Mierin
Assistant Coach
I agree. Conference champion can just be determined by standings. I suppose that kind of sucks when the #1 and #2 have never played each other though.
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12-Team Playoff On the Way; 14-Team to Follow
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I agree. Conference champion can just be determined by standings. I suppose that kind of sucks when the #1 and #2 have never played each other though.
ColoradoHusk
Heisman Trophy Winner
Agree, that’s what 9 conference games are there for. Also, they should mandate SEC and ACC have 9 conference games.
I would tend to agree with you. But I assume there is too much money in them for them to go away. Plus, as conferences expand there will be more of a chance for two teams to tie and haven't played each other.
Funny how the arguments that it's SOOOOO much easier to make the playoffs from an 8-game conference have pretty much ceased since Clemson took a step back.
Likely that three out of four this year are from 9-game conferences.
So a 12-team playoff this year would be:
#1 - Georgia vs winner of #9 Kansas State @ #8 Tennessee
#2 - Michigan vs winner of @10 USC @ #7 Alabama
#3 - Clemson vs winner of #11 Penn State @ #6 Ohio State
#4 - Utah vs winner of #12 Tulane @ #5 TCU
#1 - Georgia vs winner of #9 Kansas State @ #8 Tennessee
#2 - Michigan vs winner of @10 USC @ #7 Alabama
#3 - Clemson vs winner of #11 Penn State @ #6 Ohio State
#4 - Utah vs winner of #12 Tulane @ #5 TCU
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In the Deed the Glory
All-Conference
I’m not sure as I haven’t read about it but I think they should re-seed after first round so #1 still gets to play lowest remaining seed.
Yeah, I don't think when they were dreaming it up that there would be that much of a gap between the top two conference champions and the next two - although it did close down somewhat in the final rankings.
My preference has always been eight teams - and no more than two per conference - which would have been:
#1 Georgia vs #8 Kansas State
#2 Michigan vs #7 Utah
#3 TCU vs #6 Clemson
#4 Ohio State vs #5 Alabama
Stone Cold
Starter
8 teams makes more sense, then the bottom 8 dont need to play one more game, or am i not thinking about this correctly.
How many extra games they play obviously depends on how many upsets there are. But a team playing in the opening round games could play 17 games under this scenario.
BigRedBuster
International Man of Mystery
I would prefer just 8 teams. Not sure of the reasoning to think they need to go to 12.
Extra round of games and TV money. Also have a bigger time footprint to help bridge from the regular season without having to wait a month for a championship game
