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Interesting Concept for the Regular Seasons and CFB Playoffs

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I read this last week and thought it was interesting.  It would negate the need for a conference championship game thereby keeping the regular season to 12 games and allowing four rounds of playoffs with 16 teams with no team playing more than 16 games.  It would almost be playoff-like the entire second half of the regular season with great match-ups that fans and tv would like.  You could realistically go to a 16-team playoff with the first round the weekend after the last week of the year (the Saturday that conference championship games are played - this year December 3) and then a two week break between each subsequent round (this year December 17, December 31, and January 14).

With a 16-team playoff all 10 conference champions would get an auto-bid and then there would be six at-large bids.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/make-college-football-great-again/

 

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I like the idea of expanding the playoffs, but I think 8 teams would be best. 

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20 hours ago, Fowl said:

I read this last week and thought it was interesting.  It would negate the need for a conference championship game thereby keeping the regular season to 12 games and allowing four rounds of playoffs with 16 teams with no team playing more than 16 games.  It would almost be playoff-like the entire second half of the regular season with great match-ups that fans and tv would like.  You could realistically go to a 16-team playoff with the first round the weekend after the last week of the year (the Saturday that conference championship games are played - this year December 3) and then a two week break between each subsequent round (this year December 17, December 31, and January 14).

With a 16-team playoff all 10 conference champions would get an auto-bid and then there would be six at-large bids.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/make-college-football-great-again/

 

This is it. The P5 would get their money(which is primarily based on quality regular season matchups) as well as keep their "autonomy" rules, while on the flip side permanently injecting the playoff with  novelty via auto-bids for lower conferences. This is akin to the wild card playoff expansion in the NFL.

The other positive thing is it would likely stop conference musical chairs or at the very least slow it down. If P5's want to keep their tv deals from deflating they can only add from each other, and when all 5 get into the playoff each year, the desire to do such a thing will immediately decline. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Put it back to just two teams á la BCS.

there is just as much bltch ing about the four teams getting is as there was when it was just two.

The only difference is now there are two extra semis that completely SUCK!

#BCSFTW

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I don't think you get it or perhaps didn't read the article.

The point is that most of the second half of the regular season would match up the top teams within each conference against each other and the bottom against each other.  So you have a true conference champion who played (and presumably beat) the other best teams in the conference.  Thus no need for a championship game because it will have already been played during the regular season.

Every conference champion will have earned the right to get the auto-bid to the playoffs with six remaining at-large spots given to those who didn't win their conference but were deemed worthy.  People can bitch about not making the playoffs but every team will have a legitimate shot to win the national title every season - all they have to do is win their conference by beating the best in their conference.

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as much as it might be good to expand the college football playoff, realistically the top 2-3 teams are usually so far above every other team that having Alabama and Clemson play Penn St and OK would have just been blowouts.  Four teams is probably right, if they can get the right teams.  They may need to look less at a teams record and more of their overall season.  Ohio St. and Mich were clearly not the top 4, USC was ranked 3rd in final ranking and they were well below Bama and Clemson.  

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