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12-team playoff 2023 bracket
Posted on 7/6/24 at 8:01 am
Posted on 7/6/24 at 8:01 am
What it would have looked like:
How similar will it look this year?
How similar will it look this year?
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Posted on 7/6/24 at 8:50 am to jcolding41
Lowest seed gets a home game the first two rounds?
Posted on 7/6/24 at 8:57 am to 1BIGTigerFan
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Lowest seed gets a home game the first two rounds?
The four highest-ranked conference champions will be seeded Nos. 1-4 and receive a first-round bye. Seeds 5-12 will play each other in the first round. The higher-seeded teams will play host in their first-round games. Here's a breakdown of the first-round matchups:
No. 5 vs. No. 12
No. 6 vs. No. 11
No. 7 vs. No. 10
No. 8 vs. No. 9
In layman's terms, the conference champion could be 8-4 and get a bye.
Posted on 7/6/24 at 11:28 am to jcolding41
I think they will be willing to move a team a spot inside the top 12 rankings to keep rematches and same conference matchups down in the first round despite their claim they won't be doing that. The selection committee will do that for them if its a close call between the teams..
Penn State and Ole Miss would have been switched by the committee last year if it was a 12 team playoff.
Penn State and Ole Miss would have been switched by the committee last year if it was a 12 team playoff.
This post was edited on 7/6/24 at 11:32 am
Posted on 7/6/24 at 11:41 am to Gator Fever
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Penn State and Ole Miss would have been switched by the committee last year if it was a 12 team playoff.
They definitely would have.
Posted on 7/6/24 at 11:50 am to jcolding41
They are going to have to change the format.
A G5 team should not just get a bid. They need to have objectively earned it like Cincinnati had in 2021.
There’s going to be years going forward where powerhouse programs that pull a lot of weight in college football go 9-3/10-2 with how difficult schedules are in power conferences and borderline top 12 ranked at large teams will throw fits to the committee that 12-0 liberty is in after beating no one all year. It’s not sustainable.
A G5 team should not just get a bid. They need to have objectively earned it like Cincinnati had in 2021.
There’s going to be years going forward where powerhouse programs that pull a lot of weight in college football go 9-3/10-2 with how difficult schedules are in power conferences and borderline top 12 ranked at large teams will throw fits to the committee that 12-0 liberty is in after beating no one all year. It’s not sustainable.
Posted on 7/6/24 at 11:54 am to jcolding41
So Michigan vs Georgia is the game we would have gotten
Hard not to pick Georgia for that
Hard not to pick Georgia for that
Posted on 7/6/24 at 11:57 am to FireDanMullen
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They are going to have to change the format.
A G5 team should not just get a bid.
I think it gives a significant prep advantage to the 4 seed. While anything can happen, they essentially know their opponent is going to be the 5 seed. 1-3 seeds don't have the same advantage to weight film study and game plan prep so heavily to one of the 1st round matchups.
Posted on 7/6/24 at 11:57 am to jcolding41
Assuming all the higher seeds won their 1st Round games, the Round of 8 would have had some great games.
Posted on 7/6/24 at 12:30 pm to Che Boludo
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I think it gives a significant prep advantage to the 4 seed. While anything can happen, they essentially know their opponent is going to be the 5 seed. 1-3 seeds don't have the same advantage to weight film study and game plan prep so heavily to one of the 1st round matchups.
Absolutely. They need to have 0 automatic seeds in my opinion. Keep a ranking system. It’s going to have to be subjective to a degree. A 10-2 SEC team beating 6 ranked teams and losing to 2 is going to have to be measured higher than an 11-1 ACC team with 1 ranked win. Having conference champions as top seeds will start looking absolutely absurd. I believe the format will switch once these super conferences keep gaining ground
Posted on 7/6/24 at 12:32 pm to jcolding41
Remove Michigan, Washington, State Penn and insert other teams and it could look pretty similar.
Posted on 7/6/24 at 12:36 pm to jcolding41
I have Bama/Georgia in last years bracket. Bama/Michigan is a different game if Bama gets practically a bye week against Liberty while Michigan has to face Oregon/Missou winner.
Posted on 7/6/24 at 12:37 pm to jcolding41
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How similar will it look this year?
Liberty, FSU, and maybe Mizzou will be swapped out with 3 other teams. Can’t really decide who though.
Posted on 7/6/24 at 1:19 pm to FireDanMullen
Another issue they are trying to address I think is with these crazy schedules in the SEC and Big 10 now there will be years the 4th place and possibly the 3rd place team also don't go 9-3. What happens to those 3rd or 4th place 8-4 teams with the hard schedules.
Posted on 7/6/24 at 1:27 pm to Old Sarge
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So Michigan vs Georgia is the game we would have gotten Hard not to pick Georgia for that
Not without healthy Bowers and McConkey.
UM was very good across the board and the NFL draft proved it.
Healthy id take UGA, but SECCG UGA I’d favor UM.
Posted on 7/6/24 at 1:30 pm to tide06
Would have been great to have been able to find out, instead they filled two playoff spots with DEI optics teams
Posted on 7/6/24 at 3:27 pm to jcolding41
I don't think this is what the bracket would have actually looked like. The reality is the playoff committee would play games with rankings to get matchups they want in the first round.
What that would have meant last season is Ole Miss would have been ranked 10th to play OSU in the first round and PSU would have been ranked 11th to play UGA to not have an all-SEC or all Big-10 round 1.
Those sorts of compromises in rankings will happen regularly.
What that would have meant last season is Ole Miss would have been ranked 10th to play OSU in the first round and PSU would have been ranked 11th to play UGA to not have an all-SEC or all Big-10 round 1.
Those sorts of compromises in rankings will happen regularly.
Posted on 7/6/24 at 3:33 pm to tide06
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Not without healthy Bowers and McConkey.
Bowers sat out the bowl game for UGA but would likely have played in a playoff scenario. McConkey did play in UGA's bowl game.
given 2 weeks between the SECCG and the first playoff game I think both would have started for UGA and been relatively healthy. Maybe not 100%, but much closer than they were in the SECCG.
It would be 3 weeks before round 2 where they'd face texas and 5 weeks before they'd potentially play Michigan. Barring an additional injury, UGA would likely have both at near full strength
Posted on 7/6/24 at 4:09 pm to jcolding41
My guess:
Alabama/Georgia/LSU/Texas
Ohio St/PennSt/Michigan
Clemson/Oregon/SMU
G5team/USC
Alabama/Georgia/LSU/Texas
Ohio St/PennSt/Michigan
Clemson/Oregon/SMU
G5team/USC
Posted on 7/6/24 at 4:23 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
No only the first rd...the 2nd is qtr finals is the ny6 bowl rotation..4 qtrs then the semis other 2 ny6
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