I don't particularly like the 12 team playoff, but the only way it will really backfire will be the yearly curb stomp of a midmajor. There still might be an occasional upset in the playoff, but No. 1 will still beat No. 10 85% to 90% of the time. Whereas in baseball a crap team can win a series against a good team often enough where it's not a big deal. The Reds swept both of the ALCS teams.
I pretty much quit watching baseball when they expanded the playoffs in 1994 (they ended up being canceled due to the strike anyway that year). Prior to that, I was about the biggest fan you could find in any city that didn’t have a team.
I left after the strike . But in the Big Red Machine days I was in Cincy all of the time . Enough that I qualified for world series tickets . Strike really turned me off.
With 12 teams, 3 loss teams are 100% getting in most years. There were only 10 teams in the Power 5 that had 2 or less losses last year.
This is a good breakout!
Big difference here! All the teams play each other in baseball. Regardless of what anyone wants to say the 4 team playoff doesn’t represent the best 4 teams- because it is a biased opinion of some people. Opinions are like butts - everyone has one.
Players can get hurt in ANY game. That argument makes no sense. Yes players will get hurt- they do now. Someone will always be able to “IF” this doesn't happen then this team would have won. If people are worried about players getting hurt - first thing you should eliminate is conference championship games! 12 plus team format eliminates the need for those games - unless they end up as part of the eventual play offs. That will not happen - because of SEC and Big 10. It would eliminate two of the top teams too quickly.
Hell, to get the Braves more championships, you’d have to eliminate the post-season, entirely.
Correct. The other 11 will most likely be power 5., which would mean that last year, a 3 loss team would have made it.
What's wrong with that? More teams that fans have to cheer for. There will be blow outs just because there is no parity in college football. Realistically only four or five at most even have a shot at winning it, but why not let some others share the spotlight for a week. Teams like Kentucky should love the playoff expansion. Maybe once every 5-10 years we have a shot of being included in the conversation with the big boys of football. Right now we are statistically eliminated by the fifth or sixth week of the season.
I have no problem with it. I posted above that I love expansion. I was replying to a poster above in my response.
No problem.. I don't see how any Kentucky fan would have any problem with an expanded playoff. We haven't came close to making it in the current format. Would probably need at least 16 teams to ever have a shot, but 12 is a lot closer to 16 than 4 is..
In 2018/19, Penn State was the “first out.” ranked 12th by the Committee, but bumped for the mandatory G5.
Great for who? Maybe the fans that cheer for a conference, but if you cheer for someone except about 10 teams, then your season could end in week four. With an expanded playoff if we won out we might make a playoff. With a six team playoff we were probably eliminated after the Missouri loss.
There will only by 5 teams considered for the bye each year. The SEC champion, Big10 champion, Big12 champion, ACC champion and in some years the highest ranked G5 champion. The format states that the 4 highest ranked conference champions get the byes. If there is an upset in 1 of those championship games (i.e. if Purdue would have beat Michigan in the Big10 title game last year), then a G5 conference champion (Tulane last year) would potentially get a bye.
Outside of the playoffs there are already players opting out. The playoff expansion will actually keep more players from doing that.
Great for everyone. You dont have to be in the playoff hunt to enjoy college football. I've followed uk football for 50 years. It's a great sport, and we've never sniffed a national championship. There a reason every school builds stadiums to seat 80,000 people and its not because 95% of them are out of the race for number one 4 games in to the season.
