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16 team playoff done right
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:04 am
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:04 am
#1 team gets BYE
4 top conference champs get homefield advantage (bold)
#1 Indiana -BYE-
#2 Ohio State vs. Wild Card winner
#3 Georgia vs. #14 BYU
#4 Texas Tech vs. #13 Texas
#5 Oregon vs. #12 Notre Dame
#6 Ole Miss vs. #11 Miami FL
#7 Texas A&M vs. #10 Alabama
#8 Tulane vs. #9 Oklahoma
Wild Card game, (played week after Conference Championship games)
#15 Vanderbilt vs. #16 James Madison
4 top conference champs get homefield advantage (bold)
#1 Indiana -BYE-
#2 Ohio State vs. Wild Card winner
#3 Georgia vs. #14 BYU
#4 Texas Tech vs. #13 Texas
#5 Oregon vs. #12 Notre Dame
#6 Ole Miss vs. #11 Miami FL
#7 Texas A&M vs. #10 Alabama
#8 Tulane vs. #9 Oklahoma
Wild Card game, (played week after Conference Championship games)
#15 Vanderbilt vs. #16 James Madison
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 7:09 am
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Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:08 am to EV
People will never be happy.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:14 am to EV
Love it
Any playoff game is better than a meaningless bowl game
Any playoff game is better than a meaningless bowl game
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 8:06 am
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:15 am to Asharad
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People will never be happy
Honestly, I think the addition of some type of wild card game would solve alot of issues...
This year could have been Notre Dame vs. James Madison for that last spot
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:20 am to EV
Stop with the 16 teams. 8 is plenty. Nobody outside of 6 is ever winning.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:20 am to EV
Never should have gone to 12. Make it 8 with the top 8 making it. Use the BCS to determine rankings and play the first round on campus then go to bowls. Losers of 1st round also match up bowls as well so they get a bowl experience.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:22 am to EV
Theoretical: With #1 getting a bye, they'll almost always be a P4 conference champ.
So to give the next 4 highest rated conference champs home games it's very possible you'll be giving a playoff home game to an unranked G5 conference champ.
You good with that?
So to give the next 4 highest rated conference champs home games it's very possible you'll be giving a playoff home game to an unranked G5 conference champ.
You good with that?
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 7:23 am
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:26 am to Daowna
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Theoretical: With #1 getting a bye, they'll almost always be a P4 conference champ.
Maybe most of the time, but not necessarily...
And no, if the top team is a conference champ with a bye, then its the next 3 champs.
Tulane would get homefield in this example because the ACC flubbed their tiebreakers and Duke won
In this example, the G5 champ would almost always have to play in the wild card play-in game
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:29 am to bamabonners
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Stop with the 16 teams. 8 is plenty. Nobody outside of 6 is ever winning.
it won't be getting smaller...the toothpaste is out of the bottle
Let's either tweak what we have, or expand a bit to make sure all the right teams are covered
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