re: So how will they structure the 12 team playoff

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There’s so few conferences now it should work like every other college tournament out there. Auto-bids to conference champions. Only way to keep football alive.

That way the MAC, Sun Belt, MW all still compete for a championship every year otherwise may as well just drop to Div II.

Sure there will be less SEC teams but I don’t care. Win your conference if you want to be champion, there will still be several at large bids anyway if every conference champion gets an auto-bid

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This all falls apart the second that an 8-4 MAC champ takes the spot of an 11-1 team that's only loss is the SEC title game. In that model 2021 Georgia would have been sent home. Or this past year the Toledo Rockets finished 7-5 and won the MAC championship game. Is that a team you really want in the playoffs?

Every team in the country has a mechanism to get in if they can crack the top 12. What the BIG and SEC are trying to do is prevent an unranked or low-ranked team that slips into a conference title game and wins, an automatic entry into the playoffs.