re: Sources: The College Football Playoff is nearing a deal to expand to 24 teams in 2027

Going forward all you need to do in the SEC is go 5-4 in conference to get in. Tough OOC games will go away. When there are 24 teams at least 8 will be from the SEC because that would leave 16 slots left and where are they going to come from? I don't even like the SEC but that will happen.

Forget taking off the last game, some teams will be able to coast for all of November if they want to.

I do want to watch the selection show where half of it is arguing about the 9th or 10th SEC team vs the 5th Big 12 team,

riveting

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won’t be for my enjoyment because I won’t be watching a majority of those pointless games

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Pretty much where I'll be on the college regular season next year. I'll still watch LSU games but that's probably about it. I already only really watch NFL on the Sunday and Monday night games, mostly because I'm not doing anything else on a Sunday / Monday night. Compared to college regular season where I'll spend most of the day watching games, even the games where I have no particular rooting interest for either team. Every week is high stakes games for college. The weekly stakes are already far less with a 12 team playoff and are almost non-existent with 24 teams. What's the point in hate-watching Alabama regular season games when they can lose 4 of them and still make the playoffs? At that point, its just NFL light but with more roster turnover every offseason.

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I assure you the guys that ruin their brains and bodies for your enjoyment would rather win a playoff game and get a shot to play a top 8 team in the playoffs than go to Orlando for a week in December.

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Wait until you have a projected top 5-10 pick in the NFL draft playing for a 24 seed and blows out their knee in a lopsided loss in a playoff game that they were 20+ point underdogs in anyway. Watch how fast star players on those 20-24 seed teams start talking about skipping the playoffs. They know their team has zero shot of winning 5 straight games against top 10 teams. So the expanded playoff is just expanded opportunity for them to get injured and hurt their draft stock.

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We've already had a 7 seed vs. 8 seed matchup in the title game

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They were really the 5 and 6 in the actual CFP rankings, but were bumped down to the 7 and 8 seeds because the top 4 spots were reserved for conference champs

But 8 would be the ideal playoff. 5 conference champs and 3 at-large. SEC and B1G would still get a 2nd team in most years for an at-large spot. Doesn't completely kill the bowls. Keeps the regular season stakes high. And its a true playoff.

The biggest problem with the 24-team playoff is the neutral site games in the quarterfinals. The regular season is even more meaningless if going 11-1 or winning your hard conference doesn't even get you the advantage of playing at home.

The bowl system and an expanded playoff are not compatible. Whole thing sucks.

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The only benefit I see from this whole thing is I believe this move will eliminate a lot of the opt-outs. Even for the teams who will have virtually zero chance of winning it all, I'd bet those players would still elect to continue playing for the post-season.

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Maybe. But maybe not. They’d have to win 5 playoff games and a 24 seed is likely to be 3+ underdogs every round. I bet you still see a few opt outs from those teams because nobody thinks a team that could barely make a 24 team field is going to pull of 5 straight wins against top 10 teams, especially having to win 2 road games before you even reach the neutral site rounds.

But is it really any better when you can have a tough schedule with 5 really quality opponents and lose 4 of those games, but still make the playoff because you went 7-0 against your conference's JV teams and a couple of G5 or FCS non-conference games? There's no stakes in the big games against a top 10 opponent because you can lose all of those games and still make the CFP

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and some years the ACC and Big 12 champ wouldn’t deserve it.

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Like last year.

In the proposed format, an 8-5 Duke squad would have gotten in over a 12-1 James Madison (not that they would have had a chance anyway).

I love this stuff. Somebody actually said they’ll stop watching - and was an LSU fan. Yet, you guys acted like a game in September was the biggest game of the decade. The rest of the country was and is laughing. And last week we had 70,000plus pile into a stadium to watch a meaningless game.

You guys may not like a playoff but the country will absolutely watch in huge numbers. And you’ll still watch Bama-LSU type regular season games because they are fun to watch. Just because a loss in September or October doesn’t end your season doesn’t make the regular season worthless. If that ps the case 90% of fanbases wouldn’t exist.

I’m going to the GT-VT game tomorrow and it’s sold out. And these are 2 mid tier teams with no hopes at any playoff spot yet their fans will enjoy every minute of a fun 4 hour fall afternoon. That’s the real college football not the garbage you guys believe.