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[MAIZEandBLUE09]

In a 12 team playoff: who gets a first round bye, and who is playing for a conference championship in the first round?

Ideally, it's an 8 team playoff. 2 teams from 4 major conferences. After the initial 8 team, it's then a 4 team playoff with a similar rotating bowl model.

 

[Tharvot]

You need to think deeper on that pay more and more. For what? For every mid team you add to the B1G, that's less games involving the teams that really drive the revenue - UM, tOSU, Bama, UGA, etc. I've said this until I am blue in the face ... you don't grow to just grow. There has to be a reason behind it. Adding UNC and UVa does nothing more than create more games between shitty teams, and less games between good teams. The networks loved USC, UT and OU moving because that added a ton of good games. UNC and UVa moving don't add any more good games, and actually mean less good games because every time one of the good teams has to play them that one less game they are playing against other good teams.

More teams only matter if they cause people to watch the games. There only a few teams left that can do that.

I heard Chip Kelly more or less advocating for a breakaway for college football where all football programs operate independently from conference affiliations. He would split the top 64 schools into one division and the others into the second division. You play your 6 other geographic rivals every year and mix in 4 games against a different geographic pool. It makes a lot more sense geographically, and you could make a much more clean bracket for the playoffs. It's a nice dream, but it'll never happen.

Nothing makes sense anymore when Rutgers is in the same conference as UCLA or SMU is in the Atlantic Coast Conference, especially when you start talking non-football sports.

 

[Red_Alert]

I heard Chip Kelly more or less advocating for a breakaway for college football where all football programs operate independently from conference affiliations. He would split the top 64 schools into one division and the others into the second division. You play your 6 other geographic rivals every year and mix in 4 games against a different geographic pool. It makes a lot more sense geographically, and you could make a much more clean bracket for the playoffs. It's a nice dream, but it'll never happen.

Nothing makes sense anymore when Rutgers is in the same conference as UCLA or SMU is in the Atlantic Coast Conference, especially when you start talking non-football sports.

It's likely going to happen. However, it's unlikely that all of the current Big 10 and SEC teams are going to make the cut.

Decisions on who makes the cut will be heavily biased to which teams have historically invested in their football programs.

 

[Tharvot]

It's likely going to happen. However, it's unlikely that all of the current Big 10 and SEC teams are going to make the cut.

Decisions on who makes the cut will be heavily biased to which teams have historically invested in their football programs.

Going to be a weird world where we either revert back to multiple claimed conference champs or just no conference champion all together.

 

[WhosYourDawggy]

I heard Chip Kelly more or less advocating for a breakaway for college football where all football programs operate independently from conference affiliations. He would split the top 64 schools into one division and the others into the second division. You play your 6 other geographic rivals every year and mix in 4 games against a different geographic pool. It makes a lot more sense geographically, and you could make a much more clean bracket for the playoffs. It's a nice dream, but it'll never happen.

Nothing makes sense anymore when Rutgers is in the same conference as UCLA or SMU is in the Atlantic Coast Conference, especially when you start talking non-football sports.

The problem with this is it totally ignores what makes CFB what it is. Tradition, culture, pageantry, and rivalries. He literally wants NFL-lite. While CFB will get closer to that, totally disrupting it like that gets rid of what we love. You can let the top teams be run more like he says, but keep the good parts.

 

[Tharvot]

The problem with this is it totally ignores what makes CFB what it is. Tradition, culture, pageantry, and rivalries. He literally wants NFL-lite. While CFB will get closer to that, totally disrupting it like that gets rid of what we love. You can let the top teams be run more like he says, but keep the good parts.

For many, that's already happened. The PAC is gone, The Big12 is a shell of what it once was, the ACC is probably next to be gutted.

Meanwhile, the B1G is bloated coast to coast and the SEC has a weird division of former Big8/SWC schools in Mizzou, OU, Texas and A&M to go with Arkansas now. But at least they are still somewhat all southern geographically.

The passion and pageantry of CFB was derived largely from historic school vs school rivalry. A lot of the old rivalries died or only occasionally show up as OOC matchups now. Major out of conference matchups are often played at a neutral NFL site, which cannot hope to match the gameday atmosphere on campus. Bowl affiliations mean nothing. Geography means nothing and soon enough Conferences will mean nothing either. The only thing driving any of this is money.

You say you don't want NFL-lite, but that is basically what CFB has become. Soon enough, there will be some form of NIL salary cap for each major school to even out the resources and create more parity. We will get a true playoff bracket, but the cost will be a lot of the old stuff that made CFB so appealing over the years.

 

[Red_Alert]

For many, that's already happened. The PAC is gone, The Big12 is a shell of what it once was, the ACC is probably next to be gutted.

Meanwhile, the B1G is bloated coast to coast and the SEC has a weird division of former Big8/SWC schools in Mizzou, OU, Texas and A&M to go with Arkansas now. But at least they are still somewhat all southern geographically.

The passion and pageantry of CFB was derived largely from historic school vs school rivalry. A lot of the old rivalries died or only occasionally show up as OOC matchups now. Major out of conference matchups are often played at a neutral NFL site, which cannot hope to match the gameday atmosphere on campus. Bowl affiliations mean nothing. Geography means nothing and soon enough Conferences will mean nothing either. The only thing driving any of this is money.

You say you don't want NFL-lite, but that is basically what CFB has become. Soon enough, there will be some form of NIL salary cap for each major school to even out the resources and create more parity. We will get a true playoff bracket, but the cost will be a lot of the old stuff that made CFB so appealing over the years.

"You say you don't want NFL-lite, but that is basically what CFB has become. Soon enough, there will be some form of NIL salary cap for each major school to even out the resources and create more parity."

The wheels to that are already in motion. The players want to 'unionize'. They want a cut of their respective school's media rights distributions. In that situation they would become 'employees' where there would certainly be salary caps. I assume the schools would want pay scales regarding individual performance which is already a no-no per NCAA NIL rules.

The question is would player unionization (employees) negate NIL supplement from the outside since the players will already be getting paid (as employees) for their Name, Image, and Likeness.
Employers in all walks of life can already limit their employees business dealings outside of their jobs in the use of NDA's and literally preventing them from taking second jobs.

If so then welcome the return of the $100 handshakes.