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Volbrando said:
Or we’ll get better regular season games without some playing so many cupcakes
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Those cupcakes also help the cupcakes. Remember that. It's their big payday for their program and the big teams need them for tuneups and off weeks. Many smaller schools would simply have to drop football if they didn't play those powerhouse programs a couple of times a year. It ends up being most of their athletic budget for old school things like scholarships.
 
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Flamparadiddle said:
FCS has actually been doing 24 teams in their playoff since 2013. It's been going just fine.
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So, we are imitating the smaller conference - lol.

Seriously, I know there will be mismatches that lead to boring games - but at least the complaints around who is left out and such will stop, because folks are not going to listen to # 25, unless of course #25 is Bama or Texas or Notre Dame or OSU.
 
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cyclevol said:
Those cupcakes also help the cupcakes. Remember that. It's their big payday for their program and the big teams need them for tuneups and off weeks. Many smaller schools would simply have to drop football if they didn't play those powerhouse programs a couple of times a year. It ends up being most of their athletic budget for old school things like sholarships.
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yeah - I still see most teams scheduling at least two teams that qualify as a cupcake for that reason - plus 12 games against SEC opponents would just be brutal for every team in the SEC.
 
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HookerToHyatt115 said:
12 is just perfect, anymore is gonna ruin it, teams in there will have no business being there
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You’re basing your theory off years of old. Depth is thinner everywhere. Eventually, Oklahoma State’s are going to have a decent shot against Oregon’s every season. Then 12 will be an injustice.

Just a theory..
 
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cyclevol said:
Those cupcakes also help the cupcakes. Remember that. It's their big payday for their program and the big teams need them for tuneups and off weeks. Many smaller schools would simply have to drop football if they didn't play those powerhouse programs a couple of times a year. It ends up being most of their athletic budget for old school things like sholarships.
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There are at a minimum of a couple dozen who would drop football if not for their payday games
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
There are at a minimum of a couple dozen who would drop football if not for their payday games
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It is how Tennessee helps other smaller schools, like UTC, Tenn Tech, ETSU with the financial part of their programs

Boring games but I get it. The only other way is just to take some of the money and give it to them.
 
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volfan102455 said:
Having more teams in puts less stress on how the teams are positioned in the rankings so yes the 21 seed could be a 10-2 SEC or Big Ten school that could run the table.
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Or more like 9-3 or 8-4 being ranked that high. Go back and take a look at the Playoff top 25 when they did the seedings and pairings. Tuesday after the last conference championship game. Look at the overall records
 
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Baseball25 said:
24 teams is when I quit. Will be just like the NCAA Tourney
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Nothing like March Madness, which is the joke of the whole thing. The idiotic selling point of a Cinderella run in a 24 team CFP is pure unadulterated fantasy. If there are 1-2 upset wins by G6 teams in a decade it will be a lot.

In CBB an underdog can get on a roll riding a funky scheme or a couple of red hot shooters, although with NIL and the portal those days are probably over. But in CFB elite talent and depth of talent wins the day, and never more than it will moving forward.
 
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volfan102455 said:
It is how Tennessee helps other smaller schools, like UTC, Tenn Tech, ETSU with the financial part of their programs

Boring games but I get it. The only other way is just to take some of the money and give it to them.
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If we branch off in a super conference of 64 teams, those games may go away. There may be some sort of goodwill with some of the revenue sharing with the lower level. Who knows?
 
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sami said:
Nothing like March Madness, which is the joke of the whole thing. The idiotic selling point of a Cinderella run in a 24 team CFP is pure unadulterated fantasy. If there are 1-2 upset wins by G6 teams in a decade it will be a lot.

In CBB an underdog can get on a roll riding a funky scheme or a couple of red hot shooters, although with NIL and the portal those days are probably over. But in CFB elite talent and depth of talent wins the day, and never more than it will moving forward.
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Yep. All the best players from the mid majors will move up after a year there. It's already noticeable in the last couple of NCAA tournaments
 
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sami said:
Nothing like March Madness, which is the joke of the whole thing. The idiotic selling point of a Cinderella run in a 24 team CFP is pure unadulterated fantasy. If there are 1-2 upset wins by G6 teams in a decade it will be a lot.

In CBB an underdog can get on a roll riding a funky scheme or a couple of red hot shooters, although with NIL and the portal those days are probably over. But in CFB elite talent and depth of talent wins the day, and never more than it will moving forward.
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For all the talks about NCAA basketball, how many "cinderella midmajors" actually win the title.....HINT none
 
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Wonder if this will eliminate some of the in-season games between different conferences - just let those occur in the playoffs since there will more than likely be 6-8 teams from the major conferences. Just let them duke it out in the playoffs.

This also completely demolishes the bowl games and the New Year's tradition of games - I'm sure some will still exist but it will not be the same.
 
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