How about a 12 plus 2 College Football Playoff?

[Cruiser]

How about just get rid of automatic bids? That will solve 95% of our problems, and no expansion is needed. Teams that have no business being in the playoff are making it, and now everyone's first inclination is to expand? How about addressing WHY these teams are making it, instead of just adding more teams.

Get rid of automatic bids and take the top 8 from something like BCS formula.

 

[CrimsonTitles]

Get rid of automatic bids and take the top 8 from something like BCS formula.

I don't think that's enough in the current era. 4 was perfect pre-conference expansion, but unless they're gonna go by more than just record, I see 8 being even more of a disaster than 12. Can we trust a computer formula to evaluate this stuff any better than the committee? I mean I think I read that the BCS computers wouldve had Notre Dame ahead of Bama this year, so that's not taking SOS or resume into account either. I think 12 is actually perfect, because nobody (other than Vandy who is being penalized for their name) below 12 really has a legitimate argument. Texas may think they do, but do they really? I mean at least with Bama last year, we were in the top 12, but just got pushed for these automatics. Texas can't say that.

 

[BamaNation]

Ok, for giggles, I'm really going all out on this. I got the lat/long location of each stadium in my 64 team superleague above, calculated the statute miles between each school and the other 63. Threw that file into Grok and asked it to optimize into 8 divisions of 8 teams each based on distance.

Here's what Grok came up with. Again, I haven't verified anything but it passes the eye test. Similar groupings to some of the old conference alignments, but it makes sense given what we're trying to do here. I did do a handful of small tweaks by swapping Pitt and Maryland, and replacing UCF with SMU. We can argue about the specifics, but this is something to at least throw some darts at They're not power balanced would be one criticism.

	Division	Teams	Avg Intra-division distance (miles)
1	Pacific West	Oregon, Washington, Stanford, California, UCLA, Southern California, Utah, Arizona State	~520​
2	Desert Southwest	Arizona, BYU, Colorado, TCU, Baylor, Texas Tech, Houston, SMU	~580​
3	Great Plains	Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa State	~380​
4	Upper Midwest	Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Purdue, Indiana	~440​
5	Deep South	Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi, Mississippi State, LSU, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Kentucky	~280​
6	Southeast Atlantic	Georgia, Clemson, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, NC State	~350​
7	Mid-Atlantic	Virginia Tech, Virginia, Wake Forest, Duke, Louisville, Cincinnati, West Virginia, Maryland	~360​
8	Northeast	Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, Boston College, Syracuse, Pittsburgh	~320​

 

[Joefus]

No more expansion. If anything, cut it to 8.

Top 8 as decided by bcs computers with no autos. I’d even be ok with no sec championship game and just a “reg season sec champion” decided by reg season w/l using tiebreakers

 

[4Q Basket Case]

My original proposal of a 128-team playoff was largely tongue-in-cheek.

The landscape of today’s college football doesn’t allow satire.

If we go to 16, why not 32, 64 or 128 teams? Take the extra three weeks out of the regular season and the conference championship games. Notice no blue font.

Nobody’s feewings get hurt. Nobody is triggered. Everybody gets in the playoffs. All the coaches get bonuses. All the players get even more play-for-play. Everybody wins…..right? Right? Right?!?!

 

[CrimsonTitles]

My original proposal of a 128-team playoff was largely tongue-in-cheek.

The landscape of today’s college football doesn’t allow satire.

If we go to 16, why not 32, 64 or 128 teams? Take the extra three weeks out of the regular season and the conference championship games. Notice no blue font.

Nobody’s feewings get hurt. Nobody is triggered. Everybody gets in the playoffs. All the coaches get bonuses. All the players get even more play-for-play. Everybody wins…..right? Right? Right?!?!

Why not just cancel the entire season and hold an 128 team double elimination tournament, instead? No blue font because I haven't decided whether I'm joking or not. It's gonna get there at some point anyways.

 

[crimsonaudio]

There's literally not world where the 8th ranked team (or even the sixth) can claim an NC.

If we have to include more than two (and I admit, occasionally this has been relevant) then go back the four team system.

Anyone ending up fifth in the final standings has ZERO claim to being the best team in the nation. Period.

 

[BamaNation]

There's literally not world where the 8th ranked team (or even the sixth) can claim an NC.

If we have to include more than two (and I admit, occasionally this has been relevant) then go back the four team system.

Anyone ending up fifth in the final standings has ZERO claim to being the best team in the nation. Period.

Don't go throwing logic around like that. It has no place in CFB! That's why I came up with the 64 team superleague