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A 16 team football playoff makes the most sense.
Posted on 12/14/22 at 10:45 am
Posted on 12/14/22 at 10:45 am
This is about the only way to keep players from opting out of bowls. There would be 15 playoff/bowl games, (more than) ANY team with the slightest of chances to win would participate, and the TV money from those games should far exceed what's being paid now....not to mention the revenue the cities hosting the games would earn!
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Posted on 12/14/22 at 10:46 am to coachcrisp
You would effectively make the bowl games the NIT. And nobody watched that tournament
Posted on 12/14/22 at 10:46 am to coachcrisp
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A 16 team football playoff makes the most sense.
gross
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t the only way to keep players from opting out of bowls.
this is a societal/generational issue, you aren't going to fix that with more games. If you expand to 16 temas, the teams ranked 17th and worse will still have opt outs.
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and the TV money from those games should far exceed what's being paid now....not to mention the revenue the cities hosting the games would earn!
yeah, to hell with who actually DESERVES to be a national champion, that's irrelevant! Let's just do what makes the most money!
Posted on 12/14/22 at 10:48 am to coachcrisp
So much talk about a 12 game series, a 16 makes more sense
Posted on 12/14/22 at 10:51 am to coachcrisp
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This is about the only way to keep players from opting out of bowls.
Why not make it 64? Where does this shite end?
Pandora's box is already open. High draft picks won't play in a majority of this shite. BCS should have stayed.
Posted on 12/14/22 at 10:52 am to Henry Jones Jr
quote:...because the NCAAs were going on, too. ALL the matchups would potentially bill "the next possible Nat'l Champ"
You would effectively make the bowl games the NIT. And nobody watched that tournament
Posted on 12/14/22 at 10:54 am to boogiewoogie1978
quote:Who was the last player to opt-out of a playoff game?
High draft picks won't play in a majority of this shite.
Posted on 12/14/22 at 10:55 am to coachcrisp
No reason to make these teams play more games. It’s a college game in which most players don’t get paid a significant amount of funds for the risk taken. Especially if they have pro potential.
Nah where we are is plenty and probably too much. Networks are driving this push and it’s all about money to them. They can careless about the players.
I enjoy the controversy and it’s what makes college football special. I am read to bring back the BCS and dump the networks.
Posted on 12/14/22 at 10:58 am to coachcrisp
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Who was the last player to opt-out of a playoff game?
your whole entire premise is based on entertainment value rather than who actually deserves to be national champion. That's the problem.
Posted on 12/14/22 at 10:59 am to coachcrisp
I would be good with an 8 team of highest ranked in AP/Coaches polling. This would allow some teams hope, hot at end of year teams a chance to get in, and would probably provide the best final and quarter final games, as all the pretenders get knocked out early.
8 team is what I have wanted since the 80s and my coming of age of reasoning.
8 team is what I have wanted since the 80s and my coming of age of reasoning.
Posted on 12/14/22 at 11:00 am to Alltheway Tigers!
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Nah where we are is plenty and probably too much. Networks are driving this push and it’s all about money to them. They can careless about the players.
Really?...and it's not about money to the schools, coaches, AND players?
MAN, please!
Posted on 12/14/22 at 11:01 am to Buster83
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So much talk about a 12 game series, a 16 makes more sense
16 or 8. 12 is just weird.
Posted on 12/14/22 at 11:03 am to WG_Dawg
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your whole entire premise is based on entertainment value rather than who actually deserves to be national champion. That's the problem.
What in the hell do you think drives the ENTIRE process?
Posted on 12/14/22 at 11:05 am to coachcrisp
If they're quitting on their team because of injury potential, yeah, let's add even more games to keep them on board which ironically increases their injury potential.
Also, so after the 4th loss of the season, should players go ahead and sit the remaining regular season games out since they're "meaningless" - all that NIL money and the free ride they've been gifted from the school they're quitting on be damned?
Bama lost two potential first round wide receiver draft picks last season in "extra games" - one being yet another meaningless playoff blowout against a Cincinnati that didn't deserve to be on the field with Bama, much less a playoff berth. Then in the game that mattered, our offense sputtered without them and it cost us a NC. Could have been prevented...
Yeah, a 16 team playoff idea sounds great... until you lose two Heisman caliber players in the first and second round of a blowout against some scrub 9-3 team and proceed to get your arse handed to you in the big game that matters.
Also, so after the 4th loss of the season, should players go ahead and sit the remaining regular season games out since they're "meaningless" - all that NIL money and the free ride they've been gifted from the school they're quitting on be damned?
Bama lost two potential first round wide receiver draft picks last season in "extra games" - one being yet another meaningless playoff blowout against a Cincinnati that didn't deserve to be on the field with Bama, much less a playoff berth. Then in the game that mattered, our offense sputtered without them and it cost us a NC. Could have been prevented...
Yeah, a 16 team playoff idea sounds great... until you lose two Heisman caliber players in the first and second round of a blowout against some scrub 9-3 team and proceed to get your arse handed to you in the big game that matters.
This post was edited on 12/14/22 at 11:16 am
Posted on 12/14/22 at 11:16 am to coachcrisp
The playoffs start with a team's first game of the season.
Posted on 12/14/22 at 11:18 am to MOS0311
quote:Again, name me a player who's opted out of a playoff game.
If they're quitting on their team because of injury potential, yeah, let's add even more games to keep them on board which ironically increases their injury potential.
There'll be players who, after numerous losses, will "quit" either physically or mentally, but the quality of their play AND their attitude(character) will be on trial!
By the way,those 2 players that Alabama had hurt in playoff games were drafted in the 1st and 2nd rounds of the draft, so there's that.
Posted on 12/14/22 at 11:18 am to coachcrisp
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Who was the last player to opt-out of a playoff game
The OSU receiver this year.
Posted on 12/14/22 at 11:20 am to Aguga
Isn't he hurt? 
"The decision to turn pro was made after I was unable to come back on multiple occasions during the season and the doctors determined I would be unable to participate in the playoffs."
"The decision to turn pro was made after I was unable to come back on multiple occasions during the season and the doctors determined I would be unable to participate in the playoffs."
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Posted on 12/14/22 at 11:22 am to coachcrisp
Disagree. 8 at the most.
Posted on 12/14/22 at 11:23 am to coachcrisp
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hat in the hell do you think drives the ENTIRE process?
money, obviously. That doens't make it right and it doesn't meaen we have to want to let them continue running the sport into the ground.
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