Maybe if the committee would start ranking teams as if the regular season mattered, that leverage would normalize a bit
That and also the death of the sport. It would have been awful for the last 5-6 years, due to the imbalances in recruiting and consolidation of power the playoff brought about. It wouldn’t have been awful most years before that.
I understand the reasoning to move it to 8, anything beyond that is silly to me. Five conference champions and a G5 team (as long as certain criteria is met for both) and two at large
I just can’t get behind AQs for conference champions at all. G5 should also be nullified once the new Big XII gets going.
making college kids risk their careers for more money is so shitty too more games is never good in football especially college
Moving it to 12 likely brings fun first-round games, which would be a sizable upgrade over the garbage now. NCAA basketball tournaments are rarely memorable based on what happens in the Final Four — it’s the process of getting there which is fun. And the more compensation the better. But you need to either expand the playoff or go back pre-BCS, because CFB postseason is WOAT as it now stands. Also, increasing the playoff pie increases the number of “relevant” programs that can recruit off that.
This is always the counter argument and it’s never the case any time there has been expansion. The Big Ten did not allow more than one team to attend a bowl game until 1975, then everyone said it would ruin the regular season. It didn’t. The BCS started in 1998 and didn’t ruin it. Conference championship games didn’t. The reason why a four team playoff sucks is that no one else gets to participate and you have Alabama, OSU, and Clemson every year. A three seed Georgia never plays for a title in 2021 under the old systems. Alabama and OSU both have won it as four seeds. More teams need to get in. When more teams are playing for spots, all of November is more fun.
I’d disagree that conference championship games didn’t hurt the regular season. Going from BCS to CFP also made it a little worse. but more over, 2 conferences/16 teams is the NFL model and I’ve seen enough of that model to say that the regular season is worse than what college offers. And college will have far less parity. as it stands now, CFB Saturdays are the best 14 days on the sports calendar as far as I’m concerned, and I don’t want to trade that for an extra 2 or 3 days of CFB playoff games, even though those days would be great.
the 12 team model will win out just a matter of figuring out how to loop in Fox News Corp into the media rights and how to divide up that inventory.
A higher percentage of basketball schools qualify for the big dance than would for a 16 team playoff and no one complains about there being too many teams in it
The last four in, based upon the polls, would have been: 2021 Oklahoma, Iowa, Oregon BYU 2020 Iowa, North Carolina, Northwestern, USC 2019 Iowa, Notre Dame, Michigan, Alabama 2018 WVU, Texas, Kentucky, Washington St 2017 MSU, TCU, Notre Dame, Stanford
If I cared even a little bit about college basketball I would complain that there are too many teams in that tournament. It’s a carnival sideshow.
Don't they play fewer games? I'm certainly all for more football, but wasn't it 10-15 years ago when a CFB regular season was 10-12 games? With a 12 or 16 team proposal you have some teams playing a 15-16 game schedule.
I love college football so much but I’d hate seeing more college football games which are important is a strange juxtaposition.
No way. I'm team CFB>>>>>CBB, but the opening weekend of the CBB tournament is must-watch sports at its best.
I, for one, am shocked that the B1G's priority is whatever makes the B1G and their media partners the most money, achieved by engaging in disingenuous discussions over the format to run out the clock on ESPN's exclusive contract and then advocating for as big a CFP as others may be willing to tolerate.