28 team playoff!!

[Vowelguy]

lol
Even worse than the March madness 96

 

[Vowelguy]

It’ll probably be
10 B1G
10 SEC
3 ACC
3 B12
1 G5
1 at large

 

[B1GEast]

Absurd

 

[huskymedic]

It’ll probably be
10 B1G
10 SEC
3 ACC
3 B12
1 G5
1 at large

 

[Vowelguy]

The only way 28 gets mass interest is with autobids for every conference.
7 bids fir the big is a joke

 

[UConnTrumbull]

28 teams would mean more teams in FBS football make the playoff than D1 basketball teams making March Madness by percentage. CFB used to be the sport with the most important regular season in all of American sports. Laughable.

 

[Vowelguy]

Based on preseason poll

SEC7: 1 Tex, 5 Ga, 8 Ala, 9 LSU, 13 SC, 15 Fla, 18 Okla
B1G7: 2 PnSt, 3 OhSt, 7 Ore, 12 Ill, 14 Mich, 20 Ind, (nr) USC
ACC5: 4 Clem, 10 Mia, 16 SMU, (nr) Lou, (nr) GaTech
B125: 11 ASU, 17 KSU, 22 ISU, 23 TTU, (nr) BYU
G5 2: 25 Boi, (nr) Tulane
ATL2: 6 ND, 19 TAMU

Not in: 21 Miss, 24 Tenn

 

[huskymedic]

Based on preseason poll

SEC7: 1 Tex, 5 Ga, 8 Ala, 9 LSU, 13 SC, 15 Fla, 18 Okla
B1G7: 2 PnSt, 3 OhSt, 7 Ore, 12 Ill, 14 Mich, 20 Ind, (nr) USC
ACC5: 4 Clem, 10 Mia, 16 SMU, (nr) Lou, (nr) GaTech
B125: 11 ASU, 17 KSU, 22 ISU, 23 TTU, (nr) BYU
G5 2: 25 Boi, (nr) Tulane
ATL2: 6 ND, 19 TAMU

Not in: 21 Miss, 24 Tenn

 

[Palatine]

Every other division of football has a 16 team playoff and it work well. That's where the D1 should go.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[CL82]

If you eliminate conference championships at what point does it make sense to eliminate conferences? The ACC already took a step in that direction with unequal revenue distribution. At some point do we just go to a "every man for himself" model? The logic is pretty much the same. "We want to reward teams who invest in college football"

 

[UConnTrumbull]

If you eliminate conference championships at what point does it make sense to eliminate conferences? The ACC already took a step in that direction with unequal revenue distribution. At some point do we just go to a "every man for himself" model? The logic is pretty much the same. "We want to reward teams who invest in college football"

If the proposal of 7-7-5-5 for the P4 comes to fruition then I think that actually “saves” the ACC and B12. Let’s be honest, the 5th best in those conferences are mediocre.

 

[phillionaire]

No auto bids for every conference in a playoff this size is a joke

 

[uconndogs]

They will continue to chase every potential dollar right past the point where they ruin college football.

 

[Rdkid]

So much for player’s health. I guess since they’re getting paid it doesn’t matter. Longer season, more hits, still developing brains.

 

[Scoe]

I guess my idea of a 40 team playoff wasn't all that far fetched.

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These are the teams that are gonna be in it was intending to have 40 teams in but 36 will have to do. Lowest seed will always play highest seed as playoffs advance.

Receiving Votes Tourney ( playin teams to get to 8 team tourney)

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The only difference is I would have a receiving votes tourney whoever wins that plays the 25th ranked in order to get into 25 team tournament. Then teams 16 and under play each other to get into field of 16 as explained in that other thread. Then you have a 16 team tourney. Lowest ranked team always plays highest ranked team thus being ranked higher does matter.

I would still have conference championship games so it would make the regular season meaningful there's extra motivation to being in the top 15, you lose on championship week it's possible you go from having to win 4 games (falling out of top 15) to all of the sudden having to win at minimum 5 possibly 9 games to win it all in the 25 team tourney.

 

[Stinger92860]

No regular season, double elimination tournament for every team in FBS

 

[SubbaBub]

Turning CFB into WBB but circa 1998. The CFP is one year old and in that one year there were only 3 or 4 watchable games. The auto byes didn't show up and the bubble teams got blown out.

Can we let this breathe just a little before killing the golden goose?

 

[champs99and04]

What a circus. I'll never understand people who insist on trying to turn the CFP into March Madness. Football is a violent sport. We don't need to see Arkansas State play Michigan for the same reason we don't need to see China's military in action against Slovenia's. God only produced so many 6'6, 320 lb'ers that move like receivers, and they don't typically end up in the Sun Belt or even the Big 12 for that matter. Ask the TCU team from a couple years ago.

The sport was perfect the way it was. The charm of bowl season was that it pitted you against a like opponent. The infatuation some folks have with tournaments/playoffs is bordering on a mental illness at this point. Somewhere along the line, someone decided that the only way you could enjoy a sporting event anymore was to be bombarded with constant reminders about what's at stake. It's like we forget sometimes that a game is a game and has no bearing on the real world regardless of whether it's artificially considered to be part of a "playoff" or not. The word has lost all meaning and merely exists now as a marketing ploy. I still don't consider OSU the real champ last year because I watched them lose two times in what used to be the actual playoff - the season.

I'm too young to sound this old, but gosh they make it hard!

 

[Jetskies]

cant believe im saying this but

wake me up when the BCS is back.

 

[Ldandy]

It's super dumb, but this is what we get when the only motivating factor to doing anything is money. JMO but the sweet spot is 8 teams. Trying to justify that there are potentially 24-28 teams that can win a flipping football playoff is hilarious. The format below at least gives everyone a chance to compete for a title, while satisfying TV by having a few more of the blue blood types getting in.

2 B1G
2 SEC
1 ACC
1 Big 12
1 G5
1 Independent or P4 Entrant determined by ranking position.

 

[Vowelguy]

It's super dumb, but this is what we get when the only motivating factor to doing anything is money. JMO but the sweet spot is 8 teams. Trying to justify that there are potentially 24-28 teams that can win a flipping football playoff is hilarious. The format below at least gives everyone a chance to compete for a title, while satisfying TV by having a few more of the blue blood types getting in.

2 B1G
2 SEC
1 ACC
1 Big 12
1 G5
1 Independent or P4 Entrant determined by ranking position.

The SEC and B1G loudly complained about the seedings last year bring determined by winning your conference not merit.

So of course they now want bids not being determined by merit, but conference affiliation.
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