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ACC, Big 12 tilt scales in favor of Big Ten and 24-team playoff
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ACC, Big 12 tilt scales in favor of Big Ten and 24-team playoff
The College Football Playoff field is trending toward doubling in size in 2027 after ACC commissioner Jim Phillips voiced support for a 24-team field last week at his leagueâs spring metings.
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Seems to me if there is a contract through 2031 for the CC, then the SEC cannot logistically go beyond 12 games.
Contracts can be re-written. That's just details to be worked out by lawyers.
The writing is on the wall. Hopefully we will move forward with 16 or 24 after this season.
that is ****.
that is just dumb
Like I said earlier, in this new b s age of tp and nil, the SEC has become…just another conference.
If there's not a National contender for the title in the top 12 teams, how will adding 12 more teams increase those odds as Phillips states? It will only add 12 more teams to fill the remaining playoff spots. And the odds for a majority of those 12 teams added to win a title.. are slim to none.
It has nothing to do with competition or excluding playoff worthy teams. It's all about TV rights, payouts to teams that aren't playoff worthy, and payoffs to conference executives.
College football is becoming everything that is bad about the NFL. NIL is out of control and there needs to be a pay scale and salary cap imposed on college sports. Otherwise In a few years people will start finding something else to do on Saturday afternoons.
Sankey fighting a losing battle. More teams equals more playoff games equals more money.
Personally I am against any number that results in byes for teams. 16 would seem to be the best number.
CFB is becoming the NFL but with no rules.
Two problems: there are not 24 teams worthy of the playoffs (don’t let tech in) and it’ll shrink the money gap between SEC/Little10 and ACC/Little12.
Use the veto power. That’s what it’s for.
so a natty champ could go 6-6 and win out
i don’t think I’ve ever seen a 6-6 team ranked in the top 25
Here's what I DON'T want in a natty. 1) No byes ( which doesn't happen with 24 teams, assuming that 9 through 24 will have "play-in" games ). 2) No teams who have only played 12 games ( which can't happen with 16 teams, unless you limit the field to only conferences that have championship games and then only to teams that have played in the conference championship games ). 3) Ranking teams only by a "committee" that does not seem to understand that even 3 losses by a team with the toughest strength of schedule could be a better team than an unbeaten or a 1 loss team with a strength of schedule outside the top 15. There needs to be an objective computer metric that is added to the committee deliberations, and the committee needs to be made up of people who actually have real football knowledge.
More in another post about how I would structure the actual playoff schedule.
CONGRATS to the lady Diamond dawgs, took down ClemgooberU 5zip to move on to the super regionals…go pups!
The sorry acc and big 12 favor 24 teams because they hope they’ll get more than only one or two teams in the playoffs each year, which most of those conference teams would not deserve.
All the changes we’ve seen in the past 20 years have come from ESPN to make college football less a regional sport dominated by the SEC and more a national sport that has more parity and resembles the NFL