12-team Playoff Format expected to start in 2026
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I just don't understand how anyone could have watch semifinal playoff games and wanted more of that.
One year we are going to watch Alabama kick the hell out of Memphis 55-7, but wonder if their quarterback is out for the rest of the games with torn ligaments.
I hope it doesn't kill bowl games. I don't think so because ESPN is always going to want football games during Christmas. Maybe.
Surely this does kill conference championships.
One year we are going to watch Alabama kick the hell out of Memphis 55-7, but wonder if their quarterback is out for the rest of the games with torn ligaments.
I hope it doesn't kill bowl games. I don't think so because ESPN is always going to want football games during Christmas. Maybe.
Surely this does kill conference championships.
Hadn’t considered conference championships. This format includes conference champions but you don’t need a conference championship to crown one.
This is also likely the final nail in the coffin for those hoping to keep an 8 game conference schedule. It made less sense anyway, but with 12 playoff spots, the argument that the SEC would cost itself playoff spots by playing more conference games holds no water.
I am fine with the bye but if the 4th champ is a 9 and 3 pac 12 champ they don't deserve a bye over the 5 seed 10 and 2 Kentucky. For example. Let's dream big people lol
Great at least 4 SEC teams will always be playing for a championship, maybe more certain years.
Cats have a legit shot to get into the playoff. I'm all for this.
What every CFB Playoff would have looked like under the 12-team format
Change is likely coming soon to the CFB Playoff.
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It should have been 8 teams but, I get it. Money.
I call it a step in the right direction. It creates more post season games that actually mean something, and should cut down on players 'sitting out' postseason games.
Also will mean the season won't be over for teams suffering a loss or two. Not crazy about the 4 byes but overall I'll take it.
Also will mean the season won't be over for teams suffering a loss or two. Not crazy about the 4 byes but overall I'll take it.
Absolutely hate this. Makes the regular season less important. Will obviously include teams who have no business being in the CFP. A 3rd place SECW team with 2 losses should never be given the chance to win it all. Subject all teams to critical injuries unnecessarily. Some teams could end up playing, what, 16 or 17 games. That's too damn many, imo.
I would have been okay with 6 as, most years, 6 teams have a reasonable argument. But, 12? Nope. Bad decision. Now the playoffs will go for a month or more, ending, most likely, in February. I just don't like this at all.
And CFB is my absolute favorite sport without any others within shouting distance.
I would have been okay with 6 as, most years, 6 teams have a reasonable argument. But, 12? Nope. Bad decision. Now the playoffs will go for a month or more, ending, most likely, in February. I just don't like this at all.
And CFB is my absolute favorite sport without any others within shouting distance.
I don't like it but do like that it will give UK a plausible chance now to make the playoffs.
Bama, Georgia, UT, LSU, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, and Clemson. I don’t see much room for a UK or any other SEC team.
Yay. Now we get to watch Alabama and Georgia/Ohio state beat the shit out of two more teams.
Can anyone name a year where there was a team left out of the playoff that had a legitimate chance of beating one of the two finalists?
Cash grab. That’s all it is.
Can anyone name a year where there was a team left out of the playoff that had a legitimate chance of beating one of the two finalists?
Cash grab. That’s all it is.
Should have been 8 teams. 12 is too many And an odd bracket.
That means a student athlete could have 17 FB games in a single season. That seems a bit much but maybe they aren't really as much student athletes as simply athletes any more.
So the earlier rounds aren't considered bowls in themselves like the 4 team games currently are?
I guess you have to go to 12 bc letting conference champions in themselves would be a problem. The sec and big10 have multiple teams better than the conf champion in the big12/pac12 most of the time. And how many group of 5 teams are they letting in?
(Sorry I'm too lazy to read articles)
I guess you have to go to 12 bc letting conference champions in themselves would be a problem. The sec and big10 have multiple teams better than the conf champion in the big12/pac12 most of the time. And how many group of 5 teams are they letting in?
(Sorry I'm too lazy to read articles)
Better late than never..... They obviously had a plan for awhile. Change like this doesn't just happen... Just wish the 12 team playoff was this year.... we may just get in with a second place SEC east team. Instead of "we're never getting in" to "He'll yeah we have an actual chance" 2026 is a long way off it feels..
College Football just got way better......It was already awesome. He'll yea. I like it better than the NFL... This may make them just as big or even bigger. They just adapted right in front of our eyes. Good to see.
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The first season they had the CFP, 4th seeded Ohio State won it all and TCU (not in the CFP) could have won it all. They finished the regular season with 1 loss (3point loss @ #5 Baylor) and waxed #9 Ole Miss 42-3 in the Peach Bowl. 100% had a legit shot of winning it all.
In 2020-21, Texas A&M could have beaten Ohio State, who got waxed by Bama on the title game.
Dude there have been sooooooooo many possibilities that "could have happened" to "now It will happen" it just opened way up. Had to Big 12, Pac 12 ect has no chance as it is. Even if they have the best team they have the strength of schedule thing to hold them back. I think only USC could get in because they are a huge draw. College Football is better when USC is good. Hell even us for that matter. Maybe we sneak in last year. Levis, C.Rod, Robinson and company go bonkers and kick a little ass on a neutral field under the Big lights... We have something special going on in Lexington. People are starting to see it. We have put ourselves in position at the exact moment it needed to really. It's changing and we have adapted to it. We owe Stoops alot of gratitude. He has this Big Blue Machine Rollin.
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players getting paid 5m in NIL yet this SOB wants more money to be gave to them?
Yup. There will be talk of going to 16 before we ever get to 2026. Might even be a plan in place by then. The NCAA bball tourney tried a bye system for a few years in the early 80's I think. Didn't last long.
12 teams in '26 and 16 teams by '29.
College football playoffs may challenge the NFL playoffs in popularity within 10 years. Gonna be a mountain of money bet and networks are gonna fall over themselves paying to cover it all.
Yeah. And I bet it will be top four conference champs get automatic bids in a decade, with the ACC in a group of seven.
Hell yeah. This is America. Get everybody on the roster a piece of the billions dollar pie.
16 would've been way too many and 8 too few. At 12, the big boys get a rest while the chaff (that everyone is pissed about being in) smacks the hell out of each other. It's essentially a 6 team tourney as the top 4 and anyone who lost to one of the top 4 in the last game of the regular season stays in the longest.
Does this mean we'll still see Notre Dame somehow bumble its way into its yearly post-season ass beating? Certainly. I'm already annoyed but happy that Bama or UGA won't have to risk injury to knock out the Ex Brian Kelleys.
Does this mean we'll still see Notre Dame somehow bumble its way into its yearly post-season ass beating? Certainly. I'm already annoyed but happy that Bama or UGA won't have to risk injury to knock out the Ex Brian Kelleys.
Seems to me if they start the 2nd weekend in December, then do the quarterfinals the 3rd and then the semis can be around New Year's like normal and then the title game on a Monday in 2nd full week in January.
The really is 0 reason to have to extend the season. Teams just won't sit around on their ass for weeks waiting on a bowl game but the teams playing the first round will play 1-2 weeks after losing in the conference title game or after their last regular season game.
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