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re: The New-Look CFP Has New Dates: 2024 Playoff to Start in December Against NFL Games-update
Posted on 4/29/23 at 12:20 pm to TomRollTideRitter
Posted on 4/29/23 at 12:20 pm to TomRollTideRitter
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In practice, any regular season top 5 matchup like Alabama-LSU, UGA-AU, Ohio State-Michigan won’t eliminate either team anymore.
That means those games on campus won’t be as important as the 3 rounds of neutral site playoff games.
The only punishment for Alabama losing to UT and LSU is they have to play a first round home game against Tulane? That dramatically reduces the significance of Alabama@UT and Alabama@LSU.
Whether you like this new format or not, way more regular games are going to matter as a result of it. That's not debatable.
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Posted on 4/29/23 at 8:09 pm to castorinho
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Whether you like this new format or not, way more regular games are going to matter as a result of it. That's not debatable.
it’s absolutely debatable. Going from 2 to 4 reduced the number of important regular season games because everyone decided the playoff was all that mattered after it was invented.
Just making a 12-team playoff may not matter any more than making a major bowl does currently.
If a late season game between #10 and #14 just decides who gets their arse kicked in the first round, that game won’t matter any more than it does now.
If the format gives us more TCU-Michigan playoff games, then it will be a positive. If it gives us more Alabama-Kansas State like playoff games, then it will be a negative.
I’m not opposed to a change in # of teams, but I am opposed to ending the season with 4 straight neutral site games if you win your conference and the NC. That’s ridiculous.
This post was edited on 4/29/23 at 8:51 pm
Posted on 4/29/23 at 9:51 pm to TomRollTideRitter
It should create more parity as other teams can now get to the elimination round without a perfect record.
I do think you just gave several teams basically an auto-bid like OSU, ND, and Bama.
I do think you just gave several teams basically an auto-bid like OSU, ND, and Bama.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 11:33 am to RLDSC FAN
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Notable: Those three CFP first-round Saturday games will go up against the NFL. Semifinals are on Thursday/Friday to avoid the NFL’s wild card weekend.
@ChrisVannini and I explain why the CFP made these choices:
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Also, we’ve written about this for two years straight (lol) but, yes, the Rose Bowl will have its regular time slot on New Year’s Day as a quarterfinal.
Much of this was announced last week, but the actual bowl assignments and dates for semifinals are newly confirmed.
LINK
This post was edited on 5/2/23 at 11:42 am
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:16 pm to RLDSC FAN
A quarterfinal game on a weds at a neutral site will have absolutely piss poor attendance. It will be laughably bad
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:21 pm to RLDSC FAN
That is a lot of football. Given the conference championship will look more like an elimination game with no divisions, that's 5 rounds of football.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:32 pm to Alt26
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Hell, if you are Ohio State or Michigan I would think you would LOVE the chance to force a team from the south to have to play in freezing temps (with the possibility of snow). As it stands now with the season ending in late November it really hasn't gotten terribly cold in places like Baton Rouge, Tuscaloosa, Clemson, Athens, etc. So having to play a game in 20 degree temps with snow would be a WHOLE different ball game!
OSU's AD has already said they would likely not play a "home" game in Columbus if possible. I think he mentioned Indy as a possible site for an OSU home game if they had one.
OSU is a southern speed/power team who just happens to reside in the midwest. I would hate not having a game in the Shoe for the playoffs, but also understand OSU would rather have a track meet over almost any other team in the country with their skill positions
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:35 pm to Buckeye06
I just think the timing is weird as students will likely have just gone home for the holidays when those games are played.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:37 pm to Buckeye06
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OSU's AD has already said they would likely not play a "home" game in Columbus if possible. I think he mentioned Indy as a possible site for an OSU home game if they had one.
OSU is a southern speed/power team who just happens to reside in the midwest. I would hate not having a game in the Shoe for the playoffs, but also understand OSU would rather have a track meet over almost any other team in the country with their skill positions
Even the Buckeyes don't want to play in the snow. I like to call it the Michigan effect.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:41 pm to Bunk Moreland
Oh the timing and all of it is dumb but you want to have more playoff games you have to figure it out.
My solution was always 4 16 team conferences with 4 team semis/finals in each conference then the winner of each conference plays in a 4 team playoff. It's really a 16 team playoff and you stay regional for the first couple of games.
My solution was always 4 16 team conferences with 4 team semis/finals in each conference then the winner of each conference plays in a 4 team playoff. It's really a 16 team playoff and you stay regional for the first couple of games.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:51 pm to RLDSC FAN
Fans aren’t going to travel across the country 3 weeks in a row. Get rid of the faux bowl games and make it like the NFL playoffs. No Saturday games is just stupid.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:53 pm to T
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Fans aren’t going to travel across the country 3 weeks in a row.
Agreed.
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Get rid of the faux bowl games and make it like the NFL playoffs.
Disagree.
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No Saturday games is just stupid.
Agree x 1,000,000,000
Posted on 5/2/23 at 2:01 pm to RLDSC FAN
If they keep the Conference Championship Games (which they will) this whole setup is stupid and unfair. Using last year UGA and Michigan get a “bye” because they won the CCG that tOSU and Bama did not have to play. So they still play the same amount of games as the teams that advance to the round of 8 
Posted on 5/2/23 at 3:40 pm to H-Town Tiger
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Using last year UGA and Michigan get a “bye” because they won the CCG that tOSU and Bama did not have to play. So they still play the same amount of games as the teams that advance to the round of 8
say what?
Posted on 5/2/23 at 10:10 pm to RLDSC FAN
When does the NFL start playing Saturday games? If the NCAA started the regular season a week earlier, wouldn't that make it easier to play on Saturdays without going up against the NFL?
Posted on 5/3/23 at 8:37 am to H-Town Tiger
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If they keep the Conference Championship Games (which they will)
I really wish they wouldn’t.
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