2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

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Ryan Day wants College Football Playoff changes after Ohio State's title​

The Buckeyes coach offers solutions to the expanded playoff.​

College Football Playoff changes are coming, but Ohio State coach Ryan Day offered an alteration this week that goes beyond the games and enhances the experience for the players. Day and the Buckeyes waltzed through the first year of the expanded playoff with multiple convincing wins as an at-large selection, yet something felt off leading up to the national championship.

"First off, the experience is something we really got to learn from," Day said on the "Triple Option" podcast this week. "You know, I think that the player experience can be much better. I think that the focus needs to be on the players, and I think we need to look at a lot of it. Because, you know, the national championship is not run by a bowl.

"The other ones are but, even the ones that are run by a bowl, as you guys remember, there used to be events. There was a lot that came with that. Now that's no longer the case."

Day said the CFP has become formulaic and with no special offerings for players prior to kickoff like other bowl events.

"It's just like being on a road game, except you're there a day earlier, but there's no events like nobody going on any events, nobody's leaving the hotel," Day said. "I think that, you know, we need to consider moving the hotels outside of these big cities, because we're not going to these events anymore. So I think being a little bit more secluded and looking at some of those locations is just better for everybody, especially for the players. We need to pour it into the players.

"These are the guys that are doing the work. So I think that we need, you know, the best food there is that could possibly serve these guys. I think it should be the best conditions. I think we should try to find as many mementos for these guys that possibly can be done, just little things that money can't buy, but it stays with them forever."
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Big Ten, SEC set to unveil grand plans for College Football Playoff change ... but is anyone else on board?

No drastic decisions are expected on Tuesday, but the two power conferences will begin their quest for a CFP takeover

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Big Ten, SEC set to unveil grand plans for College Football Playoff change ... but is anyone else on board?

No drastic decisions are expected on Tuesday, but the two power conferences will begin their quest for a CFP takeover​

Soon, after months of talking and at least two clandestine meetings, the Big Ten and SEC may exert their newfound power. Their commissioners are expected to ask cohorts Tuesday to change seeding in the 2025 College Football Playoff, eliminating first-round byes for the four highest-ranked conference champions and basing seeding solely on the selection committee's rankings. The change would require unanimous approval among the 10 conferences and Notre Dame. If the Big Ten and SEC do not get what they want this week, they can wait until 2026, when the voting protocol of the management committee changes, people familiar with the agreement between commissioners and the CFP's board told CBS Sports. The Big Ten and SEC will control the CFP's voting power starting in 2026, and will no longer require unanimity from the 11 management committee members to pass legislation, sources told CBS Sports.
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The non-power conferences have reservations about both leaked plans for the CFP, including tweaking the seeding protocol as soon as next season. In December, the Mountain West's champion, No. 9 Boise State, was rewarded with a first-round bye as one of the four highest-ranked conference champions. Big 12 champion Arizona State, which was ranked 12th, also received a first-round bye. Seeding the tournament based solely on the committee's rankings would diminish the possibility of a non-power team receiving a first-round bye ... and getting an $8 million payout for a school appearing in the quarterfinals.
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"Winning a conference championship matters," ACC commissioner Jim Phillips told CBS Sports in December. "Now, am I open to listening to some other ideas? Absolutely. As I sit here today, it's a reward for a conference champion."
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Just sayin': I'll guess that the "top 4 conference champions" seeding won't change in the 2025 CFPs. Actually I liked it, it rewards the top 4 conference champions. #3 Texas and #4 Penn State can whine all they want; they would have got the bye had they won their CCG. I just don't think that loser of the CCG deserves a 1st round bye. Boise State and Arizona State played in their CCG (which was an extra game) and won it. Maybe it is time to eliminate CCGs with everyone playing an additional conference game; which would automatically eliminate the conference winners getting the bye in the CFP. However, that won't happen due to the money made on the CCGs.