Opening Round of 16 Team CFB Playoff -Best sports weekend of the year?

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16 teams gives everyone and their dog with a shot at the National Championship

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it would be great for CFB and would dwarf the Final Four in popularity -- think of the bracket talk

it might cost some current PTB a few dollars though, so it will be fought tooth and nnail

It would definitely diminish part of the regular season but I think it would also ramp up interest among casual sports fans.

I could see the Bowl games fighting against it tooth and nail. The TV execs would be all over it which means the power conferences would join as well.

Group of 5 would likely be the most shunned. They'd probably only get 1 or 2 teams tops in.

Would a team that lost 3 or 4 games really have anything to stand on while whining though? It would also make the bubble watch mean quite a bit during the stretch run plus more teams would be considered making for better TV.

Main issues I could see with it would be: 1) First round rematches 2) Site of the games

This year it would be:
1 Alabama (12-1)
16 Boise State (11-2)

2 Oregon (12-1)
15 Arizona State 15 (9-3)

3 Florida State 13-0
14 UCLA 9-3

4 Ohio State 12-1
13 Georgia 9-3

5 Baylor 11-1
12 Georgia Tech 10-3

6 TCU 11-1
11 Kansas State 9-3

7 Mississippi State 10-2
10 Arizona 10-3

8 Michigan State 10-2
9 Ole Miss 9-3

Which means there is a higher likelihood for conference rematches, so the committee would have to change the seeding dynamic a bit to try to avoid them

What happens when there isn't a clear cut 1 and 2, who gets the 2nd bye?

It would be bad to reward teams that much when they could easily have nearly the same resume.

What happens if there isn't a clear cut [insert any number]?

Regardless of the ranking mechanism, there should be a reward for finishing 1 and 2 if you are going to expand the playoffs by any more than 4 teams. I'm not really a fan of the playoff in general so I think it should be a huge reward for the teams that would have been slated for the national championship.

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I wouldn't mind 6, but only if the top 2 seeds got byes.

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I'm fine with 4, but if they had to expand it, i wouldn't want to see more than 6.

i think what they should stop doing is updating the top 4 every week. if they would have just announced the final 4 after the regular season, there wouldn't be as much controversy

16 is too many.

12 is the absolute most I can see. Even that's a bit much but at least there are two arguments for it. One is that every ranked conference champ would get in, and the other is that you could reward 1-8 with a home game and 1-4 with a bye.