Pate on major college football playoff expansion coming

[Cruloc]

I just don't even care.

 

[BamaFanatJSU]

Though I said a while back that I wouldn't mind seeing 1/2 still play for a conference title while 3/6 and 4/5 play for auto-bids on championship weekend, I can honestly get behind Pate's vision of giving 1/2 auto-byes and playing the other two games. First, it creates a great incentive to finish 1/2, and second, it doubles the amount of quality football games on Championship Weekend, thereby giving additional teams a chance to play their way into the playoff. After all, even if 3 and 4 both lost, they'd likely have resumes strong enough to garner strong consideration for an at-large slot.

Let's just take how 2024 went down in terms of conference standings as an example. Under the above model, we would have had as many as nine teams in contention for one of the six spots as late as Thanksgiving. If that doesn't make the regular season more valuable, I don't know what would, and what's not to love about that?

 

[Ledsteplin]

I have no problem with a 16 format like the one proposed. It sure beats the 12 format from last year.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Just make it a 10-game regular season, with a 64-team field / 6 round playoff, for a max 15 game season.

Seed according to the old BCS combination of computer and human rankings.

Everybody gets a trophy, and now all we have to kvetch about is seeding.

Couldn’t decide whether this is (1) a cynical prediction, or (2) a blue-font absurdity.

It’s so hard to tell the difference these days. No blue font at all on that last sentence.