Who should be in the 12 team playoffs?

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Some guy said:
16 at large bids further devalues the regular season. The best thing about college football has always been because it’s the most important regular season.

If you’re going to make it all at large. Leave it at 12 or cut it to 8
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I don't think it does at all.
 


PMWinSTP said:
I don't think it does at all.
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Every conference champion winning and fewer at larges mean losses in the regular season matter more

I would be okay going back to 4 at larges

The fewer at larges the better, to me
 

For a few years, and as the Power Conferences have nearly monopolized the media revenue, I’ve been advocating that the G5 (FBS Tier 2 for a couple posters here) have their own playoff. It would be allow the P4 to have a great playoff with no cupcake games.

It would also give all G5 schools a chance to be in a meaningful playoff.
 



To answer the OPs question:

8

8 teams should have been in the playoffs, it’s a joke at 12 teams and will be worse with 16
 



Some guy said:
I wouldn’t mind going back to 2
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If I was College Football Czar I would go back to all the Conference Tie Ins with New Year's Bowls, without a Playoff.

Once all the Bowls concluded, then go with Top 2 for the National Championship, a couple weeks later.

Total pipe dream.
 



Ope3 said:
If I was College Football Czar I would go back to all the Conference Tie Ins with New Year's Bowls, without a Playoff.

Once all the Bowls concluded, then go with Top 2 for the National Championship, a couple weeks later.

Total pipe dream.
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When they originally talked plus one model this is what was proposed but it became 4
 


disco said:
It's not an official classification. All the conferences are D1 football bowl subdivision.
The P4/G5-6 is a media creation.
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G5 was a real thing in the 4 team playoff era but not because of the playoff.

The “NY6 bowls” were guaranteed to take SEC, Big Ten, big 12, ACC, and PAC 12 champ (power 5). The top ranked G5 team was guaranteed a spot in the NY6 but not the playoff. Hence G5


In the most recent playoff changes to 12, it changed from 5+one of the G5 to just top 5 regardless of league.
The big ten could be left out of the playoff, the SEC could be. Because the rules do not differentiate status of conferences.
The power 5 has become the power 4 and it’s simply vernacular. The committee differentiates conferences but in the CFP selection criteria all the conferences are equal.

It’s like calling somewhere a third world country when the second world doesn’t exist anymore.
It’s not an appropriate or accurate term anymore because the world is changed…but if someone says it people know exactly what it means.


The reason it’s 5 not 4 because if there wasn’t a guaranteed access opportunity It would open them up to lawsuits.
If they simply went top 12 it would open them up to lawsuits.
It’s all lawsuit prevention.
 

disco said:
It's not an official classification. All the conferences are D1 football bowl subdivision.
The P4/G5-6 is a media creation.
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You said ‘literally’, which indicated you were ignorant of the decade plus references to G5. I think you know what it means and were being a smart-ass, so I just gave a little back to you.
 



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