...and the looming changes being made to the playoff format.
I'm all for the increase: Either the 14 or 16-team playoffs. Only thing I like about the 16-team playoffs is no bye weeks for the top teams. I think we'll see again in 2025 having too much time between games isn't good for even the top teams in the nation.
Otherwise the 14-team playoffs look good to me with the 4-4-2-2-1-1 model. SEC and B1G get 4 teams in automatically. Big 12 and ACC get 2 each. Group of 6 gets 1 berth, and ND gets the last berth if one of the top 14 teams. Otherwise it goes to an at large team chosen by the committee.
Takes the control away from the committee to choose the Top 13 or 14 teams every season. They only ranked them, they don't choose them. Up to the conferences to rank the teams internally - either based on all 12 games + CCG or based on conference games only.
All only rumored changes so far. But nothing we couldn't have predicted long ago: The future was ALWAYS going to be SEC and B1G dominated and major college football would be controlled by those two alone.
It's why it was MEGA important for Oregon to find a way, ANY way - no matter the short-term financial disadvantages - into securing a spot in the B1G......
Right, TEE? 😉
So the SEC Big Ten get their 4th place teams in the playoffs. Why not cancel the season and have a 128 team playoff model. There'd be much less disagreement as to the few teams being left off the playoff schedule.
PLAYOFFS?....PLAYOFFS?
I like the 16 teams plan. Everybody has to play in the first playoff games.