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2024 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

The first step is to get rid of automatic seeds. SMU is 10. They should be playing #7 which is actually Tennessee.

Indiana is #8 so they should be playing #9 which is Boise State.

Boise State at Indiana
SMU at Tennessee

Think those aren't better games?

NCAA basketball has it right. You get automatic bids; not seeds. You see that all the time where 2 teams from same conference get a #1 seed.
 
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Conference title games need to go but that cash cow is not being sacrificed to the corporate overlords.

Agree with the current system. I think they missed their shot for a good payoff with the four team. Take the top 4 ranked conference champions, plus maybe an independent if they are ranked higher than one of the top 4 champs. Conference champs are play-ins for good conferences, a chance for anyone else (cough, Notre Dame, cough). But, they had to go with that "four best teams" (subjective) vs. "four most deserving teams" (less subjective), so certain conferences could try to get in more than one team.

To me, it's always been BS that a team can be called the "best team in America" when they aren't the best team in their own conference. Holds true for the NFL (in my IMO) as well.

But that ship has long sailed. Josh Pate had an interesting take on what might happen, that the "conference champion games" won't be to pick the champ, but for a play-in for the #2 and #3 teams where the #1 (regular season) in the conference gets an auto-bid. Interesting concept.
 
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