12 team playoff

MCRP09 said:
Yeah but watching Frosty-fueled Laskey get his on the field was fun too :biggrin:
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Did I ever tell you about the time Laskey took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can’t find one. Finally, Zach takes me into a vacant lot and says, ‘Here we are.’ Well, we sat there for a year and a half. Sure enough, someone constructed a bar around us. Well, the day they opened it, we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burnt the place to the ground. Laskey yelled over the roar of the flames, ‘Always leave things the way you found them!'
 
Found it. Looks like it was Yale that played 16 games.

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Teams with the most wins in a single season in college football history

Clemson became only the second team in college football history and first team since 1897 to go 15-0 in a season when it beat Alabama in the 2019 College Football Playoff national championship game. Here are the most wins by a college football team in a single season in the sport’s history.
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I think this is long overdue. It allows all the champions to have a stake. It also puts meaning into winning your conference. I can name a few times where the SEC got nods over teams that deserved play off spots. Will the SEC still get 2 or 3 teams in? Of course. It still comes down to money and who is aligned with who, with deals. But, it gives teams a shot to beat those "mighty" SEC teams.
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
Did I ever tell you about the time Laskey took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can’t find one. Finally, Zach takes me into a vacant lot and says, ‘Here we are.’ Well, we sat there for a year and a half. Sure enough, someone constructed a bar around us. Well, the day they opened it, we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burnt the place to the ground. Laskey yelled over the roar of the flames, ‘Always leave things the way you found them!'
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Hey, are you talking about Zach Laskey? I know that guy! Runs about 6'8" tall, 350 lbs. Helluva B-back.
 
Jmonty71 said:
I think this is long overdue. It allows all the champions to have a stake. It also puts meaning into winning your conference. I can name a few times where the SEC got nods over teams that deserved play off spots. Will the SEC still get 2 or 3 teams in? Of course. It still comes down to money and who is aligned with who, with deals. But, it gives teams a shot to beat those "mighty" SEC teams.
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I still say right number is 8. Champs + 3 or similar.

Two sides of coin. Conf championship games become almost a walk over in a 12 scenario. Why would ugag care about this week, except for old time pride.

Right now only 9 teams with 2 losses or less. So 3 3-loss teams fighting for 10-12 position of 12 team playoff if it were implemented today. Some poor 3 loss team is going to have their ass handed to them by number six alabama if round one were held today.

Disclaimer; the reason we should have more than four is simple. Both ala and ohst would be in and tcu out, if tcu played an sec or even a big ten schedule. So getting to eight allows for those overrated non power five or weaker conference p5 teams to get in…then take their ass-kicking.

(If tcu wins the natty, please disregard the disclaimer!).
 
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 is given an at large and gets to play a G5 champ or another P5 at-large.
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There are 41 bowls now. The playoffs use 6 bowls and there are 35 other bowls, that's 82 teams playing after regular season. Why not make conference championships and bowl games the first round of playoffs. With a 32 team bowl/playoff system the games would all mean more. Conference championships for all 10 FBS conferences provide 20 teams and select 12 at large teams to play 6 first round bowl games. The 16 winning teams play win or go home till there is a champion. There would be 10 conference championship, 6 first round bowl games, 8 second round bowl games, 2 semi finals, and the championship game. The First round losers and other bubble teams could still play consolation bowls.
 
GT82 said:
There are 41 bowls now. The playoffs use 6 bowls and there are 35 other bowls, that's 82 teams playing after regular season. Why not make conference championships and bowl games the first round of playoffs. With a 32 team bowl/playoff system the games would all mean more. Conference championships for all 10 FBS conferences provide 20 teams and select 12 at large teams to play 6 first round bowl games. The 16 winning teams play win or go home till there is a champion. There would be 10 conference championship, 6 first round bowl games, 8 second round bowl games, 2 semi finals, and the championship game. The First round losers and other bubble teams could still play consolation bowls.
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So in this model it's better to be in third place in the conference than first or second, right?

Like this year, Michigan and Ohio State would play each other in the first round, whereas Penn State would snag one of the at large spots and get to play the third best team from another conference.

From a logistics perspective it woul work, but I feel like it provides some pretty perverse incentives as normally you want to reward the teams that finished higher in the regular season and set it up so that top teams would play each other later in the playoffs.
 
32 teams, conf champs seed directly into the round of 8.

Boom. Make it happen Elon Musk.

Edit: math still don't work i guess. 22 teams works though. 12 play a 2 round bracket to get to 3, those 3 join the conference champs in round of 8.
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
32 teams, conf champs seed directly into the round of 8.

Boom. Make it happen Elon Musk.

Edit: math still don't work i guess. 22 teams works though. 12 play a 2 round bracket to get to 3, those 3 join the conference champs in round of 8.
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You should design voting systems.
 
WracerX said:
Found it. Looks like it was Yale that played 16 games.

www.ncaa.com

Teams with the most wins in a single season in college football history

Clemson became only the second team in college football history and first team since 1897 to go 15-0 in a season when it beat Alabama in the 2019 College Football Playoff national championship game. Here are the most wins by a college football team in a single season in the sport’s history.
www.ncaa.com www.ncaa.com
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Long trip from Yale to Hawaii; especially in 1894
 
andrew said:
So in this model it's better to be in third place in the conference than first or second, right?

Like this year, Michigan and Ohio State would play each other in the first round, whereas Penn State would snag one of the at large spots and get to play the third best team from another conference.

From a logistics perspective it woul work, but I feel like it provides some pretty perverse incentives as normally you want to reward the teams that finished higher in the regular season and set it up so that top teams would play each other later in the playoffs.
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To some degree. You'd get a worse seed in the playoffs, though.

I think an 8 team playoff is the goldilocks solution. Four can be too small some years, and 12-16 would be so big that teams may play their 2nd/3rd string in the last game or two of the season when they know they have the playoffs locked up.
 
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