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Big Ten is in early stages of discussing a 28-team playoff in CFB
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:17 am
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Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:19 am to RLDSC FAN
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:20 am to memphisplaya
It's fricking terrible
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:21 am to RLDSC FAN
Sounds about like what Drink suggested a month ago.
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:24 am to memphisplaya
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:26 am to RLDSC FAN
They realized the SEC is happy most years with at large and that without automatic bids most years they’ll get less teams in.
28 teams is dumb though, Making the playoff should be a big deal.
28 teams is dumb though, Making the playoff should be a big deal.
This post was edited on 8/16/25 at 11:28 am
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:26 am to RLDSC FAN
Is the end goal to allow every P4 team a spot?
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:27 am to BuckI
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:27 am to RLDSC FAN
That's too many fricking teams
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:29 am to RLDSC FAN
We’ll get what we get and we’ll throw a fit but too fricking bad for all of us.
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:30 am to RLDSC FAN
I see they’re taking a page out of the Trump negotiation playbook. They weren’t getting anywhere with the SEC on the auto bids for 16 team CFP, because the SEC just said we’ll stay at 12.
Unfortunately, this is actually genius of them. They know their middle and bottom tiers are terrible, so they make a suggestion that gets all 7 B1G teams that would be even remotely close to a 28 team playoff in while offering the ACC and B12 5 teams each which would take up 3-4 spots from the middle tier of the SEC. Positive for B1G, ACC, B12, G5 (since they get 2), ND is fine because the 2 at large, so it’s only negative for SEC.
Have to hand it to them, this was genius negotiating. I hate it with a passion, so will Sankey, but it might get the SEC back to the negotiating table now and possibly cause the ACC and B12 to switch towards a B1G idea. This will be used as a case study in negotiations in B1G business schools everywhere.
Unfortunately, this is actually genius of them. They know their middle and bottom tiers are terrible, so they make a suggestion that gets all 7 B1G teams that would be even remotely close to a 28 team playoff in while offering the ACC and B12 5 teams each which would take up 3-4 spots from the middle tier of the SEC. Positive for B1G, ACC, B12, G5 (since they get 2), ND is fine because the 2 at large, so it’s only negative for SEC.
Have to hand it to them, this was genius negotiating. I hate it with a passion, so will Sankey, but it might get the SEC back to the negotiating table now and possibly cause the ACC and B12 to switch towards a B1G idea. This will be used as a case study in negotiations in B1G business schools everywhere.
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:35 am to AHM21
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Making the playoff should be a big deal.
Too bad. Getting a bowl invite used to be a big deal, but everyone was going to die if there wasn’t some kind of playoff.
Anyway, that’s what all the talking heads assured me back in the 90’s.
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:38 am to RLDSC FAN
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Big Ten is in early stages of discussing a 28-team playoff in CFB
B?G says it's not a Playoff until Rutgers gets in.
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:42 am to RLDSC FAN
I swear it’s like a group of people got together and tried to come up with the best ways to ruin college football.
The 25th best football team has no business in a CFP and anyone with any semblance of football knowledge knows that.
The 25th best football team has no business in a CFP and anyone with any semblance of football knowledge knows that.
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:44 am to RLDSC FAN
I like it, but I know I'll be the minority here.
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:45 am to RLDSC FAN
This is getting out of control.
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:47 am to bamameister
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Big Ten is in early stages of discussing a 28-team playoff in CFB B?G says it's not a Playoff until Rutgers gets in.
The B1G doesn’t want 28 teams, they want auto bids and a 16 team CFP. The 28 is their “Liberation Day” ridiculous rhetoric so people will now be relieved when it’s only 16.
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:47 am to tide06
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swear it’s like a group of people got together and tried to come up with the best ways to ruin college football.
Exactly
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:50 am to RLDSC FAN
No fricking way that happens to many games to many injuries to long of a season .
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:50 am to OU_Fan
It got out of control when they went to 4. I prefer the mythical national champion and no playoffs. College football was better when it was about conference rivalries and conference championships and then playing in a bowl game v another conference team. The journey rather than the destination. Money ruined the game. With that said…anything more than 2….you may as well make it wide open. ??????
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