CFP Management Committee Extends Current Format Through 2026-27 Season

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[SUMBA]

That's good because this year's playoffs worked out so well.

 

[Dinkyspond]

That's good because this year's playoffs worked out so well.

I think it was fine, ND can kick rocks, they didn't deserve to go, so sit home, bunch of pansies

 

[upperdeck]

Honestly. If Miami had done its job, they win the ACC and one of the P5 gets kicked out and ND gets in and it would have been a pretty good bracket,.

 

[SU68]

The 12 game format is fine. The ACC needs to get rid of the tie-breaker and go to the 2 highest ranked teams for the CCG.

 

[PAcuse]

Need to get to the point where they expand and get rid of conference championship games.
Gets rid of a lot of messes.

 

[djorange1989]

I would have been fine with 16. No byes, home games the first two rounds. But the Big 10 wanted the assurance that it would go from 16 to 24 in three years and the SEC said yes to 16 but no to the 24 guarantee. The ACC and Big 12 aren’t allowed to have an opinion and were not consulted. Blow up this whole freaking sport: make players employees, collectively bargain in rules, use the current football conference alignments only for football and stop this garbage of volleyball teams flying cross country. All other sports re-align to geographically logical conferences(ie Cuse, Pitt, BC play all other sports in a new Big East). And the P4 negotiate network football TV deals as one like the NFL and they will all make phat cash. Ok, soapbox is being put away now!

 

[HtownOrange]

I would have been fine with 16. No byes, home games the first two rounds. But the Big 10 wanted the assurance that it would go from 16 to 24 in three years and the SEC said yes to 16 but no to the 24 guarantee. The ACC and Big 12 aren’t allowed to have an opinion and were not consulted. Blow up this whole freaking sport: make players employees, collectively bargain in rules, use the current football conference alignments only for football and stop this garbage of volleyball teams flying cross country. All other sports re-align to geographically logical conferences(ie Cuse, Pitt, BC play all other sports in a new Big East). And the P4 negotiate network football TV deals as one like the NFL and they will all make phat cash. Ok, soapbox is being put away now!

To add to the above:

Sixteen is works best. No byes, no dispute on teams 11 and 12. By the tine you get to teams 15 and 16, who cares? If the limit is eight, teams 7, 8, 9, and 10 are a real discussion.

As for the B1G, they want guarantees to cover the costs of the past decade of largesse, a.k.a. Rutgers' disease - wherein a school thinks themselves so great that t hey can spend endless amounts of cash to upgrade all athletics facilities, pay coaches and players, and increase staffs to the point it appears to have more coaches on each team than players; and then the cash will roll in to pay for everything. The B1G commissioner is a con artist a man who loves money to the point he will sacrifice everything good about universities to bring in more cash. That is why the B1G needs 24 teams in the playoffs, so the B1G can be guaranteed lots of teams in the playoffs and lots of extra money for Pettiti's and the schools' spending habits.

Pulling football out of the general conference and aligning them regionally is a sound idea. Pool all the football teams and make them somewhat regional football only conferences, pool lll the TV revenue and share it equally, leaving all other revenue (gate, concessions, parking, merchandise, local stuff, etc.) to each school. Aside from MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL, who would have thought of this?

 

[SUMBA]

I think it was fine, ND can kick rocks, they didn't deserve to go, so sit home, bunch of pansies

It was more about who got in than who didn't. That both James Madison and Tulane were in the playoffs was a travesty.

 

[Archbold44]

My proposal remains:

1. Committee ranks teams 1 through 30.
2. Top 11 make it. If that is ND, they are in. If that is UConn, they are in. If that is Boise State, they are in. If that is 6 SEC teams, so be it.
3. CCG weekend is changed to play-in games for the top 2 in each (edit) P4 that are not ranked in top 11. At the old CCG sites for each P4 conference. And then create a G5 play-in that weekend also. Top 2 G5 teams that are not top 11.
4. After CCG weekend, seeds 1 through 8 host seeds 9 through 16. Top seed likely hosts G5. This past year, the ACC probably would have been the #15 seed.

Result:

Compromise between B1G desire for 24 with play-ins and SEC desire for 16 with 11 at-larges

Top 8 teams get a home game. That matters for regular season... as teams 9 through 11 go on the road, despite not having to play-in.

CCG weekend has 5 "win or go home games," ensuring that every P4 conference is represented, along with a G5. And conferences get to keep that revenue-generating game.

ND is not given special treatment, but has a clear path forward in its 10+ win seasons. 9 win ND probably loses actually, as it has no chance to play-in if ranked below 11. But them is the breaks.

G5 has at least 2 teams every year playing a win or go home game.

This past year... the committee probably would have gone with Ohio State, Indiana, Georgia, Texas Tech, Oregon, Ole Miss, A&M, Oklahoma, Miami, ND, Alabama as the top 11 in that order if using THIS system.

And then Tulane v James Madison for 16th seed (visiting Ohio State)... Virginia v Georgia Tech for 15th seed (visiting Indiana)... Michigan v USC for 14th seed (visiting Georgia)... Texas v Vandy for 13th seed (visiting Texas Tech)... and BYU v Utah for 12th seed (visiting Oregon). Then Ole Miss hosts ND... A&M hosts Miami (as it did) and Oklahoma hosts Alabama (as it did).

That makes for some pretty cool games. Texas Tech hosting Texas? BYU or Utah traveling to nearby Oregon? Michigan/USC at Georgia? By trying to make the conference play-in winners face teams from other conferences, it works out kind of interestingly.

How is this not a win-win across the board for everyone's interests?