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College Football Playoff to expand to 12 teams by 2024 after reaching agreement with Rose Bowl
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College Football Playoff to expand to 12 teams by 2024 after reaching agreement with Rose Bowl
The College Football Playoff will be able to expand to 12 teams by the 2024 season, according to a report from ESPN’s Pete Thamel. The final hurdle was cleared when the Rose Bowl reportedly agreed to amend its deal with the current College Football Playoff set-up.
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It's about time!
I think this will severely damage, the advantage the SEC currently holds, in recruiting. Kids won't be near as swayed by the ole,....."come play with the best and play for Championships, instead of Bowl appearances."
Now, everybody can lay claim to being a "Playoff Contender". Lol. We might even see GA TECH in the playoffs, soon.
I gotta be honest....if the Dawgs are arguing over being ranked #13 vice the #12 the believe they deserve...I'm out. Lol
I see potential issues with obvious slights and inconsistencies, coming. There is no solid criteria...at least, that I'm aware of...for Coaches, ADS, Sportswriters, and other "voters" to follow, in analyzing teams. Which means, I see things one way and you see things another. Hence, the reason we had 1 determined voter saying, OSU was #1 a week ago. Lol
1st things 1st...we gotta get everybody on the same page...in the same book. Lol
We'll soon see, how all of this is going to change the recruiting/NIL/TP landscape. But, one thing is sure...it WILL change.
I think the REAL reason they went to the 12-team model, is so that ESPN Sportswriters & Analysts can be correct more often, in their preseason predictions. 🤣🤣
You can go ahead and pick, 8 to 10 of the teams participating in the 2024 CFP,...right now. That's gonna be a new Vegas wager. Easier than Keno. Lol
Well, let the decay of the regular season importance as well as the prestige of being conference champions in the best conferences in football begin!
Yes, I am still going to watch, of course! But anyone that believes this will not water down college football is kidding themselves IMO.
And the naysayers that attack my opinion will say it makes the college game more exciting and more competitive have lost sight of the forest for the trees. And it doesn’t make it more realistic for lesser elite teams to have a shot because, don’t forget, our Dawgs went over 38 years without a chance to play for a Natty at the end, yet NOT ONE SINGLE DAWG FAN from 1981 to 2016 will tell you that they didn’t believe they had a chance to win it while enduring all of those mediocre 8-4 or 9-3 seasons.
I just dislike that the value of some really big regular season games and especially winning your division and conference is going to be devalued. I don’t think that is in the “best interest” of college football.
This is simply a money grab and nothing else. That much is obvious to me, no matter how much the talking head blowhards try and say otherwise.
Just like around 2009 when CFB went from 18 bowl games up to 38 bowl games: they watered down bowl season to make it almost unbearable to watch any bowl game prior to Dec 30. This expansion is going to accomplish the same thing. No one outside of the particular 2 schools fan bases is going to take off work or adjust their lives around watching a #3 seed destroy a #12 seed at their home campus because it will be a blowout 75% of the time. Just look at the semifinal matchups the last 8 seasons! Sure, okay, you may have 1 game out of 6 or 7 be exciting, so what? That’s at a less than 20% clip!
But hey, that’s 50k more commercials they can shove down our throats, that’s $20 to $30 more these sports channel packages can charge to our already increasingly absurd cable and streaming bills; and already over-priced tickets on the secondary market! I guess that is one tradition that will not change: not caring about the fans. 😂🤬
SMH.
How many times has the 4-team playoff produced noncompetitive games.
Last year - Georgia beat Michigan 34-11. Alabama beat Cincinnati 27-6. The answer to that question - the 4-team playoff usually does produce uncompetitive games. Bumping it up to 12 is like handing out 12 participation trophies.
It will bring in more revenue. Beyond that, I don't see the value. If my team finished ranked 8-12, I wouldn't get excited about watching my team lose another game. Why would I buy a ticket for that?
This is so ridiculous, and only about the money. Just way too many games to play! The risk of serious injury goes up for these young men the more games they have to play. More crap teams in the playoff. More boring crap teams getting blown out. More chance at rematches. Sorry, I don’t like it.
GO DAWGS!
I heard several commentators, a few years ago, say playoffs would expand as soon as Alabama wasn’t in the top four. Guess they were right.
How long will it be before we see some of the key players (draft eligible) from the #9-#12 teams opt out of an obvious mismatch playoff game? Opting out has become very common in so many of the meaningless bowl games that it could become a factor in the 12 team playoff.
GO DAWGS!
Terrible plan that punishes teams who participate in their conference championships. The field should be expanded to 16 teams, every P5 conference gets two automatic slot s for their top two teams the G5 and Independant teams get 3 slots to award to their champions and then the CFP Committee gets to select 3 at-large teams. The CFP would set-up the matchups with each P5 conference hosting their conference #1 vs another P5 conference #2 in place at the site of the #1 seeds conference championship site. The at-large teams would have to travel to the G5 or Independent teams home field and play a 1st round game. Nobody gets a bye and nobody plays an extra game. Conferences get to decide on their champions and runner-up and the national reach of the 1st round games would make much more money than the regional conference championships.
Hallelujah!! It's about darn time!
Next step, expand further to 24 teams following the FCS model, and dump most of the worthless bowl games we have now. Bingo!!
TULANE would be in the playoffs this year if it was 12 teams
With 12 teams, all real contenders get a practice game or two with the pretenders before the real best teams play.
Yes indeed as well as unranked Purdue, #23 UNC and #14 LSU assuming they were to win their conference championships. That would potentially eliminate Clemson, KS, Utah and Washington. Bottom line is you won’t be able to sleep well if you are ranked 8-12 and waiting on the results of conference championships. Go Dawgs!!!
For all you naysayers about the CFP expansion with concerns about conference championship relevancy, etc. I would have to offer my two cents:
First off, if you want to talk about worthless and irrelevant games, then you need to look no further than the 43 bowl games that are currently played - at least half of which matchup undeserving teams with essentially losing records (or barely treading water). Yes, it's all about money. Bowl traditions have been thrown out the window. It always has been and it always will be about the almighty dollar. There is no debating that, so stop your whining and embrace the change coming. You can't stop the train. Get on the train or stop watching college football starting in 2024 if you think this is silly and there is no sense in watching. Personally, I think the playoffs will bring in more viewers for more teams in more conferences which will ultimately bring in more money for all.
Secondly, concerning Conference Championships...divisions are being eliminated in most if not all conferences for a reason. Just as an example, just take a look at the lopsided divisions of both the B1G and the SEC. We've got a 3-loss LSU playing in the SEC Championship and a 4-loss Purdue playing against Michigan. How lopsided is that? Those kind of matchups for conference championships won't be happening when divisions disappear. Conference championship games exist to make money. They command a premium price from programmers because theoretically, they are high-stakes games involving good teams. Not so much this year. But division-less schedules will create a #1 vs #2 matchup every year in every conference. How sweet is that?
Third, they call it the College Football Playoff TOP 25....25 teams are ranked and all those teams could be in a playoff. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - the FCS has a 24-team playoff that works. Fans love it, and I would rather watch those games than most of the worthless bowl games that they show starting in less than 2 weeks. What is not to like about more teams and games to watch in a playoff rather than (4) weeks between Conference Championships and the playoffs with no FBS playoff games to watch at all? Instead, we have worthless bowl games with silly names to watch. No thanks...I'd rather watch more playoff games. Give me more playoff games.
Fourth, I do not know how the expanded playoff will or will not affect recruiting, and neither does anyone else yet. You can speculate all you want, but we won't know for several years after the playoffs start to see how things shake out. Hopefully, between NIL, the transfer portal, and recruiting, you will have a bit more parity among teams and conferences. We can only hope, but who really knows? No one knows.