4 bye weeks* 1 bye from no conference championship 2 byes from after conference championship games until playoffs start 1 more bye from Notre having a first round
Especially when college football doesn’t have a common draft and schedule that effectively punishes better performers in the name of maintaining parity.
Notre Dame has to be in a conference. If we discontinue conference champions getting the first round bye, and allow the top 4 teams to get the bye. Then this would be a huge advantage for Notre dame. Notre dame would get a bye after their 12 reg season game because they don’t have to play a conference championship game. Then Notre dame also has an additional two weeks before playoffs start. AND THEN, what if Notre dame has a first round bye in the playoffs. We’re talking about Notre dame getting a full month (4 weeks) of rest while other teams only get 2 weeks.
How is that a big advantage for Notre Dame? To get a bye and be in the top 4 they would literally have to go 11-1 minimum. Anything more than a single loss erases those chances. Play your schedule and win as many games as you can……everyone is trying to do the same thing. It’s ludicrous that a conference champion gets a bye, especially if they have 3 losses? Georgia got an easier road than Oregon this year?!
@@kevingeeting4011 He just wants to blame ND's independence when mega conferences, conference championship games and crappy conference scheduling are the actual causes of these terrible SOS imbalances. It's not ND's fault everyone else decided being independent was too hard.
@@kevingeeting4011because a team could also go 11-1, play a harder or equal schedule, and then be punished for losing in an extra conference game Norte Dame doesn't have to participate in. It really isn't as big of an advantage as some people like to make it out to be, but yes getting an extra week to prepare is an advantage absolutely.
They don’t and they shouldn’t be. Advantage how? It’s ending a disadvantage. Yea but what about the fcs bye everyone else has? Then don’t choose to play a CCG. What have CCG done? The vast majority of the time nothing or eliminated a team that would’ve been in without playing in a CCG.
The thing is they didn't punish the teams that lost their conference championship game. So we don't have 5 autobids, we really have 8-10. It's ridiculous.
Well its cuz smu was better than alabama, alabama was 2-3 on the road and would have gotten crushed if they played another road game at a penn stadium whiteout
@@kleins-v7vif osu fires Ryan day they might have a 6-8 win season due to first year coach stuff like 2011 and bama could honestly fall off a cliff with all the transfers.
I think the best way to do it is to shrink the conferences back to where they were maybe 10 years ago. 5-6 power conferences with auto bids, best group of five champ, and then at large teams. The cream rises to the top regionally, and doesn’t leave it to a two team league.
Solution is simple: - Power 4 and best G5 champ auto bid. Just as it is now. - seed teams flowing committee rankings, if there are byes, highest ranked teams get those. - Conference champs that play in first round get home field advantage as their reward instead of a bye. The rest of the 1st round games without a champ, the higher seed is home team. - now for the best part, the conference that wins the playoff, gets an additional auto qualifier team for the next 2 years. This would work out to be if a conference wins 2+ in a row they will have 3 auto qualifiers and they earned it. MERITOCRACY!! I think these rules are fair and give the “best” conferences who continually claim to be the best a chance to prove it and be rewarded if they are actually the best instead of them just winning in the media narrative and minds of the committee. Prove it on the field and earn those spots continually or lose them after a couple years until you win again.
I agree and I think getting rid of the playoff rankings would help this. Theres no reason teams ranked outside the top 10 should get an automatic bye i.e. ASU. Give the top 4 teams byes regardless of if they are confrence champs or not. Just place the teams in order of where they are ranked. If one or more confrence champ is ranked outside the top 12 put them in the bottom of the playoff seeding. I.e. ASU and Boise are 2 of the 5 highest ranked champs outside the top 12 so seed them 11/12. This would be a combo between the 4 team playoff and the 12 team with the four best teams getting the top 4 seeds. Also, rearrange the seeding after each round. Theres no way Penn State should have an easier path than Oregon by facing SMU and now Boise especially with Oregon being the #1 seed. Oregon should be facing the lowest ranked seed in the playoffs.
Nobody’s forcing these teams to stick to these highly competitive conferences. The schools WANT the money, so THEY play hard game. And THEY can lose. If you complain about G5 schools having easier schedules, I feel like Boise State, or other teams like USF, would be more than happy to join a P5. You can’t complain that you’re in a hard conference when you willingly choose to be there because of your greed. You can’t benefit from the system and complain that your actions have consequences.
Bama had 3 losses and 2 of them were to 6-6 teams. There is no realistic argument that we’re deserving. If Bama was actually good, they don’t lose to Vandy AND OU.
More tough games equals more back up starting in the playoffs, which will actually be third string because the second string will have bailed into the portal
The Big 12 on average was better than the SEC. SEC just struggles with accepting that a 6-6 Vanderbilt and Oklahoma defeating a 9-3 Victor or Mercer in November reflects badly on Alabama and not well on Oklahoma and Vanderbilt. The SEC was very unimpressive in 2024-the team with the real beef against the Committee is BYU not Alabama.
I'd prefer they go down to 6 so we can preserve the value of the regular season but that wont happen.... So I say fix the seeding & I really wish we could do something about making schedules not so imbalanced. Teams shouldn't be able to hide. Everyone should have 4 or 5 serious tests so we can evaluate those data points. If you can't hang with top 40 teams like Indiana & SMU were unable to all season, that should be considered.
I'm a fan of 16 team playoff.. Conference champions get an automatic bid... Including the group of five.. NO BYES.... So 9 automatic bids... Which leaves 7 at-large bids.... Yes this opens the door for potential major blowouts but also........ It's all about the money$$$$.... It doesn't extend the season any further.. 4 4-team brackets....
The only conference championships that should qualify is SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Big 12. The rest of the conferences do not matter and should not be a qualifier.
@@WeSRT4 Nobody forces teams to be in hard conferences. The teams want money, so they play in harder conferences. I’d be fine if Alabama joins the Sun Belt and dominates, because they are nerfed with less money, but would likely consistently make the playoffs (barring upsets). Treat Conferences equal, and everything balances out, and teams on the pacific coast won’t be in an ATLANTIC coast conference.
@@The-one-person-you-remember Nope... it's about the quality of schedule. Unless you have proven you are worthy of playing for the championship you don't get in.
The idea of multiple AQs per conference with the SEC and Big 10 getting more is stupid. You can’t guarantee the 4 teams from one conference will be better than 2 teams from another. Its just unfair and biased
@@OSU2010 Completely fallacious thinking. Previous years of success are not an indication of current year standings. The football landscape goes through cycles and rapid swings. We can't sit here and pretend that because a certain conference has a better record throughout a few decades that they're just entitled to start forming a monopoly over the championship process. It's obvious you don't care about access to meaningful games.
Conference realignment is needed. 5 24-team or 6 20-team super conferences. SEC, BIG10, Big12, ACC, MW and MAC? Play 8-9 in conference games and 1 game with a team in each of the other conferences for 13 games total.
First, level the playing field. Every Power 5 conference team plays 9 conference games, plus 3 non-conference (1 vs another Power 5, 1 vs non Power 5, one vs FCS). That's twelve games. Plus, ND needs to join a conference. Then pick top 16 teams, conference champs get automatic bids. Use computer rankings (similar to NET and KenPom) plus a little human input to avoid rematches in 1st round. Easy Peesy.
Equally absurd is giving a conferences a disproportionate amount of autobids based on TV viewership. Some people love to watch mid teams get blown out by better teams, but it doesn't make those mid teams better. Some measure of objectivity has to come into play here despite the CFP being a made-for-TV product.
No more expansion there wasn’t 12 teams that needed to be in. Absolutely ridiculous trying to add more useless teams. If anything this proved we need less maybe 8
I feel like these picks were fine. Blowouts happen in the literal championship game, much less round one in a playoff. Do people really think every game will be nail biters? Come on now. Also when the QB plays as bad as SMUs QB played any team in the country will lose. Throwing 2 pick 6s off bad decisions like that will lose any game.
Im sick of higher seeds based on SUBJECTIVE BS of which conf is tougher..u have AL in SEC but they lost to 2 unranked teams in weaker conferences. Where is your justification when they can be beat? Such BS
I actually think the biggest issue was the implosion of the Pac12. If you still had the power 5, then you’d have really 6 conference champs to consider byes for conference champs. Who knows what happens in a couple years when the Pac12 reforms. But if you’re gonna redo the seeding rules, then at least the conference champs should host a first round game. So that plays with the seeding a little, but not as bad as it is now.
1. Top 12 advance 2. Get rid of fixed bracket 3. Reseeding after each round till semifinals 4. For first round, 8v9 play first, then 7v10, 6v11 and 5v12. That way NO ONE knows who they will play until the last game is done. Do the same thing with quarterfinals. This way, it’s more exciting, unlike the way the NFL does it.
We need at large bids. No conference should have more than 3 auto bids. 3-3-1-1-1-3 (5 if expanded to 14). We have to make room for the chaos of the season to unfold.
So if they go to a 14 team playoff in 2026. That will mean only two teams get byes to Round 2. So then they can say its the winners of the best two conferences which will be the SEC champion and BIG 10 champion and the problem is solved.
No Conference should automatically have any number of teams in playoffs. Just because a conference is a lot better than another now doesn't mean it will stay that way If I was in charge of any of the Conferences other than SEC or Big Ten I would agree any of those proposals
A good rule is to not make changes based on one data point, be that one run of first round games or a complete run of the entire playoff process. Play this out another year, at the end of the day I'm pretty sure that we will either have what we thought were the two best teams in the final, the team that beat one of the supposed top two. I still have to laugh at everyone arguing about who #12 should have been. If 'Bama was that great this year, they would have been playing on 7 DEC.
I think that the main issue can be solved by re seeding after round one with the auto byes. Arizona State vs Oregon and Boise State vs Georgia. Texas would play Ohio St, and Notre Dame vs Penn State. If Ohio State would have beat Michigan and lost again to Oregon they would have been the 5 shifted to the 3 after reseeding instead of Texas.
That article is wrong, it would have been Notre Dame vs Clemson in the 5-12. not Arizona State. Arizona State would have played Ohio State in the 6-11. and Tennessee vs SMU in the 7-10
I would move to 16, so the top 8 gets a home playoff game with no byes. Then reseed after the first round. Give an auto bid to the top 5 conference champions and then at large bids to the remaining field. We would have added Alabama and Miami to this year’s field. Ole Miss and South Carolina would be out still. It is a shame we see Ohio State/Oregon in the QFs.
Making the conferences themselves knock out their best teams in conference championship weekend is a conflict of interest! If anything, they should play top teams from the various conferences AGAINST EAcH OtHER! For example, what incentive would a team from the same conference have in blowing out another team from their conference. It proves nothing….in terms of how strong the teams are in relation to the other conferences!
Why do you got a problem with this in football and basketball has the same issues and there’s no big deal with it. One team gets a 16th scene. One team gets the one seed and they play each other for example what’s wrong with that or what’s good about that and not good about it in football. If you still want a 12 team playoff, you can do so but how about having 16 teams total to play for 12 spots? Would that work?
Nothing is changes next year. This is a 2 year agreement. The 2026 could make change. They could do a 14 team to give 6 auto bids and 8 at-large. This is how sports work and now football. Teams on the bubble slide off because of auto bids.
@ Depressed Ginger I would still keep 12 teams but this is my solution: The Top 12 Ranked Teams get in. 1) Eliminate Auto Bids: if you you played a strong enough schedule & you won your conference championship game or went undefeated (i.e Note Dame)your more/less likely to be in; it will also legitimize your ranking & the committee without the Auto Bids 2) If you lose your conference championship game you should be eliminated: You had your chance you blew it 3) If you win your conference championship game & your still ranked lower than 12, sorry you are out: Your conference/schedule was Not strong enough 4) All Rounds of the Playoffs should be home field games (the highest ranked team gets home field advantage) & the top 4 get a bye to host Semifinal matches (Not a neutral site game) 5) The top 2 teams left in the playoffs get to a NY6 bowl of the winner/1 ranked team’s choice. The other NY6 bowls will be represented by conference tie-ins similar to AP/BCS Style Also depending on SOS/SOR there maybe split national champions if a G5 team goes undefeated & G5 team should always get NY6 Bowl Invitation
Evidence is not supporting what you are saying... Rutgers just lost to Kansas State, Big-12 1-0 against Big-10. SEC is 2-2 in bowl games after OU got beat by Navy. That is how bad the SEC is where OU, the team that clobbered Alabama, lost to Navy.
I'm not an acc fan but miami/clemson/fsu have won more bcs and cfp national championships than the big 10. No one in the big 12 has won a bcs or cfp national championship. The acc is still way better than the big 12 but neither really deserves an auto bid
Turning this thing into the Notre Dame invitational is not going to be good for the sport. Despite actually being good this year, there are many years where a 1 or 2 loss Notre Dame is pretty average.
Current format is not sustainable. More teams means more blow outs. Why automatic bids? Take 1-8 pair them off in new year bowl games . Pair off winners in semi finals then finals.
Why do you got a problem with this in football and basketball has the same issues and there’s no big deal with it. One team gets a 16th scene. One team gets the one seed and they play each other for example what’s wrong with that or what’s good about that and not good about it in football.
Look at Tennessee, proof SEC is the best….. 🤦🏻♂️ Let’s just wait and see how this playoff actually finishes and the result of all bowl games. As I type this, OU(a team that beat the great Bama) is losing to Navy… SEC is not head and shoulders better. There should only be one auto bid and no more. Conference quality goes up and down.
Cut a week off regular season, (remove a bye) Get rid of conference championship games. Have army navy play on first weekend of playoffs. National championship on New Year’s Day. Get rid of the other bowl games.
Let me know your thoughts on this format--Been kicking this around with my buddies B10 4 spots Bid 1. Champion in, campus game in playoff, bye championship weekend Bid 2. #2 in, campus game in palyoff, bye championship weekend ---- championship weekend Bid 3. #3 vs #6 Bid 4. #4 vs #5 SEC 4 spots Bid 1. Champion in, campus game in playoff, bye championship weekend Bid 2. #2 in, campus game in palyoff, bye championship weekend ---- championship weekend Bid 3. #3 vs #6 Bid 4. #4 vs #5 Big 12 2 spots Bid 1. Champion in, campus game in playoff, bye championship weekend Bid 2. #2 vs #3 ACC 2 spots Bid 1. Champion in, campus game in playoff, bye championship weekend Bid 2. #2 vs #3 G5 1 spot Bid 1. Highest ranked champion in, campus game in playoff At Large 3 spots Bid 1. Committee selection Bid 2. Committee selection Bid 3. Committee selection 16 teams, but play in games start championship weekend Round 2 on campus, top auto bids host games, no byes - b10 1 - b10 2 - sec 1 - sec 2 - B12 1 - acc 2 - G5 1 - highest ranked at Large hosts Round 3 semifinals New Year's day Round 4 finals-- I think they should do it on the off week at the Superbowl site and have it become a 2 week football event My gut tells me that it will still be overwhelming ruled by the SEC and b10, but it doesn't make the playoffs any longer, gives byes to winners, and rewards conference champions
If the sec had 7 teams in and it was Tennessee and texas who were blowing teams out espn would consider this successful but since it was the big10 who got the most teams in and an sec team is getting blown out its suddenly an issue espn wants to stack the deck where good sec teams r automatically in and every other conference has to prove to espn they belong
It also bothers ESPN that they need to B1G to co sign off with the SEC on any changes to the CFP and ESPN has no leverage on the B1G because they carry none of its games. The B1G can veto ESPNs wishes to create an SEC invitational playoff.
@ChrisSadowski-pp1np Regular season has to matter of course, That's why Bama over SMU. Who's SMU best win against ? OU is SEC so stop the cap. BAMA has way more impressive wins than sorry SMU.. HA Ha I'm glad we saw SMU get annihilated 1st rd just to prove the committee got it wrong. Major blowout on a trash team who lost their weak conf championship and 1st rd playoffs.
@jonathandutra4831 The problem is we all know this stuff after the fact. You start putting three lost teams in over one loss all it's going to do is produce complaining like last year with FSU.
All conferences aren’t equal.. there are maybe 4-5 teams that can win the natty realistically.. and all those teams are in the SEC and B1G… no one Realistically in the ACC or Big 12 has a chance to win 3 consecutive games period.. Notre Dame obviously independent.. but I see them joining the ACC and not the B1G because they know they can win the almost every year.. they’d get stomped in the B1G! Oregon Michigan OSU potentially PSU.. they’d be 5th best maybe 4th yearly.. and playing Nebraska Minnesota Iowa Wisconsin.. on n off years.. those teams would easily have potential to beat them.. as ND is built or wants to be built such as a B1G style team by running the ball well and playing great defense.. playing Army Navy and these powder puff ACC schools is a joke.. they didnt play Clemson or Miami.. caught FSU and USC on big down years..
BB doesn't have injuries and the level of disparity between teams like football does. There will never be a Gonzaga type of national championship in football
@thomaswright8884 yeah, I've called Boise State the football Gonzaga for years, but while they might win 1 game, they wouldn't win 2-3 really tough games. The Zags can have 1 player get pip8ng hot for a few games - like Butler almost did. Another point, too, about BB - 1 player can go Beast Mode and shock the bigger dogs much more easily.
@dougfowler1368 that's the difference in a game with only 5 players on a team. Far more tallent for small schools. Coaching and scheme can be huge difference. Boise state wouldn't be in the too 25 if they played in the B10 or SEC
Copy D1-AA football playoff and cut ESPN out of it!
AMEN
Yes!
Imagine notre dame having 3 bye weeks from not having a conference championship and getting a first round bye
4 bye weeks*
1 bye from no conference championship
2 byes from after conference championship games until playoffs start
1 more bye from Notre having a first round
We would probably be rusty in our 1st game
As it should be but to be fair most other teams get a bye/fcs game.
No one complained about the blow outs on Christmas Day for the NFL games. Blow outs happen. Different matchups won’t matter.
Especially when college football doesn’t have a common draft and schedule that effectively punishes better performers in the name of maintaining parity.
Notre Dame has to be in a conference.
If we discontinue conference champions getting the first round bye, and allow the top 4 teams to get the bye. Then this would be a huge advantage for Notre dame.
Notre dame would get a bye after their 12 reg season game because they don’t have to play a conference championship game. Then Notre dame also has an additional two weeks before playoffs start. AND THEN, what if Notre dame has a first round bye in the playoffs.
We’re talking about Notre dame getting a full month (4 weeks) of rest while other teams only get 2 weeks.
No they don't
How is that a big advantage for Notre Dame? To get a bye and be in the top 4 they would literally have to go 11-1 minimum. Anything more than a single loss erases those chances. Play your schedule and win as many games as you can……everyone is trying to do the same thing. It’s ludicrous that a conference champion gets a bye, especially if they have 3 losses? Georgia got an easier road than Oregon this year?!
@@kevingeeting4011 He just wants to blame ND's independence when mega conferences, conference championship games and crappy conference scheduling are the actual causes of these terrible SOS imbalances. It's not ND's fault everyone else decided being independent was too hard.
@@kevingeeting4011because a team could also go 11-1, play a harder or equal schedule, and then be punished for losing in an extra conference game Norte Dame doesn't have to participate in. It really isn't as big of an advantage as some people like to make it out to be, but yes getting an extra week to prepare is an advantage absolutely.
They don’t and they shouldn’t be.
Advantage how? It’s ending a disadvantage.
Yea but what about the fcs bye everyone else has?
Then don’t choose to play a CCG. What have CCG done? The vast majority of the time nothing or eliminated a team that would’ve been in without playing in a CCG.
12 is way way too many teams. We're just giving endless do overs to the same old teams
The thing is they didn't punish the teams that lost their conference championship game. So we don't have 5 autobids, we really have 8-10. It's ridiculous.
Well its cuz smu was better than alabama, alabama was 2-3 on the road and would have gotten crushed if they played another road game at a penn stadium whiteout
@ you don’t even believe this. SMU would have 5 losses with Bama’s schedule.
Kick out the Playoff Committee! It's not a real playoff it's an invitational
The solution has always been so simple: Just take the top 12
More participation trophies handed out
Bama, Ohio State & Georgia will never miss again.
I’d prefer just 8
@@kleins-v7vif osu fires Ryan day they might have a 6-8 win season due to first year coach stuff like 2011 and bama could honestly fall off a cliff with all the transfers.
@@KingE34 bama is fine they are adding players as they are losing them so I dont see them falling off
8 teams only.
That is what would have been the best. Unfortunately, they'll probably turn to addition versus contraction.
I think the best way to do it is to shrink the conferences back to where they were maybe 10 years ago. 5-6 power conferences with auto bids, best group of five champ, and then at large teams.
The cream rises to the top regionally, and doesn’t leave it to a two team league.
Solution is simple:
- Power 4 and best G5 champ auto bid. Just as it is now.
- seed teams flowing committee rankings, if there are byes, highest ranked teams get those.
- Conference champs that play in first round get home field advantage as their reward instead of a bye. The rest of the 1st round games without a champ, the higher seed is home team.
- now for the best part, the conference that wins the playoff, gets an additional auto qualifier team for the next 2 years. This would work out to be if a conference wins 2+ in a row they will have 3 auto qualifiers and they earned it. MERITOCRACY!!
I think these rules are fair and give the “best” conferences who continually claim to be the best a chance to prove it and be rewarded if they are actually the best instead of them just winning in the media narrative and minds of the committee. Prove it on the field and earn those spots continually or lose them after a couple years until you win again.
I agree and I think getting rid of the playoff rankings would help this. Theres no reason teams ranked outside the top 10 should get an automatic bye i.e. ASU. Give the top 4 teams byes regardless of if they are confrence champs or not. Just place the teams in order of where they are ranked. If one or more confrence champ is ranked outside the top 12 put them in the bottom of the playoff seeding. I.e. ASU and Boise are 2 of the 5 highest ranked champs outside the top 12 so seed them 11/12.
This would be a combo between the 4 team playoff and the 12 team with the four best teams getting the top 4 seeds.
Also, rearrange the seeding after each round. Theres no way Penn State should have an easier path than Oregon by facing SMU and now Boise especially with Oregon being the #1 seed. Oregon should be facing the lowest ranked seed in the playoffs.
What about Notre dame
@@OreoWaffles44 What about them?
If they rank high enough then they are in. If they want a chance at auto bid then, join a damn conference already!
Nobody’s forcing these teams to stick to these highly competitive conferences. The schools WANT the money, so THEY play hard game. And THEY can lose. If you complain about G5 schools having easier schedules, I feel like Boise State, or other teams like USF, would be more than happy to join a P5.
You can’t complain that you’re in a hard conference when you willingly choose to be there because of your greed. You can’t benefit from the system and complain that your actions have consequences.
Bama had 3 losses and 2 of them were to 6-6 teams. There is no realistic argument that we’re deserving. If Bama was actually good, they don’t lose to Vandy AND OU.
Do you think they were better than Indiana or SMU?
@ Not particularly.
The whole idea behind this is to get rid of the "they would beat" argument. The regular season has to mean SOMETHING
@@heffe40 No lol
@@heffe40yes Bama was better than half the teams in the CFP
Just make it 16 teams next year. No byes
no. that ruins the regular season
Just made it 4 or 2
6 or 8. Regular seasonis what makes CFB special.
And until semi finals (cotton, rose, orange, sugar, rose bowls) have higher seed be at home
Every conference champ should be at home 1 game
SEC plays 8 conference games with 18 members, they need to do 10 for their argument to be valid. End cupcake games in week 8.
SEC has 16 teams
More tough games equals more back up starting in the playoffs, which will actually be third string because the second string will have bailed into the portal
Same format, top 4 ranked teams have a bye still allow conference champions to auto-bid
The Big 12 on average was better than the SEC. SEC just struggles with accepting that a 6-6 Vanderbilt and Oklahoma defeating a 9-3 Victor or Mercer in November reflects badly on Alabama and not well on Oklahoma and Vanderbilt. The SEC was very unimpressive in 2024-the team with the real beef against the Committee is BYU not Alabama.
And Navy beats OU. SEC overrated.
Vandy is better than SMU , Boise, Indiana, and Arizona St you don't understand that the SEC is on another level
@ericrmccormick yes another level worse than other conference
I'd prefer they go down to 6 so we can preserve the value of the regular season but that wont happen....
So I say fix the seeding & I really wish we could do something about making schedules not so imbalanced. Teams shouldn't be able to hide. Everyone should have 4 or 5 serious tests so we can evaluate those data points. If you can't hang with top 40 teams like Indiana & SMU were unable to all season, that should be considered.
I agree with it being 12 team and the top 5 champions get in but that shouldn’t determine their seeding, ranking should determine the seeding
I'm a fan of 16 team playoff..
Conference champions get an automatic bid... Including the group of five..
NO BYES....
So 9 automatic bids...
Which leaves 7 at-large bids....
Yes this opens the door for potential major blowouts but also........ It's all about the money$$$$.... It doesn't extend the season any further..
4 4-team brackets....
The only conference championships that should qualify is SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Big 12. The rest of the conferences do not matter and should not be a qualifier.
@@WeSRT4 Nobody forces teams to be in hard conferences. The teams want money, so they play in harder conferences. I’d be fine if Alabama joins the Sun Belt and dominates, because they are nerfed with less money, but would likely consistently make the playoffs (barring upsets).
Treat Conferences equal, and everything balances out, and teams on the pacific coast won’t be in an ATLANTIC coast conference.
@@The-one-person-you-remember Nope... it's about the quality of schedule. Unless you have proven you are worthy of playing for the championship you don't get in.
16 is too much. There's not enough good enough teams that can legitimately compete for a championship. Remember there's no parity in college football.
Conference champs is a joke the only comparable conferences are the big and sec
All conference winners should make it period. Alabama can go to the MAC if they don’t like it
The idea of multiple AQs per conference with the SEC and Big 10 getting more is stupid. You can’t guarantee the 4 teams from one conference will be better than 2 teams from another. Its just unfair and biased
Yea they can. Based on wins every year the other conferences are complete trash.
@@OSU2010 Completely fallacious thinking. Previous years of success are not an indication of current year standings. The football landscape goes through cycles and rapid swings. We can't sit here and pretend that because a certain conference has a better record throughout a few decades that they're just entitled to start forming a monopoly over the championship process. It's obvious you don't care about access to meaningful games.
Ive said this since the cfp began, just make it a minimum of a sweet 16 playoff
Conference realignment is needed.
5 24-team or 6 20-team super conferences. SEC, BIG10, Big12, ACC, MW and MAC?
Play 8-9 in conference games and 1 game with a team in each of the other conferences for 13 games total.
First, level the playing field. Every Power 5 conference team plays 9 conference games, plus 3 non-conference (1 vs another Power 5, 1 vs non Power 5, one vs FCS). That's twelve games. Plus, ND needs to join a conference.
Then pick top 16 teams, conference champs get automatic bids. Use computer rankings (similar to NET and KenPom) plus a little human input to avoid rematches in 1st round. Easy Peesy.
Equally absurd is giving a conferences a disproportionate amount of autobids based on TV viewership. Some people love to watch mid teams get blown out by better teams, but it doesn't make those mid teams better. Some measure of objectivity has to come into play here despite the CFP being a made-for-TV product.
No more expansion there wasn’t 12 teams that needed to be in. Absolutely ridiculous trying to add more useless teams. If anything this proved we need less maybe 8
I feel like these picks were fine. Blowouts happen in the literal championship game, much less round one in a playoff. Do people really think every game will be nail biters? Come on now. Also when the QB plays as bad as SMUs QB played any team in the country will lose. Throwing 2 pick 6s off bad decisions like that will lose any game.
Im sick of higher seeds based on SUBJECTIVE BS of which conf is tougher..u have AL in SEC but they lost to 2 unranked teams in weaker conferences. Where is your justification when they can be beat? Such BS
Bro they literally lost to all SEC teams wtf are you talking about
Vanderbilt Oklahoma Tennessee.. I’m not a Bama fan but damn you gotta do some research before outlandish takes
I actually think the biggest issue was the implosion of the Pac12. If you still had the power 5, then you’d have really 6 conference champs to consider byes for conference champs. Who knows what happens in a couple years when the Pac12 reforms.
But if you’re gonna redo the seeding rules, then at least the conference champs should host a first round game. So that plays with the seeding a little, but not as bad as it is now.
1. Top 12 advance
2. Get rid of fixed bracket
3. Reseeding after each round till semifinals
4. For first round, 8v9 play first, then 7v10, 6v11 and 5v12. That way NO ONE knows who they will play until the last game is done. Do the same thing with quarterfinals. This way, it’s more exciting, unlike the way the NFL does it.
We need at large bids. No conference should have more than 3 auto bids. 3-3-1-1-1-3 (5 if expanded to 14). We have to make room for the chaos of the season to unfold.
So how long will this take to get right or even close ?
Fascinating
So if they go to a 14 team playoff in 2026. That will mean only two teams get byes to Round 2. So then they can say its the winners of the best two conferences which will be the SEC champion and BIG 10 champion and the problem is solved.
No Conference should automatically have any number of teams in playoffs. Just because a conference is a lot better than another now doesn't mean it will stay that way If I was in charge of any of the Conferences other than SEC or Big Ten I would agree any of those proposals
A good rule is to not make changes based on one data point, be that one run of first round games or a complete run of the entire playoff process. Play this out another year, at the end of the day I'm pretty sure that we will either have what we thought were the two best teams in the final, the team that beat one of the supposed top two.
I still have to laugh at everyone arguing about who #12 should have been. If 'Bama was that great this year, they would have been playing on 7 DEC.
The problem is incompetent committee and auto bids.
Well ladies and gentlemen
U know there will be a giant meltdown if Notre Dame ends up with a bye.
I think that the main issue can be solved by re seeding after round one with the auto byes. Arizona State vs Oregon and Boise State vs Georgia. Texas would play Ohio St, and Notre Dame vs Penn State. If Ohio State would have beat Michigan and lost again to Oregon they would have been the 5 shifted to the 3 after reseeding instead of Texas.
That article is wrong, it would have been Notre Dame vs Clemson in the 5-12. not Arizona State. Arizona State would have played Ohio State in the 6-11. and Tennessee vs SMU in the 7-10
I would move to 16, so the top 8 gets a home playoff game with no byes. Then reseed after the first round. Give an auto bid to the top 5 conference champions and then at large bids to the remaining field. We would have added Alabama and Miami to this year’s field. Ole Miss and South Carolina would be out still. It is a shame we see Ohio State/Oregon in the QFs.
12 teams is fine. The committee got it right #Hook’em
Holy 💩- we need to figure out this transfer portal and the CFP selections…
For the love of God… *HELPP*
We need “play-in” games..
We are ALL sitting down and having conversations once the season is over…
Can’t do this again.
Divisional rounds in the SEC, ACC, BIG 10, & BIG 12
Then only include conference games for the AAC & MWC
Making the conferences themselves knock out their best teams in conference championship weekend is a conflict of interest! If anything, they should play top teams from the various conferences AGAINST EAcH OtHER! For example, what incentive would a team from the same conference have in blowing out another team from their conference. It proves nothing….in terms of how strong the teams are in relation to the other conferences!
Why do you got a problem with this in football and basketball has the same issues and there’s no big deal with it. One team gets a 16th scene. One team gets the one seed and they play each other for example what’s wrong with that or what’s good about that and not good about it in football. If you still want a 12 team playoff, you can do so but how about having 16 teams total to play for 12 spots? Would that work?
Nothing is changes next year. This is a 2 year agreement. The 2026 could make change. They could do a 14 team to give 6 auto bids and 8 at-large. This is how sports work and now football. Teams on the bubble slide off because of auto bids.
@ Depressed Ginger
I would still keep 12 teams but this is my solution:
The Top 12 Ranked Teams get in.
1) Eliminate Auto Bids: if you you played a strong enough schedule & you won your conference championship game or went undefeated (i.e Note Dame)your more/less likely to be in; it will also legitimize your ranking & the committee without the Auto Bids
2) If you lose your conference championship game you should be eliminated: You had your chance you blew it
3) If you win your conference championship game & your still ranked lower than 12, sorry you are out: Your conference/schedule was Not strong enough
4) All Rounds of the Playoffs should be home field games (the highest ranked team gets home field advantage) & the top 4 get a bye to host Semifinal matches (Not a neutral site game)
5) The top 2 teams left in the playoffs get to a NY6 bowl of the winner/1 ranked team’s choice. The other NY6 bowls will be represented by conference tie-ins similar to AP/BCS Style
Also depending on SOS/SOR there maybe split national champions if a G5 team goes undefeated & G5 team should always get NY6 Bowl Invitation
Evidence is not supporting what you are saying... Rutgers just lost to Kansas State, Big-12 1-0 against Big-10. SEC is 2-2 in bowl games after OU got beat by Navy. That is how bad the SEC is where OU, the team that clobbered Alabama, lost to Navy.
You can't have that many autos - too much chance of down years for someone.
The ACC doesn't deserve one auto bid, let alone two while the Big 10 and SEC only get three. That doesn't fix much.
I'm not an acc fan but miami/clemson/fsu have won more bcs and cfp national championships than the big 10. No one in the big 12 has won a bcs or cfp national championship. The acc is still way better than the big 12 but neither really deserves an auto bid
Turning this thing into the Notre Dame invitational is not going to be good for the sport. Despite actually being good this year, there are many years where a 1 or 2 loss Notre Dame is pretty average.
Current format is not sustainable. More teams means more blow outs. Why automatic bids? Take 1-8 pair them off in new year bowl games . Pair off winners in semi finals then finals.
Big ten is literally gonna buy notre dame
It should have always been 16 teams from the jump!
Why change? The system is perfect as-is!
Pretty obvious the more mediocre teams you include the more mediocre football you get
Why do you got a problem with this in football and basketball has the same issues and there’s no big deal with it. One team gets a 16th scene. One team gets the one seed and they play each other for example what’s wrong with that or what’s good about that and not good about it in football.
Look at Tennessee, proof SEC is the best….. 🤦🏻♂️
Let’s just wait and see how this playoff actually finishes and the result of all bowl games.
As I type this, OU(a team that beat the great Bama) is losing to Navy…
SEC is not head and shoulders better.
There should only be one auto bid and no more. Conference quality goes up and down.
Wake me up when they get rid of NIL/portal...
Fix NIL so I can finally give a shit about college football again.
Whatever they do we dont need 14 teams. The field is so watered down with mediocre teams. Should've only been 8
Cut a week off regular season, (remove a bye)
Get rid of conference championship games.
Have army navy play on first weekend of playoffs.
National championship on New Year’s Day.
Get rid of the other bowl games.
Any format that gives a bye to the Pac12 champion AND a G5 champion needs to immediately be redesigned.
16 teams make more sense.
Put notre dame in big 10. 2 teams from each conference, conference winner and runer up in title games, thsts 10 then next 2 highest rsnked
The SEC and Big 10 are determined to destroy college football.
How?
Just go by the AP poll and be done with it.
Yeah I know really
Let me know your thoughts on this format--Been kicking this around with my buddies
B10 4 spots
Bid 1. Champion in, campus game in playoff, bye championship weekend
Bid 2. #2 in, campus game in palyoff, bye championship weekend
---- championship weekend
Bid 3. #3 vs #6
Bid 4. #4 vs #5
SEC 4 spots
Bid 1. Champion in, campus game in playoff, bye championship weekend
Bid 2. #2 in, campus game in palyoff, bye championship weekend
---- championship weekend
Bid 3. #3 vs #6
Bid 4. #4 vs #5
Big 12 2 spots
Bid 1. Champion in, campus game in playoff, bye championship weekend
Bid 2. #2 vs #3
ACC 2 spots
Bid 1. Champion in, campus game in playoff, bye championship weekend
Bid 2. #2 vs #3
G5 1 spot
Bid 1. Highest ranked champion in, campus game in playoff
At Large 3 spots
Bid 1. Committee selection
Bid 2. Committee selection
Bid 3. Committee selection
16 teams, but play in games start championship weekend
Round 2 on campus, top auto bids host games, no byes
- b10 1
- b10 2
- sec 1
- sec 2
- B12 1
- acc 2
- G5 1
- highest ranked at Large hosts
Round 3 semifinals New Year's day
Round 4 finals-- I think they should do it on the off week at the Superbowl site and have it become a 2 week football event
My gut tells me that it will still be overwhelming ruled by the SEC and b10, but it doesn't make the playoffs any longer, gives byes to winners, and rewards conference champions
If the sec had 7 teams in and it was Tennessee and texas who were blowing teams out espn would consider this successful but since it was the big10 who got the most teams in and an sec team is getting blown out its suddenly an issue espn wants to stack the deck where good sec teams r automatically in and every other conference has to prove to espn they belong
It also bothers ESPN that they need to B1G to co sign off with the SEC on any changes
to the CFP and ESPN has no leverage on the B1G because they carry none of its games. The B1G can veto ESPNs wishes to create an SEC invitational playoff.
This is terrible! Trim it down to 8 teams!
Until we get Vegas bookmaker on the committee deciding. no way you a top team if you a double digit dog.
I'm just mad that SMU got in over BAMA that's insanity
The regular season has to matter. Alabama did themselves in. The committee would have put them over SMU If Alabama didn't lose to Oklahoma.
@ChrisSadowski-pp1np Regular season has to matter of course, That's why Bama over SMU. Who's SMU best win against ? OU is SEC so stop the cap. BAMA has way more impressive wins than sorry SMU.. HA Ha I'm glad we saw SMU get annihilated 1st rd just to prove the committee got it wrong. Major blowout on a trash team who lost their weak conf championship and 1st rd playoffs.
@jonathandutra4831 The problem is we all know this stuff after the fact. You start putting three lost teams in over one loss all it's going to do is produce complaining like last year with FSU.
@@jonathandutra4831who is to say Alabama wouldn't have gotten a blown out? They couldn't beat Vandy.
@ChrisSadowski-pp1np Yeah they beat Georgia ! They have more impressive wins than SMU and that's a fact 100%
this is why i could never get into college football... the quality of the games is bad anyway... same for college basketball
Top 12 only!!! Auto bids are a joke!!!!
Psu was almost a sell out?
All conferences aren’t equal.. there are maybe 4-5 teams that can win the natty realistically.. and all those teams are in the SEC and B1G… no one
Realistically in the ACC or Big 12 has a chance to win 3 consecutive games period.. Notre Dame obviously independent.. but I see them joining the ACC and not the B1G because they know they can win the almost every year.. they’d get stomped in the B1G! Oregon Michigan OSU potentially PSU.. they’d be 5th best maybe 4th yearly.. and playing Nebraska Minnesota Iowa Wisconsin.. on n off years.. those teams would easily have potential to beat them.. as ND is built or wants to be built such as a B1G style team by running the ball well and playing great defense.. playing Army Navy and these powder puff ACC schools is a joke.. they didnt play Clemson or Miami.. caught FSU and USC on big down years..
Stop being greedy sec and big ten earn your way in
NCAA BB has 64 teams with 26 blowouts 1st weekend..who cares
BB doesn't have injuries and the level of disparity between teams like football does. There will never be a Gonzaga type of national championship in football
@thomaswright8884 yeah, I've called Boise State the football Gonzaga for years, but while they might win 1 game, they wouldn't win 2-3 really tough games. The Zags can have 1 player get pip8ng hot for a few games - like Butler almost did. Another point, too, about BB - 1 player can go Beast Mode and shock the bigger dogs much more easily.
@dougfowler1368 that's the difference in a game with only 5 players on a team. Far more tallent for small schools. Coaching and scheme can be huge difference. Boise state wouldn't be in the too 25 if they played in the B10 or SEC
Move the Bowl games into on-campus stadiums. Paint the Rose Bowl logo in Autzen Stadium
Clueless post
Clemson getting in was the biggest joke