12-Team Playoff On the Way; 14-Team to Follow

admo said:
Georgia has no SEC games left to play, mid November. 😲🤯

They are done with Conference games but still have 2 games left to play that do not affect anything to be honest.

They play an FCS team and Geo.Tech (a rival).

Could they not play Georgia Tech earlier in the year and replace the end of season game against another SEC opponent (that doesn't suck)?

Why even schedule 4 games in November when that is supposed to be the hardest part of the season? They completed their conference games by Nov 15th. 😲

When most teams have players banged up, sore, injured and have to play 2 very difficult games.......

I am having a hard time with this, which includes SEC commissioner approval.

It would be similar to Nebraska playing the final two games against South Dakota State and Colorado (or Kansas). 2 non-conf games.

It's BS. And if they can do it, NU & B1G should do that too.

I mean, if the Huskers played Iowa week 6 on a warm hot afternoon in early October, that is a lot easier to do than near-freezing weather after thanksgiving.
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I agree that I've never liked the FCS tomato can games in November. To their credit though, the SEC has adopted a 9 game conference schedule with a P4 requirement for one non-conference game in the future. Quite frankly, the Big Ten needs to require 1 P4 game too in the non-conference in order to make it even.
 
Never going to happen, but here's a potential 20 team setup:

For Power 4:
11 game regular season
12th game in each conference is 1v2 (conference championship), 3v4, 5v6, 7v8,etc. - try to avoid rematches
4 Champions automatically in with a bye
4 Runners Up automatically in with a bye
4 Winners of 3v4 automatically in with a bye

2 auto bids for Champs from non power 4
6 at large
These 8 teams play "1st round games"

Regular season matters. Last week matters.

ALTERNATE:
Make the 3v4 games like play in games where they play other conference (B10 3 vs ACC 4, SEC 3 vs Big12 4, ACC 3 vs SEC 4, Big12 3 vs B10 4)

ALTERNATE 2:
Similar setup for 14 teams with 1 and 2 getting autobids and either 6 at large or the winner of the 3v4 in with only 2 at large.

Could make a similar setup but with 16 as well. Make the last week of the season mean a lot more for many teams. Again, probably not realistic.
 
It won't matter. SEC will want more than half of the field to come from SEC. Frankly, until everyone else catches up to the SEC in talent, they might have an argument. Start looking at a 20 team field and tell me what teams deserve or would even have a chance against Georgia or Bama? I would say 16 team playoff. Ends there. This would add more at large teams, you know SEC would for sure get 6-8 teams in the field. Big 10 might add one more team. Big 12 would likely add one more team too the field. That leaves more SEC and maybe one more group of 5 school. Does that make the field better and more competitive? I would say no, just watered down more and with more chances to see blow outs in the second round of the playoffs. It would make it easier for conference champs to reach semi finals and still getting same teams in the discussion playing for title.
 
Not sure the old 4 team system didn't make more sense or even the BCS setup for the 8 team field. Auto bids for conference champs, and then let the computers decide based on analytics and other components.
 
Oddly enough, four teams would have been pretty clean this year.

I've long been a fan of eight with a stipulation of no more than two per conference. I might bump that to three per conferece now that the B1G and the SEC are so dominant (both in number of teams and talent).
This year, that would have been:
#1 Indiana vs #8 Miami
#4 Texas Tech vs #5 Oregon
#3 Georgia vs #6 Ole Miss
#2 Ohio State vs # 7 Texas A&M

Doesn't look all that bad to me.
 
Do what NFL, D2, D3, and High Schools do.

Do away with the selection committee.

In the event there are two equal teams near the bottom, have their QBs do a half time Dr Pepper football toss to see who gets in.
 
Mavric said:
Oddly enough, four teams would have been pretty clean this year.

I've long been a fan of eight with a stipulation of no more than two per conference. I might bump that to three per conferece now that the B1G and the SEC are so dominant (both in number of teams and talent).
This year, that would have been:
#1 Indiana vs #8 Miami
#4 Texas Tech vs #5 Oregon
#3 Georgia vs #6 Ole Miss
#2 Ohio State vs # 7 Texas A&M

Doesn't look all that bad to me.
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That does look good. They could trade Ole Miss and Oregon to avoid a first round with 2 conference teams. ND is still on the outside, but they could just join a conference already.
 
Mavric said:
Oddly enough, four teams would have been pretty clean this year.

I've long been a fan of eight with a stipulation of no more than two per conference. I might bump that to three per conferece now that the B1G and the SEC are so dominant (both in number of teams and talent).
This year, that would have been:
#1 Indiana vs #8 Miami
#4 Texas Tech vs #5 Oregon
#3 Georgia vs #6 Ole Miss
#2 Ohio State vs # 7 Texas A&M

Doesn't look all that bad to me.
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That looks perfect to me.

Alabama, Texas and Notre Dame would be sitting at the same complainers table without much of a case beyond the standard "what if" games. Vanderbilt and BYU could still congratulate themselves on great seasons. While folks would no doubt root for the James Madisons and Tulanes to give us Cinderella Stories, they stand a much better chance of proving why strength of schedule matters.

College football has a lot to figure out right now. Kinda weird how the first fix would be to end the suddenly meaningless Conference Championships.
 
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