🏈 CFP presidents have unanimously approved to expand the College Football Playoff to 12 teams

50+yeartidefan said:
Just according to how you look at it...
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I start with looking at these games through the eyes of those who participate. Look no farther back than Pittman, Arkansas, and what the Outback win meant to them last season.

Chew on this for a minute.

As a #1 seeded team Alabama would be better off losing the last game of the season to Auburn looking for a lower seed: the odds of playoff success favor #2 and #3 more so than the #1 seed.
 
rocknthefreeworld said:
Fans of the teams involved usually do care about the game, but in the grand scheme of things they are back to being exhibition games in a lot of senses.
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I don't disagree they've been devalued to that point.

But look at how messed up what you're saying actually is. Fans of teams involved care, but fans of teams not involved in that bowl game generally don't care when the games themselves are rewards for the players and teams for their seasons.

It's sickening to me those calling them meaningless literally have no skin in the game.
 
TerryP said:
I don't disagree they've been devalued to that point.

But look at how messed up what you're saying actually is. Fans of teams involved care, but fans of teams not involved in that bowl game generally don't care when the games themselves are rewards for the players and teams for their seasons.

It's sickening to me those calling them meaningless literally have no skin in the game.
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I think NS even agrees the playoffs have made bowl games devalued....as per his "hey coach" Thursday nite...
I see devalued and meaningless...really close......

I belive he has some "skin in the game"....
As such he was in favor of expanding playoffs
 
Well, I don't know about you, but with twelve teams upcoming, I look forward to celebrating incredibly mediocre and/or suck-ass teams like Oregon, a team letting Jawja go in dry and with a joke of a Pac-12 schedule, could easily find its way into the playoff discussion.

Oh, wait... Oregon's probably just having a bad day. You know, that same excuse a lot of basketball teams are allowed to use.
 
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SEC commissioner Greg Sankey unsure College Football Playoff will expand early

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey says there is too much to do before the expanded College Football Playoff can take place and that every conference will have to get on the same page to make significant changes in a hurry.
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ATLANTA -- SEC commissioner Greg Sankey isn't confident a 12-team College Football Playoff will make its debut before the 2026 season.

Sankey, speaking to reporters Saturday before No. 3 Georgia's contest against No. 11 Oregon at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, said there is too much to do before the expanded playoff can take place and that every conference will have to get on the same page to make significant changes in a hurry.

"If history's a lesson to help us understand the future, it won't be easy," Sankey said. "But minds change, motivations change. ... There's a bunch of moving parts. That's where I wish we could have used the last nine months to work. We'll have to accelerate our consideration to make it happen."

On Friday, the College Football Playoff's board of managers unanimously voted to expand the playoff to 12 teams starting in 2026. But the board, which consists of 11 presidents and chancellors, encouraged the sport's commissioners to try to implement the expanded format as soon as 2024.

The 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick are scheduled to meet Thursday in Irving, Texas, to start discussions on potentially implementing the format early.

The 12-team playoff will include the six highest-ranked conference champions and six at-large teams.

The College Football Playoff working group, which included Sankey, first revealed in June 2021 that it was proposing a 12-team format. Conference commissioners seemed ready to vote to implement it, but the board of managers announced in February that the four-team model would remain in place through the end of the 12-year television contract that runs through the 2025 season.

The ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 were opposed to the expanded playoff. But following another wave of realignment, with USC and UCLA moving from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten and the Big Ten agreeing to a seven-year, $7 billion media rights deal in August, expanding the CFP once again took center stage.

"I'm probably not the one to ask what changed," Sankey said. "Others are probably incentivized because they made expansion decisions that go into effect early next year. They're probably looking at opportunities sooner rather than later. Ours is slated for 2025, and we made that decision knowing it could be a four-team playoff then. I've said repeatedly, with great meaning, that [the SEC] could have stayed at four beyond [the current deal], based on what took place the last 12 months."

Sankey said CFP expansion wouldn't necessarily change the SEC's timeline for bringing Oklahoma and Texas into the league in 2026. The Sooners and Longhorns have said they intend to remain in the Big 12 until its media-rights contract expires at the end of the 2024-25 academic year. The schools would have to pay hefty buyouts to exit earlier, unless they can reach a settlement with the Big 12.

"That is a decision to be made between the Big 12 Conference and the University of Oklahoma and University of Texas," Sankey said.
 
Wow, seems a microcosm of what's going on in our country today. An extremely small, but omnipotently powerful ruling class (CFP Committee/Uberwealthy billionaire globalists who finance puppet professional politicians and judges) weaponize a "politically correct" viewpoint carried by a distinct but extremely vocal few as a cover to ultimately exact more power/control and more $$$. Just wonderful...
 
TerryP said:
I don't disagree they've been devalued to that point.

But look at how messed up what you're saying actually is. Fans of teams involved care, but fans of teams not involved in that bowl game generally don't care when the games themselves are rewards for the players and teams for their seasons.

It's sickening to me those calling them meaningless literally have no skin in the game.
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Lots of players are saying it through their actions of skipping the games. Used to be a lot rarer than it is now.
 
50+yeartidefan said:
Wow...now thats some really "outside the sandbox" thinking
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No. That's just common sense.

If the #1 team is in the same "bracket" as the #5 team, they have worse odds at making it through a playoff than that of a #3 seed.

Any rivalry game that closes out a season will lose importance if a win or loss doesn't have a long term effect. A #1 seed losing in week 13 drops them to third, or fourth, but not out of the playoffs. It's devalued, or "made meaningless," games of a lot of importance in the past.
 
It Takes Eleven said:
But they can be seeded anywhere, right? A crappy conference's champion could be 12, correct? Any BCS conference?
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The four highest ranked conference champions will be ranked 1-4. (A 9-3, 20th ranked Utah could end up as a top four seed.) Seedings 5-12 will be determined by the committee.

I don't believe it's been determined how many conferences will be included in the auto-bid process.
 
TerryP said:
The four highest ranked conference champions will be ranked 1-4. (A 9-3, 20th ranked Utah could end up as a top four seed.) Seedings 5-12 will be determined by the committee.

I don't believe it's been determined how many conferences will be included in the auto-bid process.
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Well, that's simply bullshit. Last year, do you think Georgia - or Bama if they'd lost - should've been seeded fifth or lower? This is great for everyone but the SEC. Every year we've had two teams in the playoffs, with a 12-team setup the second team would be rated fifth or lower.
 
It Takes Eleven said:
Well, that's simply bullshit. Last year, do you think Georgia - or Bama if they'd lost - should've been seeded fifth or lower? This is great for everyone but the SEC. Every year we've had two teams in the playoffs, with a 12-team setup the second team would be rated fifth or lower.
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Oh, I agree. Looking at last year it would shape up to #2 UGA, at best, pulling a five seed to face the 12 seed. And then turning around and playing Bama, again.

Solution: have your best players sit out the conference championship game so you'll end up grabbing a middle seed. It gives your home crowd the chance to see your team beat the hell out of someone again only this time it has the words "First Round" attached.

It also brings up the very distinct possibility we see teams play each other three times in one season: regular season, conference championship, and a post season exhibition game. But hell, #11 Wake Forest will be happy because they can participate.

An undefeated Alabama is going into Auburn for the last game of the season. Bama, and LSU, are both undefeated—didn't play in the regular season with the new pod format—and LSU gets the nod because they beat Mississippi State by 31 while Bama only won by 30.

Bama is assured of a playoff spot. Why risk injury playing your 1's against Auburn?
 
It Takes Eleven said:
Well, that's simply bullshit. Last year, do you think Georgia - or Bama if they'd lost - should've been seeded fifth or lower? This is great for everyone but the SEC. Every year we've had two teams in the playoffs, with a 12-team setup the second team would be rated fifth or lower.
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Published today in the Tennessean.

www.tennessean.com

Expanded playoff a boon for SEC, but not Alabama and Georgia | Toppmeyer

The SEC regularly will supply four or more qualifiers in 12-team playoff, but don't expect Alabama vs. Georgia as often in national championship.
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