re: My take on the 24 team playoffs.

I wouldn't mind 16 teams, no byes, 1st game at home of higher ranked team.
Teams picked by a computer (BCS style) with no auto bids.

Money Money Money

Ain't about safety. Ain't about the fan.

It will take away from the big time regular season games because teams won’t have to worry about winning as much. They will start resting players, guys will start half assing because, why risk getting hurt and end up missing the playoffs? We will get in at 8-4 so it’s all good. That’s the mentality that it will create and it’s bad for the greatest college sport.

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I’ll play devils advocate. How far do yall think some of Les Miles teams could have gone had we had a 12 or 24 team playoff?

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I would have loved to watch it. With an 8 team playoff, Miles probably would have reached the playoffs 4 times. With a 16-team playoff, he would have made the playoffs possibly 9 times.

How about keeping 12, or reduce to 10, and take the true top 10-12 teams and not include so called “champions” of some weak conference.

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We need to go back to BCS where teams had to work there arse off to make it not just get a pass

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You can work your arse off to make it and still not (ask Florida State 2023). That’s why it changed, and for the better.

Screw the BCS and the old fart purists who never wanted any sort of change to begin with but still forget they hated the BCS. Playoff’s 24 teams now. Good. Get over it.

Yay 4 square time at recess today!

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I wouldn't mind 16 teams, no byes, 1st game at home of higher ranked team.
Teams picked by a computer (BCS style) with no auto bids.

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This. I've been saying that since the start. I never liked the idea of a bye for the college teams, so I always hated the 12 team playoff. I figured they'd jump to 16/no byes, but what the hell?!? Straight to 24?

Anyway, as they say, it is what it is. But as Zeppelin says, now it'll be "what is and what should never be".

it needs to be the top 8, no byes, 4 P4 champs and 4 at large. Seed them and let them play.

Trying to distinguish between 6-8 will be hard, but not nearly as murky as 12-24.

The sport was better when it was less accessible. The leaders of the sport are working hard to make everything very easy to access and understand for the casual fan. On its face, the 24 team playoff is fantastic. More postseason competition, lots of entertaining matchups, and a champion crowned directly on the field. What the casual fan does not / cannot comprehend is what is being lost:

Less meaningful regular season.
With 24 teams making the tournament, the elite teams are virtually guaranteed a spot. Yes, the regular season games can still be entertaining and the players will still play hard and want to win. But, the key difference there is that while they want to win, they won't actually have to win to avoid being at risk of reaching the playoff. The absolute desperation of the regular season is gone.

Genuinely meaningless bowl games.
This will fall on deaf ears for casual fans, but bowl games used to be a lot of fun and competitive. Reaching the Sugar Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, or even the damn Capital One Bowl was a really fun way to cap off a solid year. It was a moment to say "this season we came up a bit short, but this is our last chance to get to see a lot of these guys play, and we still had a damn good year."

Winning those games would actually create a lot of momentum going into the offseason and following year - look at how the 2006 Sugar Bowl, the 2010 Cotton Bowl, and the 2018 Peach Bowl carried to the next year. Whooped arse in a big bowl game on big stages, and it resulted in 3 teams that came into the next season with a lot of swagger and belief in themselves. Instead, 23 of the top 24 teams in college football will end the season with a loss. Think about Vanderbilt this past year - they had an amazing season by Vandy standards, but because of this culture that's been created that it's playoffs or bust, they ended the season in disappointment rather than going to something like the Orange Bowl and potentially capping things off with a statement win.

Watered down games.
Yes, the 24 team playoff would create exciting matchups and inevitably some all time classic finishes, but at some point, I'll just feel numb to the big moments because there will simply be too many big moments. I don't even care that 17 seeded Iowa went on the road and upset 16 seeded Utah because there's just too much to follow.