It works in the sense that it sells advertising and draws eyeballs. It doesn't work if the goal is to crown the best team champion.
Yeah, probably.
There aren't even 12 good teams. There sure as hell aren't 16. That would make the problem worse, not better.
I think stick with 12 but still kill the conference championship games.
Maybe, who knows. I also wonder if you're in the 13-16 slots, how much NIL/NFL defection you might get like we see for non-CFP teams now. But really, if they change the NIL dates to better align with CFP timelines and maybe come up with academic year exemptions for late-arriving players to new teams, even if you're a team in these lower brackets, there's a chance. I think I disagree anyway because, we could have had Alabama, Ole Miss, South Carolina, and Miami and/or Colorado added and would be pretty exciting IMO. And although Conference Championships turned out to be some great games, these great games are better served being part of the early rounds of an expanded CFP field. This is exciting, the game is changing, and like it or not, having more (even with 2- and 3-loss games) SEC teams in CFP will make things more competitive. Lastly, imagine all the awesome home playoff games in the first two rounds across college campuses -- EPIC!!
Exactly, giving conference byes when the conferences are obviously not equal is just ridiculous. 2 teams getting the top 4 byes were ranked 9th and 12th. Absolutely makes Zero sense!
I think the SEC and BIG can go fuck themselves if they think they should get all the spots. Might as well drop the FBS down to just those 2 conferences than. What’s the point of the regular season if 1 loss teams are going to get left out over 3 loss teams. Maybe the BIG and SEC shouldn’t have gobbled up all the supposedly best teams and then bitch and moan about how hard their conferences are.
That’s exactly why Big10 Indiana shouldn’t automatically be in for being 11-1. Their schedule was trash. I think we concur. But I also don’t like giving these conferences auto byes. ASU and Boise just sitting back watching and Texas, ND, OSU grinding out games. Boise and ASU should barely be in the playoff and they’re both going to get demolished. Go top 12 or top 14 imo. Seed it based on SoS and ranking models. The little guy will still get in but teams will also get rewarded for tough regular season schedules. Just my opinion.
It won’t happen, but you’re right. Eight teams would be perfect.
No I 100% believe Indiana should have been in over any of the 3 loss SEC teams. There is no way to fairly calculate SoS in college football right now.
The beat down everyone is complaining about was of a B1G team? Who is arguing in their favor?
I hear everyone bitching about SMU. People can bitch about IU all they want. Alabama would have gotten shit on worse. They choked their chances against 6-6 Oklahoma in the last game of the year with the playoffs on the line. If they couldn’t get up for that they weren’t getting up to compete against NDs defense in South Bend in 20 degree weather.
or Texas is looking overrated. As is the whole SEC. To early to tell.
