12 team college football playoff coming
Goldenage
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To begin in 2024 or 2026
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Amen, it's about time. Hopefully, when they plan it the "Politics" will be left out and replaced by logic in an attempt to find a true National Champion.
yup gonna happen
Was hoping for 8. 12 teams is too many.
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Like coolstanley said, 12 may be too many but it's a definite step in the right direction compared to the current setup.
Right - 2026 - can we make it a little longer so I have no chance of seeing it? I asked my doctor can I have a different diagnosis that makes me last till 2026? She said NO! LOL! Oh well..............
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12 teams makes it a four week playoff which should last a little while till the NCAA figures out how to eliminate the "voting" system which determines the rankings and the seeding. Teams eventually need to be seeded, that much is clear, but the teams shouldn't be determined by a season-long "Press writers" polling system.
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Seriously for the moment- hope the health issue is not quite what I read into it.
I see it as as an NCAA money grab that really proves nothing. And some will suggest... Coinkat... how can you even suggest something like that? And my response is simple... how can the NCAA allow for the longstanding tradition of various conferences to evaporate over the B u l l s h i t realignment that has happened or even scheduled to happen? I have a monumental problem with USC and UCLA joining the Big Ten. I really despise what has happened to the NCAA... it is not just about the Big 10... the Big 8... the old SW conference obviously does not exist anymore. But this Readers Digest Condensed version really illustrates that the whole thing is a money grab. And the sad reality in all of this is simply that a price has been placed on tradition and what matters. That has been compromised and the price has been paid based upon what has transpired... everything has a price tag which I see as a reflection of the society we live in... sad in that everything is for sale.
So, back to the other part of the real question... I have no problems with polls that reflect a dual national champion. A playoff system that expands to twelve produces nothing other than an effort to satisfy milking what some see as a basis for more... a mentality that I deplore. Seems those that control the NCAA missed the significance in the 1948 film Key Largo and the exchange between Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart as to "more"... that says it all. And the backdrop to all of this is simply whether there even is a forum by which those that are simply incapable of being satisfied could be satisfied.
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@coinkat, the "Polls" are at the heart of the problem here and another part is that the bigger schools, the best teams/programs, exhibit a clear fear of playing each other during the regular season because too much is at risk. If there was more play of the top teams and if all of the major conferences had their champion included in a playoff I suspect all of the shifting around wouldn't be happening.
I won't engage in a perceived SEC bias or what amounts to almost ignoring teams out west, but that looks like what happens to me. The playoff is almost only about four conferences and not reflective of ALL teams. That means that the best chance for USC to get to the dance is to join one of those four. Stubbornly, teams like Notre Dame refuse to join a conference and routinely get left out of the playoff, no matter how good they might be. I believe this translates into the best recruits always going to a select few schools. Players aren't stupid. If they envision a chance at the NFL they know the national stage is where that chance lies. That means they go where they get the spotlight and that isn't USC or UCLA, right now it's Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan, etc.
What is long overdue in College Football is what has been going on in College Basketball- Instead of cupcake non-conference schedules, it is time for conference match ups from the top to the bottom. The Big Ten v ACC in BB has been part of college BB for probably 10-15 years... if not more. Extend this to football on a rotating basis between conferences. I would call this part of the solution to help determine a National Champion instead of a money grab. Let's do something productive to determine the strength of conferences. 12 is a money grab- 8 would work provided if there was reasonable inter-conference play.
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