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Proposal: Eight teams in the postseason

I would say the environment of the hosted games so far has us closer to 16 with no byes than shrinking the field. Revenue > Competitive games in the minds of the decision makers. They will say they want competitive match-ups, but when it comes down to it more money generated for athletic departments means boosters can focus on NIL.
 
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The only way the playoff field would ever be cut would be if few people would attend or watch the opening round games, which won't happen. The best we can hope for is that the CFP committee improves their criteria for selecting and seeding teams.
 
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PA Tide Fan said:
The only way the playoff field would ever be cut would be if few people would attend or watch the opening round games, which won't happen. The best we can hope for is that the CFP committee improves their criteria for selecting and seeding teams.
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All they have to do is change the ridiculous format. Just pick the 12 best teams and be done with it. Winning a crappy conference shouldn’t guarantee you squat.
 
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colbysullivan said:
ASU, SMU, and Clemson would not have been in IMO

Also, no one on this planet can convince me Boise is one of the 12 best teams. Or Indiana for that matter. All of them are total frauds.
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SMU was not a conference champion so I agree. Not so sure about the others.
 
6 with the top two seeds getting a bye would be the best I think. Most years you’d have one to three pretenders and a couple times a decade you’d be able to include all deserving teams but there’s never been a 7-16 team that had any business being in a playoff
 
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Not a chance. Once the networks get a taste of the money they big time college football brings in, they’ll do anything to keep it going.
 
jashleyren2 said:
Not a chance. Once the networks get a taste of the money they big time college football brings in, they’ll do anything to keep it going.
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i think they are about to see a massive hit on their money tonight. It won’t shrink the playoffs but I guarantee you that new safeguards will be put in to prevent this from happening again
 
crimsonaudio said:
Literally zero chance it ever shrinks.
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Playoffs only ever do one thing, expand.

I've got a radical idea though. Why not have the top two teams play each other at the end of the year. We can just take the two polls and use the average, but may be I don't know... use some sort of a computer element to make sure the rankings are logical.

This crazy system I totally just invented would have the Big 10 champion Oregon playing the SEC champion Georgia for the championship.
 
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Viper652 said:
Please let these results be the catalyst for it
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It won't happen.

I'm not aware of a single time that any sport contracted the size of their playoffs UNLESS the league was teetering on the brink of insolvency and losing teams. The first year of the USFL, they had 4 playoff teams in a 12-team league. The second year, they had an 8-team playoff with 18 teams. The third year, they lost 4 teams (contracting to 14) and still had an 8-team playoff.

About the only way we get an 8-team playoff is the nuclear option where the Big Two draft the remaining teams they want (like Notre Dame) and tell the rest of the moochers "bye!"

And even then, do we really need one?
 
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