Welp, the first domino in yet another change to the CFP is falling.
This past season, the four highest-ranked conference champions earned the top four seeds — regardless of where they were ranked. Now, independent Notre Dame is eligible to earn a first-round bye if the Irish are ranked in the top four. All four teams that earned a first-round bye in the inaugural 12-team CFP lost their first game.
The five highest-ranked conference champions will still be guaranteed spots in the 12-team field.
“After evaluating the first year of the 12-team Playoff, the CFP management committee felt it was in the best interest of the game to make this adjustment,” Rich Clark, executive director of the CFP, said in a statement. “This change will continue to allow guaranteed access to the Playoff by rewarding teams for winning their conference championship, but it will also allow us to construct a postseason bracket that recognizes the best performance on the field during the entire regular season.”
The group agreed to maintain the $8 million financial commitment to the four highest-ranked conference champions — $4 million for reaching the playoff and $4 million for reaching the quarterfinals.
“That was the commissioners’ way of — at least for this year — holding to the commitment that they have made financially to those teams, those conference champions in particular, that would have been paid those amounts under the former system that we used last year,” Clark told ESPN.
Something tells me this will benefit someone more than others, and I’m looking squarely at Notre Dame when I say that. As if they needed anymore money, anyway.
Also noted was an idea that would make the CFP last longer than the offseason itself, starting with a “double bye” idea where the 13-16 ranked team would have play in game to start a reformed CFP:
Of all the ideas I’ve heard about the CFP, that’s certainly one of them.
Soooooooo, whut you’re sayin’ is the cfp is a living, breathing work in progre$$$$ that can/will be ma$$aged, kicked around to $uit tho$e that feel like they are being $tiffed…. oh, wait, they’re doing it for the kidz…these dickwads will fuck around and squeeze this thing to the point where they can and will, by force, git who they really want in the shit show (favorable seeding) and who they don’t (unfavorable seeding) want in week two of the invitational format…GO DAWGS!!
The 4 teams lost:
1) Oregon lost to a team they had beaten by 1 at home in the regular season. It wasn’t an upset they lost to anOSU, and they didn’t lose because of the bye.
2) Georgia lost to a team because we had an injured list longer than my arm. Speaking of arms, one of those injuries was the season’s starting QB. No, that’s not meant to dog Gunner Stockton. The same thing probably happens in 2022 if SBIV had gotten hurt in the SECCG and Beck would have started in Atlanta.
3) Boise State was this high of a seed because of that stupid rule that was put in place when there was a Power FIVE. There were probably 6 or 7 teams at full strength in the field (plus a couple that weren’t) that would have manhandled the Broncos.
4) Arizona State – see Boise. They got hot at the right time and gave Texas a good game. The Horns played like hot garbage.
Seed them straight up. If you’re going to 16, make everyone play 4 games. 14 is just stupid. If the SEC and Big 10 really wanted to flex their collective muscle, go back to 8 and tell the other leagues they are going to have to play their way in.
How do you think Mickey is gonna’ get to 18/20 teams, do the 14 team format, watch it not get the results required, expand to more teams and so on…can’t wait for the 35th seed play in game on tuesday nights…don’t forget to log on to the espn app and wager $50 on who the 35th seed will be and if you win, get $300 in tickets to the wonderful world of disney….
Apparently that idiot Matt Ruhle said he wanted it to be 40 teams. Playoff bonuses for the win … I think Nebraska could qualify in that case.
Then you get all that” first in, last out” B.S., ,nebraska couldn’t qualify to pick fucking corn…GO DAWGS!!
Which brings you to the point where friggin’ pedistate gets invited no matter whut, under reasonable format, they couldn’t make it out of the shower…
Mandel bitching about how long the post season took last year is RICH! He and all his ilk are the reason college football no longer resembles the sport I grew up loving. Screw him and the shitty website he shills for.
I’ll start by saying that the Army-Navy game means nothing to me. I don’t watch it and I don’t care about it. I know a lot of people love that game, but I guarantee that, if that game ever gets in the way of college football making money, it will be just another game on the schedule, without any thought of it being isolated and on TV by itself.
93, you are missing out on one college football’s greatest games and rivalries. I suggest you read A Civil War by John Feinstein’s. The young men who play in the Army vs Navy game are special individuals, and may very will be the last of the true student athletes, along with the Ivy League. The guys who play for Army and Navy are sacrificing so much to opportunity to defend our country and our freedom. Is the quality of football the best ever? Not always, but what they lack in football talent, they makeup for in heart. Sadly, I agree with your final point. If Army/Navy interferes with playoff money and/or scheduling, the powers that be will destroy an iconic game.
I don’t think it will be destroyed. The game can be moved to Thanksgiving weekend, and the networks agree it goes into a viewing window where no other games are being shown.