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The Polls (AP, Coaches, & CFP, etc.)

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OHSportsFan said:
This is as far as I want it to go and would be fine with it. P5 and one at-large. Regular season still matters to get a bye and only need 2 wins.

Makes the conference champ games essentially playoff games too, so you’ve got “10 teams” in a way. But they don’t care what I want.
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Rather than an ‘at large’, which would almost always be an SEC team (frequently the CCG loser), make the 6 spot the best non-P5 team. That would open it up for teams like UCF a few years back, or Cincy last year. It would also make all of the CCG games essentially playoff matchups.
 
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BB73 said:
Rather than an ‘at large’, which would almost always be an SEC team (frequently the CCG loser), make the 6 spot the best non-P5 team. That would open it up for teams like UCF a few years back, or Cincy last year. It would also make all of the CCG games essentially playoff matchups.
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Scenarios where teams like Wisconsin or UC get a shot by some kind of participation award rule is incongruent to the, at least stated, mission of creating the best field of 4 (or whatever the money dictates from here).


Not that what any of us think matters but there is currently such a huge gap between the top 3-4 of CFB and everyone else that it's just silly to expand it (from an on the field, competitive standpoint). We all know that revenue will lead to expansion.

Teams with massive fanbases like tsun are just waiting for the rules to be changed so they can hoist that first playoff participation trophy.
 
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BigWoof31 said:
Expand to 8 teams and let them in.
They can play Alabama first round.
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Harbaugh still only makes a 8 team playoff twice in 6 years.

2016 they were 6th in the final CFP poll - would have been set into a rematch with #3 Ohio State. Going to assume Ohio State wins again seeing Harbaugh cant win a big game to save his life.

2018 they were 7th in the final CFP poll - would have gotten destroyed by #2 Clemson

"come to Michigan, where you might sneak into the 8 team field about once every 3 years, only to get destroyed by a top team anyway"
 
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OHSportsFan said:
This is as far as I want it to go and would be fine with it. P5 and one at-large. Regular season still matters to get a bye and only need 2 wins.

Makes the conference champ games essentially playoff games too, so you’ve got “10 teams” in a way. But they don’t care what I want.
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BB73 said:
Rather than an ‘at large’, which would almost always be an SEC team (frequently the CCG loser), make the 6 spot the best non-P5 team. That would open it up for teams like UCF a few years back, or Cincy last year. It would also make all of the CCG games essentially playoff matchups.
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I've said all along that 6 is the best number (i.e. P5 winners and an at large team, top 2 teams get a 1st round bye, #3 and #4 get a home game against #6 and #5 respectively, and the four remaking teams go on as the current CFPs are running now.

But they don’t care what I want.
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the current ESPN-CFP contract expires after the 2026 playoff.
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https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...off-could-come-to-pass-sooner-than-we-expect/

The CFP administration and Power Five commissioners only care about the money. When the current CFP contract is up after the 2026 playoff, if they can make more by expanding to 8 teams in lieu of 6 or keeping it at 4, they're do it.
 
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Make it either 6 or 8.

With a 6 team field- take the P5 conference champions and the highest ranked G5 champion, which would make WINNING YOUR CONFERENCE a top priority (leaving the Domers out).

With 8- take the P5 conference champions, highest ranked G5 champion, then the two highest ranked teams. Only thing is that they MUST have played in their CCG.
 
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NYG21254246 said:
Make it either 6 or 8.

With a 6 team field- take the P5 conference champions and the highest ranked G5 champion, which would make WINNING YOUR CONFERENCE a top priority (leaving the Domers out).

With 8- take the P5 conference champions, highest ranked G5 champion, then the two highest ranked teams. Only thing is that they MUST have played in their CCG.
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I don't hate this, or any of the other proposals for that matter. But there was an Ohio State team that would not have been in the playoff in an 8-team field by those criteria, that WAS in the 4-team field. The committee considered PSU's win over Ohio State that year a fluke. And you know what? They were 100% right.

In spite of that though, it wouldn't kill me to see this come to pass. It also wouldn't kill me to see the status quo remain. The simple truth is, I haven't seen a single year where a single team was left out of the playoff that had a REASONABLE argument for being the best team in the country. Call me crazy, but I prefer a world where a team that is the best in the country is the one that wins the NC. Some might like a world where a wildcard team gets hot at the right time and wins the SuperBowl. That's just not my preference.

Another thing that I don't like about the "MUST have played in their CCG" criterion: that prevents the Buckeyes from crushing the cowards in the playoffs. What's the good of expanding the playoff if we can't pants the wolverines in it?
 
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