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Big Ten, SEC leading the way in expansion of CFP to 14-16 teams by 2026
Posted on 2/17/25 at 5:09 am
Posted on 2/17/25 at 5:09 am
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Within the SEC and Big Ten, momentum is building to further expand the playoff to 14 or 16 teams, assign multiple automatic qualifiers per league — as many as four each for themselves — and finalize a scheduling arrangement together that may fetch millions in additional revenue from TV partners, sources told Yahoo Sports.
The playoff format change would clear the way for SEC administrators to, finally, make the long-discussed move to play nine regular-season conference games and would trigger, perhaps, all four power leagues to overhaul their conference championship weekend.
These ideas and concepts, previously reported by Yahoo Sports as possibilities, are now serious agenda items within the highest governing bodies of the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC, according to officials from each of those leagues. The 11 members of the CFP Management Committee — the 10 FBS conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director — were contacted for this story, many of them confirming the existence of these potential ideas but declining specific comment on the matter.
Final decisions are expected in the coming weeks.
Here's the big news from that article: The Big Ten and SEC are guaranteed four AQs in this new format.
Yahoo! Sports
For those who don't want to read the article, Josh Pate does a very solid job summarizing it in the video below:
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Posted on 2/17/25 at 5:45 am to RollTide1987
frick it just have the entire season be a tournament. Once you lose twice just shut it down
Posted on 2/17/25 at 6:06 am to RollTide1987
Lessons from the first 12 team one: too many team and even fan travel can become lackluster after too many games.
Response: add more teams
CFB is destroying itself over greed. Sad.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 6:59 am to HagaDaga
If they add more games they are either going to have to stretch it over ANOTHER weekend or have games on at the same time.
It got sort of boring as it is.
It got sort of boring as it is.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 7:57 am to RollTide1987
frick the SEC and frick the Big 10. They’ve already destroyed a bunch of traditional rivalries with conference expansion to chase the almighty dollar. Now they want to water the regular season down to the point where we’ll be hearing about what team that finished 6th in their conference passes the eye test and is deserving of a playoff spot.
Going 5-3 in conference doesn’t deserve to ever be sniffing a CFP, especially when the non-conference schedule is an FCS team, 2 bottom tier G5 teams, and a P4 in the lower half of their conference. Regular season is going to be so watered down now that its almost pointless to watch until the last 2 weeks of the season
Going 5-3 in conference doesn’t deserve to ever be sniffing a CFP, especially when the non-conference schedule is an FCS team, 2 bottom tier G5 teams, and a P4 in the lower half of their conference. Regular season is going to be so watered down now that its almost pointless to watch until the last 2 weeks of the season
Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:05 am to HagaDaga
quote:Everyone still watches.
CFB is destroying itself over greed.
Even all the people that bitch and moan about the state of these leagues still fricking watches.
If it was such a shitty product, all of you would turn it off.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:47 am to RollTide1987
Consolidate all the best programs into only two conferences and you are going to have more L’s among the best teams. The leftover conferences keep their branding while backfilling with mid majors and the media/selection committee predictably takes the easy approach of continuing to rank teams based on record. Then give them an equal number of auto bids and byes for conference champs and you have a completely screwed up tournament with mostly uninteresting games and the best two team’s playing each other in the 2nd round.
So instead of rewriting the whole script, the easy path is to just keep expanding, which still won’t solve the problem of bias towards easy schedules and fewer losses. More teams just means Miami, Clemson, and SMU are in and Ole Miss and South Carolina are still out.
They need to use actual data like the old BCS computers or how the basketball committee does it. Force the ACC and B12 to play ridiculously tough nom conference games if they want to be more than 1 bid leagues.
So instead of rewriting the whole script, the easy path is to just keep expanding, which still won’t solve the problem of bias towards easy schedules and fewer losses. More teams just means Miami, Clemson, and SMU are in and Ole Miss and South Carolina are still out.
They need to use actual data like the old BCS computers or how the basketball committee does it. Force the ACC and B12 to play ridiculously tough nom conference games if they want to be more than 1 bid leagues.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:57 am to Tiger Prawn
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frick the SEC and frick the Big 10. They’ve already destroyed a bunch of traditional rivalries with conference expansion to chase the almighty dollar. Now they want to water the regular season down to the point where we’ll be hearing about what team that finished 6th in their conference passes the eye test and is deserving of a playoff spot.
Going 5-3 in conference doesn’t deserve to ever be sniffing a CFP, especially when the non-conference schedule is an FCS team, 2 bottom tier G5 teams, and a P4 in the lower half of their conference. Regular season is going to be so watered down now that its almost pointless to watch until the last 2 weeks of the season
I don't disagree with your sentiment, but if the SEC and Big 10 hadn't done it, we'd just be saying "frick the Pac-16 and the Mega-ACC" instead.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:57 am to Scruffy
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If it was such a shitty product, all of you would turn it off.
I did turn it off. I haven't watched a full game in yrs. Went from my favorite sport/"hobby" to zero. Doesn't make me immune from hearing things.
Try again.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:57 am to RohanGonzales
I like his idea, that the 1st and 2nd in conference get 2 of the auto bids and 1st is crowned conference champ. Then 3-6/4-5 play on conference championship weekend in a conference wild card sort of game. Theres a reward for winning conference and less debate as to who deserves to be in with those last spots and more football. This year it means, Georgia would’ve still won the conference, Texas would’ve still been in, but Alabama/South Carolina, ole miss/Tennessee would battle it out for the last 2 playoff spots. I say count me in.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 11:08 am to RollTide1987
What the SEC and BIG TEN want is to be guaranteed 4 teams in the CFP from each conference every year.
That will leave 8 spots open for everyone else.
That will leave 8 spots open for everyone else.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:13 pm to HagaDaga
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too many team and even fan travel can become lackluster after too many games.
The tv money far outpaces any reduced ticket / concession revenue
Posted on 2/17/25 at 1:00 pm to RollTide1987
The lifeblood of CFB is the rivalry. Bigger playoff means rivalries no longer have meaning. Goodbye CFB.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 1:10 pm to POTUS2024
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Goodbye CFB.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 4:07 pm to RollTide1987
This will be like basketball and half the teams make the playoffs. Might as well sand bag 3-4 games a year and sit your best players preparing for the playoffs
Posted on 2/17/25 at 4:34 pm to RollTide1987
Make it stop
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:06 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
Does this mean we now get a BIG vs SEC Challenge where both conferences schedule every year during regular season?
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