The SEC wants 16…The SEC always gets what they want. I think Big 12 will get 2 or 3 bids every year in the 16 team scenario. If they have a G5 champ, that champ needs to meet criteria that makes them playoff worthy. I dont think most conferences want the 24 team model proposed by BIG. We’ll see, should be very interesting discussions over the coming months.
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2 or 3 would be good enough for me
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All G6 Conference Champions should be an auto bid for a real playoff (which they’ll never do) so they need to have Div 1 and 1A since they’re telling the G6 conference teams that they’re not worthy. Competitively speaking you’re never going to have a MAC team go thru a playoff and win it all. I know it works in basketball but its nowhere near the same thing.
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16 teams is enough.
All 10 Conference Champs are in regardless of what anyone thinks of their conference.
You should AT A MINIMUM have too play in your CCG to have a chance to go to the playoffs.
The only exception should be if your team has a great record (like 10 wins or more), but did not get a chance to play either team that went to the CCG. Then they are eligible for one of the 6 wild cards.
This means every conferences’ best are represented…even if they are 8-5.
And it allows those current G5 teams to elevate if they decide to start paying players like the big boys ( like SMU). But no big donor is going to step up and buy a team if the best they can hope for is to fight it out for ONE spot for 65 teams.
But the SEC and Big10 want multiple chances if their best goes down. But chance alone this gives them a huge advantage in the playoffs.
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If Toledo gets their version of Phil Knight, they could make a run. Same with Boise. Same with Fresno, same with any team will to buy up a ton of players. SMU did it in year one with this method.
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And even in basketball it’s getting tougher.
Last year’s Sweet Sixteen consisted entirely of P4 members, with 15 of 16 coming from either the SEC, B1G, or Big 12.
Dude, why waste your time on being delusional? If the NCAA was running football, maybe that would happen, but the SEC/B1G is running it and they are not giving any more than one spot to G6s.
UH is in the Big 12 and I prefer the best model for it which is the 24 team model 4-4-4-4-1. The Big 12, Big Ten and ACC prefers this model also. The Big 12 and ACC are not getting 4 teams in a 12 or 16 team model.
Currently, the Big Ten and SEC are pondering a 16 or 24 team model. I can almost guarantee which ever one it is, the G6 will only get one autobid.
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Why doesn’t the big10 have their own end of year playoff?
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That conference is struggling:
“Half of the public Big Ten athletic departments operated with a deficit in the 2024 fiscal year.
Of the 16 current Big Ten members, 13 are public institutions required to release their financial documents. In fiscal year 2024, eight of those 16 schools (which accounts for half the overall membership) reported athletic department deficits. Four of those eight were at least $15 million in the red.”
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Hence the PE deal rumors
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That says a lot about the state of college athletics when the richest conference is having trouble paying for it all.
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That actually looks good…
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I could get on board with that.
I’d like to see the top 6 conference champions get autobids as long as they’re in the Top 25. To me, those first round games that pit G5/G6 against one of the P4 teams are what makes this fun, so I wouldn’t to squeeze them out.
But something has to be done about the ranking integrity, imo.
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I want to see the first round take place over conference championship weekend, call it hell week, everybody plays, 1 vs 24, 2 vs 23 ect. at the home of the better seed, that leave you with 12 teams to re-seed and have a 12 team bracket with byes, and the rest of the teams can go into the traditional bowls.
Expanding to 24 and still not including every conference champion would be shameful.
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If greed makes a team or a conference get above their raising, then f them, we don’t need their unsportsmanlike conduct looking down on anyone.
So the season will end the week of the Final Four
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