There should be an 8 team playoff

There WILL be an 8-team playoff. Gotta run through the contract on the current format, though, which I think is maybe four more years?

As far as good for the game? I don't know. I think why so many people love college football is because the regular season is so special. There's no way to expand the postseason that doesn't diminish that. Now you're like every other sport.

It will expand for money, though. There is no doubt.

Well the only real playoff would be the final four.

But it would bring excitement to the campuses and make those end of year pac 10 meetings actually mean something.

As long as everyone understands that this would mean losing at least 1 game a year. Likely a non conference hime game.

Can’t wait for every other year when the Final 4 has 3 SEC teams


I like the idea of expanding but they need to incorporate 1st round byes to incentivize the entire regular season. 12 teams (top-4 get byes) with Power-5 champion auto-bids, highest ranked Group of 5 champs, and 6 at-larges sounds fun.


#8 Cincy versus #9 UGA, winner plays Bama

#5 A&M versus UNC, winner plays ND

#7 Florida versus #10 ISU, winner plays Clemson

#6 OU versus #11 Indiana, winner plays Ohio State

Nope because money would take over and the quality of the game would go down. It would guarantee that the P5 CC would be in whether they deserved it or not. I do not need to see an 8-6 Wisc B10 champ in the playoffs.

It would water down the game and still not give anymore incentive then what we have now. Even now are already tired of seeing lackluster games in the semis.

Over the last 10 years the Big 12 has only had one team finish with only 1 loss and multiple champs that would not make the top 8 in the final poll. The PAC12 no team that has won the conference all have at least 2 losses. Again with many teams outside of the top 8.

As long as you have conference tie-ins and P5 commissioners dictating who goes it will not change anything no matter how many spaces opened up in the playoffs. The people in charge do not seek to put the best in the playoffs. They seek a way to make the most money. So any decision behind expanding will be done so to generate more revenue for the elite P5 and will not guarantee anyone else a spot at the table.

While we are spitballing, I think FCS should keep football in the spring and make one of their games be a "money" game against an FBS team wrapping up spring practice. Let's make this happen.

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No. I honestly think it should be a 3 team playoff, with the 1 seed getting a bye.

There hasn't been 4 elite teams in the playoffs yet.

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Then you would have to remove one of our championships then

So we can watch ND, CIncy, Costal Carolina, etc get murdered all over again by power 5 teams?

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The health of the sport is at stake and, as of right now, college football is very sick.

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I think this is a little overblown. It wouldn't matter if USC, Cincy, and Texas A&M were in this year. Maybe the first round of games would have more viewership, but the finals would've been the same. Everything is cyclical, and right now there is a cycle of really mediocre play out west. When they figure it out, eyeballs will come back. Until then, I hardly think a multibillion industry can be considered sick. It might have the sniffles.

There are few decades where college football has ever had genuine parity, and this idea that the sport needs to be fixed could've been exhausted during those times as well.