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For anyone thay wants more than a 4-team playoff

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22 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

I don’t want a committee involved at all. Automatic qualifiers and no one else

Well then you need completely different conferences. If i recall from the hilarious beginning of this thread, your preference is for the conference championship games to be defacto playoff games and the P4 conference champions to be in.

So Indiana, Georgia, Tech, and Duke.

That’s fucking awful.

Given how fucked up and imbalanced the conferences are, the only answer is to go to 16.

On 12/20/2025 at 12:35 PM, GreenspointTexas said:

Fuck you. Seriously you are a goddamn moron who is also a piece of shit

Watching the #1, #3, #4 seeds lose makes this an interesting post. In 2 years of the 12 team playoff only top 4 seed to win a game has been Indiana. Don’t let the evidence change your opinion. Keep doing God’s work

Edited by Codaxx

21 minutes ago, B00M said:

Well then you need completely different conferences. If i recall from the hilarious beginning of this thread, your preference is for the conference championship games to be defacto playoff games and the P4 conference champions to be in.

So Indiana, Georgia, Tech, and Duke.

That’s fucking awful.

Given how fucked up and imbalanced the conferences are, the only answer is to go to 16.

It might be awful. But it wouldn’t be awful because some morons picked out of a hat. At least it would have been earned through play rather tha arbitrarily chosen.

The conferences absolutely need to be reworked. Without question. The current iterations are terrible and allow teams to miss real competition all year. I would love for there be rules in place on conference structure and games but there’s just not. Because of that I’d rather take the human element out entirely and get what we get. Otherwise these playoffs are still a beauty contest because of who gets in and who doesn’t. It’s the same BCS problems just with more teams.

The best option I think is the top 2 from each p4 make the playoffs but then there’s the conference championship game issue.

Edited by hobbes2702

pushing for a four team play off, I would not have had the opportunity to lay around for 36 hours watching meaningful college football with two more weekends to look forward to. thread premise is dumb as fuck.

Edited by scramblyn

24 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

It might be awful. But it wouldn’t be awful because some morons picked out of a hat. At least it would have been earned through play rather tha arbitrarily chosen.

The conferences absolutely need to be reworked. Without question. The current iterations are terrible and allow teams to miss real competition all year. I would love for their be rules in place on conference structure and games but there’s just not. Because of that I’d rather take the human element out entirely and get what we get. Otherwise these playoffs are still a beauty contest because of who gets in and who doesn’t. It’s the same BCS problems just with more teams.

The best option I think is the top 2 from each p4 make the playoffs but then there’s the conference championship game issue.

gruden's plan is the best I've heard so far - conf champ games matter, both teams are in the playoffs, the rest are in a play in round. reseed after that and get going. I like the bowls, keep them, but do as much as you can at higher seed home fields so that includes play in games. play offs basically start first week of Dec. and forget the down time, play every weekend until it's done.

24 is good enough for FCS playoffs. Either get rid of automatic bids or expand.

2 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

24 is good enough for FCS playoffs. Either get rid of automatic bids or expand.

I think Gruden's gets to 24 basically with that first week conf championships and play ins which are effectively playoff games.

12 teams with byes was always dumb. Letting lower seeds stay engaged and get a warm up game is gonna continue to hurt teams with a bye.

16 teams with top 2 conf champs getting one and two vs the two lowest ranked G5 gives us. Heres how that plays out with and without the G5s

  1. Indiana vs JMU (or USC)

  2. Georgia vs Tulane (or Utah)

  3. Ohio State vs Vandy

  4. Tech vs Texas

  5. Oregon vs BYU

  6. Ole Miss vs ND

  7. Aggy vs Miami

  8. OU vs Alabama

In this scenario we get 2 blowouts and 4 potentially good games as opposed to the 2 serviceable games that we got this year.

Also round 2 looks like this.

  1. Indiana vs Bama

  2. Georgia vs Miami

  3. Ohio State vs Ole Miss/ND

  4. Texas vs Oregon

On 12/20/2025 at 12:35 PM, GreenspointTexas said:

Fuck you. Seriously you are a goddamn moron who is also a piece of shit

Any chance you can do us all a favor and go walk around Greenspoint (Houston) at night yelling out racists comments so you can get beat up or shot?

Or, to speed up the process, perhaps go to Sunnyside (Houston) and do the same thing?

TIA!

15 hours ago, mdmost said:

Greenspoint is more like performance art now.

He's provocative. He gets the people going.

8 minutes ago, Sir Ulrich said:

12 teams with byes was always dumb. Letting lower seeds stay engaged and get a warm up game is gonna continue to hurt teams with a bye.

Most think the amount of layoff time is the culprit. If you start playoffs earlier not near amount of time.

5 minutes ago, Shaddie said:

Most think the amount of layoff time is the culprit. If you start playoffs earlier not near amount of time.

It's typically the same amount of time off though because the top 4 teams will have played in CCGs. Oregon, Ole Miss and Miami all stayed home CCG weekend. Tech, Georgia, and tOSU all played.

And it was the same last year with Domer over UGA, PSU over SMU, tOSU over Oregon. All those losers played in their CCGs, all the winners didn't.

Edited by ztejas

5 minutes ago, Shaddie said:

Most think the amount of layoff time is the culprit. If you start playoffs earlier not near amount of time.

This is the way. Also bowls need to go back to regional. I was at the cotton bowl and it was a great crowd but whole sections were missing on the miami side.

Tech/Oregon at the cotton bowl and Miami/tOSU at the orange would help attendance for QF games

Just now, Sir Ulrich said:

This is the way. Also bowls need to go back to regional. I was at the cotton bowl and it was a great crowd but whole sections were missing on the miami side.

Tech/Oregon at the cotton bowl and Miami/tOSU at the orange would help attendance for QF games

regional would be great actually. except I want Texas in the Rose Bowl every year.

If we hadn't fucked up the Florida game this would all be super fantastic.

As it is, it's pretty fun. I thoroughly enjoyed the Miami, Ole Miss and Indiana wins.

College football is completely fucked, but that's because of NIL and transfer rules. Playoffs are the least of the issues.

11 minutes ago, Shaddie said:

Most think the amount of layoff time is the culprit. If you start playoffs earlier not near amount of time.

25-26 days is a long ass time. If it were ND in the top 4 it'd be over a month. Way too long of a wait.

Needs to start sooner where semifinals are this week. hopefully they do that when it extends to 16 teams.

37 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

24 is good enough for FCS playoffs. Either get rid of automatic bids or expand.

Just because they have 24 teams in the field doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. Have you ever seen some of the first round games? I don’t think lopsided blowouts in empty stadiums qualifies as “good enough.”

I hate the argument that because the NFL does it or that lower divisions do it, that’s the way it ought to be. I disagree. That doesn’t follow. The playoff is too big now. There should be fewer teams, not more. (Same with the NCAA basketball tournament but that’s for another thread.)

38 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

There should be fewer teams, not more.

Well yeah that would have saved you the Miami loss this season.

44 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Just because they have 24 teams in the field doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. Have you ever seen some of the first round games? I don’t think lopsided blowouts in empty stadiums qualifies as “good enough.”

I hate the argument that because the NFL does it or that lower divisions do it, that’s the way it ought to be. I disagree. That doesn’t follow. The playoff is too big now. There should be fewer teams, not more. (Same with the NCAA basketball tournament but that’s for another thread.)

There are blowouts in the first round of the NFL playoffs every year and nobody whines about that. Those teams are supposed to win. That's why they get seeded against the shittier ones. That's their reward for earning a higher seed. Why does this need explaining?

9 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

There are blowouts in the first round of the NFL playoffs every year and nobody whines about that. Those teams are supposed to win. That's why they get seeded against the shittier ones. That's their reward for earning a higher seed. Why does this need explaining?

This. And none of those stadiums would be empty. You're talking about the No. 9 to the No. 16 teams in the country hosting playoff games in which most would be favorites to win. The one thing we learned this year is that home playoff games in December had some of the best home atmospheres we've seen. I mean, which of these hosts would have been empty for a playoff game?

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1 hour ago, redswingline said:

Any chance you can do us all a favor and go walk around Greenspoint (Houston) at night yelling out racists comments so you can get beat up or shot?

Or, to speed up the process, perhaps go to Sunnyside (Houston) and do the same thing?

TIA!

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