24 team playoff nearing approval

Interesting once the Big10 got NIL, conferences, and scheduling adjusted how they wanted, suddenly they are on board for playoff expansion.

By the way, The SEC rule of requiring football teams to to play at least one Power opponent (or "major" out-of-conference team) each season needs to stop IMMEDIATELY.

I assume the SECG will be done away with. But just devalues the whole regular season. Who cares who wins between Alabama-Georgia or Alabama-LSU. They are all in anyway. Teams will start resting players the last week or two of the season. Just a horrendous idea.

RIP to the greatest regular season in sports. Games like last Saturday…which were already watered down….now will mean nothing.

Gonna have to move the AU game up otherwise we’ll be resting starters. No point scheduling a big OOC because you’ll want your team healthy for the playoffs.

Great job everyone. Ruined the sport for something no fans wanted.

And who’s going to be able to afford tickets to all these extra games..

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Why even play a regular season?

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"Because money, and because frick you." - everyone involved in this decision.

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I do not think this is going to kill the regular season like many think

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Every major sport has a playoff at the end of the season so I understand your point. People still watch the games......I have a lot of questions about it, but until the playoff plan comes out, its just a lot of speculation.

We could just pencil in Ohio State and Notre Dame 99% of the time so there goes 2 spots.

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I do not think this is going to kill the regular season like many think.

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If one thing is certain in college football it’s that the unintended consequences that many dismiss usually come to fruition. It didn’t take a genius to figure out that “money for jerseys or autographs” would turn into multi-million dollar NIL deals. That unlimited transfers would hurt player development. That paying a coach a guaranteed $100 contract could cause him to mail it in. That add more meaningless bowls would water down all of the bowls. That expanding the playoff will still cause a meltdown from the team that’s just missed out. That the expanded playoff would disincentivize strong out of conference scheduling.

You’re going to see players kept out towards the season. Enthusiasm for regular season games will go down because the stakes are literally lower. The big tent pole regular season games like Ohio State-Texas or Alabama-UGA…the games that traditionally drive the sport…won’t mean that much. Hell, we’ve already seen that happen in the last few years and simply moving the emphasis to games involving 25th and 24th ranked teams for the last spot doesn’t make up for it.

No auto-bids.
BCS rankings for the Top 24 teams.

Who isn't clamoring for Alabama vs North Texas at BDS in the first round of the cfp??? It's going to be lit! At this rate even auburn will eventually make the playoff.

The closest we ever got to perfect was a 4 team playoff with BCS computers selecting the teams.

Now this endless lust for money...even more than pre NIL...has these geniuses destroying the game. But they all get filthy rich...from admins to players...and literally none give a crap about the game 10 years down the road. They will have all "gotten theirs" and that's all that really matters.