12 Team Playoff Coming

[orangepassion]

I'll take 12 over 2 any day.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

Sounds like this will be Top 6 conference champs and 6 at larges. That is even better for SU but it is even worse for the sport. The 6th best Champ might not even be Top 20.

2021 Cincy was #4 but they are going to the B12. Next best was #13 BYU but they are also going to the B12. Next was Houston at #20, guess where they are headed? So #23 Louisiana it is.

2019 Memphis was #17. Do we need #5 vs #17 in that 1st round?

2018 UCF was #8 but they are headed to the B12. Next was #21 Fresno State.

2017 UCF was #12, next best was #20 Memphis (assuming they win the AAC). If not then #25 Boise State gets in.

2016 Western Michigan was #15.

2015 Houston was #18. Next best was #21 Navy who would have played #24 Temple in the AAC Champ game. Winner gets a playoff spot. What would happen to Army-Navy in the case of Navy making the playoff?

2014 Boise State was #20.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

This is really good longterm for SU. Even if the ACC lost half of its teams, the conference can add 3 teams, get to a true round robin schedule, and still have the Champ make the playoffs. It wouldn't matter that Texas makes 10x as much money, we have easier access to the playoffs. So even if we get left behind, there is something to play for.

 

[CuseCactus]

This is really good longterm for SU. Even if the ACC lost half of its teams, the conference can add 3 teams, get to a true round robin schedule, and still have the Champ make the playoffs. It wouldn't matter that Texas makes 10x as much money, we have easier access to the playoffs. So even if we get left behind, there is something to play for.

Great post. It’ll also make things more interesting. The more teams in, the greater the national interest. (As opposed to the usual 3 Southern and one Midwest teams that always make it in).

 

[KaiserUEO]

They’re going to have to keep these games off the weekends too.

Leave Sat & Sun for the NFL,

Keep the semis on NYD or NYE or the 2nd, however it works…and get the 5-12 & 6-11 games etc on a Tuesday-Thursday.

 

[Bayside44]

This is so incredibly stupid.

3 and 4 have been getting boatraced by 1 and 2 in these playoffs seemingly all the way though.

 

[JRHEETER]

This is so incredibly stupid.

3 and 4 have been getting boatraced by 1 and 2 in these playoffs seemingly all the way though.

While this is definitely true

I have an optimistic view that maybe this brings a little more parity to the NCAA

Most kids want to go to Alabama or Ohio State and Clemson because that’s their best shot to get into the playoffs

Now you might take a risk on going to a school you might have liked more than those others because you have a better chance at making the playoffs

I could be wrong, but I’m trying to stay positive! LOL

 

[PhatOrange]

LOVE IT !!

 

[OrlandoCuse]

The NFL used a 12 team playoff very successfully for decades. I’m 100% fine with this. It will make for an exciting few month of football.

 

[Scooch]

More meaningful football is better than less meaningful football.

Plus, college football is nothing but an egregious money grab anyway. So who the hell really cares how many teams make it? Like, would 64 make the sport any less credible at this point?

 

[texascpa]

This is so incredibly stupid.

3 and 4 have been getting boatraced by 1 and 2 in these playoffs seemingly all the way though.

Did you miss the stat another poster posted above you? No 4 has won the NC as many times and No. 1

 

[orangepassion]

More meaningful football is better than less meaningful football.

Leads to less guys opting out of the postseason

 

[wiseman3]

This is so incredibly stupid.

3 and 4 have been getting boatraced by 1 and 2 in these playoffs seemingly all the way though.

This is just not true...4 seeds have won the playoff the same number of times as the 1 seed. Thats a fact.

 

[wiseman3]

Also, how can you hate this as a Syracuse fan? Isn't our whole goal as a fan to see our team do well and make the playoff/get a shot at the championship. This is great for us...we would have been very close in 2018.

And, it sounds like the first round games will be played on campus. Top 4 seeds get byes. Imagine a home playoff game in the Dome...we can dream!!

 

[SWC75]

Whatever they do, it will be temporary until the 'rapture' of the SEC and Big 10 to their own organization where they keep the big money and the big glory, so I'm not sure it matters.

I will say that i don't like byes. Everybody should have to play the same number of games. That makes me a 2-4-8-16 guy, (and I think March Madness should be 32 or 64). The 8 teams with auto bids to the Power Five champs and the highest ranked Group of 5 team made a lot of sense to me. If they are going beyond that, I'd rather go to 16 with auto bids to the 10 conference champions. Would there be blow-outs in a lot of the games? Yes, just as there are in March madness, in regular season games between the power five and the Group of Five teams and even in the four-team playoff? Yes. That doesn't bother me. There's also going to be games like Cincinnati's vs. Georgia two years ago and Alabama last year and the occasional Boise State- Oklahoma game. At least we gave them a shot. if a school could run the table and not get a shot at the national title, you either have a bad playoff system or teams that should be in a separate division. And I'd be all for combining the Group of 5 with FCS and give North Dakota State some competition. That might become Division 1 after the rapture and those 'left behind', (including us), could be in it.

This article is interesting:

What would a 12-team playoff have looked like since 2014? Simulations, storylines and more

Bill Connelly crunches the numbers using SP+ to figure out the most likely scenarios for how a 12-team playoff would have played out since 2014.

www.espn.com

Our 10-3 team of 2018 would not have made the expanded playoff. I've often wonder what would have happened if we had defeated Clemson and Pittsburgh and then won the ACC title to go 12-1. I don't think we'd have made the four-team playoff, (Clemson would have been 11-1, Notre Dame 12-0, Alabama 13-0, Ohio State and Oklahoma 12-1). But I think we would have made an 8-team playoff and would certainly have made a 12 or 16 team playoff.

 

[blust2i3d4]

The #4 seeds have not been competitive, why would the 5-12 seeds be?

The new system is designed to give Alabama, Ohio State and Clemson a chance to win national championship even they screw up in regular season.

 

[BVille44]

Unless Notre Dame joins a conference the best seed they can get is #5 since the first 4 seeds for the highest ranked conference champions.

College Football Playoff expansion: Board agrees to 12-team field with aim to implement as soon as possible

 

[sufandu]

I hate it. #'s 8-12 will never win a championship. And probably not 6 or 7 either. And nor should they be able to play for one.

It's like the basketball tournament. Low seeds aren't winning a championship, and no one wants to cheer for them anyway after they make it to the Sweet 16. They just don't belong.

Currently you're probably right, but you never know what it could look like in 10 years. Did anyone think an 8 would ever win the basketball tournament?

 

[NineOneSeven]

Think 6/8 made way more sense. The fact there are 5 major conferences and the CFP was 4 to start was pretty ridiculous

 

[mscanlo]

Keeps more fan bases engaged and increases the chances of upsets compared to today’s format. I’m in favor

Edit: and likely keeps more players from opting out

 

[BVille44]

Yahoo Sports: Conferences like the ACC and Pac-12 could also have been incentivized to expand the playoff sooner rather than later after the surprise move of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten earlier this summer. With the Big Ten and SEC poised to be the two most powerful Power Five conferences going forward, locking in a playoff format that includes a shot for everyone else seems like a wise move for all involved.

 

[David321]

I wish NFL fans (as in everything has to be like the NFL) would just leave college football alone. Let the NFL have their model, and let the college game be about the bowls.

 

[Cuseregular]

Love it, bring it on

 

[FRANKIEFAN]

This sucks its too much football for the kids and now Bama can lose 3 games maybe 4 and get a shot at the title. Regular seaason no longer matters.

We might get a decent first round 5-8 vs 9-12 should be better games than what we've been getting when 1 and 2 demolish 3 and 4.

Noone can beat SEC teams though you might get 4 of them in the semis some years 3 of 4 regularly.

 

[SouthernCuse]

Nobody was asking for 12, its an SEC money grab for 3 spots minimum. 8 would be fine.