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So how will they structure the 12 team playoff
Posted on 9/6/23 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 9/6/23 at 12:35 pm
Top 4 rankings get byes
Then the next 8 play from whatever or however they choose?
Then the next 8 play from whatever or however they choose?
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Posted on 9/6/23 at 12:40 pm to boweswi05
top 4 conference champs get byes.
the other 2 conf champs (I guess 1 now, RIP Pac12) are seeded with the 6 at large teams, and they play on campus games
ETA: 7 at large*
the other 2 conf champs (I guess 1 now, RIP Pac12) are seeded with the 6 at large teams, and they play on campus games
ETA: 7 at large*
This post was edited on 9/6/23 at 12:41 pm
Posted on 9/6/23 at 12:41 pm to boweswi05
That is the debate. SEC and B1G want just top 12 teams, top 4 get byes, 5-8 get home games. ACC, Big 12 and G5 want top 5 conference champs get in and top 4 conference champs get byes.
Posted on 9/6/23 at 12:41 pm to MNW
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top 4 conference champs get byes.
the other 2 conf champs (I guess 1 now, RIP Pac12) are seeded with the 6 at large teams, and they play on campus games
What would be the top 4 with all the movement?
BiG 12, ACC, BIg 10, SEC?
This post was edited on 9/6/23 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 9/6/23 at 12:42 pm to boweswi05
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A 12-team field would consist of the six highest rated conference champions and the six highest-rated at-large teams. The format would feature a first-round bye for the top four seeds and the first-round games to be held on campus. The top four seeds would be the four highest rated conference champions.
Here’s an idea of what it would have looked like last year:
Obviously this is the structure before realignment.
This post was edited on 9/6/23 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 9/6/23 at 12:43 pm to boweswi05
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What would be the top 4 with all the movement?
BiG 12, ACC, BIg 10, SEC?
Yes
Posted on 9/6/23 at 12:46 pm to dhuck20
Seriously? The season will go to January 20th? They need to fix that out or draft picks will start opting out of playoff games too.
Posted on 9/6/23 at 12:49 pm to dhuck20
That playoff format would have given us Ohio State vs. Alabama and Georgia vs. Utah in the semi-finals.
Posted on 9/6/23 at 12:54 pm to HottyToddy7
Let’s just go with the Top 16 Teams and no byes. Have 8 bowls at neutral sites. I’m sure you don’t want to be playing a bowl game in Michigan in December when there’s a foot of snow.
Posted on 9/6/23 at 12:59 pm to boweswi05
I would love to see call outs. 5th place team gets to call out opponent. And next highest left team calls out. Could have a TV show. Some smack talk. Then asking why they called that team out. And hearing from called out team.
This post was edited on 9/6/23 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 9/6/23 at 1:00 pm to boweswi05
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So how will they structure the 12 team playoff
Bad idea
Posted on 9/6/23 at 1:03 pm to HottyToddy7
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SEC and B1G want just top 12 teams, top 4 get byes, 5-8 get home games. ACC, Big 12 and G5 want top 5 conference champs get in and top 4 conference champs get byes.
There’s so few conferences now it should work like every other college tournament out there. Auto-bids to conference champions. Only way to keep football alive.
That way the MAC, Sun Belt, MW all still compete for a championship every year otherwise may as well just drop to Div II.
Sure there will be less SEC teams but I don’t care. Win your conference if you want to be champion, there will still be several at large bids anyway if every conference champion gets an auto-bid
Posted on 9/6/23 at 1:05 pm to dhuck20
frick the bowls. the only neutral site game should be the championship game
Posted on 9/6/23 at 1:06 pm to BevoBucks
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The season will go to January 20th? They need to fix that out or draft picks will start opting out of playoff games too.
Still on a damn Monday Night.
Posted on 9/6/23 at 1:08 pm to mckibaj
The rally need to move every game except the Champ game to college campuses.
Crank it up the weekend following Conference championships and finish up New Years Day
Crank it up the weekend following Conference championships and finish up New Years Day
Posted on 9/6/23 at 1:30 pm to Who_Dat_Tiger
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There’s so few conferences now it should work like every other college tournament out there. Auto-bids to conference champions. Only way to keep football alive.
That way the MAC, Sun Belt, MW all still compete for a championship every year otherwise may as well just drop to Div II.
Sure there will be less SEC teams but I don’t care. Win your conference if you want to be champion, there will still be several at large bids anyway if every conference champion gets an auto-bid
This all falls apart the second that an 8-4 MAC champ takes the spot of an 11-1 team that's only loss is the SEC title game. In that model 2021 Georgia would have been sent home. Or this past year the Toledo Rockets finished 7-5 and won the MAC championship game. Is that a team you really want in the playoffs?
Every team in the country has a mechanism to get in if they can crack the top 12. What the BIG and SEC are trying to do is prevent an unranked or low-ranked team that slips into a conference title game and wins, an automatic entry into the playoffs.
This post was edited on 9/6/23 at 2:36 pm
Posted on 9/6/23 at 1:37 pm to boweswi05
Unless something changed, it is the top 5 ranked teams that won their conference get in, with the next 7 highest ranked teams after that.
Top 4 ranked conference champions get byes.
Top 4 ranked conference champions get byes.
Posted on 9/6/23 at 1:48 pm to RolltidePA
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This all falls apart the second that an 8-4 MAC champ takes the spot of an 11-1 team that's only loss is the SEC title game. In that model 2021 Georgia would have been sent home.
Help me out here…
In your example above, are you really suggesting Georgia would “have been sent home” (I’m assuming you mean they would miss the playoffs)?
Do you really think that ANY 11-1 team from ANY P4/5 conference (much less the SEC) would even remotely come close to not getting an at-large bid?
Really?
Posted on 9/6/23 at 1:58 pm to DawginSC
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Unless something changed, it is the top 5 ranked teams that won their conference get in, with the next 7 highest ranked teams after that.
Actually, the current agreement is that the top SIX ranked conference champs get in along with SIX at-large bids for the six highest ranked non-conference champs. The top four ranked conference champs get a first round bye. The 5th and 6th ranked conference champs, as well as the two highest ranked at-large teams, will host a first round home playoff game.
There have been no changes to this format yet since what appears to be the eventual demise of the PAC-12.
Posted on 9/6/23 at 2:08 pm to MNW
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top 4 conference champs get byes.
and here is where the bullshite starts. 8-5 Duke is gonna get a bye while an 11-1 SEC team that was upset in the SECCG but won more games and had a much stronger SOS has to play.
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