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College football world feeling tremors of change once again, CFP field likely to expand
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College football world feeling tremors of change once again, CFP field likely to expand
The SECâs move to a nine-game league schedule in 2026, announced on Thursday, opens the door for more talk about College Football Playoff expansion as early as 2026.
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As I see it the only ones against a 9 game schedule are the coaches . Players , fans ,tv and everything that drives revenue wants big name games . The coaches that skate to 7 wins can’t phone it in and collect that bowl bonus after this year . Wins against lower division teams shouldn’t be counted as a win on a coaches record.
Just where is the perfect playoff number—is it 4, or 12, or 24, or are we headed for a March Madness scenario?
Sankey bought in to the new SOS metric because he was for 9 conference game scheduling from the beginning. It gave him cover to make the move. We just don’t know enough about this metric yet to trust it will give credit where credit is due.
We will end up at some point beyond 16 teams in a playoff. Trust me.
The FCS has a playoff of this magnitude (24 teams) and starting this season they are all encouraged to play 12 regular season games (the max allowed). Most FCS teams already play 11-12 regular season games. SO, I don't see what the big deal is when it comes to wear and tear and more football games. It's been happening already in the FCS for years.
The cons are that the Bowl season outside the CFP will become even more irrelevant unless you start using those secondary bowls as playoff venues. However, most folks think 1st and maybe 2nd round playoff games should be played on campuses. I wholeheartedly agree. We also should simply get rid of Conference Championship games if we go to 20+ playoff teams. Automatic byes for the Top teams and seed the remaining according to final CFP rankings.
This is all about money, and we all know it. Accept it and continue to support college football with the potential of more games and better matchups, or quit your complaining and stop tuning in. Change is the only thing constant these days.
Sounds like the insatiable hunger for more and more money will completely destroy college football. A CFP of 24 teams? They'd be playing football all year long. Players are having trouble surviving a regular (today) 12 game schedule without debilitating injuries. College football is much faster with bigger bodies handing out physical punishment more than it used to be.
Why do the universities have to destroy football for money? Universities are upside down these days. They need to cut their costs in half or more, and make tuition for students affordable instead of saddling their graduates with six figure student debt.
Enough of these comments "they are go to make the regular bowl season irrelevant ". It already is irrelevant ! The 12 team playoff did that and I'm fine with that.
@Beachwagon….read my comments below concerning the (24) team FCS playoffs…if schools were really more interested & concerned about potentially more injuries instead of money then maybe things wouldn't be heading where they are…but the almighty dollar rules the roost.
Basically you can just go fishing until December bc up until that point it doesn’t matter
I don't know about you.…but, the CFP games I saw, last year.…were no better than the Bowl games of the past…imo.
The only difference is...there's not as much fanfare or excitement as a Bowl...outside of the 2 teams on the field and their fanbases.
I dont know if all that matters, though. The Bowls were a dying event, anyway. There was such a hunger for money, with the increase of opportunities to capitalize.
The Bowl Menu had become crowded and less competitive. Kind of like, what they're trying to do to the CFB Playoff in the name of "Inclusiveness & Politics".....otherwise known as...."Greed & Gluttony". Lol
The advent of cable & satellite broadcasting.....along with broadband internet provided additional money-making opportunities that weren't there, when the Bowl System was introduced.
Else....maybe, this us where we probably would've ended up, a looong time ago. And, UGA would have 5 or 6 more Natty's than they have right now.
Too bad for the rest of the league...the Dawgs are positioned perfectly, for this new Era of CFB. Time to play Catch-Up! Lol.…move over OSU and Notre Dame...we're comin' through.
Sorry, I didn’t see any new news regarding a playoff expansion. More about move to 9 game conference schedule. Certainly nothing indicating “tremors” in college football.
By the way, Auburn just claimed 2 Super Bowl wins.
I'm just glad it's game week so we will start getting more than the same rinse/repeat articles about NIL, conf schedule or CFP changes.
You say that now but if you were a fan of Alabama, SCarolina or Mississippi last year you would not have been happy having your team passed over for Indiana or SMU.
The "committee" is not objective. Stated clearly in this article, better teams from the SEC were passed over based on record only. All conferences are not created equal. All records are not created equal. Until that problem is solved there was no reason to go to 9 conference games.
The SEC did it to back off the BIG10 on the 5-11 playoff plan (and obviously for the increased revenue ). The SEC hopes that the committee will factor in the strength of conference in the decision making process. So far we have not seen it.
@lucydog To me the perfect number is probably 16. It is an unfair advantage to give some teams byes. What messes it all up are the conference championship games. Some teams play in them some don't. Conference championship games may have to go.
@BigDawg61 "UGA would have 5 or 6 more Natty's" SMH. You must've been watching a different UGA team than I was. When I read that comment, I looked up at who wrote it because I knew it was one of yours.
Clueless, are we? Lol...everybody knows that the polls favored Northern and Midwestern Teams. If there was any doubt.…the benefit went to OSU or Notre Dame...or, Oklahoma...…or, Minnesota. Lol
Truth beats Fiction, all day long. Let's get a clue, huh? Lolol
Go Dawgs!!!
Dude, you are Captain Clueless. Time to maybe clean your Crystal Bong again I think. I looked back at UGA's final ranking back to Herschel. UGA only finished 3 times in the Top 3 since 1980. #3 in '02. #2 in '07. And #2 in '17.
In '02 both Mia and OSU finished the regular season undefeated. OSU won the battle of 1 and 2 and ended undefeated #1.
In '07, LSU beat #1 OSU in the bowl game to claim #1. UGA beat Hawaii. Yawn.
In '17, AL beat UGA on 2nd and 26.
Maybe you can show us all where those "5 or 6 more Natty's" are coming from?
Go back...much further. Like, maybe another 40 years. I wasn't referring to the early '80's. They had they opportunity and failed...which is different than never getting the opportunity.
From the early 40's till the CFP era....the polls favored Northern & Midwestern Teams....with a dash of Left Coast and Southern favorites thrown in [USC, UCLA, Alabama, etc].
Imo....eligible voters of the early era originated from the areas identified. They had a built-in bias.....that was reinforced over the years by others that also saw it that way.
One of the best examples of that bias....is the process that identified Minnesota as the National Champion, in the '40's...not once, but twice...using an algorithm designed by a Professor at University of Chicago [I believe it was]. Imo...it robbed UGA of at least 1 more Natty....but, that's just me.
They really that those were the superior teams....cause, they rarely played each other on the field. So....no way to prove otherwise.
Until 2023....the search for a Champion, was a self-sustaining biased process. Now, everybody fights it out on the gridiron....as it should be.
Why do you think they're looking at automatic qualifiers? So nobody slips through the cracks, anymore.
There were a lot of very deserving teams over the last hundred years [give or take], that never got an opportunity to be considered.…cause they weren't "in the loop"....part of the established clique.