Gruden Fixes the CFP

BCS era was the best answer. We have 2 undefeated teams who are clearly the best and most deserving teams to play for a title. Big ten didn’t have a conference championship back then so that’d be the match up

That actually sounds pretty damn entertaining

Nah I like my idea better. LINK

Ridiculous to think #5 Oregon or #6 Ole Miss have to “earn” their way in to the CFP.

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We have 2 undefeated teams who are clearly the bes

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Ohio state beat the 7th place team in the SEC 14-7 at home

Not sure you can say that hoss

136 teams with 2 making the postseason is idiotic


It should be 24 like FCS with no conference championships or bowl games. Home games all the way until Semi Finals

And even with 24 teams it would still be the lowest amount of eligible participants making the post season in any sport at 17.5%

If you want you fix CFB and the CFP they need to drop the student part from athlete. Make them employees of the university, and unionize the athletes of the P4. Additional setup a college fund for each athlete that would allow them to comeback to school paid for. This fixes all of the scheduling issues with semester start dates etc.

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BCS era was the best answer. We have 2 undefeated teams who are clearly the best and most deserving teams to play for a title.

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Thats only true in a world where teams play equal schedules.

12-0 in the Sun belt isn’t the same as 12-0 in the Big 10 isn’t the same as 12-0 in the SEC.

The inclusion of additional teams is necessary to determine a champion because the teams in contention don’t have enough intersectional matchups to properly compare their performance during the regular season.

Just as OSU wasn’t top 2 going but won a championship and was clearly the most talented team last year the playoffs are necessary when teams like Indiana win in dominant fashion against teams that aren’t at all equivalent with teams in other conferences creating a win/loss vs SOS schism.

That’s not fixing the CFP, that’s just making it an 18-20 team playoff

The conference championship game are NOTHING more than a money grab. That is the SOLE reason the first one was created by Roy Kramer. They were always unnecessary and in some cases did more harm than good. But with the advent of the 12 team (soon to be 16 team) CFP, it's time they go.

That would allow the CFP to start a week (maybe two) earlier. If the CFP started this weekend (like the NFL starting their playoffs the weekend following the end of the regular season), the championship game could be played on or around January 1st.

Were that the case NSD could be moved to January and transfer portal could be opened in early/mid January without any issues forcing CFP bound coaches to consider leaving early for a different job. That's entirely logical and makes too much sense, except.....


Logic isn't the primary driver of this. Money is. The conf championships games are valued into the media contracts. The networks aren't going to accept anything less than full value for what they are paying the conferences and the conference aren't going to take a cut in the money paid to them.

Then you have the major bowl games (Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta). They don't want to give us their Jan 1st (on or about) spot each year in exchange for one championship game played on that date. Thus, the quarterfinals have to be on (or around) Jan. 1st.

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Bogey, what were the highlights of the video? Can't watch now.

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Basically,

Big 10 championship game: Ohio St and Indiana both get in
SEC championship game: Georgia and Bama both get in
Big 12 championship game: BYU and Texas Tech both get in
ACC championship game: if Vtech wins, they get in. If Duke wins, nobody gets in

Then the top seeds like Oregon, Ole Miss, and A&M have play in games against the lower seeds like Tulane, JMU, and Miami. Winners of those games go into the playoff. So pretty much like a wild card round.