NCAA Playoff Expansion

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12 teams is ridiculous for D1 football. The only reason to do 12 teams is so G5 schools don't get butt hurt, it's essentially giving out participation trophies. 8 teams is the way to go, it's just one extra week of games - plus they can still give a G5 team a guaranteed spot.
 

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I hope this doesn't happen, there hasn't been a year where 12 teams deserved a right to play for the Title.
 

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12 teams is ridiculous for D1 football. The only reason to do 12 teams is so G5 schools don't get butt hurt, it's essentially giving out participation trophies. 8 teams is the way to go, it's just one extra week of games - plus they can still give a G5 team a guaranteed spot.

8 teams would allow the butthurt conference champions a chance to get in, being they complain about not getting in even if their Champion played a weak schedule. Even though I feel an 8 game playoff would be a lot of fun. There has never been a year when 8 teams deserves a shot at the title.
 

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Agree with all of you guys. 4 is enough. It has already completely watered down the bowl games. I feel like expanding it to 8 is where it starts watering down the season as well. 1 loss isn't gonna be a big deal at all. The new argument is going to be "does this 11-1 ACC team get in or this 10-2 SEC team? etc."

We can make all the reasons not to have it that we want though... we all know that it is going to boil down to a short-sighted view of immediate profit. Money makes the world go round.
 

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Not arguing one way or another...just pointing out that the dude who interviewed all the relevant participants in the decision making process pretty much said 12 teams is what everybody wants.

Im fine with it to be honest. College football is pretty much dead anyways with the 4 team playoff. It has made all the ny6 bowls meaningless. Now, at least there is some drama to the offseason again. It will also expose those crybabies that say it isn't fair and should get in when they get their butts handed to them.
 

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2 is the way to go. The regular season should be the fuching playoff.
 

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8 teams would allow the butthurt conference champions a chance to get in, being they complain about not getting in even if their Champion played a weak schedule. Even though I feel an 8 game playoff would be a lot of fun. There has never been a year when 8 teams deserves a shot at the title.

They're expanding it no matter what, so hopefully they don't go full retard and make it more than 8. With this 12 team format they're talking about the first 4 seeds getting a bye week. They could go 6 teams, giving the first 2 seeds a bye....but, it looks like they're going 8 or 12. So if that's the case, 8 is more than enough.
 

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They're expanding it no matter what, so hopefully they don't go full retard and make it more than 8. With this 12 team format they're talking about the first 4 seeds getting a bye week. They could go 6 teams, giving the first 2 seeds a bye....but, it looks like they're going 8 or 12. So if that's the case, 8 is more than enough.

I agree they are going to expand, because the expansion makes them more money. The regular bowl games and NY6 games are all just also ran games and in turn starting to lose profit. This is a money move no more, no less.
 

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I hope this doesn't happen, there hasn't been a year where 12 teams deserved a right to play for the Title.

I can't recall a year that there was even 4. The only thing the current format provides is a remedy to the rare scenarios of '04 and few other exceptions where you have a third team with a legitimate argument. There's a reason why we see a blowout every year in one of the final three games.

As you said, it's a money play. And unfortunately it was always going to end this way once they went to four. No one cares about the NY6, and they definitely don't care about the even lesser bowls. So unless the bowls eventually go away all together, this participant number will have to keep growing until everyone is invited, which isn't practical of course.
 

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The playoffs are moving to woke. Those that don't deserve it get to get in because they don't deserve it.

EDIT: However, if they are going to move in the 12 team direction, they better make conference championships the automatic berth into the playoffs with the remainders being at large based on polls.
 

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The playoff is destroying college football. Hell it's destroying our own gators. We have a head coach who takes off the last game of the season bc it doesn't matter.

The BCS was infinitely better than this system and added for much more meaning, excitement and angst bc every game mattered immensely.
 

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The playoff is destroying college football. Hell it's destroying our own gators. We have a head coach who takes off the last game of the season bc it doesn't matter.

The BCS was infinitely better than this system and added for much more meaning, excitement and angst bc every game mattered immensely.

Always been my argument. Even if you insist on going to four teams, the formula itself was great in that it combined the human element with unbiased computer generated data. We should've just let it choose the final four teams, and then let them play it out.

And to your point about taking weeks off(let's not talk about Lsu), how about the fact that Alabama was in regardless of what may happen in Atl last year. Forget the fact that the Iron Bowl was a completely meaningless exhibition. The SEC Championship itself effectively meant nothing to them. Well done, college football.
 

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The playoff is destroying college football. Hell it's destroying our own gators. We have a head coach who takes off the last game of the season bc it doesn't matter.

The BCS was infinitely better than this system and added for much more meaning, excitement and angst bc every game mattered immensely.
Not to mention the bowl games don’t matter to most anymore, either.
 

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12 teams is ridiculous for D1 football. The only reason to do 12 teams is so G5 schools don't get butt hurt, it's essentially giving out participation trophies. 8 teams is the way to go, it's just one extra week of games - plus they can still give a G5 team a guaranteed spot.
Unless notre lame wins at least 3 games, then the Irish get an guaranteed at-large.
 

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Not to mention the bowl games don’t matter to most anymore, either.

Honestly, that was almost always the case, especially for programs with higher aspirations. I realize the Rose, and to a lesser degree, the Sugar and Orange may carry some prestige. But I was there the night we crushed WVU in early 1994. First the SEC, now we win the Sugar? Felt like we couldn't get any higher. Then they turned on the jumbotron and we watched the Nebraska kicker miss the FG, giving the noles the national title. Trust me, the next week in school, there was nothing cool about bragging on a Sugar Bowl Championship to fsu fans. It didn't help that Philly was also finishing up the Kotite era and most of those dirtbag kids were also Cowboys fans. But that's not the point.

Things change and standards are elevated. The Outback Bowl is for Usce/Mizzou fans to come down in January and brag to opposing fans that they don't live in Iowa or Indiana where it really gets cold. All while getting even fatter eating blooming onions and $12 Miller Lites, trying to imagine a way they could pull of Mons without the equally fat wife finding out.

I'd be fine with our season ending with the noles unless we've earned the right to play for something of note.
 
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The playoff is destroying college football. Hell it's destroying our own gators. We have a head coach who takes off the last game of the season bc it doesn't matter.

The BCS was infinitely better than this system and added for much more meaning, excitement and angst bc every game mattered immensely.

MOM. Your several years late here. It isnt destroying...its destroyed already. Orange, Sugar, Rose and that other bowl are meaningless and have been for several years now.
 

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This is going to be a sh*tshow:



So our 2018 team would be in a playoff. Just weeks after a disaster against Mizzou, and shushing our own fans because we scored a second quarter TD against 7-6 Usce, we gear up for Round 1.

Once again, well done guys. Think you nailed it this time.
 

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