning it as a team through a whole season. I want deserving teams in far more than hypothetical good games for TV purposes. The NFL wouldn't cut the Chiefs from the playoffs if Mahomes was injured, or Buffalo if Josh Allen breaks his leg. That's not how any of this should work.
College football had been subjective for decades and did just fine. I'm ok with that. You aren't. Neither of us are wrong.
Zero reason to have any play in games with a 16 team bracket. Seed based on final cfp rankings after conference championship games are completed.
16 basically deems the conference championship games meaningless. All the teams from the games are likely getting in. They could become playoff games for the 3-4th place teams from regular season.
They already are meaningless for the SEC and B1G, even the ACC much of the time, and probably the big12 sometimes too.
Yes and no, seeding could change so there definitely could be something at stake.
Seeding is broke if you get to the level of strength of schedule and not enough H2H matchups to know proper seeding. Unbalanced regular season schedules will still lead to issues in seeding.
If you have play-in games to get to 16, you're kinda just starting with a 32 team playoff at that point, aren't you?
The reward for those top two teams is to play the 16th and 15th ranked teams in first round. Again, zero reason for bye in a 16-team bracket. Oregon would have played Clemson, Georgia would have played South Carolina.
Oregon got a bye by winning the game so it was still meaningful.