My biggest concern the rest of the regular season is that a team with nothing to play for - looking at you Syracuse and Wake - either screws up and ND is left with a month off before the ACCCG due to cancelled games and gets rusty...or gets lazy with Covid protocols and causes ND to have another outbreak, leaving them not only with a few weeks off, but a few weeks with limited practice time. Seriously, what incentive do their players, or players at mid or bottom tier teams in any league have to continue following the restrictions that are imposed on them, other than just the love of the game? It’s a free year eligibility-wise anyway.
In that vein, let’s quit pretending. ND has a max of 5 games left with the current schedule (Cuse, Wake, ACCCG, semifinal, championship). Same with Bama, OSU, etc. Have the CFP take the top 32 teams and invite them all to Jerry World, or Miami, or Glendale - and institute a bubble. Then do it World Cup style - divide into 8 pods of 4 teams and play round robin (3 games). With last weeks rankings, it would have been ND, Georgia, Texas, and the 31st ranked team in a pod. Then, take the top 2 teams from each pod after the round robin and seed them based on final CFP ranking in a 16 team playoff. The champion and runner-up would play 4 games in that playoff, so this means only a handful of teams would play a longer season than they would anyway without this plan - and even though that season would be longer by 2020 standards, it would be the normal season length for a CFP champion.
Admit it - this makes sense and would be super cool. The kids aren’t back in class until February, so this is basically a choice of sitting on campus vs. being in a bubble. No one misses classes, even with a week between games, and with no more travel and instituting a bubble, it’s better for players’ and coaches’ health too. It would give schools a chance to recoup TV money, and would actually save schools who didn’t make it money (no need to travel, pay for refs) by skipping remaining games. Also, we can just quit with this charade that the 2020 football season has become for some schools.
In that vein, let’s quit pretending. ND has a max of 5 games left with the current schedule (Cuse, Wake, ACCCG, semifinal, championship). Same with Bama, OSU, etc. Have the CFP take the top 32 teams and invite them all to Jerry World, or Miami, or Glendale - and institute a bubble. Then do it World Cup style - divide into 8 pods of 4 teams and play round robin (3 games). With last weeks rankings, it would have been ND, Georgia, Texas, and the 31st ranked team in a pod. Then, take the top 2 teams from each pod after the round robin and seed them based on final CFP ranking in a 16 team playoff. The champion and runner-up would play 4 games in that playoff, so this means only a handful of teams would play a longer season than they would anyway without this plan - and even though that season would be longer by 2020 standards, it would be the normal season length for a CFP champion.
Admit it - this makes sense and would be super cool. The kids aren’t back in class until February, so this is basically a choice of sitting on campus vs. being in a bubble. No one misses classes, even with a week between games, and with no more travel and instituting a bubble, it’s better for players’ and coaches’ health too. It would give schools a chance to recoup TV money, and would actually save schools who didn’t make it money (no need to travel, pay for refs) by skipping remaining games. Also, we can just quit with this charade that the 2020 football season has become for some schools.
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