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

#51
#51
I would like to see byes done away with

16 team id be fine with, 24 gets to be too much unless you want to do away with bowls (which I generally oppose). Then I guess go for 32
 
#53
#53
24 teams is asinine. We get blowouts in the first round and when you look at how the top 5 teams do against the 20-25 range it would be even worse.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
As an old timer, I just want it to die slowly at this point so I'm able to almost, if I squint real hard and hold my head just right, believe that the game I'm watching that says it's college football is college football.

I'm still able to pretend on most Saturdays and that's good enough for me. Me and a bunch of the other old heads will die off sooner rather than later and the younger folks can fix it..... or not.
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always love to hear the young folks, most don’t have the money to support the university, lecture the old folks of how the game should change. lol. Without the old folk fans that are holding on to true college football, there would be no college football.
 
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#55
24 is WAAAAY too many for a lot of reasons.
Conference championship games would have to go away, otherwise you could have teams that would play their last regular season game Thanksgiving weekend and not play their first playoff game until the week of Christmas.
 
#56
#56
I like it. Means we likely have a shot at the natty every year. It was hard picking 12 teams and the first 1 out could be any of 5 teams that deserved a spot over whoever got in.

No one cares about bowl games or conference championships anymore. It's all about the playoff whether it's 4,12, or 24 teams. This should get the majority of the right teams in, anyway.
 
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If a 24 team playoff existed from 1980 on, Tennessee would've had between 22-25 playoff appearances

If such a play off existed in 1998, the bracket would've been:

Idaho (9-3) at Marshall (11-1) - Winner play at 16 Air Force (11-1)
Penn State (8-3) at Oregon (8-3) - Winner play at 15 Michigan (9-3)
Texas (8-3) at Georgia (8-3) - Winner play at 14 Nebraska (9-3)
Syracuse (8-3) at Notre Dame (9-2) - Winner play at 13 Virginia (9-2)

Marshall/Air Force Winner at 1 Tennessee (12-0)
9 Wisconsin (10-1) at 8 Texas A&M (11-2)
12 Georgia Tech (9-2) at 5 Arizona (11-1)
Syracuse/Virginia winner at 4 Kansas State (11-1)
11 Arkansas (9-2) at 6 UCLA (10-1)
Oregon/Nebraska winner at 3 Ohio State (10-1)
10 Tulane (11-0) at 7 Florida (9-2)
Georgia/Michigan winner at 2 Florida State (11-1)

Texas A&M vs Tennessee - Sugar
Arizona vs Kansas State - Cotton
Arkansas vs Ohio State - Rose
Florida vs Florida State - Orange

Tennessee vs Kansas State - Citrus
Ohio State vs Florida State - Peach

Tennessee vs Florida State - Fiesta

Teams left out of playoff rankings
Miami (8-3)
Miami OH (10-1)
Mississippi St (7-4)
Virginia Tech (8-3)
Purdue (8-4)
West Virginia (8-3)
USC (8-4)
BYU (8-5)
UCF (9-2)
 
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Volanta said:
I dont like 24 teams. Regular season wont mean as much. 12 is the perfect number as it creates tension
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16 to me is perfect, but only with 2 conditions.

1. You eliminate conference championship games.

2. You eliminate byes.

This way, round 1 can start the 2nd weekend after the end of the regular season (when the conference titles are normally played). Top 8 seeds host bottom 8 seeds. Then from there you can incorporate the major bowls for the remaining rounds. For example...

Round 2: Peach, Orange, Cotton, and Sugar Bowls

Round 3: Fiesta and Rose Bowls

Round 4: Championship Game.
 
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It's coming. Might has well. Bowl games are dead. Add more playoff games and expand the field. Maybe run a secondary tournament for bubble teams and let the winner in. Money talks and playoff games make it, bowl games do not anymore.
Hate sounds super old but I miss the BCS. Every game of the season mattered, conference championships had major value, and every bowl game was something teams and players wanted in.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
16 to me is perfect, but only with 2 conditions.

1. You eliminate conference championship games.

2. You eliminate byes.

This way, round 1 can start the 2nd weekend after the end of the regular season (when the conference titles are normally played). Top 8 seeds host bottom 8 seeds. Then from there you can incorporate the major bowls for the remaining rounds. For example...

Round 2: Peach, Orange, Cotton, and Sugar Bowls

Round 3: Fiesta and Rose Bowls

Round 4: Championship Game.
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Not bad. Also I don’t know about yall but I felt like this years college playoffs were way too long. Like by the time they got to the national championship game it felt like the first round was ages ago.

I get the holidays play a part in it but they gotta speed the playoffs up. I believe the nfl does it the best. Pretty much 5-6 weeks and if you subtract the 2 weeks before the superbowl it’s like 3-4 weeks which is perfect.
 
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