I would be fine with 16 teams representing the FBS football.
All conference champions ranked in the top 20 get in.
Fill remaining slots with the next highest at-large teams, max 3 per conference.
Last, I would increase the minimum requirements to be in the FBS. All others not wanting to play at the highest level should drop down. - include a minimum spending on athletics, a minimum spending for the football program, a minimum attendance level to be enforced (not real high), a minimum agreement for player revenue sharing to go with the max limit.
I like to deal with reality and all signs say there will not be multiple G6 champions autobids. The SEC and B1G are going to decide the format and that means only one, possibly two G6 conference champ is getting into a 16 or 24 team playoff.
People who wants six G6 champs have minds that live in Utopia where college football does not reside.
No, I don’t worship this alleged autonomous entity “college football” as some capricious god that does what it wants on its own and dispenses money to those who serve it. It looks that way, and you call it reality, but it’s actually what economists call a collective action problem. Many people participated in creating it and many in perpetuating it, but it would also take many to stop it, and no one has shown the nuts to do it.
If you get off track, continuing forward is not progress, you have to turn around and go back. What is needed is wise, mature, responsible adults to stand athwart history and yell stop, because the purpose is not to do everything to be the one that walks away with a ton of money, the purpose is to run a lot of universities, with sports as a constructive part of the experience. We have all worked for organizations that emphasize focus on core values and mission statements, and for ones that don’t. Organizations that get away from the reason for their existence and their values in achieving it tend to collapse under the weight of their contradictions.
There are exactly two playoff formats that I find palatable:
a) 16 teams. All ten conference champions, six at-larges. Every team in the country should have a way to play their way in – if they don’t, they can take it up with their conference. Nobody can complain about being left out unfairly, because they could have just won their games. No special carve-out for ND; if they wanna get a playoff bid without being a top-7 team or so, they can join a conference.
b) 4 teams. If we’re not gonna let the G6 be equal, drop the farce. Four conference champions. If the SEC (or any other P4 conference) wants more than one bid, they can make their own conference playoff, but we’re still only letting one team come out of it. SEC champ goes to the Sugar Bowl, Big Ten champ goes to the Rose Bowl, the other get slotted in as the committee sees fit. If ND wants in, they gotta play for a conference title.
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Not quite, the latest agreement between conferences stipulates that the BIG12 and acc approve it. Yormark was crystal clear about it.
This is exactly why espn keeps delaying the new cfp format. Yormark has been extremely quiet since last Sunday. This tells me there is a major “tug of war” for us to get an automatic four cfp invitations under a new format.
We get the shaft at 16 and do well with 24…
It is definitely going to expand…BIG wants 24, and will be persuasive getting other P4s to say yes…I like the format, we’ll have 3 auto bids for sure, maybe more…i cant imagine why Big 12 and ACC wouldnt support 24 team playoff…
I do think the Big 12 and ACC supports a 24 team playoff but have not publicly said it yet. They are not getting 4 autobids in any other model. They have to convince the SEC.
A 24 team playoff just becomes an Invitational Tournament because there are no objective rules about who gets in.
The only ways teams should be considered is IF they play in their CCG.
And teams can only be considered for Wildcard spots if they did not get a chance during the regular season to play the team that won the CCG.
I assume you play everyone in your division, but miss a few on the other side. If your division mate wins the CCG, then you are OUT. No complaints. You did not take care of business during the season.
If every D1 team is included (which will NEVER) happen, then you would have 20 teams + 4 wildcards.
But we all know it will be 10 from Big 10, 10 from SEC, and the remainder from the ACC, Big 12, and G6…
The 6th best team in a conference should NEVER be in.
Every other level of football, NFL, FCS, Division II, Division III, Etc… even High Schools, seems to be able to have a much better playoff system and get it done by Early January….
…except for the NFL; but they don’t need to.
Expanding the playoff doesn’t require playing past early to mid January, and everyone knows it…
Conference champs, from every conference. No exceptions. Makes the conf championship games meaningful…
No more than 3 from ANY conference, period. Might make some competitive schools lean back toward some of the more traditional regional affiliations, geographical speaking.
24 teams.
8 get a bye, with the nod to the 8 highest ranked conf champs. The 2 lowest ranked conf champs get home field in round 1, along with the next 6 highest ranked teams. The size of their stadium should not matter, but they should have the option to move it to a larger stadium, if they like.
The 8 that don’t get a bye or home field in the first round are based upon well publicized criteria that consist of things like head-to head, overall record, and strength of schedule; which needs to be moreso computer generated than by polls and subjective opinion or bias…
No 4th best team makes it, regardless of conference. Don’t like it, enjoy your bowl game and try harder next year…
