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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

Zurp
BB73 said:
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.
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What would this accomplish for the teams involved? I get that you and I get more quality football to watch, but what is the motivation of the teams involved?
I mean, what is the motivation for Ohio State and Indiana? From what we're speculating, the loser will still be top 4. The winner might have an easier path to the championship, but if there's a similar situation in the future, and Team A goes down 21-0 early in the second quarter, what motivation do they have to fight to bring this back to a close game?
If we do 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5, do the winners get credited with a quality win? What's Oregon's motivation this year? What's Ole Miss's motivation this year? Or aTm's? Those teams are already in.
I like the idea of more football, but only if it's a game both teams want to win.
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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

Gizmo
BB73 said:
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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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.
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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

BB73
Thump said:
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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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Google Jeremiah Smith sends serious message to Chris Henry Jr. as he weighs sticking with his Ohio State commitment - A to Z Sports

Jeremiah Smith sends serious message to Chris Henry Jr. as he weighs sticking with his Ohio State commitment - A to Z Sports
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Jeremiah Smith sends serious message to Chris Henry Jr. as he weighs sticking with his Ohio State commitment A to Z Sports

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Last concert you saw?

BuckBackHome
I looked at buying some tickets to the upcoming Zach Bryan show at the Browns stadium next May. I was number 380,000 in the queue. That is larger than the population of Cleveland proper. I think I will wait to see what prices look like closer to the day of the show. I've never been to a concert in such a large venue and probably won't head to it unless I can see some decent prices. All I know is I am glad we went to see him a few months ago at Marshall's stadium. Only 27k people there and I think that is considered a small show for him.
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2026 tOSU Recruiting Discussion

OregonBuckeye
osuvictory1 said:
Our fans are ridiculous. This dude rattled off teams that got a good return after a championship run, yet aren't nearly as well rounded as OSU using the strategy that OSU is using.

JHC!!

Brain dead low level thinkers.

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Far from just our fans. Twitter is a database of the worst thoughts and opinions from humanity
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B1G CCG: #1 tOSU vs #2 Indiana in Indy, Sat. Dec 6th, 8 ET on FOX

Steve19
Indiana has to be thinking that Hartline's decision opens the door a bit for them. Noticed how "Google Me" Cignetti has toned it down since Day spoke about winning with humility? The psychological war began before the Buckeyes left the field in Ann Arbor. It's going to be a good game to watch.
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2025 tOSU Defense Discussion

BB73
MGMT said:
Looked at snap counts and saw we didn’t rotate a single DE against ttun. I know Jackson had basically one of the most disruptive games of his career but at this point in the season and with how solid Atkinson has been in addition to how Zion Grady has earned run I really
Hope they get good snap volume vs IU.
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I’m OK with Indiana only getting 44 offensive snaps.
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Game Thread THE GAME: #1 tOSU at tCun, Sat. Nov. 29th, 12 pm ET, FOX

Steve19
sammyjenkis said:
It is a powder. In that brief cut he does it at least twice, and to me it looks like he is trying to be discreet as fuck while he does it.
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Someone with AI skills needs to get this image out and find this guy. Potentially, that is domestic terrorism and should be investigated as such.
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