Well you had to know it was coming.
The most-discussed 24-team model is an all at-large field determined through the CFP rankings, with an automatic spot for the Group of Six leagues. The format adds one playoff round and 12 additional games. The top eight ranked teams would receive a first-round bye while seeds No. 9-24 play in the first round on campus.
Conference championship games would be eliminated and the playoff, presumably, would start immediately after the regular season — a long-discussed shift in the postseason calendar to open a path for the national title game, now played the third week of January, to return to the second Monday in the month.
To that end, coaches also recommended that the regular season should include one, not two, bye weeks and that the minimum number of days between games be six — moves that they believe will also help shift up the playoff calendar.
So who makes up this esteemed Board? Here you go:
Though the board has no authority within the NCAA or College Football Playoff governance structure, the group includes prominent coaching figures with influence over decision-makers, such as the conference commissioners and university presidents presiding over the CFP. The AFCA board includes names like Bret Bielema (Illinois), Brent Venables (Oklahoma), Clark Lea (Vanderbilt), Rhett Lashlee (SMU), Joey McGuire (Texas Tech) and Pat Fitzgerald (Michigan State).
Most likely, if it goes through, you’ll be back to determining a season conference champion rather than determining it in a championship game.
But I have to ask, doesn’t this feel oddly familiar? It seems like Georgia goes back to back to win a national championship, then get jobbed in the selection for the 2023 CFP, NIL and Portal goes wild, and the CFP is expanded. Now, we’ve gone back to back in the SECCG, so let’s move to get rid of it.
As a reminder, the SEC Conference Offices are in Birmingham, Alabama. I’ll go put my tin hat on and let y’all discuss.
Well, it has only been around since 1992 and in today’s world, outlived it’s usefulness regardless of playoff expansion.
In the current world, I am in favor of these schedule changes (other than playoff expansion, which is nonetheless inevitable) – gets us back to a more compact schedule with less lag, and wraps up the season in early January….
Since you brought up 2023…we was robbed, screwed and just plain old “fucked”, with any type of fore thought involved, the powers that be could not, would not and have nothing to do with UGA football being “Back2Back2Back” world beaters…Mine vision is clear, mine thoughts are pure, mine Red n Black soul isn’t jaded…we was robbed in public, the police saw this crime, the Big Guy viewed it as abnormal and the fucking bandits weren’t wearing any type of mask…..GO DAWGS!!
My bad…#FTMF!!!!!!!
When you move to a NFL type playoff, why have a “NFC South” championship game?? Feel me?
I grew up in the era when they didn’t have a SEC Championship game. You played a SEC schedule and the Champion was determined by SEC win loss record. Hell, that was harder to do than it is to make the Championship game now. IMHO.
The league was 10 teams, and the conference schedule only 6 (maybe 7) games. There were a lot of “shared” championships during that time. It was easier to win a conference championship.
Not buying it is easier now. Ga won 10 prior to the 1992. That’s including the 1942 through 1982. 10 in a span of 40 years. We’ve won 6 since 1992 and that started in 2002.
Yay. There will be 1 fan base happy at the end of the season now.
Ain’t that grand.
Please remember there would be no number of the wall for the last 2 seasons if this system were in place. Texas would have won the SEC in 2024 and Alabama in 2025.
Coaches, be careful what you ask for.
Guaranteed money ain’t scared of outcomes.
NFL lite will be in full effect.
* is – FIFY.
So the board is made up of coaches with lots of time on their hands. Got it.
24 teams selected and seeded by a non-transparent group full of biases. Gee, wonder what could go wrong with that? RPI will come next and like the next post we’ll see teams opting out of their final in state rivalry game to avoid a hit to their ranking. I never dreamed I’d stop watching CFB. Now I clearly see the exit ramp. FTMF# doesn’t do justice to what’s happening.
The problem is no one likes 12 (thanks, Greg and Jack Swarbrick from ND). They can’t shrink the playoff to a more reasonable 8 and freeze out the Group of 5 without getting sued and giving some money back to Mickey. No one except TV execs (especially Fox Sports) and coaches who want some job security (looking at you, Bobby Hill) really want 24. The SEC wants 16, but the B1G won’t go along with that (see Fox Sports above).
There is one solution, but it’s so radical the powers that be will never go for it. Have the Power 4 plus a few tell the rest of D1 to pound sand for all sports and build a sensible playoff system based on a 8-team format. If ND doesn’t like it, they can go be a football independent and play a Group of 5 schedule and slide into total irrelevance (it ain’t 1970 anymore).