All because people would cry about smu almost being left out Even though beating georgia and south carolina are better than any of clemsons or smu wins
NIL is okay if we reduce players’ bargaining power. The worst abusers of NIL leverage are threatening transfers for pay. Penalize free transfers with automatic 4-game suspensions on new teams and reduce redshirts.
Transfer portal needs to open so early so the STUDENT athletes can get enrolled and start the spring semester. If you open the portal after the championship, the semester already started and they can’t enroll or are starting behind by enrolling late. Some schools have deadlines for enrollment that they will refuse to change for football players.
Quick fix is for 2025 is to get rid of the auto byes, but keep auto bids. Top 5 conference champions still qualify, but that's it. They are seeded just like everyone else .
Define “best” . Best on paper? Best perceived conference? Best schedule? Best following? Best record? Sometimes the best team on paper… etc… doesn’t win.
@@jordanmazurek7216 I wouldn’t punish teams for losing conference championships unless someone behind them won. They would still matter because if you’re #17 or 18 you would probably be able to get in with a win
@@moffprof02 2016 anOSU....."Even though Penn State BEAT anOSU AND won the B1G Championship, we still 'think' anOSU is better than Penn State."....as anOSU got SHUT OUT by Clemson 38 - 0 in the first round!!! ....WHY PLAY the games then?!?!?!!!
This is so stupid, the system is fine as is. If you want in the playoffs win your conference, that simple. If you can’t do that and aren’t good enough for one of the 7 at large bids then you should have played better. I don’t feel bad that a 3 loss non conference champion is left out. I’m not sorry bama you deserve what you got.
I’ll say it again. No matter how you skin this cat, there’s going to be something that is unfair and/or doesn’t make sense. Just gotta choose a system and stick with it.
I say go back to what it use to be, with a committee taking the place of the BCS computers. And players who want to enter the portal can only enter it after their bowl game is played.
I think that’s a bunch of cope respectfully. The playoff expansion makes more sense than having only 4 playoff teams. The whole point was to give more teams opportunities at winning a natty. Your season is no longer over and meaningless if you got two losses early in the season. We feel more sympathy for teams that go 11-1 and miss the playoffs in a 4 team playoff than we do a 9-3 Alabama team being left out of a 12 team playoff.
I hate the narrative that “Oregon got screwed”. If Ohio State and Tennessee are that much better than Texas, Penn state, Notre dame, then they shouldn’t be losing to 6-6 teams… the only reason that Oregon is getting the winner of Ohio State and Tennessee is because they are ranked behind Penn state, Texas, and Notre Dame.
@@masons83875 incorrect, the reason Oregon has such a hard path is bc the 3rd and 4th seed are ranked much lower than that and it throws all the other seeding off.
Both are correct If Ohi state were higher than Penn St or ND people wouldn’t be crying so much But if Boise and Az didn’t take 3/4 seeds it would nt be an issue either
@@kevinbond8966 so the this is a fluke season, the format isn’t flawed. If the P4 really are the “power” conferences, then year in and year out the P4 champs should be ranked high enough that you get say a 6th and 5th ranked p4 champs getting byes rather than a GO5 champ and a 12th ranked ASU. Rankings are all subjective anyway. I’m not entirely convinced that ASU and BSU are significantly worse than Ohio state and Tennessee. Just because you’re ranked higher doesn’t make you the better team. Upsets happen on a weekly basis in college football
@@adventureswithlils4331 Boise and ASU earned a bye by playing an extra week compared to Tennessee and Ohio State. I have a problem with giving byes to teams that either didn’t play in their conference champ or lost their conference champ because that could incentivize losing in historic college football games. Either get rid of byes or leave the format the same rewarding conference champs
@@masons83875 It's not a fluke Power 4 isn't a thing in 2024. It's Power 2, Middle 2, and group of 5. Until that is recognized the playoff will continue to be seeded terribly.
the fact that theyre trying to eliminate a committee making tough decisions is going to be a good thing, but this raises the question. They probably knew the first season of the 12 team playoffs was gonna be crazy no matter what happened. Why did they not make the change to an FCS style or "play in" style playoffs right away??
Conference championship weekend needs to be an extra week 1vs2, 3vs4, 5vs6 and so on it would make the standing of each conference alot more clearer going into the playoffs
Get rid of “top 25” and any other team rankings. Just do a tournament of conference champions, how ever many conferences there are. And tell ND they better pick one to stand a chance of getting in.
You are so right, the "free agency" in college football needs to be controlled. Would making athletes stay two years per school at a minimum be wiser? And why is the transfer portal open this early in Bowl season?
Take the top 3 teams from each P4 conference....take the top 4 G5/independent teams...throw one in each P4 quadrant, and run it. Then reseed the wonners of each quadrant and do a 4 team bracket. Nothings ever gonna be perfect but i think this would be fun and a pretty solid representation of the best teams in the country playing for the gold
The best/easiest thing to do is to go to 32 teams with AQ's for each conference winner like is done in basketball. Seed the bracket, and first 2 rounds are at better seed's home field. This will ensure that enough good teams get in and will still give an advantage to the better teams.
I like it how it is. If you change it by ranking, then it's just going to be the same schools in it every year. Those schools will continue to get all the revenue. This way gives some smaller schools/conferences the exposure and some revenue to build their programs. Even the playing field, so to speak.
The bar just keeps getting lower and lower. It's time to reverse that. If anything, the number of teams should be shrunk to 8, and bowl eligibility changed to having an 8-4 season. Even if it means a bunch of people complain and the organizations involved don't make as much money, so be it.
The way they have it drawn up is dumb in the article. So you would play #1 Oregon and #2 PSU against each other, then the loser of that game goes home?? Meanwhile #6 Iowa can win and get in? If they do that, they need to go to 1v6, 2v5, 3v4. Crown a regular season conference champ and move on.
Alabama should try winning more games next year. So, when they do...will they complain that they have to play more games once the CFP goes to 14...16...20...24...32 teams? It's the SEC!!!
The worst trend among major US sports leagues is an ever-increasing amount of playoff games for non-deserving teams. It won’t be long until the CFB regular season will be cheapened beyond repair. Conference championship games are already becoming obsolete bc a 10-win season guarantees a playoff spot if over a certain talent threshold (OSU, ORE, TEX, UGA, PSU, etc. tier)
The best thing would to be to go back to the traditional bowl tie-ins and worry less about a national champion. Since that won't happen, a 32-team, conference champs are automatically in, seeded-playoff would prevent conferences like the SEC from monopolizing college football and decide everything on the field.
2 things. 1. I think the portal dates is how it it’s because of the “Student-Athlete” part. They have to enroll into the spring semester for school. I could be wrong 2. The more teams we add I just think it will be a waste of time to get to the top 2-4 teams anyways. I may be the only one who still likes the 4 team playoff because it hold all the teams accountable of what happens during the pre bowl season.
I know this sounds crazy but here me out 😂 I say we respect the fbs ranking the top 25 teams and ensure that all those teams play in a bowl game Here's how i would do it: The top 7 teams get a bye regardless of if they're conference champions or not. Then 8 through 25 play in the first round with the higher seeds hosting the game. It would go 8 v 25, 9 v 24, 10 v 23, etc. The losers are guaranteed a bowl game even after losing the first round In the next round the remaining 16 teams play in the newly expanded "new years 8" bowl games instead of "new years 6" (adding the sun bowl and the citrus bowl possibly). Obviously, these games are played on neutral fields. Then the quarter finals and semi finals are played at school fields (with the higher seeds hosting) Then the remaining 2 teams play for the national championship at a neutral field There will be no reshuffling in between rounds as it would follow the traditional style bracket. All top 25 teams get in and they all play in a bowl game, and this would almost guarantee at least one team from each of the power 5 conferences get in Can't wait to see the outrage in the comments 😂
Am I the only one that knows the more contested games you have the more likely your final game is something like Georgia’s back up quarterback versus Michigan’s third quarterback?
Should just be 8 teams. The power 4 conference champions and the next 4 best teams, all seeded according to their rankings. There are never 12 or 14 teams that are competitive for a national championship; it’s just a huge money grift.
I don’t understand the idea of teams not being penalized for not winning their conference championship game, when that’s always been the case? If you’re good enough to make it you should be good enough to win it.
The portal definitely needs to wait to be open. And NIL needs to move the way of 2 year minimum deals. And if the kid wants to leave to another school, that school needs to buy them out, just like coaching. That way at a minimum the smaller school that gets bought out, get money to go get more talent, helping level the playing field. Itll make less overall transfers, a more balanced roster from conference to conference, and prevent the mass exodus we see. As for the playoff, go with a 20 team system. Top 2 in the P4 conference champ game are automatically in. Take the top 2 group of 5. Then have 3 and 4 place of power 4 play to get in. That leaves you 6 teams at large to select. Majority of teams would have earned their spot, and it addresses when conferences may be deep.
The leagues are so unbalanced because they kept allowing teams to leave conferences. We had WAY more parity in the days of 6 power conferences-power five plus Big East (and to a lesser extent MWC)-where each conferences had 2-3 perennial contenders and room for a sleeper. Since the mergers, of course you’re going to have quality teams left out of the playoffs. Teams from the group of five shouldn’t be disqualified because other teams got greedy and chose to enter tough conferences to make more money-that’s the risk those teams willing took for profit. I’m so glad we have a playoff now because the BCS era was so controversial. But dear lord, just say you don’t want group of five teams in the playoff because their fan bases are too small and ESPN won’t get the ratings they need and stop beating around the bush. It’s about the money, plain and simple.
As far as automatic qualifiers go, I like the current format where the five best conference champions are guaranteed a spot. I do NOT like it that four of those five automatically get the four byes regardless of how good the non-champions are. It would be nice to get to sixteen teams and multiple G5 teams being in the field, but twelve teams is a gigantic step up from the old four-team field in my opinion.
I remember when a computer chose which two teams would play in the national championship. That was it. It was awful. So while they are currently working out the kinks, the current playoff world is WAY, WAY better.
That’s very true. The 4 teams helped for a little bit until then it was becoming more controversy, now the current 12-team format has resolved a lot of those issues but just needs a few more tweaks and everything will be fine. I’ve been hearing about the 14-team format and that might actually work for a good while at least.
12-14 teams making the offs is a good amount of teams. I don’t mind automatic bids like how it is in CBB. But a conference champ getting a first round bye is not it.
Pick a system and stick w it. I support legitimizing every conference. Idk abt first round byes but I definitely support making every conference team eligible just by winning their conference
Here's how I'd fix it: Keep it at 12. Top 4 Champs get AQs w/ byes. Next 2 champs get AQs. 1st round play NY6 bowls. 2nd round played @ home for Champions the following week. Semis the week after. Championship the week after that. The 4 Champs get to draft who plays into their bracket, in highest seed order. This gives the networks all the air time they want to discuss draft projections. The Conference Championships still hold meaning, leading to a bye + a home game. Higher seeds draft first so they won't get shafted by the bracket. Bowls still play on New Years. (I'd also require teams to play within a conference to qualify for the playoffs.)
16 team and every teams plays each week until a champ game. I do not like the season going into middle of Jan. Oregon and the other bye's will not be game ready waiting 3 plus weeks for there first playoff game. the fans don't like either. two divisions 8 teams each and somehow make it were different teams who have not played each other play early. fans like new games with different teams. Oregon vr. Ohio is just a repeat and should not happen until they both might make it into the champ game.
The right teams are in just win the game. Having the additional game increases injuries for the team's that don't get the bye. The benefit to winning your conference is the rest.
Already more than half the field would have never been considered for a national championship in the past. Further expansion to add 3 or 4 loss at large teams is asinine.
i think that they should have a 16 team bracket with the top 16 teams and no team should be able to skip the 1st round of the play-offs and portal should start after a team is eliminated or the day after the national championship. and conference championship games do not have any effect on teams ranking or win loss ratio.
Flip the home games and bowl games so that the first round is played at neutral bowls and then the conference champs get the reward of having home game in the quarterfinals
The portal opening dates are fine. The portal "issue" is only an issue in December because they refuse to do the right thing which is GET RID OF BOWL GAMES. The bowl games are worthless participation trophy games born out of greed and compromise. Nobody cares about bowl games, everybody cares about winning a championship. Playoff teams aren't having any real portal issues, why? Because they are actually playing for something, the national championship. Expand the playoff a bit more (16 or 20 teams max), end worthless bowl season and watch how much of this December portal "issue" disappears.
What a mess. Georgia vs Oregon was an easy matchup this year and we almost certainly won’t see it. The more teams they add, the less the regular season means.
@@dustin6528 Texas got ref-jobbed in the SEC championship. In the two team format they would not have done that and risked Notre Dame going over a two loss champion.
Kinda true that Oregon might be getting screwed. Any other year, they'd either be in the championship game (BCS era) or semifinals with a good match up (CFP 4-team era). Now they have to beat OSU (again) or Tennessee just to make the semis.
I think it should be all the conference champions should get in then have automatic bids get rid of the independence have the transfer portal after the national championship so notre dame has to join a conference as well
I agree. One single douche judge opened the flood gates & made college football a business. My son plays college football and is not a top 800 player. Trust me, the vast majority of the players are screwed. They must use the portal to protect themselves from changeover Deon Sanders set the process for roster management.
Just use a proven rock solid format that has worked for years before the bcs was even around. DO WHAT THE FCS IS DOING AND THERE YOU HAVE IT PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12 teams. Seeded in order of ap ranking. 1 seed plays lowest seed remaining after the 1st round, 2nd seed plays 2nd lowest seed remaining and so on. That would stop everyone bitching
College football is ruined. I see 1, maybe 2 competitive games on that bracket. SMU/PSU isn't even going to sell out because nobody wants to wake up at 6am to drive 3 hrs, to watch PSU beat up on SMU in the cold for 4 hrs. Big media officially ended meaningful games on College campuses.
They need to a tournament with the Top 24 in the country with SEC, BIG10, BIG 12, ACC getting automatic top 3 in. That would leave the last 12 spots for the other conference champions and other teams. Only play in should be 25 vs 24 to get in so there's absolutely no complaints.
For the portal, they need to do a 2 year minimum transfer. You have to stay 2 years before you can transfer & once you do. Also you can’t opt out of bowl games unless you’re declaring for the draft.
This is what they wanted this year, but they were apparently pushed to make a decision before they were ready, so we got a purposefully broken system in order to make it somewhat better. Not sure there will ever be a fix to ncaa. It's beyond broken already, and not because of the playoff. College football is dead. Teams suck and coaches don't coach.
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I like the idea of play in games.. probably not tied to conferences though. Also need a way to really reward the best teams so the regular season remains very important
All 8 power 4 teams that make there championship auto go 2 G5 teams automatically make it and 6 at large bids no auto home games home games happen for the first 2 rounds and do the NFL thing were lowest seed plays highest seed
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All because Alabama didn’t get it, lol
Alabama deserves to be #1. NOBODY SHOULD GIVE A PISS ABOUT NOTHING BUT THE TIDE BABY
@@SoutheastBeast91 pretty sure it's bc the #1 seed has one of the hardest paths to the championship.
@@joeycochenour5783that’s stupid to say look at the bracket it’s a joke
@@joeycochenour5783 That TV commercial the guy is saying "High Tide". That should be changed to "Tide's OUT"
All because people would cry about smu almost being left out
Even though beating georgia and south carolina are better than any of clemsons or smu wins
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College football has become a shit show with NIL and portal. A lot of changes need to be made.
NIL is okay if we reduce players’ bargaining power. The worst abusers of NIL leverage are threatening transfers for pay. Penalize free transfers with automatic 4-game suspensions on new teams and reduce redshirts.
For Pete Sake just make it 16 Teams and cement it indefinitely.
*32
No 16 is too much
12-14 is perfect
Go to 16 teams, all 9 conference champions are in and then 7 at large.
The first round would be terrible.
ESPN will only approve if all 7 at large teams are SEC.
Pac-12 will be back in 2026, there would be 10 conferences.
Seven at large is too many. That’s why this year is terrible.
I totally agree…and the seedings would be based on rankings ….👍🏽
Transfer portal needs to open so early so the STUDENT athletes can get enrolled and start the spring semester. If you open the portal after the championship, the semester already started and they can’t enroll or are starting behind by enrolling late. Some schools have deadlines for enrollment that they will refuse to change for football players.
Quick fix is for 2025 is to get rid of the auto byes, but keep auto bids. Top 5 conference champions still qualify, but that's it. They are seeded just like everyone else .
The committee is big mad americas favorite underdog Boise State has a legit competitive team.
Yes, now they will try to squeeze them out, so a 4 loss SEC team can get in.
Your right, NIL is ruining the game, it needs structure
If I was running it, I’d do a 16 team playoff, top 8 seeds get to host the first round, and no auto qualifiers. Just let the best teams in
Define “best” . Best on paper? Best perceived conference? Best schedule? Best following? Best record?
Sometimes the best team on paper… etc… doesn’t win.
@@moffprof02 I would rank teams by resume but not record. Strength of Record is the #1 metric to go by IMO
How do you handle conf champ games?
What if you lose? What's the point?
@@jordanmazurek7216 I wouldn’t punish teams for losing conference championships unless someone behind them won. They would still matter because if you’re #17 or 18 you would probably be able to get in with a win
@@moffprof02 2016 anOSU....."Even though Penn State BEAT anOSU AND won the B1G Championship, we still 'think' anOSU is better than Penn State."....as anOSU got SHUT OUT by Clemson 38 - 0 in the first round!!! ....WHY PLAY the games then?!?!?!!!
This is so stupid, the system is fine as is.
If you want in the playoffs win your conference, that simple. If you can’t do that and aren’t good enough for one of the 7 at large bids then you should have played better.
I don’t feel bad that a 3 loss non conference champion is left out. I’m not sorry bama you deserve what you got.
I’ll say it again. No matter how you skin this cat, there’s going to be something that is unfair and/or doesn’t make sense. Just gotta choose a system and stick with it.
I say go back to what it use to be, with a committee taking the place of the BCS computers.
And players who want to enter the portal can only enter it after their bowl game is played.
I think that’s a bunch of cope respectfully. The playoff expansion makes more sense than having only 4 playoff teams. The whole point was to give more teams opportunities at winning a natty. Your season is no longer over and meaningless if you got two losses early in the season. We feel more sympathy for teams that go 11-1 and miss the playoffs in a 4 team playoff than we do a 9-3 Alabama team being left out of a 12 team playoff.
@@finchboratthis is literally the worst option available.
You’re very disrespectful to the ACC & Big 12. Each of those conference should have at least 2 spots guaranteed in a 14 team playoff.
Truth
ACC I'll give you that but the XII is no different than the MW.
Is there anything that makes sense in College Football?
No
If we can completely devalue the Committee, we'd be going in the right direction
This!!! 🎯
It's funny how FBS is now trying to immulate what the FCS has been doing for years
The conferences make no geographical sense anymore. Might as well go with a larger playoff.
The sport is slowly getting diluted. College football will unfortunately be dead in 20 years with the way we’re going
It’s dead now.
Only reason is they want Alabama in the playoffs all the time
I hate the narrative that “Oregon got screwed”. If Ohio State and Tennessee are that much better than Texas, Penn state, Notre dame, then they shouldn’t be losing to 6-6 teams… the only reason that Oregon is getting the winner of Ohio State and Tennessee is because they are ranked behind Penn state, Texas, and Notre Dame.
@@masons83875 incorrect, the reason Oregon has such a hard path is bc the 3rd and 4th seed are ranked much lower than that and it throws all the other seeding off.
Both are correct
If Ohi state were higher than Penn St or ND people wouldn’t be crying so much
But if Boise and Az didn’t take 3/4 seeds it would nt be an issue either
@@kevinbond8966 so the this is a fluke season, the format isn’t flawed. If the P4 really are the “power” conferences, then year in and year out the P4 champs should be ranked high enough that you get say a 6th and 5th ranked p4 champs getting byes rather than a GO5 champ and a 12th ranked ASU. Rankings are all subjective anyway. I’m not entirely convinced that ASU and BSU are significantly worse than Ohio state and Tennessee. Just because you’re ranked higher doesn’t make you the better team. Upsets happen on a weekly basis in college football
@@adventureswithlils4331 Boise and ASU earned a bye by playing an extra week compared to Tennessee and Ohio State. I have a problem with giving byes to teams that either didn’t play in their conference champ or lost their conference champ because that could incentivize losing in historic college football games. Either get rid of byes or leave the format the same rewarding conference champs
@@masons83875 It's not a fluke Power 4 isn't a thing in 2024. It's Power 2, Middle 2, and group of 5. Until that is recognized the playoff will continue to be seeded terribly.
Everyone talking... Watch ASU or Boise win it all, lol. Seriously, Oregon got this 👍
the fact that theyre trying to eliminate a committee making tough decisions is going to be a good thing, but this raises the question. They probably knew the first season of the 12 team playoffs was gonna be crazy no matter what happened. Why did they not make the change to an FCS style or "play in" style playoffs right away??
Conference championship weekend needs to be an extra week 1vs2, 3vs4, 5vs6 and so on it would make the standing of each conference alot more clearer going into the playoffs
Get rid of “top 25” and any other team rankings. Just do a tournament of conference champions, how ever many conferences there are. And tell ND they better pick one to stand a chance of getting in.
Yes
Hot take: BCS was better than this mess.
At least the computer put the best teams in there.
No it wasn't
No
You are so right, the "free agency" in college football needs to be controlled. Would making athletes stay two years per school at a minimum be wiser? And why is the transfer portal open this early in Bowl season?
They need to fix it so Alabama is guaranteed to be in the playoffs.
for real
ESecPN runs college football. They did everything they could to get the elephant team in.
We knew this was coming when they didn't get in.
@@RobertCartwright-sk7rr they expanded the playoff because alabama was getting in every year, first four then 12.
We need 6 of the 14 spots to go to Bama so they can have a few mulligans in case something goes wrong.
Take the top 3 teams from each P4 conference....take the top 4 G5/independent teams...throw one in each P4 quadrant, and run it. Then reseed the wonners of each quadrant and do a 4 team bracket.
Nothings ever gonna be perfect but i think this would be fun and a pretty solid representation of the best teams in the country playing for the gold
Conference Championships should only count for bragging rights, a trophy, and TV money. Should have nothing to do with the bracket!
To me, it would be nice if they can include an FCS invite and an HBCU invite
Go Back to the way it was in the 60's and later. Four years of eligibility and that's it.
The best/easiest thing to do is to go to 32 teams with AQ's for each conference winner like is done in basketball. Seed the bracket, and first 2 rounds are at better seed's home field. This will ensure that enough good teams get in and will still give an advantage to the better teams.
Instead of complaining about not getting in cause you lost, just win the game 🤷🏻♂️
I like it how it is. If you change it by ranking, then it's just going to be the same schools in it every year. Those schools will continue to get all the revenue. This way gives some smaller schools/conferences the exposure and some revenue to build their programs. Even the playing field, so to speak.
Big 10 is not as good top to bottom as big 12 or ACC, change my mind.
No one really cares about top to bottom. It's always about the big name brands being strong. The XII is screwed unless Colorado gets to that level.
@ Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, and this year, Indiana built gaudy records playing in a conference of cupcakes.
big 10 is top-heavy, and was aided by not having the top teams play each other much.
The bar just keeps getting lower and lower. It's time to reverse that. If anything, the number of teams should be shrunk to 8, and bowl eligibility changed to having an 8-4 season. Even if it means a bunch of people complain and the organizations involved don't make as much money, so be it.
There will be no shrinking just expansion. Hopefully not beyond 14 that way at least two teams get a bye.
The way they have it drawn up is dumb in the article. So you would play #1 Oregon and #2 PSU against each other, then the loser of that game goes home?? Meanwhile #6 Iowa can win and get in? If they do that, they need to go to 1v6, 2v5, 3v4. Crown a regular season conference champ and move on.
I think they’re hoping the #1 vs #2 loser gets in as an at large team. Resulting in 4 teams getting in.
16 team playoff, no first round bye, auto bids for top 6 conference champs so that the top two seeds likely get a G5 school first round
Alabama should try winning more games next year. So, when they do...will they complain that they have to play more games once the CFP goes to 14...16...20...24...32 teams? It's the SEC!!!
The worst trend among major US sports leagues is an ever-increasing amount of playoff games for non-deserving teams. It won’t be long until the CFB regular season will be cheapened beyond repair. Conference championship games are already becoming obsolete bc a 10-win season guarantees a playoff spot if over a certain talent threshold (OSU, ORE, TEX, UGA, PSU, etc. tier)
The best thing would to be to go back to the traditional bowl tie-ins and worry less about a national champion. Since that won't happen, a 32-team, conference champs are automatically in, seeded-playoff would prevent conferences like the SEC from monopolizing college football and decide everything on the field.
2 things.
1. I think the portal dates is how it it’s because of the “Student-Athlete” part. They have to enroll into the spring semester for school. I could be wrong
2. The more teams we add I just think it will be a waste of time to get to the top 2-4 teams anyways. I may be the only one who still likes the 4 team playoff because it hold all the teams accountable of what happens during the pre bowl season.
All good points Depressed Ginger! Let's hope the people running this show is listening!
This is why they should just have a Power4 CFP (16 teams) & a Group6 CFP (16 teams). All conference champs get in & everyone has a shot at a title.
Notre Dame and Indiana strength of schedule not much better than Boise State.
I know this sounds crazy but here me out 😂
I say we respect the fbs ranking the top 25 teams and ensure that all those teams play in a bowl game
Here's how i would do it:
The top 7 teams get a bye regardless of if they're conference champions or not. Then 8 through 25 play in the first round with the higher seeds hosting the game. It would go 8 v 25, 9 v 24, 10 v 23, etc. The losers are guaranteed a bowl game even after losing the first round
In the next round the remaining 16 teams play in the newly expanded "new years 8" bowl games instead of "new years 6" (adding the sun bowl and the citrus bowl possibly). Obviously, these games are played on neutral fields.
Then the quarter finals and semi finals are played at school fields (with the higher seeds hosting)
Then the remaining 2 teams play for the national championship at a neutral field
There will be no reshuffling in between rounds as it would follow the traditional style bracket. All top 25 teams get in and they all play in a bowl game, and this would almost guarantee at least one team from each of the power 5 conferences get in
Can't wait to see the outrage in the comments 😂
Am I the only one that knows the more contested games you have the more likely your final game is something like Georgia’s back up quarterback versus Michigan’s third quarterback?
Should just be 8 teams. The power 4 conference champions and the next 4 best teams, all seeded according to their rankings. There are never 12 or 14 teams that are competitive for a national championship; it’s just a huge money grift.
There HAS to be a wild card play-in round and it doesn’t have to be confined to certain conferences, there should be inter-conference matchups.
16 team playoff would be the best. Eliminate the championship games
I don’t understand the idea of teams not being penalized for not winning their conference championship game, when that’s always been the case? If you’re good enough to make it you should be good enough to win it.
The portal definitely needs to wait to be open. And NIL needs to move the way of 2 year minimum deals. And if the kid wants to leave to another school, that school needs to buy them out, just like coaching. That way at a minimum the smaller school that gets bought out, get money to go get more talent, helping level the playing field. Itll make less overall transfers, a more balanced roster from conference to conference, and prevent the mass exodus we see.
As for the playoff, go with a 20 team system. Top 2 in the P4 conference champ game are automatically in. Take the top 2 group of 5. Then have 3 and 4 place of power 4 play to get in. That leaves you 6 teams at large to select. Majority of teams would have earned their spot, and it addresses when conferences may be deep.
Top 25 with 1 getting a bye would be wild
The leagues are so unbalanced because they kept allowing teams to leave conferences. We had WAY more parity in the days of 6 power conferences-power five plus Big East (and to a lesser extent MWC)-where each conferences had 2-3 perennial contenders and room for a sleeper. Since the mergers, of course you’re going to have quality teams left out of the playoffs. Teams from the group of five shouldn’t be disqualified because other teams got greedy and chose to enter tough conferences to make more money-that’s the risk those teams willing took for profit. I’m so glad we have a playoff now because the BCS era was so controversial. But dear lord, just say you don’t want group of five teams in the playoff because their fan bases are too small and ESPN won’t get the ratings they need and stop beating around the bush. It’s about the money, plain and simple.
As far as automatic qualifiers go, I like the current format where the five best conference champions are guaranteed a spot. I do NOT like it that four of those five automatically get the four byes regardless of how good the non-champions are. It would be nice to get to sixteen teams and multiple G5 teams being in the field, but twelve teams is a gigantic step up from the old four-team field in my opinion.
What makes the mid10 better than the other conferences???🤡🤡🤡
8 teams, no autobids, problem solved
8 teams based on analytics
@@somebodyandthemYes! Let the Matrix decide for us. 😉
I remember when a computer chose which two teams would play in the national championship. That was it. It was awful. So while they are currently working out the kinks, the current playoff world is WAY, WAY better.
That’s very true. The 4 teams helped for a little bit until then it was becoming more controversy, now the current 12-team format has resolved a lot of those issues but just needs a few more tweaks and everything will be fine. I’ve been hearing about the 14-team format and that might actually work for a good while at least.
The 6 richest NIL spenders should get automatic bids.
12-14 teams making the offs is a good amount of teams. I don’t mind automatic bids like how it is in CBB. But a conference champ getting a first round bye is not it.
No coverage on Juan Soto?
Pick a system and stick w it. I support legitimizing every conference. Idk abt first round byes but I definitely support making every conference team eligible just by winning their conference
Get rid of the conferences...
No get rid of conference championship games.
Thought this would happen if SMU was left out to replace conference title games
The whole Top 25 in a playoff. Only way at this point
Makes football have bracketology too
Agreed after the bowl season when it comes to transfer portal
Here's how I'd fix it:
Keep it at 12.
Top 4 Champs get AQs w/ byes.
Next 2 champs get AQs.
1st round play NY6 bowls.
2nd round played @ home for Champions the following week.
Semis the week after.
Championship the week after that.
The 4 Champs get to draft who plays into their bracket, in highest seed order.
This gives the networks all the air time they want to discuss draft projections. The Conference Championships still hold meaning, leading to a bye + a home game. Higher seeds draft first so they won't get shafted by the bracket. Bowls still play on New Years.
(I'd also require teams to play within a conference to qualify for the playoffs.)
16 team and every teams plays each week until a champ game.
I do not like the season going into middle of Jan.
Oregon and the other bye's will not be game ready waiting 3 plus weeks
for there first playoff game. the fans don't like either.
two divisions 8 teams each and somehow make it were different
teams who have not played each other play early. fans like new games
with different teams. Oregon vr. Ohio is just a repeat and should not
happen until they both might make it into the champ game.
thoughts on rich rod to wvu?
The right teams are in just win the game. Having the additional game increases injuries for the team's that don't get the bye. The benefit to winning your conference is the rest.
Already more than half the field would have never been considered for a national championship in the past. Further expansion to add 3 or 4 loss at large teams is asinine.
@HolySpicoli agreed
i think that they should have a 16 team bracket with the top 16 teams and no team should be able to skip the 1st round of the play-offs and portal should start after a team is eliminated or the day after the national championship. and conference championship games do not have any effect on teams ranking or win loss ratio.
Flip the home games and bowl games so that the first round is played at neutral bowls and then the conference champs get the reward of having home game in the quarterfinals
This channel is hilarious. The fact that I’m watching both his political and sports videos is so funny to me
Funny as he hates the NIL and democrats?
The portal opening dates are fine.
The portal "issue" is only an issue in December because they refuse to do the right thing which is GET RID OF BOWL GAMES. The bowl games are worthless participation trophy games born out of greed and compromise. Nobody cares about bowl games, everybody cares about winning a championship. Playoff teams aren't having any real portal issues, why? Because they are actually playing for something, the national championship. Expand the playoff a bit more (16 or 20 teams max), end worthless bowl season and watch how much of this December portal "issue" disappears.
What a mess. Georgia vs Oregon was an easy matchup this year and we almost certainly won’t see it. The more teams they add, the less the regular season means.
no worries...UGA will be there, Oregon.... 🤔
In a two-team format Texas would be the SEC champion.
@@HolySpicoli in the BCS, Georgia/Oregon would be an automatic natty. No doubt
@@dustin6528 Texas got ref-jobbed in the SEC championship. In the two team format they would not have done that and risked Notre Dame going over a two loss champion.
Kinda true that Oregon might be getting screwed. Any other year, they'd either be in the championship game (BCS era) or semifinals with a good match up (CFP 4-team era). Now they have to beat OSU (again) or Tennessee just to make the semis.
I think it should be all the conference champions should get in then have automatic bids get rid of the independence have the transfer portal after the national championship so notre dame has to join a conference as well
So a bunch of rematches. Great.
I agree. One single douche judge opened the flood gates & made college football a business. My son plays college football and is not a top 800 player. Trust me, the vast majority of the players are screwed. They must use the portal to protect themselves from changeover Deon Sanders set the process for roster management.
Coaches sign contracts. The players don’t. There’s no equivalency on why these kids should be able to leave and not have to wait.
All they are doing is trying to refine their professional minor league. Major College Football is dead and it’s not coming back.
I feel like they should just make Conference championships a 4 team 2 round play off then keep the 12 team playoffs
This worked SMU would have gotten a bye and only 3 wins to win a national championship. Go Broncos
12 was already too many teams.
Just use a proven rock solid format that has worked for years before the bcs was even around. DO WHAT THE FCS IS DOING AND THERE YOU HAVE IT PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Got the notice this time
12 teams. Seeded in order of ap ranking. 1 seed plays lowest seed remaining after the 1st round, 2nd seed plays 2nd lowest seed remaining and so on. That would stop everyone bitching
Lol you clearly weren't around for the BCS era.
@gwilson314 ya u right im only 3 years old
College football is ruined. I see 1, maybe 2 competitive games on that bracket. SMU/PSU isn't even going to sell out because nobody wants to wake up at 6am to drive 3 hrs, to watch PSU beat up on SMU in the cold for 4 hrs. Big media officially ended meaningful games on College campuses.
Make it like the old champions league bracket in soccer😂😂😂😂
3 SEC
3 B10
3 ACC
3 B12
2 Pac12
1 MW
1 AAC
Top 8 ranked teams get home field. No byes.
16 teams like other comments have said, and that would stop this 3 weeks between games.
why wait that long??
A four team playoff was enough. The whining will never end. College football is dumb.
make a video on new head coaching rankings
They need to a tournament with the Top 24 in the country with SEC, BIG10, BIG 12, ACC getting automatic top 3 in. That would leave the last 12 spots for the other conference champions and other teams. Only play in should be 25 vs 24 to get in so there's absolutely no complaints.
For the portal, they need to do a 2 year minimum transfer. You have to stay 2 years before you can transfer & once you do. Also you can’t opt out of bowl games unless you’re declaring for the draft.
BSU was closer to beating Oregon than Penn State.
This is what they wanted this year, but they were apparently pushed to make a decision before they were ready, so we got a purposefully broken system in order to make it somewhat better. Not sure there will ever be a fix to ncaa. It's beyond broken already, and not because of the playoff. College football is dead. Teams suck and coaches don't coach.
16 team playoff with BCS rankings please
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They replaced the Blimp. Big deal in Akron. But Gateway Pundit is awesome.
I like the idea of play in games.. probably not tied to conferences though. Also need a way to really reward the best teams so the regular season remains very important
Can’t do massive transfer because school starts.
All 8 power 4 teams that make there championship auto go 2 G5 teams automatically make it and 6 at large bids no auto home games home games happen for the first 2 rounds and do the NFL thing were lowest seed plays highest seed
Why did Oregon get screwed?... Thought all teams in bracket were equal.... lol