Long overdue
College Football Playoff expansion: How a 12-team field would have looked in each of last eight seasons
Big changes are on the way for the College Football Playoff after the CFP Board of Managers voted Friday in favor of expanding the field from four teams to 12. The CFP Management Committee, comprised of the 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick, must still oversee implementation of expansion, but the board's vote marked a significant step toward adaptation of a format that was first proposed last year and could be put into place as soon as 2024.
The terms of the proposal will grant automatic bids to the top six conference champions, allowing annual access to at least one Group of Five team. Additionally, first-round byes will go to the nation's top four conference champions as determined by the CFP rankings. So even though Georgia, last season's national champion, finished the regular season 12-0 in 2021, it would have been relegated to the No. 5 seed by virtue of its loss to Alabama in the SEC Championship Game after finishing No. 3 in the actual final CFP rankings.
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College Football Playoff expansion: How a 12-team field would have looked in each of last eight seasons
Re: College Football Playoff expansion: How a 12-team field would have looked in each of last eight seasons
I am 100pct opposed to 12 teams. If it is expanded it should be 8.
The only reason they are going to expand is because cfb stars sit out meaningless bowl games
The only reason they are going to expand is because cfb stars sit out meaningless bowl games
" I am a socialist " Bernie Sanders
Re: College Football Playoff expansion: How a 12-team field would have looked in each of last eight seasons
Now that players can hire agents while in college I believe even with expanded playoffs we are still going to see players with a top 3 round draft rating sitting out bowl games.
Unless their 6 to 30 million is guaranteed against injury
" I am a socialist " Bernie Sanders
Re: College Football Playoff expansion: How a 12-team field would have looked in each of last eight seasons
Well there is playing for free vs playing for pay. What would YOU do? The problem is that the NFL and NBA treat the colleges like their farm system, and the colleges make millions upon millions while demanding players play for free.