re: Official announcement by the CFP on the 12 team playoff

If the NCAA and CFP were really concerned about player health and safety like they claim, they wouldn't continue extending the season for the almighty corporate dollar.

Personally, I feel an 8 team playoff could easily be implemented.

- Trim Division 1 down to 96 teams.
- Re-align and form 8 12 team conferences.
- Move back to an 11 game season.
- Every conference now has a conference championship game.
- Winners of the conference championship games go to the 8 team playoff, so essentially it's a 16 team playoff. The losers get New Years day bowl bids or whatever.
- First round of the playoffs is at the home fields of the 1-4 seeded teams.
- Now the real kicker. Semifinals and Championship game in the same city a week apart. Simplifies travel for fans and teams. Rotate this around 4-6 cities.

Granted the above doesn't necessarily serve the almighty corporate dollar, so clearly it would never work.

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RIP Bowl Games

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Bowl games are already dead, this would actually help them IMO because there will be more top end interest and less sitting out. And you're only losing 4 games with the first round. With the playoff at 4, nobody really gives a shite about those 4 games, at least that has been the whining excuse on here. Now hypothetically 5-12 matter.

Where they are fricking up is not getting rid of Conference Championship Games and not guaranteeing at least one Group 5 team. We don't need CCG's anymore, at least in the Power 5.

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The 12 seed has zero chance of winning the national championship. Zero.

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It takes the best of both previous systems that people bitched about. People wanted a playoff during the BCS but big bowls still mattered. Now those games matter again, they are just in a different format. People bitch that nothing else matters with a 4 team playoff, now more games matter and we still have a playoff.

Now they need to cut the schedule to 11 games and get rid of CCG's.

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You act like teams catching fire and pulling upsets aren't a normal thing in cfb.

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Is it normal? Any team that’s talented enough to win the whole thing and gets “hot” will be ranked very highly. Usually the teams ranked 10-12 aren’t all that good.

Just going to switch the controversy from arguing who is the 4th deserving team to who is the most deserving 10th, 11th, and 12th teams. Teams ranked 9th through 16th will all argue that they should fill those seeds.

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Bowl games are already dead, this would actually help them IMO because there will be more top end interest and less sitting out. And you're only losing 4 games with the first round. With the playoff at 4, nobody really gives a shite about those 4 games, at least that has been the whining excuse on here. Now hypothetically 5-12 matter.

Where they are fricking up is not getting rid of Conference Championship Games and not guaranteeing at least one Group 5 team. We don't need CCG's anymore, at least in the Power 5.

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Agreed...the bowl system is already dead. Players opting out in every game. Attendance in the tank. Its almost like people havent been watching football for the last 5 years. This is going to be a MAJOR upgrade over the current product.

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Just going to switch the controversy from arguing who is the 4th deserving team to who is the most deserving 10th, 11th, and 12th teams. Teams ranked 9th through 16th will all argue that they should fill those seeds

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Minor side effect. What this does, is it gives an entire block of college athletes a shot at a championship.

NCAA DI P5 = Playoff
NCAA D1 G5 = Playoff Purgatory
NCAA D1 FCS = Playoff
NCAA DII = Playoff
NCAA DIII - Playoff

G5 literally had nothing to play for. Imagine trying to recruit a kid to come to your school and have nothing to say about trying to win a championship. We all saw it with Boise St, UCF and Cincinnati. I would rather eliminate that old discussion, if it means it creates a new conversation about who is 13th or 14th. With home sites, this is going to create some never before seen atmospheres. I would love to see LSU, UGA or Fla playing at Penn St in Happy Valley in a white out, 20 degrees with flurries in the air. Count me the frick in!!!! If you would rather watch two teams, with half of their roster sitting out, play in the CapitalOne Bowl because of "tradition"....i cant help you!!

I am not even a Penn State fan, but i give them major props for their stadium environment. Nobody...and i mean nobody...does the "white out" better than Penn State. I would love to see that scene for a playoff game.

Ill take this Penn St scene, hosting a playoff game...




Over this lame Fiesta Bowl scene...




All of you "regular season" people can keep your lame arse bowl system and traditions.

I don’t mind the expanded playoffs. As a fan, I enjoy more college football even though a couple of the games won’t be competitive.

Also, for how tough the SEC is, I welcome more SEC teams into the fold.

I won’t be surprised when LSU gets hot and wins the CFP one year with 3 losses.