The top 5 seeds will go to the five highest-ranked conference champions, whether they are Group of 5 or Power 4. The P4 champions are not guaranteed to be the top 4 seeds. Rich's example saying Pitt would have been ahead of Cinncinatti in 2021 under this model is incorrect.
The top 4 seeds and they byes that accompany those seeds will go to the champs of the Big 10, ACC, SEC, and Big 12. It's possible, but extremely unlikely, that a G5 conference champ will finish higher ranked than the champ of any of the "Big 4" and would get a bye. ND literally has no chance of getting a bye, regardless of their record, because they aren't in a conference. Using 2023 final CFP rankings, UM, UW, UT, and UA would have gotten the byes. Liberty would have gotten the bid from the G5. The other 7 teams would have been FSU, UGA, Ohio State, Oregon, Mizzou, Penn St, and Ole MIss. (12) Ole Miss @ (5) Liberty (11) Penn St @ (6) FSU (10) Mizzou @ (7) UGA (9) Oregon @ (6) Ohio St. Undefeated Liberty got destroyed 45-6 by Oregon this year in the Fiesta Bowl.
My only question becomes when do we stop considering any of the people involved in this as part of a damn university and just make this what it is minor league football. Because none of these people give a single F about education and should not be recognized as such
So, let me see if I understand your position here. Do you think it is somehow wrong that a college kid who majors in football gets a million dollar contract while lots of college kids with liberal arts degrees can't get a job at Starbucks upon graduation? Methinks you've got your umbrage on backwards. And I haven't even mentioned until this sentence that football revenue (with some help from men's b-ball) funds the entire sports department at most major universities, including all women's sports. I don't see how learning to play football is inherently less worthy than learning about English Literature.
@@Yesquire0 not to mention that only the top 5-8 players (on a _good_ team) will make the pros, so that free ride to a _degree_ better have tons of value to the other 80-100 players.
@@Yesquire0its not less worthy. Just let them play in the league and keep college sports the same. Its gonna ruin the system of “amatuer sports”. College sports is only great cause all teams have players that wont go pro. Now its basically making teams with bank rolls the ability to now legally pay players mass anounts. Its ruin conferences and in ten more years will just ruin the structure of the games and teaching young athletes hows its done. Its a feeder system into pro leagues. Make minor leagues and keep college way it always was. But at the end of the day idc.
It was long overdue that the college football players got a tiny piece of the gigantic billion"S" dollar pie that was created based on them. Universities got hundreds of millions. Coaches got millions. Many players got a bad knee and 1/2 of a Communications degree. Having said that, why should I watch the second best pro league in the nation?
It's conceivable some of these top teams could play each other 3 times in a span of a month of less, lol with that being said the new conferences have way better offerings week to week, I looked at the schedule and there are 5 to 10 must watch games every week next season. I don't think we will ever see an undefeated national champion again, or at least it will be very very rare
12 team playoff is great but the Title game should absolutely not be played as late as January 20th. To have it In the middle of the NFL Playoffs is a bad idea.
This is good too because a lot of teams won’t feel like their season is lost with losing a single game. It gives teams hope which will create more competition
College football teams and fanbases should not feel like "their season is lost" just because they're not in a playoff. That is the biggest problem with what college football has become. It is the reason I hate the CFP, and the more teams included, the worse it is.
I would argue that under the new system, the regular season will actually mean more not less. Because under the old system if you lost one game or for certain two games, your season was over. You had nothing to play for. Now the conference champions, regardless of their record, get a chance to win the national championship, so that makes the conference season more meaningful. And then of course you have the battle for the seven at large spots. I agree with the people that think this will be a two-year deal. And it will expand to either 14 or 16 teams in 2026 with the new TV contract.
This rationale is a major part of the problem. A season doesn't end when you can't make the playoff. That mentality never existed before the 4 team playoff. Now players quit teams after losses and opt out of bowls because of it.
@@EulogyfortheAngels regarding bowls, except for the games that are in the college football playoff, are nothing more than glorified exhibition games. 50 years ago a team had to win 70% of their games to even qualify for a bowl game. Now it is only 50%. And because of a technicality the Minnesota gophers qualified for a bowl game with a losing record. bowl games mean nothing. If I were a player that had a chance be drafted by an NFL team, I would not risk my health playing in a game that meant absolutely nothing. Furthermore, why is it OK for coaches to take new jobs after the regular season and before the bowl games? That is called quitting on your team. Players should have the same right. Regarding players that quit in the middle of the regular season, that is less than 1/10 of one percent. And those kind of players don’t deserve to play college football.
Why not eliminate all conferences, as Chip Kelly has suggested, create a commissioner of college football, and each team plays an independent schedule? Set up a regional schedule of maybe 6 games, then play a set number of teams from different regions of the country. A point/or tier system can be used to even out the schedules.
@@ynp1978 look up Jim Thorp. No seriously look him up & read his bio because he played college football & was paid to do so. Also, look up the history of college football & the MANY reasons why the NCAA was formed. I seriously want you to reply once you find out how players were paid LONG before there was an NFL. Also, you do realize there were other preferential leagues before the NFL right. You do realize that teams like the Packers & Cardinals have been in existence longer than the NFL has been in existence right. My statement that college football has ALWAYS been semipro is 1000% correct but once you actually look these things up don’t be a coward because I expect you to be a man & admit you’re wrong.
Rich, my take on this is every weekend is a playoff game for one (1-12) team playoff system. 5+7 for next 2 years. With those teams 1-4 having a bye week, games played on college campus means more money for each host teams TOWN. Let that sink in$$$$$.
I've spelled it out pretty clearly, but what transpires after 2025 is what matters. Sankey and Petitti realize that the number of schools who can make the leap to pay for play, allow for collective bargaining, pay the non revenue athletes as well as the revenue athletes and allow NIL across the spectrum of sports, and do all of that utilizing contracts to at least contain the use of the transfer portal, to an extent, are likely under 60. If your field is 56 or less then everything can be contained within the Big 10 and SEC and if they negotiate wrights deals together as the two conferences in that professional tier, then they can have their own playoff utilizing 16 schools, giving 28% of the participants in the upper tier playoff access and allowing the Big10/SEC to get a 50/50 split with the networks after expenses. That kind of break puts all schools in those two conferences in the 85 to 90 million dollar range for starters. What I'm hearing is that there is no desire to have to make decisions deferring to schools who cannot afford to make the jump. That this time the only way full compliance can be attained is to be free of any considerations which reside with the NCAA or any tier below that of the Big 10 and SEC. They'll chart their own course and the allow any who are committed to the full compliance and which can afford the leap to make application. That makes it an opt in and not an exclusive grouping. What happens below that tier will be the purview of those in it. This current playoff configuration still has the top tier obligated to meet the needs of the lower tiers. While this could be done under amateurism, it is a major hindrance to full compliance moving forward. A separation is coming.
This is the most intelligent comment I have seen anywhere. Luke, what will happen to the schools that won't/don't/can't pay into what the B1G and SEC (FOX and ESPN) are selling? What happens to the lesser (funded? committed? watched?) schools of the B1G and SEC? What will become of those programs on the outside still looking to entertain their communities?
I’ve always said the sec and big 10 should combine into a 20 team super conference. Alabama Auburn UGA Oklahoma Texas Florida LSU A&M in the south division adding FSU and Clemson. Then in the north division you have OSU UM Oregon USC Washington UCLA MSU PSU ND now has to join a conference. The last team I believe would be a toss up between Maryland Wisconsin or Iowa. I’d lean towards Maryland due to the affiliation with under armor. If you really want to get creative you could force Tennessee to realign in the north. In my opinion there isn’t enough talent for more than about 20 top level teams. Also how many teams are actually going to pay 10-15 million a year in nil money and lose to OSU or Georgia or Bama or Texas every year and just keep throwing more money into losing? A lot of teams would spend that money to win but in my opinion there are very few teams that would do it for a decade while losing. Those are the teams that are important!!
Rich talking about michigan being runner up in the B10 is comical, Oregon and OSU are by far the two best teams right now, hell even Penn St is likely to finish abvove michigan
Yeah. Oregon is scary. When Ohio State travels to Eugene the winner of that game will be in the drivers seat of the BIG and prolly the #1 ranked team in the country
It might give smaller schools a boost in recruitment if they make it to the playoffs rather than sit in obscurity. Thus giving other programs the chance to grow rather than keep the status quo for eternity.
I want to meet one of these sadists who said they miss the BCS. That hot mess got its analysis right about as frequently as the groundhog on Groundhog Day and inherently left out undefeated teams all the time, but yes let's wax nostalgic about one of the least thought-out ideas ever
What a gift to whichever "Group of 5" conference winners is highest ranked and makes the playoffs. It will be one and done every year. Look at the schools in the American, C-USA, MAC, Mountain West, and Sun Belt conferences. Which of those teams has even the slightest chance of beating even the 4th place team in any of the "Power 5" conferences?
Funny you should ask, considering the smack down South Alabama put on Oklahoma State, the Big12 runner up, this year. 33-7 sure makes your argument seem far from valid.
Your argument isn’t valid at all. There are plenty of Group of 5 teams in recent years that weren’t even group of 5 conference champions that still beat teams that placed higher than 4th.
@struble2177 was that in a playoff scenario, or a random regular season game? Oklahoma State also lost 2 other games by 28+. They were wildly erratic last year, and the Big12 outside Texas was pretty weak.
@@EulogyfortheAngels I highly doubt the committee would’ve put Oklahoma state (if they would’ve beat Texas) in ahead of SMU and Liberty. I mean yeah they both group of 5 but according to the committee they don’t have to put a power 5 conference champ in. Even though most of them will be
The conference championship games are nice but with the expanded playoff they only serve to over complicate things. Many people didn't like the BCS rankings but if you were to do away with conference championship games and make the rankings based off of statistical analysis and not bias, perception, or a gut feeling, then it would encourage teams to continue to put together strong schedules and it would make the regular season mean more like it traditionally has. Making the rankings be more of a statistic based model makes filling a field of 12 much easier and less controversial. It makes winning against quality opponents matter. The biggest complaint about the BCS is that things always boiled down to the best 2 teams and maybe the 3 or 4 team had a 0.1 less impressive score so they didn't make the big game, but that isn't an issue with a 12 (or possibly 16 -rumors-) team playoff. The only complaining or debate would be for the 13th team which would be a good team but let's face it general the BEST teams who are most capable of winning the title would be found in the top 10 of the statistically based rankings anyway. So, if all the conferences agree to a 9 game conference model (so a winning record {5-4 or better} could still take the conference championship) and then do away with the conference championship game, then all teams that make the playoff would have played the same number of games and you don't have teams who didn't play in their conference championship making the playoff (essentially a bye which in football can be a clear advantage because you can let guys heal). Either the model for the playoff should have a certain number of spots like 8 and only conference champions get in (and you could debate which conference champions are most deserving) or do away with the championship games and make the regular season more important by making rankings statistically based and the top 12 (or 16) get in. Right now that extra game, the conference championship hurts more than it helps (ask Georgia) and provides opportunity for at large teams to be better rested than the higher ranked teams. Rest if football can be a big deal and fairness should be a thing. One team shouldn't have to play 17 games to win it all when another only has to play 15 or 16.
Conference championship games will matter more then ever now. Since teams will be fighting to be one of the teams that get a first round bye and get to host a home game in the 2nd round.
They make the kids play too many games now. Thats BS for all the players that don't have NIL deals. Those guys should boycott playing more than 10 games without more compensation.
You feel the same way about the FCS, DII, and DIII schools? They have all had playoffs where up to 4 games could be played by the two teams that make the championship game for years.
With this new format, strength of schedule doesn’t mean as much. I can see the entertaining “out of conference” games like FSU v LSU or any high profile season opener going away. If winning your division will get you an automatic bye, then why would you want to strengthen your schedule and possibly damage an overall record that can help you get a conference championship? Just a thought
This makes out of conference very important. Because they’re giving those 4 1st round byes to the best conference champs. It is also crucial in who gets the 5th auto bid. For instance if you’re a conference champion and you beat another conference champion during the regular season it improves your odds of not only getting an auto bid but potentially getting the number 1 seed. The criteria the committee is using to judge is Strength of schedule with a combination of strength of record a long with whether or not you’re a conference champion. So if there’s an undefeated Group of 5 team that’s undefeated with a decent schedule(2021 Cincinnati) they’re likely to get a top 4 seed. Or in a situation like this year when Liberty was undefeated but they had a horrible schedule. They would get in the playoffs but wouldn’t be getting a top 10 seed they would be at 11 or 12. Or with the current format implemented now they wouldn’t have gotten in because their schedule was so weak. For instance a 10-2 with a tough schedule is likely to get a higher seed than a one loss team with a weak schedule. It’s literally in the criteria that the committee put out. Dude start reading the criteria
@@Dariusda1thank you for shedding light on this situation. I did not know there was a written criteria that went along with this new format. If there was even a criteria for the CFP format I was unaware. The analyst and committee always seemed like they were shooting from the hip because there was always controversy. I was not trying to misinform anyone because of my lack of knowledge, I was just putting my initial thought out there.
I hope this works and fans will support it the way they did when it was young men playing for the love of the game of football and placed value in the education they were being offered. I'm not going to say I know what's going to happen because I don't but I can say as someone who lived the past 55 years in a college town with a very successful football program that I've lost the enthusiasm I once had. The way every game counted was what made college football unique and in my opinion great. Those who presided over the destruction of the former system will pay no penalty if they're wrong and we will lose another piece of the fabric of America to the almighty dollar.
As an OSU fan I do not ever want to see us lose to UM 3 times in one season. That could make for a really lousy off season for either team being the first team to lose the game twice let alone three separate times in one season.
12 teams out of 133 isn't too many I don't think. NFL is 14 of 32, incl a sub .500 team one year. There is an issue of the 5th team potentially being unranked some years
I agree that it’s not necessarily too many. In FBS college football, 12 teams is more than enough to ensure that the top two teams in the sport contest a national championship on the field in head-to-head competition. A bottom line reality is that college football, as a sport, is not deep.
How would they select the 5th team if they aren't ranked? The secret is that there will always be 5 ranked conference champions because the committee will make it that way
@@119Agent Why not? What difference would it make if, for example, the highest ranked G5 conference champion is ranked in the 20’s, or is outside of the top 25? Earnest questions. I’m not making an argument for or against anything.
@@zplapplap if history has shown us anything about the college football playoff committee, it is that they spend the regular season justifying their playoff picks.
"you have to be undefeated to have a shot." Ask Florida State about that. Also, about the 14 to 15 games so teams are going to play with the new playoff format, if the FCS teams can do it why can't the FBS.
HS teams in my area play 15 games to crown a HS state champion. Obviously major difference for college but also have 85 guys. Some HS play 30 guys both ways at the lower levels.
Does ANYONE stop to think anymore that these are 18-21 year old STUDENTS who are supposed to attend school while they play football because only 1.6% of them will get a legit NFL contract??
Rich, Is there a scenario where Ohio State and Michigan could play three weeks in a row against each other? Final week regular season, Big Ten championship, and first round of playoffs?
In my opinion I’d say no. But I don’t think 3 out of 4 weeks would be out of the question. I don’t think anyone wants to watch the same game 3 weeks in a row no matter who is playing??
You said the 5 conference champs would be seeded 1 through 5. Is that right? Under the 6 + 6, that was not the case. The top 4 conference champs were seeded 1 to 4 and got the bye, but the 5th and 6th conference champ were not necessarily seeded 5 and 6. So this idea that the 5th conference champ is seeded 5 no matter what is new and I haven’t heard that from any other sources.
So, teams 5-12 have to win FOUR games to be champion, while teams 1-4 have to win THREE? 🤦♂️ It’s a challenge to get certain players to play ONE game, now they’re going to play 3 or 4? For a 12-game regular season, and a conference champion week… four more games is about another THIRD of a regular season. 🤷♂️ Do they expect the NFL-bound players to play that many extra games? I want to see this. 🙄
The I did the math. I always thought it would be 8 teams, in which case you have none of this nonsense. And if you happen to be #9, you really don't have a complaint because you are not elite and really do not deserve an NC.
I was so happy that MIchigan won a championship this last season so I could finally move on. I'll still be a fan and watch the games. But I am done with dropping thousands on going to bowl games and merch. I have no problem with the people involved getting rewarded for their efforts by the fans and the people who want to watch. But for me, it was always the love of the university and the idea of amateur athletes playing for "the love of the game" that drew me in. Let's be honest - it's a professional sport now and the product doesn't compare to the NFL. Imagine if we didn't have college football, and instead of folding the XFL, all of the teams attached themselves to big universities changed their mascots and started playing their fight song. Would we all just run to the store to by the jersey's and start paying thousands for season tickets? That's where we're at now but just coming at it from the opposite direction. 100,000 + watching minor league football just doesn't make sense. Go Blue!
Lol "I'll be less nervous" AWFULLY big talk from a fan of one side of "The Game" in February. I'm sure that will hold true when the actual weekend comes around
One thing we have to remember is that we are all fine with a 64 team march madness. It’s arguably the best playoffs sports has to offer. I think this is great for the sport and we will have way more “postseason” games with full rosters. Now we can’t even get guys to suit up for the damn rose bowl
We're not all fine with 64, partly because it's not 64 anymore but mostly because it expanded to 64 in the first place. March madness was 1000x better when it was only 32 teams because it insured only the best of the best made it. By expanding it to 64 you get a bunch of garbage teams and boring games. It took 33 years for a 16 to beat a 1 and since 1979 only two mid majors have actually won the whole thing and one of those mid majors is now a major because they are in the ACC now. Also, the two teams that we think of when it comes to the madness of March of how the little guy can win (NC State in 83 & Villanova in 85) play in major conferences. The simple fact is the NCAA tourney was great when it was 32 but now that it's 68 it's watered down & no different than the current bowl system in football.
We have been living thru the delusion that the "Power 5" was a relevant term got most of the past 2 decades. Basically a Power 2 (SEC Big 10) with either Big or PAC 12 having 2+ teams of note in any given year. Going into this year's playoffs ... SEC has won 13 of the last 17 title games SEC has placed 19 teams in the last 17 title games SEC has won the NFL Draft all 17 of those years ... they will win it again this year. The nonsensical term "decided on the field" .... is not relevant when teams like FSU, Coastal, TCU, Cincy and UCF were all ranked high because of the W-L records. It didn't matter if you played 5 Top 10 teams in the conference in the same year (1, 4, 8, 1 and 2), you were unranked after the 2nd loss while a team who went 0 or 1 loss without playing a team ranked over 50, you were in. We're going to see more promising careers ended as more games more chance for injuries.... if it still going to be "decided on the field" when players eligible for the NFL draft "opt out" ? If you lost to No.1 and No. 3, does that make your team any worse than 5 ? ... as oppossed to the team whose best win was against No. 32 ? Any consideration of ranking must simply be made by "who did you beat and by how much ? / who beat you and by how much ?"
Wait a minute, is Rich confused or did he just say that a 2 loss Pittsburgh team would get a bye week over an undefeated Cincinnati team? On what planet does that make sense? Clearly any undefeated team will be ranked higher than a 2 loss team, especially if it's from the ACC. I can't wait to see a 10th ranked team get a bye while the 2nd or 3rd ranked team doesn't 😂😂
Rich isn't confused. Pitt is in the power 5 ACC while Cincy was in Group of 5 American athletic Conference. Meaning ACC would've got placed higher than the AAC.
@haroldbalzer5916 Why does it mean that? Shouldn't the higher ranked team get the bye? Would Cincy have gotten a home game at least? Or would they have to go on the road in the first round if playing against a power 5 team? Sounds bananas to me...
@haroldbalzer5916 I don't see anything that laid out or that way. It looks like the 4 highest ranked conference Champs get the bye. I don't see anything that says the conference matters
Why not give EVERY school a legitimate opportunity to win: expand to 16 teams. Winner from each conference gets a bit; top 5 ranked Teams that are NOT conference winners are also invited. All of these schools have to pay their NCAA dues to participate, why not give them a legitimate change to complete?
Because week one of the playoffs would just be a series of last month's Oregon vs Liberty Fiesta Bowl type matchups. Maybe, like you said, that's still preferable for the lower-tier conferences/programs since it gives them a shot at shocking the world, but I don't think it would ultimately pan out that way with most of those matchups likely having a two+ score O/U. It would just turn into "slaughter week" every postseason.
Instead of having 5-G5 conferences, they should merge into 2 mega conferences, move the playoff to 16 teams and let both winners in. Allowing a conference winner of these lower tier conferences into a playoff against someone like Georgia or Ohio State is not fair to anyone, especially the G5 team who would lose by 50.
The other levels of college football have had a playoff for decades. People need to stop the whining. A real playoff is what they should have had long ago, but the schools prevented it by not allowing the NCAA to actually run FBS football, like they do other sports. NCAA run sports have an equal access clause, that's why every conference gets a auto bid to the bball , volleyabll, hockey, soccer, etc... tournaments in officially run NCAA sports.
Next year's playoff teams: Georgia, Ohio State, Utah, Clemson are conference winners (group of five: Tulane? Or someone) Other seven: Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Oregon, Penn State, Michigan, Notre Dame.
@@ReadingsbyDom Catapult said they are aware of the allegations- “We have conducted an internal investigation and have not found any security breach in our systems,” Rumors vs Evidence are 2 different things
Heck - Best to be THIRD in B1G/SEC conference (@10-2 losing 2nd place tie break). Home game maybe against G5 or 9-12 team instead of physically punishing Conf Champ game for a bye - why bother. B1G/SEC 12 should all get byes. And no G5 team should even qualify without 3 P4 wins or maybe 2 v P4 but those P4 wins better have 5P4 wins. No Vandy Rutgers AZS “gauntlet” gets a G5 team into playoff.
Too many college games. Some of the players will have career ending injuries before getting to the pros. So will need to make some money playing college football.
The automatic 1-5 ranking for conference champions is beyond dumb . So Kansas state can have 4 losses but win their conference and be ranked above several teams with 2 losses. It should just be the top 12 teams regardless or conferences. If Alabama has one loss but they lose their conference they should still be ranked inside the top 5 and not have a spot stollen by 4 loss Kansas state
College football is ruined. We will have the same teams every year. We will crown a 12th ranked team as a national champion. The other bowl games will be even more meaningless than they are now.
People want to blame the NCAA, it's the schools. The schools have fought against paying players, NIL, etc,,, for decades. They have made the NCAA the bad guy. The fact is the NCAA is made up of schools and the AD;s , Presidents every year have their meetings on rules, guidelines, governance, etc.. They have had major input and vote on all the things they like to complain about or actually what some complain about b/c it doesn't benefit them as much. There is a divide between the big schools(P5) and others G5 always. The NCAA a collective for all schools has in part been torn by this divide. The big schools are now recently pro NIL, playoff, free transfer, etc... b/c they see how they can get even more money and power. They can almost cut out the small schools. They can get the best players via NIL over small schools. Even if they miss a top kid, if they have a great year at a small school they can immediately be lured via NIL and a free transfer to the power schools.
Don't worry too much about Michigan and Ohio State playing in the conference championship right after they just played. Oregon is coming next year, and they're coming to win
I can’t wait to see an 8 seed or so conference runner up from the SEC or big ten completely obliterate a 3-4 seed Miami or TCU. Auto bids are the worst idea
Such a stale and overused saying… Now just you hang on tight Sloopy… Google: Ohio State Catapult NCAA Investigation. $13m in NIL - All PRESSURE on Ryan Day.
Those two are competing for at large spots, like Notre Dame, UMass & UConn. 😆 WSU and Oregon State don’t play a full-conference schedule in any league.
It's looking like just about every playoff from here on out will feature 3-4 B1G teams and 3-4 SEC teams. Penn State must be thrilled by the format
Hahahaha my buddy is a Penn State alum and the second they announced the 12 team I go “well James
Franklin can’t miss the dance now”
@@obviouslyPSM lmao that's hilarious. And right on the money!
2 big mega conferences soon.
James Franklin- Cristal prices, Boone’s Farm taste
Could lead to awesome playoff revenge games between top teams in those conferences
The top 5 seeds will go to the five highest-ranked conference champions, whether they are Group of 5 or Power 4. The P4 champions are not guaranteed to be the top 4 seeds. Rich's example saying Pitt would have been ahead of Cinncinatti in 2021 under this model is incorrect.
Only the Top 4 who get byes must be conference champs. The 5th conference champ can be seeded anywhere and will usually be 12th.
@@kevinmoynihan5118 oh yeah that’s right. I forgot that detail.
The top 4 seeds and they byes that accompany those seeds will go to the champs of the Big 10, ACC, SEC, and Big 12. It's possible, but extremely unlikely, that a G5 conference champ will finish higher ranked than the champ of any of the "Big 4" and would get a bye.
ND literally has no chance of getting a bye, regardless of their record, because they aren't in a conference.
Using 2023 final CFP rankings, UM, UW, UT, and UA would have gotten the byes. Liberty would have gotten the bid from the G5. The other 7 teams would have been FSU, UGA, Ohio State, Oregon, Mizzou, Penn St, and Ole MIss.
(12) Ole Miss @ (5) Liberty
(11) Penn St @ (6) FSU
(10) Mizzou @ (7) UGA
(9) Oregon @ (6) Ohio St.
Undefeated Liberty got destroyed 45-6 by Oregon this year in the Fiesta Bowl.
My only question becomes when do we stop considering any of the people involved in this as part of a damn university and just make this what it is minor league football. Because none of these people give a single F about education and should not be recognized as such
So, let me see if I understand your position here. Do you think it is somehow wrong that a college kid who majors in football gets a million dollar contract while lots of college kids with liberal arts degrees can't get a job at Starbucks upon graduation? Methinks you've got your umbrage on backwards. And I haven't even mentioned until this sentence that football revenue (with some help from men's b-ball) funds the entire sports department at most major universities, including all women's sports. I don't see how learning to play football is inherently less worthy than learning about English Literature.
@@Yesquire0 not to mention that only the top 5-8 players (on a _good_ team) will make the pros, so that free ride to a _degree_ better have tons of value to the other 80-100 players.
@@Yesquire0its not less worthy. Just let them play in the league and keep college sports the same. Its gonna ruin the system of “amatuer sports”. College sports is only great cause all teams have players that wont go pro. Now its basically making teams with bank rolls the ability to now legally pay players mass anounts. Its ruin conferences and in ten more years will just ruin the structure of the games and teaching young athletes hows its done. Its a feeder system into pro leagues. Make minor leagues and keep college way it always was. But at the end of the day idc.
It was long overdue that the college football players got a tiny piece of the gigantic billion"S" dollar pie that was created based on them. Universities got hundreds of millions. Coaches got millions. Many players got a bad knee and 1/2 of a Communications degree. Having said that, why should I watch the second best pro league in the nation?
instead of March Madness, its the December Debacle
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️…..
This is gonna be awesome…if only this could have happened before NIL but here we are
It's conceivable some of these top teams could play each other 3 times in a span of a month of less, lol with that being said the new conferences have way better offerings week to week, I looked at the schedule and there are 5 to 10 must watch games every week next season. I don't think we will ever see an undefeated national champion again, or at least it will be very very rare
12 team playoff is great but the Title game should absolutely not be played as late as January 20th. To have it In the middle of the NFL Playoffs is a bad idea.
True but that is probably the least of their worries getting this thing up and running.
it's actually a great idea if the game is played before or after the NFL playoff games.
It won't be in competition with the NFL. It'll be on a Monday night
This is good too because a lot of teams won’t feel like their season is lost with losing a single game. It gives teams hope which will create more competition
College football teams and fanbases should not feel like "their season is lost" just because they're not in a playoff. That is the biggest problem with what college football has become. It is the reason I hate the CFP, and the more teams included, the worse it is.
I would argue that under the new system, the regular season will actually mean more not less. Because under the old system if you lost one game or for certain two games, your season was over. You had nothing to play for.
Now the conference champions, regardless of their record, get a chance to win the national championship, so that makes the conference season more meaningful. And then of course you have the battle for the seven at large spots.
I agree with the people that think this will be a two-year deal. And it will expand to either 14 or 16 teams in 2026 with the new TV contract.
This rationale is a major part of the problem. A season doesn't end when you can't make the playoff. That mentality never existed before the 4 team playoff. Now players quit teams after losses and opt out of bowls because of it.
@@EulogyfortheAngels regarding bowls, except for the games that are in the college football playoff, are nothing more than glorified exhibition games.
50 years ago a team had to win 70% of their games to even qualify for a bowl game. Now it is only 50%. And because of a technicality the Minnesota gophers qualified for a bowl game with a losing record. bowl games mean nothing.
If I were a player that had a chance be drafted by an NFL team, I would not risk my health playing in a game that meant absolutely nothing.
Furthermore, why is it OK for coaches to take new jobs after the regular season and before the bowl games? That is called quitting on your team. Players should have the same right.
Regarding players that quit in the middle of the regular season, that is less than 1/10 of one percent. And those kind of players don’t deserve to play college football.
i like the playoff expansion. I hope it turns out better then what we have now.
"...then what.." "...then...?"" Now, that's some gooder English...
It won't, more Sec domination
We have an expanded playoff in FCS that nobody watches and the same few teams win every year.
It’s rather ridiculous that one team, Notre Dame, got its own representative at this meeting when no other team did.
Well, ND is historically independent and is the most well-known independent program. This 5+7 format might force ND to seek out a conference.
The other teams are represented by their conferences.
Then a team should become independent
Not really. ND has been smart enough to not sell out, and has been rewarded
Why not eliminate all conferences, as Chip Kelly has suggested, create a commissioner of college football, and each team plays an independent schedule? Set up a regional schedule of maybe 6 games, then play a set number of teams from different regions of the country. A point/or tier system can be used to even out the schedules.
College Football. 1869-2024 R.I.P.
WRONG.
College football has ALWAYS been simipro, ALWAYS.
@@kenyattaclay7666 Well since college football started DECADES before Pro ball that statement is WRONG.
@@ynp1978 look up Jim Thorp. No seriously look him up & read his bio because he played college football & was paid to do so. Also, look up the history of college football & the MANY reasons why the NCAA was formed.
I seriously want you to reply once you find out how players were paid LONG before there was an NFL. Also, you do realize there were other preferential leagues before the NFL right. You do realize that teams like the Packers & Cardinals have been in existence longer than the NFL has been in existence right.
My statement that college football has ALWAYS been semipro is 1000% correct but once you actually look these things up don’t be a coward because I expect you to be a man & admit you’re wrong.
@@kenyattaclay7666
Yes and players could always just leave in a whim, right?
Nope. Can’t even do that in pro sports.
Rich, my take on this is every weekend is a playoff game for one (1-12) team playoff system. 5+7 for next 2 years. With those teams 1-4 having a bye week, games played on college campus means more money for each host teams TOWN. Let that sink in$$$$$.
I miss the old days when bowl games ruled the land! The playoffs just screw all the lil guys!
I've spelled it out pretty clearly, but what transpires after 2025 is what matters. Sankey and Petitti realize that the number of schools who can make the leap to pay for play, allow for collective bargaining, pay the non revenue athletes as well as the revenue athletes and allow NIL across the spectrum of sports, and do all of that utilizing contracts to at least contain the use of the transfer portal, to an extent, are likely under 60.
If your field is 56 or less then everything can be contained within the Big 10 and SEC and if they negotiate wrights deals together as the two conferences in that professional tier, then they can have their own playoff utilizing 16 schools, giving 28% of the participants in the upper tier playoff access and allowing the Big10/SEC to get a 50/50 split with the networks after expenses.
That kind of break puts all schools in those two conferences in the 85 to 90 million dollar range for starters.
What I'm hearing is that there is no desire to have to make decisions deferring to schools who cannot afford to make the jump. That this time the only way full compliance can be attained is to be free of any considerations which reside with the NCAA or any tier below that of the Big 10 and SEC. They'll chart their own course and the allow any who are committed to the full compliance and which can afford the leap to make application. That makes it an opt in and not an exclusive grouping.
What happens below that tier will be the purview of those in it. This current playoff configuration still has the top tier obligated to meet the needs of the lower tiers. While this could be done under amateurism, it is a major hindrance to full compliance moving forward. A separation is coming.
This is the most intelligent comment I have seen anywhere. Luke, what will happen to the schools that won't/don't/can't pay into what the B1G and SEC (FOX and ESPN) are selling? What happens to the lesser (funded? committed? watched?) schools of the B1G and SEC? What will become of those programs on the outside still looking to entertain their communities?
I’ve always said the sec and big 10 should combine into a 20 team super conference. Alabama Auburn UGA Oklahoma Texas Florida LSU A&M in the south division adding FSU and Clemson. Then in the north division you have OSU UM Oregon USC Washington UCLA MSU PSU ND now has to join a conference. The last team I believe would be a toss up between Maryland Wisconsin or Iowa. I’d lean towards Maryland due to the affiliation with under armor. If you really want to get creative you could force Tennessee to realign in the north. In my opinion there isn’t enough talent for more than about 20 top level teams. Also how many teams are actually going to pay 10-15 million a year in nil money and lose to OSU or Georgia or Bama or Texas every year and just keep throwing more money into losing? A lot of teams would spend that money to win but in my opinion there are very few teams that would do it for a decade while losing. Those are the teams that are important!!
Rich talking about michigan being runner up in the B10 is comical, Oregon and OSU are by far the two best teams right now, hell even Penn St is likely to finish abvove michigan
Yeah. Oregon is scary. When Ohio State travels to Eugene the winner of that game will be in the drivers seat of the BIG and prolly the #1 ranked team in the country
Wait till you see the scores of the games between the top 4 and whoever wins those first round games. Average score probably like 55-20.
If you’re playing Georgia, Bama, Texas or UM/OSU 2nd round good luck
I agree but still so much better then old format no mad FSU fans if this was in place
It might give smaller schools a boost in recruitment if they make it to the playoffs rather than sit in obscurity. Thus giving other programs the chance to grow rather than keep the status quo for eternity.
I'm not buying that one bit.
@@lonardgetchell-bm9lc mid major conferences have shots now like the Mountain West and The American
Should have zero auto bids.
I want to meet one of these sadists who said they miss the BCS. That hot mess got its analysis right about as frequently as the groundhog on Groundhog Day and inherently left out undefeated teams all the time, but yes let's wax nostalgic about one of the least thought-out ideas ever
What a gift to whichever "Group of 5" conference winners is highest ranked and makes the playoffs. It will be one and done every year. Look at the schools in the American, C-USA, MAC, Mountain West, and Sun Belt conferences. Which of those teams has even the slightest chance of beating even the 4th place team in any of the "Power 5" conferences?
Funny you should ask, considering the smack down South Alabama put on Oklahoma State, the Big12 runner up, this year. 33-7 sure makes your argument seem far from valid.
Your argument isn’t valid at all. There are plenty of Group of 5 teams in recent years that weren’t even group of 5 conference champions that still beat teams that placed higher than 4th.
Also it only goes to the best group of 5 team which will probably be an undefeated team most of the time
@struble2177 was that in a playoff scenario, or a random regular season game? Oklahoma State also lost 2 other games by 28+. They were wildly erratic last year, and the Big12 outside Texas was pretty weak.
@@EulogyfortheAngels I highly doubt the committee would’ve put Oklahoma state (if they would’ve beat Texas) in ahead of SMU and Liberty. I mean yeah they both group of 5 but according to the committee they don’t have to put a power 5 conference champ in. Even though most of them will be
The conference championship games are nice but with the expanded playoff they only serve to over complicate things. Many people didn't like the BCS rankings but if you were to do away with conference championship games and make the rankings based off of statistical analysis and not bias, perception, or a gut feeling, then it would encourage teams to continue to put together strong schedules and it would make the regular season mean more like it traditionally has. Making the rankings be more of a statistic based model makes filling a field of 12 much easier and less controversial. It makes winning against quality opponents matter. The biggest complaint about the BCS is that things always boiled down to the best 2 teams and maybe the 3 or 4 team had a 0.1 less impressive score so they didn't make the big game, but that isn't an issue with a 12 (or possibly 16 -rumors-) team playoff. The only complaining or debate would be for the 13th team which would be a good team but let's face it general the BEST teams who are most capable of winning the title would be found in the top 10 of the statistically based rankings anyway.
So, if all the conferences agree to a 9 game conference model (so a winning record {5-4 or better} could still take the conference championship) and then do away with the conference championship game, then all teams that make the playoff would have played the same number of games and you don't have teams who didn't play in their conference championship making the playoff (essentially a bye which in football can be a clear advantage because you can let guys heal).
Either the model for the playoff should have a certain number of spots like 8 and only conference champions get in (and you could debate which conference champions are most deserving) or do away with the championship games and make the regular season more important by making rankings statistically based and the top 12 (or 16) get in.
Right now that extra game, the conference championship hurts more than it helps (ask Georgia) and provides opportunity for at large teams to be better rested than the higher ranked teams. Rest if football can be a big deal and fairness should be a thing. One team shouldn't have to play 17 games to win it all when another only has to play 15 or 16.
With this new playoff format Georgia would be champions
Conference championship games will matter more then ever now. Since teams will be fighting to be one of the teams that get a first round bye and get to host a home game in the 2nd round.
Michigan Wolverines, Defending College Football National Champions
Do you want that asterisk in front of Michigan name or behind Michigan name?
@@Stinkinbadgez Keep coping and seething for the rest of your days if that's really how you wanna spend your time 👏😂
They make the kids play too many games now. Thats BS for all the players that don't have NIL deals. Those guys should boycott playing more than 10 games without more compensation.
You feel the same way about the FCS, DII, and DIII schools? They have all had playoffs where up to 4 games could be played by the two teams that make the championship game for years.
With this new format, strength of schedule doesn’t mean as much. I can see the entertaining “out of conference” games like FSU v LSU or any high profile season opener going away. If winning your division will get you an automatic bye, then why would you want to strengthen your schedule and possibly damage an overall record that can help you get a conference championship? Just a thought
Strength of schedule might be important in gaining one of the 7 At Large bids though.
@@joemckim1183 that’s true
This makes out of conference very important. Because they’re giving those 4 1st round byes to the best conference champs. It is also crucial in who gets the 5th auto bid. For instance if you’re a conference champion and you beat another conference champion during the regular season it improves your odds of not only getting an auto bid but potentially getting the number 1 seed. The criteria the committee is using to judge is Strength of schedule with a combination of strength of record a long with whether or not you’re a conference champion. So if there’s an undefeated Group of 5 team that’s undefeated with a decent schedule(2021 Cincinnati) they’re likely to get a top 4 seed. Or in a situation like this year when Liberty was undefeated but they had a horrible schedule. They would get in the playoffs but wouldn’t be getting a top 10 seed they would be at 11 or 12. Or with the current format implemented now they wouldn’t have gotten in because their schedule was so weak. For instance a 10-2 with a tough schedule is likely to get a higher seed than a one loss team with a weak schedule. It’s literally in the criteria that the committee put out. Dude start reading the criteria
@@Dariusda1 And this guy just totally summed up why the guy who started this thread is WRONG.
@@Dariusda1thank you for shedding light on this situation. I did not know there was a written criteria that went along with this new format. If there was even a criteria for the CFP format I was unaware. The analyst and committee always seemed like they were shooting from the hip because there was always controversy. I was not trying to misinform anyone because of my lack of knowledge, I was just putting my initial thought out there.
I hope this works and fans will support it the way they did when it was young men playing for the love of the game of football and placed value in the education they were being offered. I'm not going to say I know what's going to happen because I don't but I can say as someone who lived the past 55 years in a college town with a very successful football program that I've lost the enthusiasm I once had. The way every game counted was what made college football unique and in my opinion great. Those who presided over the destruction of the former system will pay no penalty if they're wrong and we will lose another piece of the fabric of America to the almighty dollar.
CFB is broken
Get rid of “official” rankings and everything gets easier.
As an OSU fan I do not ever want to see us lose to UM 3 times in one season. That could make for a really lousy off season for either team being the first team to lose the game twice let alone three separate times in one season.
Make it like the BB tourney. NO byes, everyone has to play each round.
12 teams out of 133 isn't too many I don't think. NFL is 14 of 32, incl a sub .500 team one year. There is an issue of the 5th team potentially being unranked some years
I agree that it’s not necessarily too many. In FBS college football, 12 teams is more than enough to ensure that the top two teams in the sport contest a national championship on the field in head-to-head competition. A bottom line reality is that college football, as a sport, is not deep.
How would they select the 5th team if they aren't ranked? The secret is that there will always be 5 ranked conference champions because the committee will make it that way
The committee will not allow any of the five conference champions to be outside the top 12.
@@119Agent Why not? What difference would it make if, for example, the highest ranked G5 conference champion is ranked in the 20’s, or is outside of the top 25? Earnest questions. I’m not making an argument for or against anything.
@@zplapplap if history has shown us anything about the college football playoff committee, it is that they spend the regular season justifying their playoff picks.
The top 4 seeds should get a home game, only the semis and championship game should be at bowl sites.
"you have to be undefeated to have a shot." Ask Florida State about that. Also, about the 14 to 15 games so teams are going to play with the new playoff format, if the FCS teams can do it why can't the FBS.
HS teams in my area play 15 games to crown a HS state champion. Obviously major difference for college but also have 85 guys. Some HS play 30 guys both ways at the lower levels.
This will be great
Does ANYONE stop to think anymore that these are 18-21 year old STUDENTS who are supposed to attend school while they play football because only 1.6% of them will get a legit NFL contract??
Rich, Is there a scenario where Ohio State and Michigan could play three weeks in a row against each other? Final week regular season, Big Ten championship, and first round of playoffs?
In my opinion I’d say no. But I don’t think 3 out of 4 weeks would be out of the question. I don’t think anyone wants to watch the same game 3 weeks in a row no matter who is playing??
In the current 12 team playoff you may be right
You said the 5 conference champs would be seeded 1 through 5. Is that right? Under the 6 + 6, that was not the case. The top 4 conference champs were seeded 1 to 4 and got the bye, but the 5th and 6th conference champ were not necessarily seeded 5 and 6. So this idea that the 5th conference champ is seeded 5 no matter what is new and I haven’t heard that from any other sources.
I confirmed, the 5th conference champ is NOT automatically seeded 5. They could be seeded anywhere between 5 and 12.
So, teams 5-12 have to win FOUR games to be champion, while teams 1-4 have to win THREE? 🤦♂️
It’s a challenge to get certain players to play ONE game, now they’re going to play 3 or 4?
For a 12-game regular season, and a conference champion week… four more games is about another THIRD of a regular season. 🤷♂️
Do they expect the NFL-bound players to play that many extra games?
I want to see this. 🙄
People whining about this whine because they want to. This format isn’t exactly perfect, but it is the format I’ve been hoping would be implemented.
The I did the math. I always thought it would be 8 teams, in which case you have none of this nonsense. And if you happen to be #9, you really don't have a complaint because you are not elite and really do not deserve an NC.
I was so happy that MIchigan won a championship this last season so I could finally move on. I'll still be a fan and watch the games. But I am done with dropping thousands on going to bowl games and merch. I have no problem with the people involved getting rewarded for their efforts by the fans and the people who want to watch. But for me, it was always the love of the university and the idea of amateur athletes playing for "the love of the game" that drew me in. Let's be honest - it's a professional sport now and the product doesn't compare to the NFL.
Imagine if we didn't have college football, and instead of folding the XFL, all of the teams attached themselves to big universities changed their mascots and started playing their fight song. Would we all just run to the store to by the jersey's and start paying thousands for season tickets? That's where we're at now but just coming at it from the opposite direction.
100,000 + watching minor league football just doesn't make sense.
Go Blue!
Lol "I'll be less nervous" AWFULLY big talk from a fan of one side of "The Game" in February. I'm sure that will hold true when the actual weekend comes around
And why do you think Michigan will be one of the top 3 teams in the Big10 come December?
One thing we have to remember is that we are all fine with a 64 team march madness. It’s arguably the best playoffs sports has to offer. I think this is great for the sport and we will have way more “postseason” games with full rosters. Now we can’t even get guys to suit up for the damn rose bowl
We're not all fine with 64, partly because it's not 64 anymore but mostly because it expanded to 64 in the first place. March madness was 1000x better when it was only 32 teams because it insured only the best of the best made it. By expanding it to 64 you get a bunch of garbage teams and boring games. It took 33 years for a 16 to beat a 1 and since 1979 only two mid majors have actually won the whole thing and one of those mid majors is now a major because they are in the ACC now. Also, the two teams that we think of when it comes to the madness of March of how the little guy can win (NC State in 83 & Villanova in 85) play in major conferences. The simple fact is the NCAA tourney was great when it was 32 but now that it's 68 it's watered down & no different than the current bowl system in football.
We have been living thru the delusion that the "Power 5" was a relevant term got most of the past 2 decades. Basically a Power 2 (SEC Big 10) with either Big or PAC 12 having 2+ teams of note in any given year.
Going into this year's playoffs ...
SEC has won 13 of the last 17 title games
SEC has placed 19 teams in the last 17 title games
SEC has won the NFL Draft all 17 of those years ... they will win it again this year.
The nonsensical term "decided on the field" .... is not relevant when teams like FSU, Coastal, TCU, Cincy and UCF were all ranked high because of the W-L records. It didn't matter if you played 5 Top 10 teams in the conference in the same year (1, 4, 8, 1 and 2), you were unranked after the 2nd loss while a team who went 0 or 1 loss without playing a team ranked over 50, you were in.
We're going to see more promising careers ended as more games more chance for injuries.... if it still going to be "decided on the field" when players eligible for the NFL draft "opt out" ? If you lost to No.1 and No. 3, does that make your team any worse than 5 ? ... as oppossed to the team whose best win was against No. 32 ?
Any consideration of ranking must simply be made by "who did you beat and by how much ? / who beat you and by how much ?"
Wait a minute, is Rich confused or did he just say that a 2 loss Pittsburgh team would get a bye week over an undefeated Cincinnati team? On what planet does that make sense? Clearly any undefeated team will be ranked higher than a 2 loss team, especially if it's from the ACC. I can't wait to see a 10th ranked team get a bye while the 2nd or 3rd ranked team doesn't 😂😂
Rich isn't confused. Pitt is in the power 5 ACC while Cincy was in Group of 5 American athletic Conference. Meaning ACC would've got placed higher than the AAC.
@haroldbalzer5916 Why does it mean that? Shouldn't the higher ranked team get the bye? Would Cincy have gotten a home game at least? Or would they have to go on the road in the first round if playing against a power 5 team? Sounds bananas to me...
Power 5 > Group 5 just how it is
@haroldbalzer5916 I don't see anything that laid out or that way. It looks like the 4 highest ranked conference Champs get the bye. I don't see anything that says the conference matters
Rich just realized that D1 FB is professional sports? That Michigan education really has served him well…
"That's the way of the world right now." Only because we blindly accept this garbage.
I'm watching on TH-cam. Who the heck is Jay?
If I was a player, I would want additional NIL $$ if I play in the pLayoffs.
Why not give EVERY school a legitimate opportunity to win: expand to 16 teams.
Winner from each conference gets a bit; top 5 ranked Teams that are NOT conference winners are also invited.
All of these schools have to pay their NCAA dues to participate, why not give them a legitimate change to complete?
Exactly. These lesser known teams have every right to have a shot at success, compete and win, and gain national recognition.
Because they would get destroyed and it’s not worth having a conference USA school taking up a spot only to face Georgia and get whooped by 40+.
Because week one of the playoffs would just be a series of last month's Oregon vs Liberty Fiesta Bowl type matchups. Maybe, like you said, that's still preferable for the lower-tier conferences/programs since it gives them a shot at shocking the world, but I don't think it would ultimately pan out that way with most of those matchups likely having a two+ score O/U. It would just turn into "slaughter week" every postseason.
Instead of having 5-G5 conferences, they should merge into 2 mega conferences, move the playoff to 16 teams and let both winners in. Allowing a conference winner of these lower tier conferences into a playoff against someone like Georgia or Ohio State is not fair to anyone, especially the G5 team who would lose by 50.
No need to expand more, next it'll like basketball
Oh, that sucks.
The college football playoffs has destroyed college football
The other levels of college football have had a playoff for decades. People need to stop the whining. A real playoff is what they should have had long ago, but the schools prevented it by not allowing the NCAA to actually run FBS football, like they do other sports. NCAA run sports have an equal access clause, that's why every conference gets a auto bid to the bball , volleyabll, hockey, soccer, etc... tournaments in officially run NCAA sports.
Man, what am I missing here? Oregon State and Washington State just need to beat eachother to get into the playoffs? 🤣
The 2PAC Conference.
Next year's playoff teams:
Georgia, Ohio State, Utah, Clemson are conference winners (group of five: Tulane? Or someone)
Other seven: Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Oregon, Penn State, Michigan, Notre Dame.
I think you will have two from either the B12 or ACC, possibly both.
I wouldn’t be betting on UM or Bama. Too much turnover.
Michigan will have to hire more spies to their staff in order to compete with all these teams
Google - Ohio State Catapult NCAA investigation - Stick that in your Buckeye Brutus
@@ReadingsbyDom Catapult said they are aware of the allegations- “We have conducted an internal investigation and have not found any security breach in our systems,” Rumors vs Evidence are 2 different things
The CIA comes to Michigan for tips and tricks
Sec & Big10 are destroying college athletics
The regular season was never ever a playoff, and only subhumans believed that
Heck - Best to be THIRD in B1G/SEC conference (@10-2 losing 2nd place tie break). Home game maybe against G5 or 9-12 team instead of physically punishing Conf Champ game for a bye - why bother. B1G/SEC 12 should all get byes. And no G5 team should even qualify without 3 P4 wins or maybe 2 v P4 but those P4 wins better have 5P4 wins. No Vandy Rutgers AZS “gauntlet” gets a G5 team into playoff.
Too many college games. Some of the players will have career ending injuries before getting to the pros. So will need to make some money playing college football.
Michigan wont be in it. Have you thought of that Rich?
He had me rolling at "The Pac 2"
It's all about the $$$
So all the losers of the conference titles will still get in? Don’t play the conference title and risk injury then. Like wtf?! 😂
Rich it won’t be called PAC2 it will be called 2PAC…
The automatic 1-5 ranking for conference champions is beyond dumb . So Kansas state can have 4 losses but win their conference and be ranked above several teams with 2 losses. It should just be the top 12 teams regardless or conferences. If Alabama has one loss but they lose their conference they should still be ranked inside the top 5 and not have a spot stollen by 4 loss Kansas state
Why would the loser of say the Big 10 conference championship game or any conference championship game automatically get a bid?
congratulations, yall killed college sports
FIRE🖤
College football is ruined. We will have the same teams every year. We will crown a 12th ranked team as a national champion. The other bowl games will be even more meaningless than they are now.
Three wins in a row for Michigan agains OSU could turn into 3 straight losses in one year. Wouldn’t it be sweet?
Get a life.
Google: Ohio State Catapult NCAA Investigation
People want to blame the NCAA, it's the schools. The schools have fought against paying players, NIL, etc,,, for decades. They have made the NCAA the bad guy. The fact is the NCAA is made up of schools and the AD;s , Presidents every year have their meetings on rules, guidelines, governance, etc.. They have had major input and vote on all the things they like to complain about or actually what some complain about b/c it doesn't benefit them as much. There is a divide between the big schools(P5) and others G5 always. The NCAA a collective for all schools has in part been torn by this divide. The big schools are now recently pro NIL, playoff, free transfer, etc... b/c they see how they can get even more money and power. They can almost cut out the small schools. They can get the best players via NIL over small schools. Even if they miss a top kid, if they have a great year at a small school they can immediately be lured via NIL and a free transfer to the power schools.
College football is a mess.
Don't worry too much about Michigan and Ohio State playing in the conference championship right after they just played. Oregon is coming next year, and they're coming to win
these college kids are playing too many games. pros too
I can’t wait for Michigan to win 8 games this season
maybe
The game is being destroyed.
I am amazed you have friends?
I hate all of this
michigan ain't making the playoff, Rich
PAC 2 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😭😭😭
College football Is basically the minor leagues for the NFL 🤔
I can’t wait to see an 8 seed or so conference runner up from the SEC or big ten completely obliterate a 3-4 seed Miami or TCU. Auto bids are the worst idea
Why I stopped following college football.
🤷🏿♂️
This is awful for the sport. Things have changed? Yeah, and it is awful now. Lol how is COLLEGE now pro??
Yuck
OSU lives rent free in Rich's head.
And, apparently, Rich lives rent-free in your head...
Actually I go months at a time not mentioning his name in a conversation.@@buckhorncortez
Such a stale and overused saying… Now just you hang on tight Sloopy… Google: Ohio State Catapult NCAA Investigation. $13m in NIL - All PRESSURE on Ryan Day.
12 is too many. 8 is plenty. Forget the conference champions. Honestly, 4 was enough.
I like this
ND can get the 5 spot
The 5th Conference is THE PAC2… DONT GET IT TWISTED.. THE PAC2 WILL GET A SPOT
Those two are competing for at large spots, like Notre Dame, UMass & UConn. 😆 WSU and Oregon State don’t play a full-conference schedule in any league.
They’re not eligible for a conference championship so no
No they won't
@@65Cobra bet, ho