How about a 12 plus 2 College Football Playoff?

[RollsTide]

While I understand the reasoning behind including the two Group of Five teams, it really seems like it's not the best twelve teams. How about having two play your way in Wild card games? This would consist of the two Group of Five top two teams, playing the number 11 and 12th ranked teams. This year it would be James Madison at Notre Dame, and Tulane at BYU. The winner of each game moves into the final 12 playoff teams.

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[TNBama]

I cant remember the details, but I saw a video with an interesting proposal. One of the main purposes was to take away the advantages of conference teams that don't make the conference championship NOT to get a free bye for the playoff. But it could help with the issue mentioned here too.

Expand the playoff just a little, then near the time the conference championships are being played, the first round of the playoff can start with the other contenders. For the major conference championships, both teams would get into the playoff and the winners would get their bye the next round. Yes, you would get the occasional odd circumstance like this years ACC winner, but I think it's worth that.

 

[RollsTide]

Why not? It would give two teams that feel they should be in to prove it against the two teams from the Group of Five, farther down in the rankings.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I cant remember the details, but I saw a video with an interesting proposal. One of the main purposes was to take away the advantages of conference teams that don't make the conference championship NOT to get a free bye for the playoff. But it could help with the issue mentioned here too.

Expand the playoff just a little, then near the time the conference championships are being played, the first round of the playoff can start with the other contenders. For the major conference championships, both teams would get into the playoff and the winners would get their bye the next round. Yes, you would get the occasional odd circumstance like this years ACC winner, but I think it's worth that.

The ACC quirk this year was because of a 5 way tie for second place and weird tiebreaker rules which weirdly had nothing to do with rank. I think it went all the way to rule 7 which was record of opponents even if you lost to that team.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Why not? It would give two teams that feel they should be in to prove it against the two teams from the Group of Five, farther down in the rankings.

Because the teams forced to play the G5 teams who 'earned' their way in by playing joke schedules are risking player injury just so these FCS-like schools can feel like they're playing real football.

 

[RollsTide]

That's my point. I'm talking about the G5 teams playing the two teams, #11 & 12 that are getting bumped out to defend their last two spots against the two top G5 teams.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

How about l find something else to watch and everyone else as well.

I have never in my life, seen any beautiful yet flawed sport do more to increase the flaws but demolished the beauty then college football has managed to do over the last five years or so.

It’s almost like whoever is making the decisions got a raging case of long Covid.

 

[CoolBreeze]

This board is a mess right now man.

 

[bamajas]

While I understand the reasoning behind including the two Group of Five teams, it really seems like it's not the best twelve teams. How about having two play your way in Wild card games? This would consist of the two Group of Five top two teams, playing the number 11 and 12th ranked teams. This year it would be James Madison at Notre Dame, and Tulane at BYU. The winner of each game moves into the final 12 playoff teams.

There’s got to be a hard reckoning at some point between the top tier and the lower tier. It’s just simply not the same sport

They’ve got to figure out something that avoids litigation that separates them from the top tier altogether

 

[BamaFan6462]

How about l find something else to watch and everyone else as well.

I have never in my life, seen any beautiful yet flawed sport do more to increase the flaws but demolished the beauty then college football has managed to do over the last five years or so.

It’s almost like whoever is making the decisions got a raging case of long Covid.

Or the France grandson that destroyed NASCAR is advising them.

 

[81usaf92]

Ive always said if we are going to have a plus 1 then lets do a 4 team final 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3 with BCS rankings.

If we were going to do a true playoff system then 6-8 was the most we should do. Have a committee or have the computers I dont care. Just make it make sense.

The problem is that the committee was designed to do two things... 1) prevent BCS busters from rising above their station without very clear standards being met and 2) make sure that all the power conferences are represented most of the time. I think they did a phenomenal job until the inception of the 12 team playoff. I think at that moment the committee was always destined to be put into a weird position when you explicitly include G5 teams because the B1G decided to kill the PAC12. I think at that point it was always going to have some crazy playoff brought to you courtesy of the ACC.

 

[PA Tide Fan]

Please, no. I'd rather see the playoff go back to 4 teams before seeing it get larger.