24-Team College Football Playoff

[NDWarrior]

It will be awesome if the everyone against The SEC and ESPN party wins out and the SEC and ESPN lose their strong hold on the CFP and major TV rights.

At this point, it appears that The SEC and ESPN are the only entities against a new 24-team CFP format for 2027 and beyond.

 

[Katzenboyer]

I hate the idea of it and this article does a much better job of explaining things than I ever could.

 

[pumpdog20]

I would think ND fans are for expansion since it means the status quo likely results in a lot of upcoming scheduled elite games will be in jeopardy of getting canceled.

 

[TNUtoNotreDame]

I get why ESPN is because they will lose their monopoly on the playoff. The SEC will likely get 6-8 teams in yearly so they would benefit. Me? I hate it.

 

[NDPhilly]

I would think ND fans are for expansion since it means the status quo likely results in a lot of upcoming scheduled elite games will be in jeopardy of getting canceled.

The thing is the elite games don’t even mean anything if you can lose 4 and still get in.

 

[stlnd01]

I would think ND fans are for expansion since it means the status quo likely results in a lot of upcoming scheduled elite games will be in jeopardy of getting canceled.

Pete Sampson had a piece about this the other day with an interview with Bevacqua basically saying that A: yes he thinks it would get easier to schedule marquee nonconference games, and B: The playoff has become so central to the sport and how programs are run now that you have to make it easier for more teams to get in, unless you want the middle and lower-tier P4s (and everyone below that) to basically give up on football.
I don't like the 24-team playoff, but I understand the thinking.

 

[NewEnglandGuy]

Cons - Players resting, multiple games that won’t matter for everyone, continued unequal scheduling as there will be even less incentive to schedule hard

Pros - eff ESPN, elimination of conference title games, due to games not mattering - tv will demand brand on brand for a return on investment for their contract

 

[rikkitikki08]

Pro- It fucks espn and the sec monopoly they’ve tried to create and I think it may help ND with regular season scheduling.

Con- The regular season is going to matter less and less if they expand this to 24 teams. This isn’t and shouldn’t be like march madness.

 

[calvegas04]

Against it, unless the regular season is shortened. But then that ruins the game for non playoff teams

 

[Katzenboyer]

The playoff has become so central to the sport and how programs are run now that you have to make it easier for more teams to get in, unless you want the middle and lower-tier P4s (and everyone below that) to basically give up on football.

You fix that issue by expanding to 16. Not 24.

Also, the same exact thing was said about NIL (the big boys will dominate, the little guy will get screwed) and it's had the opposite effect; more teams have a shot now than they did when Clemson, Bama, and Georgia were hoarding five stars.

Texas Tech, James Madison and Tulane made the playoff last year. We're supposed to watch those games and want MORE of that?

 

[HouseofPain]

Go back to strength of schedule so the poor season ticket holders don’t keep getting bent over with the charmin soft schedules that they fork the big bucks out for. But then the preseason ranking clowns will just make the top ten be a total combo of SEC and B10 teams year in and year out.