The future of NCAA football

They'll go to an 11 game schedule--9 conference games and an 8 team playoff.

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The future of NCAA football

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So what do you think happens next?

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Expansion of the CFP to 8 to help cut down on opt-outs and create some disparity in recruiting.

Then shortly after, 16 team playoff.

frick. I was hoping this was about a new EA Sports game

The playoffs need to be expanded to at least 8 teams . Allowing more in including undefeated G5 Conference Champion. Also, this year showed us that All Conferences can play more conferences games . Normal years the Big 10, Pac 12 and Big 12 play 9 conference games where SEC and ACC play 8 . No more easy FCS games late in the season for some conferences. How is that fair to other conferences that are playing within their conference? IMO, No Power 5 team should be playing FCS teams. There is enough Group 5 teams for Power 5 to schedule early in the season. Most will still have an easy win. If the NCAA does anything it should be at least make all conferences have the same schedule rules. 3 OOC games at the beginning of the year, 9 Conference games, No FCS games for Power 5 teams. Reality is it won't change anytime soon. Big money talks. The one thing they can do now is end the Conference divisions. The top 2 teams in a conference plays for their Conference title. This could result in a different conference champ each year.

Big let down, a NCAA game would fix this lol

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My first thought was that they put a limit to how many 4 and 5 stars you can recruit each cycle

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This won't happen because it can be so easily manipulated by a friendly staffer at Rivals.

I do think a full FCS model is coming and I think it is good for the long term health of the sport. 16 team playoff where all conference champions get an autobid. College football is the only sport where every team doesn't have a path to a championship at the start of the season. That needs to change to give the elite players incentive to play at some other places.

As much as I hate it, modern players do not give a shite about rivalries or playing for the pride of their home state school. They're following the NBA model of teaming up to win championships because that's all that matters anymore.

Also, I would be an advocate of making admissions standards the same for athletes as they are for everyone else. Kids who are too stupid to spell their own names and don't care about college should not be playing college football.

Bama and Clemson are making it anyway. Expanding is about the other teams.

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To me it's not even about the bowl game opt outs, as others suggested, kids will get 5 or 6 good games on tape and start quiting earlier and earlier.

I didn't want playoffs as I thought it would be a thing we're everyone was seen as a loser if they didn't make it, I and many others were correct. It's been horrible for college football as a whole.

Unfortunately there is no putting the genie back in the bottle and only way to really save cfb as we know it is as follows

Lower scholarship limits to a max of 70, 20 kids per class, grad transfers don't count toward the class, only total. Have to have parity somewhat and all parts of the country involved or you are fricksd long term and we revert back to it being a regionalism sport.

Kids gets one free transfer out of conference after freshman year only. After that it's a 2 year sit out unless it's a grad transfer. No hardships or any other bullshite. No the coach is leaving bullshite, no some random fan called me a mean name bullshite, no I got beat out bullshite, no I'm mentally ill bulkshit. You get 1 and only after freshman year. Or bust your arse and graduate, otherwise stfu

All coachingbstaffs have the same number of on field coaches and a max amount of analysts allowed and also max amount of other behind the scene personel allowed.

Expand the playoffs to 16 teams. 5 conference champs, 11 at large. This is if G5 wants to stay apart of it. If not, just do 8. If 16, we need to cut it to 8 conferences. 5 power plus 3 smaller conferences. Win one of the smaller conferences with 1 loss or fewer and you are in if you also have a win over a p5 team.

Use original bcs formula to make up 50% of seeding, playoff committee ranking for other 50%. Seed 1-16.

Cut regular season to 8 conference games for all conferences. All conferences must have championship game. 8 conference and 2 non conference games.

All bowls but the biggest 4 are moved to the season opening weekend, labor day weekend.

Comfernece championship is played 1st Saturday in December.

1st round is 3rd Saturday in December. Played on site of the conference champions or higher seed if 2 non conference champions are playing against each other.

2nd round(round of 8) is played new years day at the four big bowls. Can bid this out, but my suggestion would be

Sugar- 8:45 pm
Rose - 5:30 pm
Orange- 2 pm
Cotton- 10:30 am

You are taking back new years day. Its your day and it would be huge.


Semifinals on one of the middle Saturdays in January, usually close to 10 days, but can't be more that 2 weeks after round of 8. This is played on the campus of the conference champion or the higher seed. This year it would be on the 9th, a simple one week

Finals are the Saturday before the super bowl at a site bid out. Make it huge like the superbowl. Huge half time show, huge pre game show etc.

It works cause it keeps teams in the race much longer. It also works because it gets all sides of the country involved. It works because no more super teams or the same two teams playing every year. It will hurt the big boys, including lsu, but overall it's good for the sport snd only way it survives long term.

Players wouldn't opt out cause they would have something to play for. Preserves the bowl system with them being at the beginning and allows a ton of flexibility in scheduling. You could even have conference challenges like big 10 vs pac 12 etc etc cause one or two losses doesn't kill you anymore.

It puts the emphases on conference champions. Gives the G5 the ability to create 3 really good conferences and ability to get in and pkay for it all. Gives them the ability to host, etc etc.

I'm good with the sport going back to a really regionalized sport like the 70s-90s, but realize all the money stops flowing then too

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You can't control number of 4 and 5 stars, won't work as who is to say who is what. Limit number of scholarship players.

This year shows it can easily be done.

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I think you are right but I still struggle with joe anyone thinks it makes sense that to “increase parity” that we need to make it easier for bama and clemson to make the playoffs

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Those teams will rotate out as Saban retires and if you expand then Dabo won’t be able to recruit going to the playoff so often as much.

It’s the new “we’re on national tv all the time” recruiting pitch. The period between everyone being on TV and the advent of the playoff saw a lot of teams have chances for success and we even nearly had a g5 team make the title game more than once. It was in many way the golden era of the sport. The only way to bring that back is expand playoff access.