24 Team CFP?

[HRE Otto IV]

The rhetoric that the regular season doesn't matter is bunk. Tell the 140 teams that didn't make the playoff that the regular season didn't matter. In a 4 team playoff does the regular season matter when a legit contender is left out because they're ranked 5th?

There usually wasn't a fifth team that was a legit contender. Now with the mega conferences and no round robin divisional play (let alone conference), it is harder to weed out the top teams.

I have a hard time rationalizing more than 2 teams from a conference being worthy of making a playoff. Once you get past that, it makes the regular season less meaningful. But like I said before, with division less conferences the regular season no longer weeds teams out.

With a 24 team playoff (assuming every conference champ gets in) last year you would have:

-the ACC's 3rd place team (but only ACC team to make it)
-the B1G's 5th place team (4 teams in)
-the B12's 5th place team (4 teams in)
-the SEC's 7th place team (7 teams in)


But again with no divisions or round robin play it screws up the conference standings.


With 16 teams (assuming Top 6 conference champs get in) you would have:

-the B12's 2nd place team (2 teams in)
-the ACC's 3rd place team (2 teams in)
-the B1G's 3rd place team (3 teams in)
-the SEC's 6th placed team (6 teams in)

That is a lot better but still makes the SEC season less meaningful. It also is a bit of a farce not having every conference champ in the tournament. If we had the 10 conference champs and only 6 at larges, it would work great. But there is no ways the powers that be will allow that.


Even with the 12 teams last year we had FIVE SEC teams.


I also think it is an issue with neutral site games in the quarterfinals. That too diminishes the regular season. The better teams should have a home field advantage at that stage. It wasn't fair last year for Ohio State to play Miami in Dallas vs Columbus. The year before it wasn't fair that Oregon played Ohio State in Pasadena instead of Eugene.


Edit
I forgot to break down a 16 team all conference champ that I mentioned above:

-the B1G's 3rd place team (3 teams in)
-the SEC's 5th place team (5 teams in)

This would make the playoffs super exclusive. But we still have the mega conference issue. Without divisions the SEC had four teams at 7-1 in conference. There was no chance to weed out who were the best SEC teams.