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The expanded College Football Playoff off to a rough start

Very Simple (sarcastic)

Start by convincing 6 schools to drop from the FBS to FCS, leaving 128 FBS schools
Put all the names in a hat. Pull 3 names. The first 2 play each other. Then the 3rd name hosts the game. Example: Utah State vs Clemson at San Diego State continue 63 more times

12/6ish 64 games played - Random draw, you might get Michigan vs Alabama or you might get Ohio State vs Louisiana Monroe
12/13ish The 64 winning schools go through the same random draw iteration playing 32 games at random locations picked from the original 128
12/20ish The 32 winning schools go through the same random draw iteration playing 16 games at random locations picked from the original 128
12/27ish The 16 winning schools go through the same random draw iteration playing 8 games at current Bowl locations with no local ties
1/3ish The 8 winning schools go through the same random draw iteration playing 4 games at current Bowl locations with no local ties
1/10ish The last 4 schools standing random draw and play at rotating major market cities with no local ties
1/17ish NC game at rotating Bowl City

From somewhere around Christmas, you should see the 32 decent to good teams (wild upsets will no doubt occur) duke it out.

Most importantly, The SEC and Big 10 will get their wish to get all of their teams in the playoff and secondarily (actually most importantly) the gambling industry will be orgasmic, "its all about the spreads, baby". We all know that's really all that matters).

Think about it (but not too much, remember, I'm being sarcastic:D)
 
Very Simple (sarcastic)

Start by convincing 6 schools to drop from the FBS to FCS, leaving 128 FBS schools
Put all the names in a hat. Pull 3 names. The first 2 play each other. Then the 3rd name hosts the game. Example: Utah State vs Clemson at San Diego State continue 63 more times

12/6ish 64 games played - Random draw, you might get Michigan vs Alabama or you might get Ohio State vs Louisiana Monroe
12/13ish The 64 winning schools go through the same random draw iteration playing 32 games at random locations picked from the original 128
12/20ish The 32 winning schools go through the same random draw iteration playing 16 games at random locations picked from the original 128
12/27ish The 16 winning schools go through the same random draw iteration playing 8 games at current Bowl locations with no local ties
1/3ish The 8 winning schools go through the same random draw iteration playing 4 games at current Bowl locations with no local ties
1/10ish The last 4 schools standing random draw and play at rotating major market cities with no local ties
1/17ish NC game at rotating Bowl City

From somewhere around Christmas, you should see the 32 decent to good teams (wild upsets will no doubt occur) duke it out.

Most importantly, The SEC and Big 10 will get their wish to get all of their teams in the playoff and secondarily (actually most importantly) the gambling industry will be orgasmic, "its all about the spreads, baby". We all know that's really all that matters).

Think about it (but not too much, remember, I'm being sarcastic:D)
Someday, when I have time, I am going to sim the absolute frack out of this tournament.
 
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Do we really need to watch the 5th place SEC team or the 5th place B1G team. Didn't we just see that these mid table P4 teams get blown out?

You can justify the top 3 P2 teams as having a shot most years. You can justify the top 1 or 2 in the other P4 most but not all years. Same with the line G5 team, some but clearly not all and only in the opening rounds. Wake me up if a G5 makes the semis.

8 is the correct number, they know it but the money and protecting the P2 bids made them go to 12. The extra games are the reason for 16 but that will end up killing the playoff with meaningless opening round games, more injuries, and fewer NFL hopefuls playing as soon as a top 5 projected pick gets hurt playing Missouri in the opening round.
 
Just make it a 40 team playoff already and be done with it.
 
Just make it a 40 team playoff already and be done with it.
Because the next year, there will be pressure to make it 41. It will not end until the golden goose is a spent-hen.
 
I like a 16 team playoff with autobids for all conferences and the rest at large.

Why are we pretending that the Sun Belt is a part of the FBS if they're not allowed to play? Have it one way or the other.
 
Here’s a nutty idea: go with an idea for a few years rather than a knee jerk reaction to every complaint. Because there will always be complaints.
 
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So in this nutso proposal, instead of having a 16 team bracket where 1 plays 16, 2 plays 15, etc., you have:

Week 1:
13 vs 16
14 vs 15

Week 2:
3 vs lowest winning seed
4 vs second lowest winning seed
5 vs 12
6 vs 11
7 vs 10
8 vs 9

This means the 1 and 2 seeds (presumably the SEC and Big Ten champs) get double byes into Week 3.

This is the stupidest approach to a 16 team tournament I have ever seen.
 
So in this nutso proposal, instead of having a 16 team bracket where 1 plays 16, 2 plays 15, etc., you have:

Week 1:
13 vs 16
14 vs 15

Week 2:
3 vs lowest winning seed
4 vs second lowest winning seed
5 vs 12
6 vs 11
7 vs 10
8 vs 9

This means the 1 and 2 seeds (presumably the SEC and Big Ten champs) get double byes into Week 3.

This is the stupidest approach to a 16 team tournament I have ever seen.
I'm less upset with this and more upset with enshrined multiple bids for conferences as if they're owed protection against being bad
 
So in this nutso proposal, instead of having a 16 team bracket where 1 plays 16, 2 plays 15, etc., you have:

Week 1:
13 vs 16
14 vs 15

Week 2:
3 vs lowest winning seed
4 vs second lowest winning seed
5 vs 12
6 vs 11
7 vs 10
8 vs 9

This means the 1 and 2 seeds (presumably the SEC and Big Ten champs) get double byes into Week 3.

This is the stupidest approach to a 16 team tournament I have ever seen.
Tell me you haven’t watched a conference basketball tournament in a decade without telling me ….
 
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Now they can focus on the 16-team format (likely) from 2026.
 
BIG is going to regret this when all the SEC teams are seeded to avoid each other and the BIG teams are paired off against each other.
 
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So winning a conference championship game gets you nothing.
The conference title game could get you a place OUT of the CFP if you have a bad game....so there's that....
 
The conference title game could get you a place OUT of the CFP if you have a bad game....so there's that....
Like SMU last year?

Conference championships became worthless the minute they got rid of divisions, anyway. The obvious move would be to just get rid of them if not for the whole money thing.

Between realignment and playoff expansion, the sport has backed itself into a hell of a corner. Mega conferences and 14+ team playoffs do not go together at all.
 
So winning a conference championship game gets you nothing.
The optimal path is to be the 3rd place team in the SEC or B1G, or be ND. Eg, PennSt had OhioSt not gagged against Michigan. The Nittanies and/or ND would've likely gotten a bye without having to play a CCG.
 
Changing the format after a single year is shortsighted. Just one man's opinion, but P4 college football is borderline unwatchable.
 
Changing the format after a single year is shortsighted. Just one man's opinion, but P4 college football is borderline unwatchable.
This one im ok with. I forget if they did auto reseeding but im up for that too. What I dont want is multiple automatic bids.
 
The tweaks are just part of debugging the system. It will go to 16 soon enough. Should have been done decades ago. As for the conference playoffs, they are a money grab. If they don't continue to produce revenue they disappear.
 
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