12 team playoff coming
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what a joke. Show me where say the 12th best team in the nation belongs on the field with say the 4th or 5th.
Idiotic. But its all about the long green and nothing else.
Idiotic. But its all about the long green and nothing else.
Good! That's fantastic news.... Supposedly Swarbrick's little plan had been nixed, and vetoed by the PAC-10 I think it was, as was their prerogative. Maybe now that the PAC-12 is kaput, now they want to support it.
In any case, it looks as if it's back on! That really is fantastic news, playoff awesomeness here we come!!!
In any case, it looks as if it's back on! That really is fantastic news, playoff awesomeness here we come!!!
Yes confirmed. I don't like it either, I think six teams would be enough. 1 & 2 get byes, 2 v 6 and
3 v 5, winners move on to play 1 & 2
www.espn.com
3 v 5, winners move on to play 1 & 2
CFP board decides on 12-team playoff format
The College Football Playoff's board of managers voted Friday to expand the CFP to 12 teams in 2026, but it is encouraging the sport's commissioners to try to implement it as soon as 2024.
I don't know why any ND fan would be against this. Now they have a legitimate chance to actually win a post season game.
And all of the "it devalues the season people," it makes the season MORE meaningful now for a lot more teams. In college football now 95% of the freaking teams are eliminated when they lose once. That's now no longer the case. So if you're going to have the literal definition of "it devalues the regular season,"..........no. It's now a lot more valuable to a lot more teams. But it's just the typical internet hand wringing. The NFL regular season seems to do just fine and it's a LOT less "meaningful" by comparison.
Although I will say 10 teams with 2 byes would've been my choice.
And all of the "it devalues the season people," it makes the season MORE meaningful now for a lot more teams. In college football now 95% of the freaking teams are eliminated when they lose once. That's now no longer the case. So if you're going to have the literal definition of "it devalues the regular season,"..........no. It's now a lot more valuable to a lot more teams. But it's just the typical internet hand wringing. The NFL regular season seems to do just fine and it's a LOT less "meaningful" by comparison.
Although I will say 10 teams with 2 byes would've been my choice.
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That is what I would have preferred. Just dilutes things and makes the first rounds meaningless.Yes confirmed. I don't like it either, I think six teams would be enough. 1 & 2 get byes, 2 v 6 and
3 v 5, winners move on to play 1 & 2
CFP board decides on 12-team playoff format
The College Football Playoff's board of managers voted Friday to expand the CFP to 12 teams in 2026, but it is encouraging the sport's commissioners to try to implement it as soon as 2024.
Because it waters down the greatest regular season in all of sports. College or pro
Sucks
I'm REAL sure those same ND fans are willing to admit they didn't "deserve" to be in the playoff the last few times, wouldn't they.
If they are expanding the TV money it was only inevitable they expand the games. I assume first 4 will get a bye and then #1 plays winner of 8/9 game, #2 plays winner of 7/10, #3 winner of 6/11, #4 winner of 5/12.
A 12 team playoff allows bye weeks for the top 4 seeds. So unless Bama finishes 5th and Iowa 12th, you aren't going to see that matchup in a quarterfinal.
Why tf do people want to hand out byes to the top seeds? The playoffs are already dominated by a few teams. And now you want to let the doormats beat on each other while Bama rests and gets hungrier?
Handing out byes makes the regular season more meaningful with expanded playoffs.
There are a number of things wrong with a 12 team playoff. Byes is just one thing issue. The whole process seems to be based upon the desire to make the playoffs as much like the NFL as possible. Not a fan at all.
You gotta have byes in you only have 12 teams. It's either 8 or 16 if you want to avoid having 1st-round byes. That's just the mathematical necessity.....
That's why the byes have to be for conference champions, and not just the top four seeds overall.
That's why the byes have to be for conference champions, and not just the top four seeds overall.
I think the times that ND did make the playoffs, they were certainly deserving of it. However, to say they belonged or were just as good as the other playoff teams would be inaccurate.
It is just like the NFL by 2026. We can ignore all of the first 2/3 of the season because the games have little to no effect on the national title chances.
Attendance is already down across the board in CFB. This is going to make it even worse.
There’s nothing meaningful regarding expanded playoffs except money. After 2-3 teams, no one else has a chance to win 3-4 straight games.
It’s now harder to win a title.
You already have that in the NFL. 9 win teams seeded 4th over 11-12 win wildcard teams seeded 5th. Now there is incentive for every team in a conference to win their conference.
While Notre Dame will likely make more playoffs than not, they will never be able to have a bye week and a top 4 seed as an independent. Decisions, decisions..
Independent ND can never get a bye and never play a quarterfinal against a team seeded lower than 4. At least the quarters are at neutral sites. So we will have to win 4 games--3 against top 4 seeds (absent upsets). So savvy Jack got bested, or savvy Jack is subtly setting up the groundwork for joining a conference.
If this article is correct it isn't a very good format for ND:
The four highest-ranked conference champions will be seeded one through four with each receiving a first-round bye. Teams seeded five through 12 will play each other in the first round on either the second or third weekend of December. The quarterfinals and semifinals will be played in bowl games on a rotating basis, and the championship game will be at a neutral site, as under the current four-team format.
This may be just an error in writing but if correct it would mean ND could never get a bye. Anyone know if it is accurate. I am solely going off the article posted by the OP.
The four highest-ranked conference champions will be seeded one through four with each receiving a first-round bye. Teams seeded five through 12 will play each other in the first round on either the second or third weekend of December. The quarterfinals and semifinals will be played in bowl games on a rotating basis, and the championship game will be at a neutral site, as under the current four-team format.
This may be just an error in writing but if correct it would mean ND could never get a bye. Anyone know if it is accurate. I am solely going off the article posted by the OP.
I have to say, I was enjoying your posts--but in the end you show yourself to have the same level of class as the average Buckeye fan, Disappointing.
Yup. And if ND goes 12-0 and is ranked #1, we still end up with a 5 seed. Meh.
What did I say that was classless? I literally just spoke the truth to you. Go read Pete Thamel's tweet.
College basketball is the most meaningless reg season of all
I get how that's disappointing. But I look at it this way:
1. If you're good enough and healthy enough to win the title. Your seeding won't matter. Have you ever a champion say... Boy we were lucky to get the #2 seed cuz that's what made the difference between winning and losing the championship? Nah.
2. If the first round is played at higher seeds own stadiums. I'm pumped for playoffs at ND stadium!
3. I do believe what has hurt ND in the BCS/Playoff Era is the long layoff of finishing a game in last week of November compared to first week of December and then playing in January. Some NFL wild card teams say not getting the bye kept the momentum going into the playoffs and super bowl. We've seen many NFL playoff teams with a week off, only disappoint.
4. We're not necessarily playing an extra game overall compared to top 4 seeds. They played 13 before the last remaining rounds of the playoffs and so did we. Yes, you can argue that Alabama playing Mercer the week before Auburn hardly counts as a game, but here we are.
Bottom line: if you're good enough, you'll win. Seeding don't matter.
