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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

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OHSportsFan said:


Early postering and internet idiots running with this possibility.

No chance.
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So Texas wants to have its cake and eat it too. Texas is such a prima donna. Maybe we should expand the field to 13 and give Texas a permanent automatic bid? Then they could play 12 marquee games and lose them all.
 
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CincyInterloper said:
So Texas wants to have its cake and eat it too. Texas is such a prima donna. Maybe we should expand the field to 13 and give Texas a permanent automatic bid? Then they could play 12 marquee games and lose them all.
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You could keep the tournament at 12, have them lose their marquee games and still get in. We call that "The Notre Dame"
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
Haha. They did it. They jumped Bama over ND. Why do you think they did that?

Was it that Bama’s close win over 5-7 Auburn even while being significantly outgained?

Or was it Notre Dame’s complete domination of 4-8 Stanford?

Or was it to protect Alabama in case they lose the SEC championship and BYU wins the B12?

I will be cheering hard for BYU for many reasons. 1. ND not making the playoffs is its own reward. 2. That the committee fucked ND for Bama because SEC is hilarious. 3. Kalani Sitake seems like a cool dude and just told Penn State to shove it. 4. I think ND is a better team than Bama and I’d rather play Bama. 5. Fuck ND.
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All solid points, especially number 5 ....
 
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Zurp said:
Would it be between 10-2 Notre Dame and 10-3 Alabama (assuming they lose to Georgia)?
Only one of those teams can get in?
I wouldn't mind seeing Alabama missing the playoffs 2 years in a row.
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You'd think that, but the committee has said that "they won't punish teams for playing the extra game". If that's true, then a neutral Notre Dame should not jump ahead of Bama, who had to play that extra game. They set that up by having Bama jump them this week.

Also, came in here to post that I just read on facebook that the Miami game was a "beatdown" over Notre Dame. A game that was tied with a minute to play, and never further than a 14 point difference, was a "beatdown"..... I guess we've been watching straight massacres all season.
 
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Gizmo said:
You'd think that, but the committee has said that "they won't punish teams for playing the extra game". If that's true, then a neutral Notre Dame should not jump ahead of Bama, who had to play that extra game. They set that up by having Bama jump them this week.

Also, came in here to post that I just read on facebook that the Miami game was a "beatdown" over Notre Dame. A game that was tied with a minute to play, and never further than a 14 point difference, was a "beatdown"..... I guess we've been watching straight massacres all season.
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Talk is cheap. Let's see what they do.
But if BYU wins and Notre Dame gets left out, boo-freakin' hoo.
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
When losses happen definitely matters IMO. And that's exactly why Miami is behind ND. You can't lose to unranked teams later in the season and expect not to get dinged for it. I'm not on the "good loss" bs train but BAD losses definitely should have a big effect. Louisville and SMU are very very mediocre football teams.

I don't think ND or Miami win more than the opening round game if even that if they get in so in the grand scheme this argument probably doesn't matter much.
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The problem is people like to say the results on the field matter. Why play the game if you don't reward the winner of the game with the belief that they were the better team?
 
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Gizmo said:
Well, it's pretty much set. Here's who's in:
Ohio State (12-0)
Indiana (12-0)
Georgia (11-1)
Texas Tech (11-1)
Oregon (11-1)
Ole Miss (11-1)
Texas A&M (11-1)
Oklahoma (10-2)
Alabama (10-2)
2 from ACC/G5

One spot up for grabs.
BYU win and in
BYU lose Notre Dame is in

Pretty sure that's all the important games outside of the ACC/G5 games.
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More reasonable than BYU upsetting TT, is Duke upsetting UVA.

That would very likely put JMU in to go with the AAC winner (Tulane/UNT). Assuming chalk holds everywhere else, that is the scenario that knocks ND and the ACC out.

(I think)
 
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