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Still sucks how much this will devalue regular season (prob conferences too) but…
Posted on 9/30/26 at 6:25 pm
Posted on 9/30/26 at 6:25 pm
Under a 12-team format with CCGs, a team playing in a conference championship and making a run from the first round could play up to 17 total games (12 regular season + 1 CCG + 4 playoff).
Under a 24-team format without CCGs, a non-bye team (seeds 9-24) making a run to the title game would still cap out at 17 total games (12 regular season + 5 playoff).
For the top 8 teams who earn a first-round bye, the maximum workload would actually drop to 16 total games.
Reasonable. Off-season calendar still needs to be sorted because coaching changes & portal is still absurd.
Under a 24-team format without CCGs, a non-bye team (seeds 9-24) making a run to the title game would still cap out at 17 total games (12 regular season + 5 playoff).
For the top 8 teams who earn a first-round bye, the maximum workload would actually drop to 16 total games.
Reasonable. Off-season calendar still needs to be sorted because coaching changes & portal is still absurd.
This post was edited on 9/30/26 at 10:02 pm
Posted on 9/30/26 at 6:26 pm to DeathByTossDive226
That doesn’t sound fun at all
Posted on 9/30/26 at 6:27 pm to DeathByTossDive226
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17 total games (12 regular season + 1 CCG + 4 playoff).
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Reasonable. Off-season calendar still needs to be sorted because coaching changes & portal is still absurd.
I remember when the first argument against a playoff was that the players are students, have tests and 12 games (11 plus a bowl) is already too much as it is
This post was edited on 9/30/26 at 6:28 pm
Posted on 9/30/26 at 6:28 pm to John Rambeaux
Yeah I’m just searching for a silver lining lol
Posted on 9/30/26 at 6:28 pm to DeathByTossDive226
they will eliminate conference championship games
Posted on 9/30/26 at 6:38 pm to Tigerpride18
Well yea that’s the only way this works.
Ideal format would be a central authority deletes the conferences & carves P4 up into new NFL-ish divisions / demotes the rest of the schools to FCS, but that’s a completely unrealistic pipe dream.
Ideal format would be a central authority deletes the conferences & carves P4 up into new NFL-ish divisions / demotes the rest of the schools to FCS, but that’s a completely unrealistic pipe dream.
Posted on 9/30/26 at 6:44 pm to Adam Banks
That ship sailed when they started openly paying them
Posted on 9/30/26 at 6:45 pm to DeathByTossDive226
yeah thats not gonna happen. we know that
Posted on 9/30/26 at 8:28 pm to DeathByTossDive226
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Yeah I’m just searching for a silver lining lol
Top 16 teams getting a home playoff game. Saints playoff games were on another level before Brees retired. I can only imagine it in Death Valley.
Posted on 10/1/26 at 6:31 am to Tigersgulfcoast
We’re talking about professional players now. We no longer have amateur, student athletes. So let them play.
Posted on 10/1/26 at 7:04 am to DeathByTossDive226
Eliminate the cupcake FBS games.
Posted on 10/1/26 at 7:18 am to DeathByTossDive226
They're going to go back to a 10 or 11 game schedule eventually. It will be NBA 2.0 with two separate seasons. The regular warmup season. Then playoff season where more than half the teams compete again.
Posted on 10/1/26 at 8:22 am to DeathByTossDive226
This should eliminate half the entire team sitting out for bowl games. The 24 team playoff is going to make all those games matter. The Bowl system was a subjective mess most of the time. The BCS was subjective as well. Now lets let the top 24 duke it out. Why not? The regular season still matters if you want to reach the playoff.
Posted on 10/1/26 at 8:34 am to DeathByTossDive226
It devalues the post-season implications of the regular season, but I believe the intensity of regular season games will hold up. I firmly believe that college football very quickly changed over the last 2 years to a point where the 12 team playoff system fits the parity that we currently see in college football. I really really struggle to see how parity of this sport can ever get to a point where 24 teams will belong. We've seen an 8 seed win it, a 10 seed only a drive away from winning it, but I struggle to get behind ten 3 loss teams being in. Iowa at 8-4 would have been in last year in a 24 team format, plus another 8 3-loss teams. Boo
Posted on 10/1/26 at 8:46 am to DeathByTossDive226
They will have to reduce the number of regular season games too, but I think the hardest part for fans will be the travel. I mean imagine having to potentially travel across country three weeks in a row.
Attendance is going to suffer
Attendance is going to suffer
This post was edited on 10/1/26 at 8:57 am
Posted on 10/1/26 at 8:54 am to LSUGrad2005
It’s a made for TV event, like the NFL.
Some people prefer that but the sport would be better off if those people just stuck to the NFL.
Some people prefer that but the sport would be better off if those people just stuck to the NFL.
Posted on 10/1/26 at 10:25 am to DeathByTossDive226
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Yeah I’m just searching for a silver lining lol
NIL, wild west transfer portal, TRO's, no enforceable eligibility rules, no salary caps, no contracts, no consequenses, totally meaningless bowls that good players opt out of. There is no silver lining and a 24 team playoff is the least of college football's problems.
Posted on 10/1/26 at 10:37 am to MOT
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It’s a made for TV event, like the NFL. Some people prefer that but the sport would be better off if those people just stuck to the NFL.
The NFL postseason is at home stadiums until the Super Bowl. Making all these games outside the first round neutral site, is stupid from a fan of the school perspective.
Posted on 10/1/26 at 10:46 am to iamandykeim
64 teams don’t belong in the NCAAT but they’re expanding that even further purely for money, not because they actually think more teams should get to participate
The bowls are basically dead and the TV people want something to replace that content sooo more playoff games is the answer.
It definitely hurts the regular season, you’re going to lose that tension of your season entirely hinging on one 1-2 Saturdays a year, that will be missed.
Overall probably a benefit to us as Kiffin should have a talented enough roster most years to at least get in.
The bowls are basically dead and the TV people want something to replace that content sooo more playoff games is the answer.
It definitely hurts the regular season, you’re going to lose that tension of your season entirely hinging on one 1-2 Saturdays a year, that will be missed.
Overall probably a benefit to us as Kiffin should have a talented enough roster most years to at least get in.
Posted on 10/1/26 at 10:51 am to BilJ
It won’t go on for too long. It’s a quick fix because they’re losing so much money but the issue is unsustainable long term. It’s dying, the programs are running 8 figure deficits in some cases, the big programs will have to break away and form a league.
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