2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)
- By Gizmo
- College Football
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Problem with that is you still have teams playing an extra game, risking injury, etc. when compared to other teams that just sit and wait. It all needs to just get blown up. Either shrink the Conferences back to 10, or split them into divisions. ONLY and I fucking mean it, and said the same thing last year... ONLY conference champions get into the playoff. I say 8 teams, but whatever, I don't care. Take all subjectivity out of it, win divisionals, go to regionals, win regionals, go to nationals. If fucking Glee can figure that shit out, so can the NCAA.All this does is expand the playoff and give the committee more power and more leeway to arrange things. No thanks.
He does have a point about the disadvantage of playing in a CCG while the 3/4/5/6 teams in each conference sit out. At the B1G Media Days before this season started, Tony Petitti talked about having additional games during the CCG week. The B1G 3rd place team would play the 6th place team, and there would be a 4th/5th matchup as well.
I wasn’t wild about the idea when I first heard it, but it does accomplish a couple of things. First, there would be a few more games for TV, and some of those games would be relevant just prior to the CFP selection. It also takes away the disadvantage of the top-2 teams risking player injury while the soon-to-be at-large teams sit and get healthy.
This year would have created Oregon-Iowa and USC-TTUN rematches. And perhaps Ole Miss-Texas and aTm-Oklahoma in the SEC (sorry, Vandy). It would be more football being played and less posturing by the non-CCG teams this week.
The other thing I would prefer is an expansion only to 14, not 16, and have the 2 highest ranked CCG winners get the only byes. That retains a real value to the Conference Championships. This could be embraced by the 2 most powerful conferences, since the majority of the time their CCG winners would be receiving the CFP byes.
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