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re: SEC, Big 10 deciding whether playoff expansion will be 16 or 24 teams
Posted on 1/11/26 at 9:52 pm to RelicBatches86
Posted on 1/11/26 at 9:52 pm to RelicBatches86
The question for me is how to get subjectivity out of the system.
No committee no rankings is no formulas. Just records and division finishes.
Top 4 division winners in B1G and SEC. Plus 1 wild card each. Top 2 division winners in ACC and B12.
1 wild card each.
To get subjectivity out of it and others use rankings......Notre Dame has to join a conference and no more top ranked group of 6 stuff.
No committee no rankings is no formulas. Just records and division finishes.
Top 4 division winners in B1G and SEC. Plus 1 wild card each. Top 2 division winners in ACC and B12.
1 wild card each.
To get subjectivity out of it and others use rankings......Notre Dame has to join a conference and no more top ranked group of 6 stuff.
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Posted on 1/11/26 at 9:54 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
quote:
The fact they’re even floating it means it will eventually happen
It was going to eventually happen the day they started talks on going to just 12 teams. There is too much money to be made
Posted on 1/11/26 at 10:06 pm to Partha
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I'm not saying Iowa was a bad team, they're a good team. But not a playoff team this year.
Yeah, but if this were a 24 team bracket, they’d have played Miami and it would have been a good hard fought close game.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 10:20 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
quote:
The fact they’re even floating it means it will eventually happen
BCS (2 teams): lasted 16 years
4 team playoff: 10 years
12 team playoff: 2 years
16 team playoff:
We all predicted this was inevitable, but, it would take years. Nope, it is already fully supported by the conference commissioners.
In fact, it has so much support that they want to implement it NEXT season. There is so much support for 16, that the Big 10 has already moved to promoting the next expansion to 24 teams.
The Big 10 isn’t holding out because they are against 16 teams. They are hoping to leverage the current momentum for expansion to keep going to 24 teams.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 10:22 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
*double post
This post was edited on 1/12/26 at 2:24 pm
Posted on 1/11/26 at 10:23 pm to RelicBatches86
12 is already too many.
24 is fricking retarded. That size field would include teams like Iowa, that went 8-4 on the season and was 0-4 against ranked opponents. Why do they deserve a playoff spot when they didn’t beat any teams that were worth a damn? All they did was beat up on the bottom of the B1G and a couple of shitty FCS teams
24 is fricking retarded. That size field would include teams like Iowa, that went 8-4 on the season and was 0-4 against ranked opponents. Why do they deserve a playoff spot when they didn’t beat any teams that were worth a damn? All they did was beat up on the bottom of the B1G and a couple of shitty FCS teams
Posted on 1/11/26 at 10:28 pm to Ed Osteen
quote:It’ll come at the expense of interest in the regular season. The biggest allure of CFB regular season was how important every single game was. Now if you can still make the playoffs with 3 or 4 losses and maybe 1 quality win, the regular season isn’t nearly as interesting
It was going to eventually happen the day they started talks on going to just 12 teams. There is too much money to be made
Posted on 1/11/26 at 10:32 pm to RelicBatches86
It sounds like they just wanna get rid of the bowl system and make every current bowl game an actual playoff game of some level.
I’m all for that. I don’t wanna watch bowl games. I wanna watch playoff games
I’m all for that. I don’t wanna watch bowl games. I wanna watch playoff games
Posted on 1/11/26 at 10:42 pm to RelicBatches86
The correct move is to remain at 12 teams for 2026 and continue discussions on a 16-team playoff beginning with the 2027 season.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 11:12 pm to The Third Leg
Iowa gets a lot of hatred on here. Iowa was a play away from beating Indiana and Oregon this season and they beat Vanderbilt who most thought could have been a playoff team.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 11:15 pm to RelicBatches86
Just do it like FCS does, but start the season on the last weekend of August and end the season Thanksgiving weekend. 24 teams, 8 byes... let Army/Navy play first weekend of December and then start the playoffs the next weekend...
Posted on 1/11/26 at 11:51 pm to RelicBatches86
Needs to contract not expand
Posted on 1/12/26 at 12:00 am to TheePalmetto
Figures a mouth breather Iowa fan wants 24.
It should have never gone past 6
It should have never gone past 6
Posted on 1/12/26 at 12:06 am to Indiangensing
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Iowa gets a lot of hatred on here. Iowa was a play away from beating Indiana and Oregon this season and they beat Vanderbilt who most thought could have been a playoff team.
Nah, I think most these guys see Iowa for what they are, nearly always solid, but not built to regularly beat elite teams.
Their hate for expansion lies in their desire for the regular season to have an outsized impact on who plays for the national championship to maintain some facade of tradition.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 2:48 am to TigersHuskers
And you guys still would be excluded every year...
Nebraska is below Iowa lol
Nebraska is below Iowa lol
Posted on 1/12/26 at 3:53 am to RelicBatches86
a 24 team playoff would be retarded
Posted on 1/12/26 at 4:03 am to RelicBatches86
24 teams is laughable.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 5:58 am to tigerfan88
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And no one gives a shite about about FCS football.
2.3 mil on Monday night didn’t think so.
Every other level of football has this but the beauty pa…um, FBS.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 9:15 am to RelicBatches86
24 teams is a good number. The top 8 teams get a first round bye. The other 16 play each other the first week with 9 v 16 and so on.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 9:18 am to Indiangensing
Id probably quit watching if they went to 24 teams. CFB is already a joke at 12 with the NIL and portal
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