It seems that we can’t go a day without the B1G trying to do everything it can to ruin college football…as if creating cupcake in-conference schedules to protect your marquee programs weren’t enough, they want to expand the CGP to March Madness levels.
If you read the thread, the proposal would eliminate conference championship games, and give the SEC and B1G seven automatic bids each.
Yes, you heard that correctly. Half the conference would be in the CFP (at least for the SEC). Not to also go a day without feeling slighted, the ACC and Big XII would get five each.
If this becomes the reality, it may be that Georgia’s second national championship may go down as the last National Championship that feels like it was earned by the in-season contest and results. Given the cheating scandal at Michigan, it’s easy to say everything from 2023 forward has felt somewhat corrupted. Also for consideration that a team could conceivably play upwards of 17 games on a path to the national championship, and all of this is feeling massively antithetical to what college football was intended to be.
Money talks. ESPN and company listens. Meanwhile, fans are muted.
So it goes.
I don’t even want to think how this works. 6-6 teams. Notre Dame and the service academics. Group of 5. Playoff ranking committee. And the puppeteers of Big Gambling controlling ESPN and everyone else forcing the outcome. I’m still marveled by how the university presidents have so lost control and continue to demonstrate any willpower to reign this in.
Your “how this works”, is really your end statement, it doesn’t…#THEENDOFWESTERNCIVILIZATION!!
The presidents act like Mike Adam$ and do nothing but listen to their favorite radio station, WIIFM (what’s in it for me).
Does everyone forget the B1G and Dan Wolken were trying to get everyone to cancel the football season in 2020?
Anything the B1G wants, the rest of college sports should quickly reject.
I’m sure Andy Staples and Ari Wasserman are telling everyone online they are idiots for not supporting this proposal … just as they were the 12-team expansion.
It’s DEI for the Big 10. They keep talking about ensuring”access” as if they didn’t have access to to 4 team CFP. CANT HAVE TEAMS GETTING IN ON MERIT VIA REGULAR SEASON PERFORMANCE, NOW. CAN WE?
2 loss Ohio St never gets in a 4 team field, nor should they. Bad loss late, not Big 10 champs? Bye. Give teams propped up by a weak conference an easy road to the playoff even in years they aren’t that great? That’s the big 10 plan.
“Just an idea at this point”, isn’t ju$t the idea, it’s the ju$t goal….there exists plenty of time to really fuck this whole show up, expounding to 24-28 teams is a long way from a 69 team invitational event with a Tuesday night play in game, is this the beginning of the end or the end, that is in the beginning stages….always enjoyed the potential playoff scenario, cause your fav team had a chance to participate/measure up vs a team that would never be scheduled and if your team happened to play vs a regular season opponent , o.k., at this rate, it’ll be an extension to regular season programming under the guise of “cfp” and Mickey’s confetti machine….
I’m sure the big 19nwould love this, but I suspect they’re really waving this around so their desire for a 16 team, AQ heavy CFP will seem like a “reasonable compromise.”
4 is the right number for numerous reasons. Less wear and tear, the regular season matters more, there are usually not even 4 teams who deserve a shot at the title by season’s end, fans wallets, and scarcity increases demand and value.
I hate this BS with every fiber if my being. Why do they need more money? Any money that goes to schools gets hoovered up at no real benefit to the game. Who wants to make Disney ESPN richer? FTMF.
They only ask if they can, they never ask whether they should
I could probably get on board with an even more expanded playoff if it eliminated bowl games. Bowl games have gotten pretty useless from an entertainment standpoint. If they do expand the playoffs even more, they should allow at least 1st and 2nd round byes for the teams with only 2 or less losses to avoid a scenario where a 2 loss team loses to a lucky 7-5 or 8-4 team in the first couple of rounds.
Bowl games were always exhibitions. Why should Tampa (for example) give up their opportunity to have people come there at a time when tourism is down to experience the city? If you don’t want to watch, don’t.
Screw any more expansion of the playoff to cheapen the value of the regular season.
That’s a good point about the locations and even the traditional sponsors of the bowls, but they could still have the super expanded playoffs in those locations and have sponsors title the game like it were an old bowl game, otherwise, whether I watch or not, bowl games are going the way of the dodo unless they become more captivating. If UGA is ever in 8-4 purgatory again, it would at least be nice to have a reason to watch and for the players to play in the postseason. Just my 2!
Who’s gonna go see the 8th place Big10 team see the 8th place SEC team? I have seen us play in some pretty crappy (and empty) bowl games over the years….
As a follow-up, I would say Tampa is certainly free to host one if they want, I just agree with the original caller that I don’t think there will be much demand for lower-tier bowl games if we have a 24-team tourney; see, e.g., the NIT….
My point is bowl games were the postseason until the sport became all about the playoff. The concept of opting out really started in 2016 after the 4-team playoff started.
There’s no way the powers that be are going to have more neutral site games in the playoff.
Tony Pettiti needs to be drawn and quartered.
I hope this idea dies quickly.
If the playoff expands to 24 teams that’s when I stop watching college football. Twelve teams is already too many. In absolutely no season ever have there been 12 teams with a legitimate claim to being the best in the country. Bowl games are a far superior method to allow teams to play another game, bring some additional tourism dollars to a particular city and provide networks with programming. The goose that laid the golden egg is already on a ventilator. Expanding the playoffs is simply removing the patient from life support and allowing it to die.