16 Team Playoff

[junior4949]

I really like the idea of all 5 conferences being represented. It's just another way to show if they belong or don't. With less and less non-conference games coming in the future there needs to be away besides the media to determine how strong a conference is. 5 +3(at large) seems good.

 

Can't see what the strong argument for 16 would be? and 4 is ok, however there have been years where the the difference between #2 and #5 is too tight to call.

 

This to me makes about as much sense as putting the Big East Champion into a BCS bowl used to make. Oklahoma is in the driver seat of the Big 12 this year. They already got spanked like a red headed stepchild by Ohio State who may not even win the B1G. They play next to zero defense. I don't see why they should automatically qualify just for winning a $hitty conference this year. Every power 5 conference goes through its down years. Champions during those years shouldn't be rewarded with a playoff berth. Take 2012 for example, 8-6 Wisconsin would have been in the playoff. Watching that would have been about as exciting as watching unranked UConn getting steamrolled in a BCS bowl.

[jsneb83]

64

128. Let everyone play!

[mrandyk]

Every other level of college football - FCS, D2, D3, NAIA - has 16-24 team playoffs. There is absolutely no good reason why FBS only has four damn teams in their playoff. How did this even happen? How did we break from the complete lack of a playoff to just a 4 team playoff?

[Cdog923]

I think 4 is absolutely fine. It keeps the product itself from getting watered down, and the regular season still has meaning.

[Nebfanatic]

If we expand it I would prefer 8 or 24

[Redux]

I think 4 is absolutely fine. It keeps the product itself from getting watered down, and the regular season still has meaning.

 

The Bowl system is what watered the post season down.

[teachercd]

If you don't like 16 don't watch it when it expands that far…

[Redux]

Expand to 8, cut the bowls back to 25.

[dvdcrr]

Every other level of college football - FCS, D2, D3, NAIA - has 16-24 team playoffs. There is absolutely no good reason why FBS only has four damn teams in their playoff. How did this even happen? How did we break from the complete lack of a playoff to just a 4 team playoff?

Money

[Michiganball]

The playoff system is an example where everything scales.

 

Prior to the BCS, you didn't have championship games. You just had bowls and polling picked the National Champions at the end of the season.

Then they introduced the BCS, which solved what most people wanted "We want to actually see the top two teams play". It introduced the issue, however, where we don't get to see the teams that missed the cut, through whatever reasons, even given the chance to compete.

So the CFP is introduced. It has all the same issues that the BCS had, but now we have 4 teams instead of 2.

So we introduce the 8 team playoff, and it doesn't solve any of the issues.

So we introduce a 16 team playoff, and it doesn't solve any of the issues.

So we intro...

 

In the end, what are we trying to accomplish?

You get a hell of a lot more right with 4 teams then just 2(greater the trial group, the more accurate the results) also there was major controversy every year, with multiple unbeaten teams, or same records and on and on... which cumulated with the most absurd "championship" of all between Gumps and LSU where no team actually had to play nationally to win a NATIONAL championship. So what 8 teams would accomplish is, a lot of fun and much lesser chance of leaving out a team that had a shot to win.

[admo]

The moment it expands to 8 it will be discussed to grow out to 16. Just the way it's going. But eight would be a real playoff feel more than four

[Michiganball]

The moment it expands to 8 it will be discussed to grow out to 16. Just the way it's going. But eight would be a real playoff feel more than four

Not sure about that, for one it may be to exhausting and time consuming for the players. And really I dont see number 16 team being good enough to win it all. really any team above top 10 wining is very very unlikely. But looking at the current CFP rankings, most those top 10 teams could have a shot at making the finals.

But yea, eight would feel a bit more grand, like more of an event. The only problem as now is the damn bowl games, you are still going to have this outdated model where each game is a bowl game in non neutral territory.

[Count 'Bility]

I still think 8 would be perfect. 1-I think anyone can make a legit argument on any given year in the 4 team format for teams 5-8. Esp this year. With Bama the obvious 1 right now, the rest is pretty even.

2-with 8, you can really simplify by allowing power 5 conference champs automatic bids. I know this is weird cuz the big 12's issues and on the cuff of being dismantled, but as it stands now,...

3-you'd have 3 more spots for wildcards, 1 of which should be reserved for the best non-power5 program. This is way I've always thought it should go. it would only add one more game to what we already have. the quarters could be played in middle of december at home sights, 2 weeks after CCG's. Would be just enough dose to keep folks intrigued.

[ScottyIce]

I hope we get to play Louisville in a bowl game.

[Redux]

I hope we get to play Louisville in a bowl game.

No thanks