Forget expanding the CFB playoffs: we need an SEC playoff

Hmmm

How many games do you want these guys to play? Jesus.

I happen to like college football so the more the better?

The season is already kind of a playoff. I think what you are really wanting is to do like other conferences and play everyone in the conference.

Division winner with best record seeded directly into CCG. Other division winner plays the top at large team to advance.

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If the NCAA or the P% would allow a conference semifinal, the SEC should add NC State and VaTech and have 4 pods.

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East pod:

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no that's not fair. since we are the southEASTern conference, it would give this pod an unfair recruiting advantage ... how do you not see this?

No playoff, you'll be adding too many games and making the conference weaker overall.

What they need to do is this:

Step 1. Get rid of divisions.

Step 2. Give each team their 2 or 3 rival games that get played every year. Alabama vs Tennessee, Alabama vs Auburn, etc.

Step 3. Rotate all the other games like they do now with the cross division.

Step 4. The 2 best teams play in the conference championship game.

Problems solved:

1. Alabama would actually have played LSU in 2011 SECCG.

2. Rotates the teams out faster so you never go more than like 2 years without playing a team.

2B. Accomplishes the goal of Nick Saban for wanting 9 conference games without having to go to 9 conference games(and thus 7 extra losses for the conference).

3. I hate the idea of adding more teams, but if more teams are added it is the best method for allowing them.

Make it happen Slive, it's the best thing that could happen to the conference after the expansion. As the OP correctly points out, the division winner crap is terrible for deciding who plays in the championship, no different than conference champions is horrible for playoff choices.

Despite who you would put in each Pod that is the perfect thing Imo.

Play 9 conference games. 3 from your pod and 2 from every other. Top team from each pod makes conference playoff. First round played at home team stadium.

That lets every team in the conference play every 1-2 years and to me will one day be the future of conferences.

At 16, pods is perfect but it would need to be more balanced than that.

9 game schedule. Play 3 in your pod, 3 permanent from other pods, 3 rotate other pods. You do a complete rotation home and away within 6 years. Keep the rivalries.

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Yeah no. The central pod is stupidly harder than any other.

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I was trying to maintain the 2 big rivalries so that they could stick to a 8 game SEC schedule and have timely trips to every school.

3 pod games
1 permanent opponent
2 home sec games
2 away sec games

if my math is correct, each team would visit every school in a 6 yr rotation.