12 team playoff

ThisIsAtlanta said:
It would seem natural to fold conference championships into the first round of this. That's 10 slots for P5. Then 2 at larges. I wonder if that'll become a popular idea.
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I don't really understand how that would work though, because surely the byes would often be going to the top team in a conference?
 
Mistake going from 4 to 12. Should go to 8 - 5 P5 champions, highest ranked other conference champion, two at large.

Unless they play immediately after the regular season, getting a bye will be a disadvantage. Playing a really good team who played last week after you have been off three weeks or more is difficult.
 
RamblinWreck92 said:
expanded playoffs is stupid. It only ensures that we get a yearly dose of the same teams now, with an occasional Cincinnati Cinderella who has no chance of winning more than 1 game.
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Let there be an 8-game playoff between the champions of each of the five P5 conferences plus the top 2 G5 conference champs and the top-ranked independent team.
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
Simple. 16 team playoff.
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Ah. But that wouldn't be folding in the conference champsionships so much as getting rid of them, right? Because you wouldn't want the two best teams from each P5 conference playing each other in the first round while the third-best team is given an at large and gets to play a G5 champ or another P5 at-large.
 
andrew said:
Ah. But that wouldn't be folding in the conference champsionships so much as getting rid of them, right? Because you wouldn't want the two best teams from each P5 conference playing each other in the first round while the third-best team getsan at large gets to play a G5 champ or another P5 at-large.
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Simple. 32 team playoff.

Just kidding.

Probably will happen tho.
 
GT flunkout said:
I know, progress and all, but I'm really glad I got to experience college football before all of this.
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My friend and I often say we were really lucky to go to school during the mid-2000s, which still had a lot of the benefits that increased money and visibility brought to the sport but was still before it really started its transition to being a professional league.

Didn't hurt that we got to see Calvin Johnson and CPJ's first couple years.
 
cyptomcat said:
That's one silver lining. Our chances of postseason go from 0.01% to 0.1%.
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Seems like we would have gotten in (or super close) in 90, 98, 09, 14. So 3/6 recent coaches would have made it in their tenure. I mean the fighting WillyFritzes of Tulane would be in this year.

10-2 would give you a shot most years.
 
andrew said:
My friend and I often say we were really lucky to go to school during the mid-2000s, which still had a lot of the benefits that increased money and visibility brought to the sport but was still before it really started its transition to being a professional league.

Didn't hurt that we got to see Calvin Johnson and CPJ's first couple years.
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97-09 was a really good era. Great players on the field and a lot of energy in the stadium.
 
The Champ said:
Seems like we would have gotten in (or super close) in 90, 98, 09, 14. So 3/6 recent coaches would have made it in their tenure. I mean the fighting WillyFritzes of Tulane would be in this year.

10-2 would give you a shot most years.
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I don't think Tulane would be in this year, too many losses already and behind so many P5 teams on the rankings. They would be if they had just zero/one loss provided they do take care of UCF tomorrow.

I didn't think of our 2014 team. It was still ranked #12 at 10-3. Very nice. So basically, we would make it about once a decade looking at it historically.
 
cyptomcat said:
I don't think Tulane would be in this year, too many losses already and behind so many P5 teams on the rankings. They would be if they had just zero/one loss provided they do take care of UCF tomorrow.

I didn't think of our 2014 team. It was still ranked #12 at 10-3. Very nice. So basically, we would make it about once a decade looking at it historically.
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6 highest ranked conference champions get in; so yes Tulane would be in if they win on Saturday. G5 will always get 1 spot in the new format, potentially more
 
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