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College Football Playoff expansion talks heat up with 16-, 24-team formats taking center stage
The CFP management committee meets on Aug. 10 to discuss expanding the playoff field beyond 12 teams
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College Football Playoff expansion talks heat up with 16-, 24-team formats taking center stage
The CFP management committee meets on Aug. 10 to discuss expanding the playoff field beyond 12 teams
Rich Clark has run the College Football Playoff the way he ran the Air Force, with the discipline of following protocol and the chain of command and the resolve to make decisions that can't be undone.He'll be put to the test again over the next four months as CFP decision-makers face another hard deadline to decide whether to expand the college football postseason tournament.
The CFP's management committee will gather Aug. 10 for its first substantive meeting since January to discuss formats and view presentations from media advisers on scheduling, TV windows and timing considerations for 16- and 24-team formats, sources tell CBS Sports. The meeting won't produce a decision on format, but it's designed to provide details to inform decisions expected later this fall.
"There are so many considerations regarding the calendar, regarding student safety and health, regarding campus schedules, the schedule for finals and things like that," Clark, the CFP's executive director, told CBS Sports. "Where are we going to play these games? What is the calendar really going to look like? What's the revenue discussion look like, and what does that do to things like conference championships?"
That last question sits at the center of the entire debate. Expanding to a 24-team field would eliminate conference championship games. A 16-team format makes it more difficult for conferences to maintain their end-of-season title games, but it's not impossible.
"As great as our championship has been -- it's been wildly successful -- we've had incredible games the last couple of seasons, but I still think we're willing to do that because we believe that access is still the most important thing," Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti said.
The Big Ten supports a 24-team format, but the SEC remains uneasy with the option and has long offered a 16-team field as the strongest option for expansion. Still, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said late last month the conference is open to learning more about the Big Ten's proposal and whether media partners are interested in doubling the size of the playoff.
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Just sayin': This season, it will be another 12 team playoff.
Re: ESPN pays $1.3 billion annually for the rights to the College Football Playoff (CFP) under a six-year, $7.8 billion extension. This agreement keeps ESPN the exclusive media rights holder through the 2031–32 season.
However in MHO, here is the determining factor whether we end up with a 16 or 24 team playoff in the future....
The Big Ten supports a 24-team format, but the SEC remains uneasy with the option and has long offered a 16-team field as the strongest option for expansion. Still, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said late last month the conference is open to learning more about the Big Ten's proposal and whether media partners are interested in doubling the size of the playoff and payout.
It's all going to come down to the money. Going from 12 teams (i.e. 11 games) to 24 teams (i.e. 23 games), will ESPN, some other network, and/or a combination of networks double the payout (i.e. $1.3B a year to something like $2.6B a year).
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CincyInterloper
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“If a player is flagged for targeting for the first time, he will only be suspended for the second half of the current game, instead of the second half and the first half of his team's next contest. If the player is called for his second targeting penalty, he will then be suspended for the first half of the next game, if the foul occurs in the second half of a game.”
I must be missing something. How can a player get a second targeting foul in the second half if he is suspended from the second half for the first foul?
I must be missing something. How can a player get a second targeting foul in the second half if he is suspended from the second half for the first foul?
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So as I understand it, you get called for targeting in 1H, you still play then have to sit out 2nd half so I guess you technically could get a second targeting penalty in the 1st half?
I dunno. Its CFB targeting rules so I'm sure it's fucked up.
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CincyInterloper
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That’s what I was thinking, but then the rule says the player is suspended for the first half of the next game “if the [second] foul occurs in the second half of a game.” Maybe they mean a subsequent game?
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
SEC's Sankey says CFP expansion not a foregone conclusion
The College Football Playoff's decision to open a 30-day negotiating window with ESPN last week may signal growing interest in a 24-team field, but SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said that expansion is not a foregone conclusion."We've participated in that conversation," Sankey said Monday. "That doesn't mean expansion will happen. There's a media negotiation opportunity, which is an important piece of information, and then we'll have an opportunity, it would appear, later in the fall to make a decision about the future form."
For much of the spring and summer, Sankey has pumped the brakes on a perceived momentum to expand the CFP field from 12 to 24. He has said that he's open to a discussion but that any decisions need to be informed by research.
Some of the questions he's had about expansion have been answered, he said prior to a speaking engagement at a Monday Morning Quarterback Club in Birmingham, but other questions still linger.
"And we've identified those that are central to our decision," he explained.
Sankey said conference stakeholders met in Birmingham last month to talk about "strategic issues" including the playoff and overall postseason. Those discussions, he said, "produced our participation in this decision to go to the marketplace."
"And then we refine -- issues around schedule, issues around what might be the economics, issues around the regular season and having common expectations," he added.
In other words: He'd like to see more standardized scheduling across conferences.
Reportedly, as part of a 24-team playoff, Sankey is seeking a requirement that all teams play at least 10 Power 4 games.
This past weekend, Sankey had a front-row seat to two of the biggest nonconference games of the season: Arizona State at Texas A&M and Ohio State at Texas.
"We're trying to protect what we just saw last week," Sankey said. "You know, I was in College Station and Austin on Saturday. We saw Oklahoma up in Michigan, Arkansas at Utah ... Tennessee at Georgia Tech. Those are important games, and that doesn't happen across the four conferences, campus to campus.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Just sayin': I just can't see the SEC (or B1G for that matter) giving up their huge conference TV money advantage. I thought it was public posturing for:
1. A lot more TV money from ESPN for the additional CFP games (i.e. the money goes to the teams in the CFP games).
2. Getting the SEC a bigger advantage to get more teams in the CFPs. I think Sankey believes that making all conferences play at least 10 Power 4 conference games would probably give the BIG XII and ACC teams more losses.
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I am thinking they work out a deal where they each have a smaller slice of a bigger pie by combining their leverage against the networks and reducing/eliminating the NCAA's cut.
I imagine AFL/NFL merger and ~30 some odd brand names in the top league who make their own rules and control the money.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Just sayin': Hell, there are at least 69 Power 4 teams now.
ACC: 17
BIG XII: 17
B1G: 18
SEC: 16
Independent: 1
I just see too many problems with determining who is in and who is out of the 30 team "super league". There are 138 teams in the NCAA Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). If you would put it up for a vote as to creating a 30 team super league and letting them control all the money; the vote would probably be (something like) 108 to 30 against it........
Besides I don't really think that the individual schools in the Power 4 conferences really want a "super league"; I think they basically like the current/traditional conference format.
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