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All I know is that with a 24 team playoff, it’s unacceptable for us to ever miss the playoffs

I think there will be problems & nobody will be happy until this is addressed:

1. Only one BYE in the regular season
2. Depth is much harder to build than it ever has been before (portal, NIL era)

With a 24 team field, I can see coaches becoming willing to trade a game here or there to keep guys healthy.

It sounds crazy, but it happens in the NFL all the time (especially toward the end of the season).

Cignetti will not be happy

This IS Cignetti "happy".

I don't care if it's a Big 10, ACC, or Big12 schools, but I like that all P4 schools have to have one P4 non-conference game

I'm looking forward to the Utah home and home and hope that doesn't get canceled.

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1.Maybe we'll finally see Michigan vs LSU

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This is actually why the 24-team playoff is bad. Or one of the reasons. And why this potential Big Ten/SEC opening week show down is also a bad idea and makes the 24-team expansion even worse. The novelty will eventually wear off.

We are seeing matchups we don’t normally see still, so it’s still fresh and cool. The 1st time LSU and Michigan play EVER? Will be a huge deal. The 2nd time likely will be too. But what about when we’re playing them for the 3rd time in 5 years? WE will care. THEY will care. But will anybody else unless it’s in the final or semi finals? These opening games will have no juice for anybody outside each teams’ fanbases. Because the outcomes won’t really matter. They’ll basically be exhibition games.

That is the fear of too much expansion. It dilutes the regular season as a whole by lowering the stakes for any individual game. It may take 3 or 4 years, may take 10. But regular season viewership is bubble that is eventually going to burst. Not because people won’t still tune in to watch their teams’ games, but because they will stop watching as much of the other teams’ games. They will wait till the playoffs. Just like they do for college basketball. And I can’t imagine a true college football fan wants it to turn into anything like that. But it’s coming.

Can’t wait for Nov 27 2030 and we are playing Arky while we are at 10-1 and we decide to roll the 3rd string qb out there for a 18 point loss.


It won’t feel like college football.

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This is actually why the 24-team playoff is bad. Or one of the reasons. And why this potential Big Ten/SEC opening week show down is also a bad idea and makes the 24-team expansion even worse. The novelty will eventually wear off.

We are seeing matchups we don’t normally see still, so it’s still fresh and cool. The 1st time LSU and Michigan play EVER? Will be a huge deal. The 2nd time likely will be too. But what about when we’re playing them for the 3rd time in 5 years? WE will care. THEY will care. But will anybody else unless it’s in the final or semi finals? These opening games will have no juice for anybody outside each teams’ fanbases. Because the outcomes won’t really matter. They’ll basically be exhibition games.

That is the fear of too much expansion. It dilutes the regular season as a whole by lowering the stakes for any individual game. It may take 3 or 4 years, may take 10. But regular season viewership is bubble that is eventually going to burst. Not because people won’t still tune in to watch their teams’ games, but because they will stop watching as much of the other teams’ games. They will wait till the playoffs. Just like they do for college basketball. And I can’t imagine a true college football fan wants it to turn into anything like that. But it’s coming.

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I completely disagree. The fact is, teams fly to most of their games now anyway. I would rather play Michigan than Arkansas. More schedule diversity, the better.