Coach Heupel in favor of 24-team playoff format (per CBSSports)

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EastTNVol6240 said:
Of course he is. Then every year we get to hear “ BuT wE mADe THe PLayoFFs”
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For every "but wE MaDE tHe PlAyOfFs" there will be 1 or more in a whining tone "bUt We DidN"t DeSeRvE iT" to match them, no matter how far we advance.

Lol. I wish he had said he was against it just to see what you'd say then.
 
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Might as well go to 24 teams. It's coming whether we like it or not. Petiti will get his way. Hell the bowl games don't mean $hit anyway.
 
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I mean I don't blame him? I'd want a 24 team playoff too. You'd almost surely get in as an SEC team at 9-3 and maybe even 8-4 which is what we go in the off years.
 
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I prefer 16 but it's really not that big of a deal that people are making it out to be....FCS does it easily
 
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With 24 teams, maybe we can win a playoff game. Then maybe DW can raise his talent fee to advance farther.

With each season, I care less about this stuff!
 
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I don’t want this unless there is some solid metrics to determine if you are in or not. Not just a committee of athletic directors doing an eyeball test.
 
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I want a 16 is team single elimination tournament. This is for the top 16 teams. A separate tournament could be held for the next 32 teams, like the NIT basketball tournament. That tournament would start after the main tournament was finished. It would allow more players to get playing time.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
The old timers think College Football should still be ran like it was in the 1960’s.

Times have changed whether they like it or not.

Coaches and the players are chasing the money.

Nothing more.
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I miss being young, dumb and full of ..

Old timer here and you're first sentence couldn't be more wrong.

The second sentence is just dumb. Are you totally content with all the changes? None could be improved? Who doesn't know change is inevitable? Lol. And its okay to not like ALL changes because not all changes are good. Some of the changes in college football over the past 5 years are not good changes the way they stand and need to be improved. Holy Moses I hope you agree with that.

Coaches and players are chasing the money? Really? Lulz. I hope no one just learned that from you.

Coaches always have, but players just started. And you think players and coaches chasing the money is good for college football? And you like that they are chasing the money? And nothing more?
 
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IndianaVol said:
I'm split on expanding the playoff format.

One side, I want to see it expanded because we'll get games like we see in the basketball tournament where an underdog makes a run and that's exciting. Plus we'll get games like this year's Oregon/ Ole Miss game...don't care what fan of what team you are, that was a great, great ball game to the very end.

On the other, it's big enough already. Expansion could also lead to more games like the JMU game where a team is down by 4 scores by halftime. Also, at what point does it just become a participation trophy where you end up ranked at the end of the year and you're in thr playoff? That's not exciting for anyone unless you're in that 22-25 range towards the end of the year.
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We are already seeing lesser teams get waxed in the playoffs. 24 teams is just going to get teams in that have no business being in. 16 makes the most sense but everybody wants a participation trophy so we they will water down the playoffs even further. There will be some shellackings with a 24 team playoff.
 
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I dont like 24 teams. Regular season wont mean as much. 12 is the perfect number as it creates tension
 
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IndianaVol said:
I'm split on expanding the playoff format.

One side, I want to see it expanded because we'll get games like we see in the basketball tournament where an underdog makes a run and that's exciting. Plus we'll get games like this year's Oregon/ Ole Miss game...don't care what fan of what team you are, that was a great, great ball game to the very end.

On the other, it's big enough already. Expansion could also lead to more games like the JMU game where a team is down by 4 scores by halftime. Also, at what point does it just become a participation trophy where you end up ranked at the end of the year and you're in thr playoff? That's not exciting for anyone unless you're in that 22-25 range towards the end of the year.
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The reality is that we're never going to see a 'Cinderella' team make a run in CFB because unlike CBB where a hot shooter or unique scheme might allow a longshot to steal a few games, in CFB it's all about depth of talent, which only the blue blood programs generally have.

It would be a shock to see any big upset in a playoff, and it's always going to come down to 3-4 teams in any given season with a legit chance to win the thing. People point to #8 Ohio State, but that was only because of the ridiculous playoff format. Everyone knew they were at worst a top 2-3 team.

It's inevitable, so might as well just do it now. There will be a ton of blowouts and a few good games every year, but the revenue will be through the roof and at least we'll have more on-campus games hopefully before the bland bowl sites.
 
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BenGrimm said:
I think 16 would be ok. Just eliminate the “bye”.

But again, for me, it’s all about concrete metrics for who is in and out. Quit letting humans decide with their biases.
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Agree, but unfortunately it is humans who decide and apply the metrics being used, so they'll never be concrete. But eliminating idiocy like the Notre Dame deal, obvious "committee" bias, and making it all merit and no guarantees or auto-bids would be a welcome change.
 
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BenGrimm said:
I think 16 would be ok. Just eliminate the “bye”.

But again, for me, it’s all about concrete metrics for who is in and out. Quit letting humans decide with their biases.
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Fair. But the whole committee thing does keep me interested from week to week but damn it’s annoying at times
 
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Tennessee would have missed a 24 team playoffs, but we also would have missed because of Vanderbilt and they would have been in and would have hosted a playoff game in Nashville.

I would have turned on Coach Heupel at that point. General Neyland was hired for one reason and if Vanderbilt gets really good, then your job is to be better.
 
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HambyVol said:
Might as well go to 24 teams. It's coming whether we like it or not. Petiti will get his way. Hell the bowl games don't mean $hit anyway.
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I’m too tired of Petiti playing the psychotic overbearing wife while Sankey plays the battered fool of a husband. Can we please just get rid of these two stooges?
 
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That is a lot of ballgames for limited rosters to play if they win a couple of playoff games. I see playoff expansion making Conference Championship games more redundant. Both teams should already be in a 24 team bracket. Home field and all that, but it will get harder and harder to get your studs through more games healthy.

I am very in favor of getting more teams like 10-2 Vandy in the playoff. I would have watched that game.
The 24 team bracket might lead to NIL deals requiring playing Conference Championship and playoff games. Bonuses would be added, but I like incentives approach to solve that problem.That would be a very good thing and would give NIL Stakeholders some leverage.
 
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Maybe you smarter, younger people can fill me in on this....

1. so 24 teams gets you an odd bracket that covers 4(?) weeks to get to the championship game ... and that'll spread that out to 6 weeks, at least, to give a rest week prior to that final game.
2. where do all these games get played?
3. what are the statistics on fanbase travel to all these games? is this an issue? can the tenn fanbase put 40k-50k in a stadium 4 weeks in a row? .... can we really represent well IF we were to play week 1 in oregon, week 2 at the horseshoe, week 3 in miami, and week 4 in arizona? ...AND then week 6 in southern cal?
4. how does a 6-week playoff schedule mess with the regular season schedule?
5. do we quit expecting players to go to school since we're paying semi-professionals now?
6. does anybody really care about the answers to such questions?
 
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tango said:
Maybe you smarter, younger people can fill me in on this....

1. so 24 teams gets you an odd bracket that covers 4(?) weeks to get to the championship game ... and that'll spread that out to 6 weeks, at least, to give a rest week prior to that final game.
2. where do all these games get played?
3. what are the statistics on fanbase travel to all these games? is this an issue? can the tenn fanbase put 40k-50k in a stadium 4 weeks in a row? .... can we really represent well IF we were to play week 1 in oregon, week 2 at the horseshoe, week 3 in miami, and week 4 in arizona? ...AND then week 6 in southern cal?
4. how does a 6-week playoff schedule mess with the regular season schedule?
5. do we quit expecting players to go to school since we're paying semi-professionals now?
6. does anybody really care about the answers to such questions?
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probably not younger but I will try.....
1) yes
2) the higher seed's home field until the semifinals at least which will likely at major bowl locations
3) Going to have to make the same choices they do in FCS, NFL, playoffs...we will never play At Oregon, Ohio St, Miami and Arizona....likely would play home game or two in Knoxville, then on the road somewhere else then a bowl game site
4) It just makes the season longer
5) They already do this sometimes
6) i care
 
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Behr said:
For every "but wE MaDE tHe PlAyOfFs" there will be 1 or more in a whining tone "bUt We DidN"t DeSeRvE iT" to match them, no matter how far we advance.

Lol. I wish he had said he was against it just to see what you'd say then.
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He'd whine either way
 
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