College football is expanding its College Football Playoff field from 12 teams to 24 team starting with the 2027 season.
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There's definitely an incentive to be one of the Top 8 ranked teams with a BYE and a home game for them the following week. Looking through the rounds, you could certainly end up with some re-matches from the regular season, but also some other new, potentially intriguing matchups.
I'm going into this new format with an open mind. I would rather see more games in December that mean something like this than a deluge of mostly unwatched, stale, non- CFP bowl games playing for participation trophies.
I keep going back to the decades long 24-team FCS playoffs which are well-received and mostly positive with no de-valuing their regular season.
I'm sorry, but there are not 24 teams worthy of playing for the National Championship. Otherwise, you can be mediocre the entire season and then get your burst in the playoffs, when the better teams are dealing with injuries. No way a 3 loss LSU or ole miss deserves the opportunity.
The article said it all. It's about more money. Period. All this format does is give a team a chance to play spoiler. We saw that when Auburn beat Georgia. That was a regular season game and Georgia had the chance to get past it, which they did. But in the playoffs, you lose, you go home.
You are correct "87 dawg", there aren't 24 teams even close to being National Championship calibre, but in this day and age it is all about the almighty dollar.
