I think the Big Ten and SEC will be rewarded for total wins, but the rest may have to schedule more aggressively to make it without winning their conferences.
P2 schools will be given immense amounts of leeway for losing 2-3, maybe even 4 games. zero reason for any P2 school not to just schedule amazing OOC games constantly now.
Yes, I'm on the Simmons hype train almost as much as I was on the Dart train - which is saying something. But the best player on our team having never started a game and us returning 3 starters isn't a confidence builder objectively.
these are power ratings, not predicted finishes. with that said fair to say Texas, OSU, ND, UGA, Clemson, Penn St, Bama, Oregon, and LSU should be favored on a neutral field vs Ole Miss? is it also fair to suggest on a neutral field vs South Carolina, SMU, Miami, Florida, Michigan, Texas Tech that Ole Miss would be anywhere from a 1.5 pt fave to 1.5 pt dog? if you answer yes to both parts, then having Ole Miss between #10 and #16 in a power ratings is probably the sweet spot. and whether they are #11 or #15, there honestly isn't a massive difference between them here is how SP+ would have it on a neutral field for Ole Miss vs the Top 40 in SP+ and Ole Miss likely moves to 8 in the post spring edition given Tennessee lost Nico
call me crazy, but I kinda like the idea of: SEC & B1G with 4 autos ACC & BXII with 2 autos G5 with 1 auto SEC and B1G let their #1 and #2 walk to the playoff then have 3 play 6 and 4 play 5 to determine their other 2 qualifiers. meanwhile the ACC and BXII give their #1 a bye to the CFP and then #2 plays #3 all of this incentivizes conference play and allows for more big OOC games. this also still leaves 3 at large bids (really 2 as ND will snatch one 4 out of every 5 years). it's not so much a 16 team playoff as it is a 22 team playoff lol isn't the heart of CFB the conference race? and OOC games are supposed to be early season fun and litmus tests about where your program is that year? I feel like this model does exactly that
if we are going have a large playoff and I know everyone hates new stuff in cfb but this seems like a pretty good plan to me
This was inevitable bc all schools want more money to buy the best players, fund the other sports. 16 much better than 14 or 13 because no Bye weeks. Im not a fan of the AQs but I also like the Committee having less discretion on who gets in bc they always fuck up.
FSU/Miami rule, I was too vague the whole 2001 deal when we got the BCS nod over miami even though they beat us
Let’s make this happen https://fsuwire.usatoday.com/story/...l-2025-spring-record-prediction/83477224007/#
awful. I read an article earlier on ESPN that just had the two dead kids and no further details (as in that Hayes was driving).
More and more teams going to take the chicken shit way out, especially if everyone goes to 9 conference games, unless the playoff becomes bids per conference like is being discussed, where the non cons wont really matter.
Either they didn't put Big Noon to delay having to deal with Ohio State fans or Ross Bjork is giving backroom blowjobs to get it at a different time.