2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

[ORD_Buckeye]

I think we'll end up with 5 SEC teams. Since they'll avoid conference matchips in the 1st round, we're pretty much looking at an SEC invitational for the first round. They fall on their face, and it'll be glorious. If they win 3 or 4 we'll never hear the end of it.

 

[Zurp]

This worked out so well for last year's #1 seed.

It should have worked out. They didn't count on the best team being an 8-seed.
Note that I strategically used the word "theoretically".

 

[CincyInterloper]

This worked out so well for last year's #1 seed.

Didn't the 1-4 seeds all get knocked out in their first game? Doesn't say much for winning a conference championship or getting a first round bye.

 

[exhawg]

Didn't the 1-4 seeds all get knocked out in their first game? Doesn't say much for winning a conference championship or getting a first round bye.

It will be different this year. Last year, bad conference champs got the byes, and the #1 overall seed ended up having to play the real best team in the second round. If Oregon had been on the opposite side of the bracket, that rematch might have been the championship game. If an undefeated tOSU and Indiana play in the Big 10 CCG both will likely still get a bye this year, barring a tOSU/Oregon style curb stomping in Indy.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Look for tejas to get every possible benefit of the doubt. They want Starch in that playoff. They need Starch in that playoff.

 

[BB73]

Didn't the 1-4 seeds all get knocked out in their first game? Doesn't say much for winning a conference championship or getting a first round bye.

After the round of 4 home games, the lower seed won the remaining 7 games..

5-6-7-8 beat 1-2-3-4, 7-8 beat 5-6, and 8 beat 7 for the Natty.

 

[Zurp]

After the round of 4 home games, the lower seed won the remaining 7 games..

5-6-7-8 beat 1-2-3-4, 7-8 beat 5-6, and 8 beat 7 for the Natty.

I think if they ran this model 20 more years, last year would stand out as an anomoly.
1 was boned when Ohio State lost to the cheaters and fell to #6 (and to a #8 seed).
2 was boned when they lost their quarterback.
3 was boned because they're Boise State.
4 was boned because they're Arizona State.
5 got boned because they had to play Ohio State.
6 was boned because they're Penn State.
7 lost because they had to play Ohio State.

 

[buckeyemania11]

Look for tejas to get every possible benefit of the doubt. They want Starch in that playoff. They need Starch in that playoff.

I don't doubt at all that they would screw over a 2 loss ACC or Big 12 team who got their 2nd loss in the conference title game for a 3 loss Texas.

I don't think SMU last year set a precedent, it just ended up giving them future justification for taking the 3 loss SEC team over a 2 loss ACC type team who took their 2nd loss in the CCG