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CFP Could Expand to 8 Teams by 2020

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HOW NOTRE DAME CRASHING THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF COULD PROMPT EXPANSION

The College Football Playoff will expand from four teams to eight within the next decade. This isn't breaking news so much as it is common sense. The first year of the playoff following the 2014 season produced a financial windfall and smashed television ratings records. An expanded playoff would produce multiples of that. The only variable, really, is time.

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Here's a hypothetical Armageddon scenario for this season. Say the Irish snag one of the four spots. And, for the sake of argument, so does Pac-12 champion Oregon, ACC champion Clemson and Big Ten champion Ohio State. That would mean the SEC champion and the Big 12 champion would get left out. Big 12 officials would be irate for missing the playoff two years in a row. This would constitute the first major crisis of SEC commissioner Greg Sankey's tenure. Part of the legacy of his predecessor, Slive, is that SEC fans now consider the chance to play for the national title their birthright.

The chances of that scenario playing out are slim, of course. But let's rank potential triggers that could expedite the playoff's move from four teams to eight.

1. Notre Dame reaches the playoff and two leagues get left out.

2. Two teams from one league reach the playoff. (There is a much better chance this year that multiple Big Ten teams reach the playoff—Ohio State and Michigan State—than multiple SEC teams.)

3. The SEC gets left out. Patience isn't a hallmark of the league's fans or administrators. This would have happened last year if Missouri beat Alabama.

4. A league gets left out multiple years in a row. (You're on the clock, Big 12.)

5. A Group of Five team reaches the playoff, knocking two leagues out in the same way Notre Dame would.

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So, when will be see this version? The best guess is the 2020 season. That would be after six seasons into the new system, which is cycling through the major bowl games in three-year rotations.

The 2020 target date for the expanded playoff offers the cleanest opportunity for change, as it would be at the start of a new rotation and also halfway through the 12-year, $7.3 billion television contract with ESPN. (The best part for ESPN is that they don't even have to look like they're pushing expansion as an agenda. Bad math is going to apply all the necessary pressure.)

 

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8 is the right number for College Football playoffs imo. I think it's just a matter of time now that the BCS is dead. Too much money being left on the table.

I'd like to see the Rose and Sugar Bowls forced to cut loose their Conference ties also. I f*cking despise the Rose Bowl. It represents everything that is wrong with College Football.

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BORE

RING!!!

LoL ... What?!

You aren't the least bit intrigued by the possibility that the expansion of the CFP to 8 teams by 2020 could effectively end any consideration by the B12 of taking on more members?

This has got to be bittersweet news for teams like BYU, Boise St and CSU who top the pundits list of expansion candidates ... and devastating news for the almighty flagship.

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now that we know that 2020 is the deadline for the new world order,four 16 team confrences will start taking form.the big12 is fools gold, just like the big east.good luck everybody.expansion is about to take place.

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LoL ...

Interesting that this article has been lost and is no longer on Sports Illustrated's Campus Rush site and even though the link is still on the SI.com NCAAF page, the link goes nowhere -- did someone not like the implications put forth by Thayer Evans and Pete Thamel regarding the expansion of the CFP by 2020?

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