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2024 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

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BB73 said:
Pedsters will have 2 more days of rest before the Jan. 9th Orange Bowl than the winner of the Sugar Bowl will have.
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One of the main reasons Kirby and Freeman both wanted the game time moved up.
Regardless of the outcome, both want to be able to get on a plane and get their teams home tonight for as much of a "normal" week as possible. If such a thing exists in the playoff world.
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
Just checked drafrkings. ND is now a 1 pt favorite over Georgia.
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Yikes - if that is true, all 4 of the top 4 seeds will have been underdogs. That's crazy.
They need to re-seed based on the rankings after the first round.
Should have been Oregon vs Arizona State, Penn State vs. Notre Dame, Georgia vs. Boise State, and Ohio State vs. Texas.
 
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Remains to be seen how the game plays out today - but I am not convinced that the "off week" hurt the teams that earned them.
In respect to the Dawgs, they certainly needed it to get the new QB game plan installed. Believe its more of a factor of Boise and ASU being outgunned.

Oregon is:

1). A different team away from Autzen
2). Just next in line to face the OSU buzzsaw
 
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BigWoof31 said:
Remains to be seen how the game plays out today - but I am not convinced that the "off week" hurt the teams that earned them.
In respect to the Dawgs, they certainly needed it to get the new QB game plan installed. Believe its more of a factor of Boise and ASU being outgunned.

Oregon is:

1). A different team away from Autzen
2). Just next in line to face the OSU buzzsaw
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They definitely need to rework the system

I'd argue that games should be played @ the highest seed until the final, but the corporate bowl sponsors would never allow that. If Oregon won they woulda basically played a defacto road game against the #5 seed at the Cotton Bowl against Texas as the #1 seed.

The conference champ BYE thing needs to completely go away, the top 4 should get the BYEs and then just seed everyone according to ranking. The #1 seed got put at a disadvantage this year because of how things were set up.
 
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My stubborn SEC-biased family and friends mostly refuse to admit that Herbstreit’s IU comments were just wrong. They are so dug in on these 2 premises: 1). The “looks test” is the best test for CFP worthiness….that way 2 or 3 losses don’t hurt. 2). Herbstreit and GameDay are simply the only authority on CFB and that OSU fans are lunatics for not believing that


If Day and his Buckeye Team pull off the CFP Championship, they will have done more damage to the South’s psyche than has been done since General William Tecumseh Sherman.
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
The conference champ BYE thing needs to completely go away, the top 4 should get the BYEs and then just seed everyone according to ranking. The #1 seed got put at a disadvantage this year because of how things were set up.
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I disagree, at least at this point. Let it play out a couple of years. I'm assuming the byes are an advantage. I think someone claimed they are a disadvantage, though. If that is the case, we need to get rid of them. Go to 8 teams or 16 teams.
But I like that you need to win your conference championship game to get that bye, even if that means Boise and Arizona State get those byes.
We knew coming in that the 5-seed could be the best spot to be in, and the 6-seed might be almost as good. So with Texas and Penn State getting easy* roads to the final four, that shouldn't surprise anyone. (* note that Arizona State made that game a lot closer than most of us expected.) But the top 2 seeds were supposed to be easy-ish, too. Ohio State being the 8 seed was an anomaly, with the way they're playing. That's going to be rare. And I'd guess that, normally, Georgia would be favored if their quarterback wasn't hurt. (I'll admit that that's a guess, since I don't know much about Georgia or Notre Dame.)
If I had a vote (spoiler alert: I don't), I'd say we should let this 12-team thing go for a couple more years, with a reseeding after the first round to get down to 8 teams. Maybe reseed after every round. But the NCAA likes to shoot from the hip. This may change after this year.
 
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Zurp said:
I disagree, at least at this point. Let it play out a couple of years. I'm assuming the byes are an advantage. I think someone claimed they are a disadvantage, though. If that is the case, we need to get rid of them. Go to 8 teams or 16 teams.
But I like that you need to win your conference championship game to get that bye, even if that means Boise and Arizona State get those byes.
We knew coming in that the 5-seed could be the best spot to be in, and the 6-seed might be almost as good. So with Texas and Penn State getting easy* roads to the final four, that shouldn't surprise anyone. (* note that Arizona State made that game a lot closer than most of us expected.) But the top 2 seeds were supposed to be easy-ish, too. Ohio State being the 8 seed was an anomaly, with the way they're playing. That's going to be rare. And I'd guess that, normally, Georgia would be favored if their quarterback wasn't hurt. (I'll admit that that's a guess, since I don't know much about Georgia or Notre Dame.)
If I had a vote (spoiler alert: I don't), I'd say we should let this 12-team thing go for a couple more years, with a reseeding after the first round to get down to 8 teams. Maybe reseed after every round. But the NCAA likes to shoot from the hip. This may change after this year.
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NCAA has no say in it. The CFP is the organization that runs this tournament (CFP Administration, LLC)
 
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Zurp said:
Good call. But I'll be surprised if no changes are made before next season.
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They probably won't because in the operating agreement of that LLC, their first two years needed unanimous agreement to make changes.

After that, operating control (and majority of revenue) goes to SEC and B1G.

Look for the big changes after two years of learning in the 2026 playoff.
 
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