re: Give Your take/Opinion/Thoughts on what you think college football needs to do -Playoffs

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Really no point of the conference championship game if you expand.

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MONEY. You think the SEC would give up that kind of money? No.

Do you work for the government? A political hack?

Okay we got NIL...we got the transfer portal...we got groups pooling money to attract players...you want expanded playoffs...betting is okay...what is the diff between college and pro football...not much. I cud give two shts about pro football and college is on its way out.

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Nah expanding is a waste because there are only a few who can compete for the NC anyway. 8 teams is just muddying the water when we know who the real contenders are...its just over kill

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So you’re saying it’s impossible for an 8 or say 6 to beat a 1 or 3? I personally think 8 is perfect. I believe 12 or 16 teams would support your reasoning more as far as being watered or muddied down.

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Should not people be free to do as they please? Universities have made many millions on the backs of its “student athletes”. This has amounted to little more than a slave trade. The NCAA and all of pro sports are government-backed monopolies. Why is that?

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If you add up how much the average student athlete is getting in the benefits of their scholarships, it’s over $100k. They’re not uncompensated. Most folks would kill for what they claim they’re a “slave” to recieve.

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Did you notice that all of your complaints revolve around the fake money nexus? It will never be fair whatever that is so long as there is the spurious and meretricious scarcity of fiat script. Everyone, and I am not judging everyone, is obsessed, of needs, with accumulating money. No one may ever rest as this need will never be quenched. Maybe we need to rethink our entire system and the effects it has on everyone. It has made us all debt slaves alike.

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You are reading a lot into my analysis that isn't there. What I want is more marquee OOC games, restoration of lost traditional rivalry games, safeguarding traditional rivalries that are still being played, for all teams to have a realistic path to making the playoffs if they beat the teams on their schedules, less "eye tests" and more objective metrics to determining who should make the playoff, fewer rent-a-win games, and that hopefully, these reforms might also result in fewer blow-outs. I want a more competitive league where more games and more teams feel like they actually matter.

As for the money stuff, I just see a lot of money issues in CFB being unsustainable long term. Conferences have been realigning not based on rivalries and matchups but on tv markets. Their tv rights are all owned by Disney, and Disney bought their main competitor in CFB, Fox, and outbidded their second largest competitor CBS. Having an entire sport controlled by a single tv network just seems...like it could have some potentially negative consequences, even in the short term, especially since those tv deals are based on cable tv subscribers. Cable tv, as an industry, appears to be in the midst of a major technological shift/collapse. I don't want that to hurt college football.

As for NIL, I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing on its face. What is bad is NIL in combination with unlimited transfers where the player can play right away.
That just opens the door to all kinds of bribes and tampering that, while good for some players, is really really bad for the sport as a whole. I think the arguments for NIL based on slavery are f&%king moronic, but that doesn't mean that NIL is complete hooey. Great players have always been paid under the table, and bringing black markets into the light is probably a step in the right direction.

However, it is of my opinion that players who want to be paid should be paid, and players who want an education should get one. I just think those players don't have to be in the same league together, but they are right now. The chaos of NIL and transfer portal will eventually even out into some sort of equilibrium, but I think everyone can see that the current model isn't sustainable, especially with how rosters have to be built via scholarships.

I think the fact that you jump to "big government regulations" is an absurd take. Sports leagues are not the free market, especially not a sports league made up of universities. Higher education is one of the most heavily regulated markets in the nation, and most college football teams are affiliated with public universities. To argue that any changes to a sport that already has a ton of restrictions and rules is tantamount to arguing for a big government nanny state is just...f&%king stupid. I really can't sugar coat it or even take it seriously; it's that dumb. Besides, the best and most entertaining sports leagues are built upon having shared rules, standardized schedules, revenue sharing, salary caps, and other measures which result in degrees of parity and competitiveness that simply doesn't exist in college football across all 120+ teams.

In CFB, the conferences negotiate their tv deals. Each conference has a different number of members. They each play between 7 and 9 games. The relative quality of teams in each conference varies widely between conferences as well as within individual conferences. Some conferences split their revenue equally while others (looking at you Big 12), do not. That made sense when that money was really only going to coaches' salaries, facilities, and stadiums, but now, that tv money is going to pay players. That means that some conferences have orders of magnitude more money to pay players with than others. With free and unlimited transfers, they can bribe players of these lesser programs to transfer MID SEASON! If you cannot see how that can create serious issues with competitiveness, then you are truly blind.

The reality is that college football has excelled despite its flaws. As money flowed in during the 2000's and 2010's, an unsustainable arms race for salaries and facilities took off while a single tv network slowly took over all of the broadcasting rights. College football's traditions were slowly dismantled one by one, sacrificed to satisfy woke corporate sponsors and college administrators or to please cable tv networks. Those same networks, with their focus on "championship or bust" coverage of the sport, combined with the unprecedented dominance in the playoffs by Alabama and Clemson, AND the pandora's box of free transfers and NIL have all put College Football in an unsustainable position. College Football's death is INEVITABLE if we do not reform it.

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I’m in the minority and the rest of you are gonna help the NCAA destroy all the tradition of college football and nothing gonna stop it now

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the tradition of D-1 cfb (every other level has 16 team playoffs) is bowl games and bowls having tie ins with conferences that usually prevented determining a true #1 on the field. a 4 team playoff is not the tradition of CFB.

Condense CFB from 10 conferences to 8 conferences, all of equal numbers of teams. This would also eliminate some FBS programs. The playoff is the 8 conference champs, and the first round is based on traditional bowl tie-ins rather than arbitrary rankings.

Big 10 plays Pac 12 in the Rose Bowl, SEC plays Big 12 in the Sugar Bowl, ACC plays American in the Orange Bowl, and the Sunbelt plays the Mountain West in the Fiesta.

- 8 teams
- 5 conf champ auto qualifiers
- 3 at larges chosen by the BCS formula
- ranked 1-8 by BCS
- top 4 get first round home games on NYE/NYD
- semis and finals work as the current 4 team playoff works with rotating bowls hosting

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Idk why anyone would vote against expanding to 8 teams.

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We can barely find 4 teams now.