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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
CFP reaches 'handshake agreement' with ESPN to air 24-team playoff, sources say
The College Football Playoff has reached a "handshake agreement" with ESPN to broadcast a 24-team playoff beginning in the 2027 season, sources told ESPN on Friday.Though there is still a significant amount of work to be done on paper, and everything is still subject to board approval across all involved parties, the agreement is a significant step closer to doubling the postseason path to the national title for next year.
The CFP and ESPN have been negotiating a new deal for the network to remain its broadcast partner in a seismic move that is also expected to eliminate the lucrative Power 4 conference championship games and start the season a week earlier.
Though final details have yet to be announced, discussions about the 24-team field have included 19 at-large bids, the Power 4 conference champions as determined by each league, plus the highest-ranked Group of 6 team.
Also on Friday, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel that the average additional payment that ESPN will pay for the expanded playoff is $345 million annually the next five years. That is in addition to the average of $1.3 billion annually over that time ESPN is already paying.
The New Year's Six bowls (Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Peach, Orange and Cotton) are expected to still host the quarterfinals and semifinals with the national championship game remaining in January. Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti, whose conference has been the driving force behind the 24-team model, has pushed back against the notion that it will devalue the regular season, saying the system includes "tiered incentives."
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Just sayin': It is a bad idea; however, there are 345 million reasons each year as to why they will do it.
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
1. Eff CMU until they take accountability for allowing Connor Stalions on their sidelines.
2. CMU isn't going to be the banner-bearer for this fight. I don't know that I've ever seen CMU on TV, unless Ohio State played them.
3. He doesn't seem to be saying anything ground-breaking. He's right about it all, but it's nothing we haven't all been saying since this 24-team blarky started coming out.
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Well, my "gives a fuck" has gone down annually for the past few years because of all the CFB changes, so he's not wrong about "people stop caring". I already almost don't care about the regular season. Pretty soon there won't be a conference championship to care about, and eventually 5 losses won't matter. I can't tell you the last time I thought about CBB outside of the first Thursday and Friday of March Madness. I don't even know who's on what teams, I just root for those upsets and then forget CBB exists for another year.
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So as far as the B1G is concerned, is that putting us back to the days of shared Conference Titles just because two teams didn't happen to play each other in a given season? How does that work if the Conference champ is an auto bid to the CFP?
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
Yes, we'll have shared conference titles. I think this will be most years.
There will likely be a tie-breaker situation for auto bid, and it won't be relevant. First, because if 2-3 teams are undefeated and share the conference championship, we all know all will get into playoffs. Second, it'll probably be something like, "highest ranked team gets the auto-bid." Well, duh. Of course they get into the playoffs.
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Imagine a world where teams played a tough OOC game, their regular conference schedule and we took the very best - I dunno, 4, 12 teams? - and put them in a playoff format?
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BUCK3YE5
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Sounds like Klatt may have been talking out of his ass just a bit.
Anyway, this trade-off of regular season games no longer mattering but the average game being more entertaining is just not worth it, at all. Especially considering expansion was never needed to improve scheduling; we simply needed scheduling to be properly weighed in rankings.
(News flash - even with expansion, scheduling still won't be properly weighed in rankings).
I'm not holding my breath either way - 1 extra entertaining game means almost nothing to me in the grand scheme of things. The sport is dead to me regardless at this point, I'll never watch a non-OSU regular season game again in my life.
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Why the fuck would any team schedule any "hard" OOC games any more? Take your free early wins and go .500 in the SEC/B1G and get in if your an SEC/B1G school. ND literally just gets in. ACC/Big 12 would need to lose no more than 3 games in their conference slate to have a chance. And the G5 are the cannon fodder for it all.
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